Life — October 27, 1921 — page 11: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page from *Life* magazine contains educational puzzle and word-game content rather than political cartoons. **Section IV (Picture Completion)** presents six simple line drawings with missing elements—a cat without a birdcage, a person without furniture, a dining scene—that readers must identify what's absent from each scene. **Section V (Poetic Discrimination)** asks readers to evaluate three versions of onomatopoeia ("Bang! Pssss— Bang!") and rank them as best, middle, or poorest poetry. **Section VI (Range of Information)** is a vocabulary exercise where readers identify which underlined word makes each sentence true, testing knowledge of obscure terms like "gastrocnemius" (a leg muscle) and "madrigal" (a type of song). These are recreational puzzles for readers, not satirical commentary.