Life — April 13, 1922 — page 3: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Page Analysis This page contains **mostly advertising** alongside light humor content. The left side features "Mother Goose (Bottled in Bond)" — nursery rhyme verses, likely satirizing prohibition-era rhetoric about "bottled" goods. Below is a brief joke titled "Beating Her to It" about a submissive husband claiming he's "a shirt of a wife-beater" before his wife can say so — domestic humor typical of the 1920s. The main content is a full-page ad for **The Continental and Commercial Banks of Chicago**, using an illustrated tree metaphor: "roots of trade" need banking service to grow. The marketing pitch emphasizes financial services for businesses nationwide. The cartoon labeled "The Colonel Entertains" (bottom left) shows a social scene where guests interrupt the host's discourse—light satirical commentary on social interruptions, reprinted from *Punch* (London).