Life, 1919-11-06 · page 26 of 36
Life — November 6, 1919 — page 26: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three separate satirical pieces: **Oliver Herford's "Find"**: A joke about the authorship controversy surrounding *The Young Visitors*, a novel supposedly written by a child named Daisy Ashford. Herford humorously suggests that if the novel is published, he'll write a preface to it—implying that adding a preface by a famous author would make people mistakenly credit him as the writer. The satire mocks how literary prestige and authorship attribution can be manipulated. **"An Accelerator"** and **"A Just Complaint"**: Brief comic dialogues about domestic life and inconvenience. **"Parcel Post"**: A joke about mail delivery expectations. The page's centerpiece is an illustration labeled "EVOLUTION"—a book titled *Descent of Man* emerging from a gorilla, referencing Darwin's evolutionary theory and the enduring public controversy over human origins. Below is an advertisement for a **Locomobile Gunboat Roadster**, an early automobile model.
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