Life — December 14, 1916 — page 10: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 1096 **Top Cartoon**: A man shows three artworks to a bachelor client, saying "Sorry, Mr. Bachelors, but these three styles are all we have in matrimony." The joke satirizes marriage as having limited "styles" or options—suggesting matrimony itself is a constraining, repetitive institution rather than offering genuine choice. **Column "Things We Shrink from Knowing"**: A series of witty observations about social hypocrisy, including remarks about women's views of husbands, unexploded American shells ("Yanks"), efficiency, and Boston's high drunkenness arrests. The tone mocks polite society's unwillingness to acknowledge uncomfortable truths. **Bottom Cartoon**: Titled "Only Memories: The Bachelor's Christmas Eve," depicts a lonely bachelor observing a family Christmas through a window—nostalgic satire about bachelor isolation versus domestic contentment.