Life — April 1, 1920 — page 40: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily a **contest announcement**, not a political cartoon. Life magazine is soliciting reader-submitted titles for the illustration shown—a domestic scene depicting four figures: two men (one standing with a cane, one seated reading), a woman, and a child. The image appears to depict a **family or household scenario**, though without the contest's winning title, the specific satirical point is unclear to modern readers. The humor likely depends on the situation's absurdity or irony, which the title would make explicit. The page includes standard contest rules (word limits, submission format, deadline of May 2, 1926) and concludes with two unrelated short pieces: "Our System" (about an Englishman's view of American government) and "A Maiden's Seven Ages" (listing life stages). **Key point**: This functions as interactive satire—readers were meant to *complete* the joke by proposing titles, making the commentary participatory rather than fixed.