Life — December 14, 1916 — page 3: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 1089 This page is primarily **advertisements and health content** rather than political satire. The top ad promotes "The Perfect Dress Tie" by Keys & Lockwood. The main article, "What Do We Do with Our Doors?", discusses door-slamming as a social problem, citing statistics that 245,746 adults and 8,342,742 minors left doors open annually. The piece treats door-slamming as a psychological issue worthy of serious analysis. The large illustration shows a cave man and relates to a Standard Oil Company advertisement promoting NUJOL (mineral oil) for digestive health, humorously suggesting that a "cave man" had better digestion than modern civilized people due to simpler diet—a common early 20th-century health marketing trope contrasting "natural" versus industrial living.