Life — October 30, 1919 — page 3: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Page Analysis This page is primarily **advertising** rather than political satire. The dominant content is a Waterman's Idea Fountain Pen advertisement exploiting post-WWI nostalgia. The ad references French "Librairies" displaying signs reading "Ici on vend le porte-plume Waterman" (Here we sell Waterman pens), noting that American soldiers found these pens comforting reminders of home during wartime France. The secondary content includes a brief fable called "The Old Woman" and a Piso's cough medicine ad, plus a short satirical piece titled "Millstones" about political economy featuring Upper and Nether Millstones in dialogue. The satire is minimal—primarily the "Millstones" wordplay about grinding grain versus grinding labor.