Life — January 6, 1921 — page 6: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Page Analysis This page is primarily **advertising with editorial content**, not political satire. The advertisements include The Homestead resort in Hot Springs, Virginia (promoting year-round outdoor sports), and Milo Violets cigarettes (25¢ for 10, delicately scented and cold-dipped). The right column contains an editorial note titled "People We Can Get Along Without (No. 1)," announcing an upcoming satirical series by illustrator C.D. Gibson beginning in February. The editor humorously complains that the "Business Office" reduced their usual advertising space, forcing them into a smaller column. Gibson, apparently famous for an earlier "Pipp series," will draw figures representing types of people deemed undesirable or annoying—a common early 20th-century satirical format poking fun at social types and personality quirks.