Life — September 4, 1913 — page 10: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis This page contains three distinct pieces: **"The Roof Garden"** (top): A romantic poem by Charles Hanson Towne celebrating urban escape—a couple finding paradise on a rooftop garden above the city's heat and crowds. **"Perhaps a Little Later"** (right column): An editorial commentary mocking medical journals' optimistic claims about eliminating diphtheria through antitoxin, quoting the American Medical Association's assertion that prevention "is not a practical success because the antitoxin is eliminated too rapidly." It's satirizing the gap between medical optimism and actual results. **"Militant Delegate" cartoon** (bottom left): Shows suffragettes threatening theater destruction unless "suffragette chorus girls" are employed. This references the women's suffrage movement and militant tactics used to pressure institutions. The cartoon satirizes their aggressive demands. **"Leisure"** (right): An essay on leisure's intangible nature and how it's become commercialized—millionaires accumulate moments then pay to escape them.