Life — March 9, 1922 — page 9: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Explanation for Modern Readers This page contains two distinct pieces from *Life* magazine: **Top section**: A memoir excerpt about meeting a horse named Watercress at a social event. The accompanying sketch shows the author with fashionable women and the horse. The humor derives from treating the horse as a social equal at what appears to be an upper-class gathering—a satirical jab at pretentious society where even animals receive invitations. **Bottom section ("That Fluffy Bobbed Hair")**: A three-panel comic strip mocking the "bobbed hair" trend of the 1920s. Women with the newly fashionable short hairstyles attend what appears to be a formal event. The joke plays on the shock value of this radical hairstyle change—conservative attendees are scandalized, treating the bobbed hair as an outrageous breach of propriety worthy of removing one's hat in protest.