Life — May 6, 1920 — page 8: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis This page contains **advertisements rather than political cartoons**. The left side advertises **Empire Loomcraft Silks** for men's shirts, featuring an artistic photograph of a man with a child. The copy emphasizes checking for the brand name "woven in the selvage." The right side shows a **Girard cigar advertisement** with the slogan "Never gets on your nerve," and a separate **Jones-Mothrola phonograph ad**. The phonograph ad references "The Dance Stopped Because there has no MOTROLA attached"—apparently satirizing how a dance party halted without their product to play music. These are straightforward period advertisements. No political satire is evident on this page.