Life — February 16, 1922 — page 7: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# "More Head than Heart" This cartoon satirizes harsh parenting through a domestic scene. A mother threatens her child with physical punishment ("I am going to do the same thing to you") after the child mistreats a kitten. The caption's title suggests the mother acts from intellect rather than compassion—she understands discipline but lacks warmth. The child's final thought—"I'll pull its tail"—indicates the punishment fails to teach empathy, only fear. This critiques a common parenting philosophy of the era: that physical discipline alone develops character without emotional understanding. Below, Dorothy Parker's article on "Formulas for the Great American Short Story" offers literary commentary, while "Live and Let Live" presents a fable about predatory nature, possibly commenting on similar themes of dominance and survival.