Life — December 30, 1920 — page 9: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# "It's a girl!" This is a humorous domestic cartoon depicting the announcement of a newborn daughter. The scene shows a proud, rotund father figure displaying his spherical head like a globe—complete with continental markings—suggesting he's so pleased with himself that his head has become oversized with pride. Behind him stands a thin, elderly man (likely a doctor or grandfather) holding an infant, while the mother sits exhausted in bed. The joke plays on the father's absurd self-satisfaction at producing a daughter, his comically exaggerated head symbolizing his inflated ego. The cartoon gently satirizes traditional masculine pride in paternity and the contrast between the father's vanity and the mother's evident exhaustion from childbirth. The artist's signature appears at bottom left.