Life — December 27, 1917 — page 5: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis This page from *Life* magazine contains two distinct elements: **Top section ("LIFE"):** An illustration showing two women operating a seesaw/lever mechanism labeled "VOTES FOR WOMEN," with a ballot box at the center. This references the women's suffrage movement, depicting women gaining political power and balance through voting rights. **Bottom section ("Less Days in Germany"):** A satirical daily listing of deprivations (tasteless, friendless, joyless food and conditions for each weekday), accompanied by an illustration captioned "A TORPEDO WITH A CONSCIENCE." This appears to be WWI-era propaganda mocking Germany, suggesting German submarines killing civilians while supposedly having moral qualms—a dark satire on the contradiction between warfare's brutality and claimed conscience. The page combines suffrage advocacy with anti-German wartime sentiment, typical of American *Life* magazine's political humor.