Life — June 17, 1909 — page 16: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is a single-panel cartoon titled "Lowering the Temperature of Moth" (visible at bottom). The illustration depicts an interior domestic scene where a man enters through a doorway on the left, while a woman on the right appears to be doing housework or adjusting something. The scene contains period furnishings and framed pictures on walls. The title's pun—"moth" instead of "mouth"—suggests the joke concerns literal temperature control (perhaps air conditioning or heating) applied to an insect, presented as domestic business. Without additional context from the magazine's date or surrounding articles, the specific satirical target remains unclear, though it appears to be social commentary about domestic life, technology, or household management practices of the era. The cryptic OCR text provides no interpretive help.