Life — December 23, 1920 — page 8: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis of Life Magazine Page This page contains satirical commentary and a domestic humor cartoon. The main illustration shows a mother with two children looking at a picture, with the caption mocking the children's politeness about an unflattering portrait: they won't admit it looks bad "as I behind my face." The "Libeings" section offers brief satirical observations on contemporary topics: Milwaukee's beer industry, hotel plumbing innovations, women's clothing measurements, potential invasion of Mexico, a book reviewer's backhanded compliment about *Pottierism*, a parrot's slow egg-laying, wounded WWI soldiers receiving Red Cross care, and Charles A. Garland's charitable inheritance decisions. The final dialogue ("Going Him One Better") satirizes intellectual pretension, with a cynic claiming men resent women becoming intellectual, and a woman retorting that men hate discovering their own lack of intellect. The humor relies on domestic situations and social commentary typical of 1920s American satire.