Life — November 25, 1920 — page 11: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 947 This page contains several unrelated humorous sketches typical of early 20th-century American satire magazines. The top poem "I" and "Myself" and "Me" by Eliot Harrow Robinson explores introspection—three aspects of the self, with "I" being confident and proud, "Myself" self-conscious and conceited, and "Me" self-pitying. The middle cartoon "Helpless" depicts two brief vignettes: a baby crying for its bottle, and a taxi passenger waiting for change from a ten-dollar bill—contrasting human dependency at different life stages. The lower cartoon shows a mother scolding a child about asking for more candy, with the child claiming he didn't mean what he said yesterday about punishment. The right column contains theatrical and domestic humor sketches involving a playwright pitching a play and an apartment-hunting couple.