Life — July 25, 1907 — page 9: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Page Analysis: Life Magazine, Page 111 This page contains two distinct pieces: **"My Biggest Elk"** (left): A hunting narrative about pursuing an elk, describing the author's strategy of gradually approaching the animal until shooting it near Rochester. The story emphasizes the elk's speed and the challenge of the hunt. **"From Our Reader"** (right): A humorous letter from a reader responding to a previous "Husbands' Brigade" article in Life. The writer defends her husband against various unflattering classifications (Henpecked, Clothes-Horse, etc.), providing comedic descriptions of his actual merits. She concludes with pointed sarcasm about her husband's "typewritten" letter being "deadly earnest." **The large illustration** depicts a Renaissance-era scene captioned as showing "IF SIR WALTER HAD INTRODUCED TOBACCO IN ENGLAND IN THE FORM OF A CIGARETTE"—a humorous historical alternate-reality scenario.