A 1950s Father's Day

Thanks to my deceased father, I have no trouble with being a Father's Day skeptic. Mine suspected that the day was designed to sell something and he wanted none of it!

I suspect he had a point. A friend remembers celebrating the day in the 1950s by giving this item to her dad:


What's this?


Oh, a stand for reading the morning paper...


or shutting out the little wife, perhaps?

Some humor doesn't wear well.