Life — March 7, 1918 — page 15: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains several political cartoons satirizing early 20th-century issues: **Top cartoon**: "The Kaiser is Taking the Cure" depicts two figures (likely representing the German Kaiser and another leader) seated with medicine bottles labeled "Morals," "Striving," "Honesty," and "Disease." This mocks German militarism and imperialism as a sickness requiring remedy. **Smaller cartoons** reference: - "No Priceless Days Here" (government funds) - "Have a Heart / No More Heatless Mondays" (wartime rationing) - "From the Girls They Left Behind Them" (soldiers' families) - "Special Delivery / Austria" (military conflict) - "The Noblest Roman of Them All" (appears to reference classical virtue) The overall theme critiques World War I–era government policies, military leadership, and domestic wartime hardships.