Life — May 6, 1915 — page 6: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Page Analysis This page is primarily **advertising with a brief story excerpt**. The main content is "Strangers in a Strange Land," a humorous dialogue between two characters—Humor (described as "quiet and portly") and Satire (with "sharply defined" features)—meeting at a country inn. Humor complains about being a stranger in America, saying people don't understand his ways. The advertisements dominate: Peter's Milk Chocolate, Galloway Pottery garden ornaments, Welch's Hi-Ball drink, and P&O steamship tours. The story's satire appears gentle—poking fun at Americans' incomprehension of English humor and social peculiarities—but without specific political references. It's primarily entertainment advertising rather than political commentary.