Life — August 9, 1917 — page 10: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Page 210 of Life Magazine - Analysis This page contains three distinct pieces: 1. **"Dawn in the City"** (top left): A sketch showing scattered kitchen utensils and household items on a street, apparently depicting urban poverty or homelessness. 2. **"Clothes and the War"** (main essay): An extended prose argument that if clothes disappeared, war would end—because trade and commerce require clothing, and without commercial interests, nations wouldn't fight. The piece sarcastically suggests nudity would eliminate vanity and artificiality, forcing human simplicity. 3. **"The Harvest"** (poem by Charlotte Becker) and **"You Know Him"** (dialogue): These appear to be unrelated short literary pieces about wartime sacrifice and a cryptic character sketch. The overall theme suggests WWI-era social commentary on materialism, warfare, and human nature.