Life — February 17, 1921 — page 8: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# "Our Own Intimate Column" - Life Magazine Page This page features **Life's advice column**, newly launched, inviting readers to submit questions. The illustrated cartoon at top shows a man fleeing an office building labeled "GOING SOUTH FOR HIS HEALTH"—likely satirizing the Victorian euphemism for seeking medical treatment or escape from urban life. The column includes reader letters addressing topics like growing flowers and identifying an artist ("Reuben's Descent from the Cross"). **"Abyssinian Home-Brew"** (bottom) is a three-panel comic strip showing someone collecting palm tree sap in a large pot, progressively attracting wild animals and chaos. The captions ("Um-m! me get bottles," "wow!", "Oh, boy!") suggest fermentation gone humorously wrong, poking fun at crude alcohol production.