Life — September 16, 1920 — page 11: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 487 This page contains two distinct pieces: **"Autumn Rain"** is a poem (with "apologies to Robert Loveman") that humorously complains about rainy weather through various metaphors—clouds, paragraphs, issues, thunderstorms, and politics. **The main illustration and article** titled "The Poetry of Motoring" is dedicated satirically "to the people who leave their luncheon remains in the landscape alongside our highways." The sketch shows well-dressed women and children in a woodland picnic setting. The accompanying essay titled "Those Flossy Little Girls" critiques upper-class women who engage in outdoor motor trips, sarcastically praising their romantic notions while implicitly mocking their littering and refined pretensions. The satire targets the disconnect between these women's self-image and their actual behavior toward the natural landscape.