Life — July 29, 1920 — page 11: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# "After-Bedtime Stories: How Lillian Mosquito Projects Her Voice" This page presents a children's bedtime story featuring anthropomorphic animals: Mother Nature, Waldo Lizard, Edna Elephant, and Lawrence Walrus. The narrative humorously explains how mosquitoes project their buzzing sound to torment sleeping people. The illustration at bottom depicts a horse race at a county fair, showing horses and riders in motion. The caption jokes about a farmer's mule cutting through a hay-filled course so effectively that other horses' whiskers blow off and their riders cannot keep them focused—resulting in the mule placing second despite this chaos. The humor relies on absurdist animal behavior and slapstick outcomes typical of early 20th-century satirical magazine content.