Life — August 10, 1911 — page 12: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# "Another Wireless" - Life Magazine Satire This page satirizes wireless telegraph technology and European social pretension. The top illustration shows fashionably dressed figures on a beach with footprints forming morse code patterns, titled "Another Wireless." The accompanying text describes a conflict between the narrator and someone named William over a European romantic situation. The story mockingly presents a man ("von Bethmann-Hollweg or Herr von Schoen") receiving a wireless message about a romantic entanglement—"the Triple Entente"—creating a pun on diplomatic alliances. The lower illustration titled "OBEY THAT IMPULSE" depicts figures in conversation, suggesting impulsive romantic or social behavior. The satire combines contemporary wireless technology with European diplomatic tensions and romantic comedy, targeting both modern gadgetry and Old World pretensions that American readers would find amusing.