Life — September 6, 1923 — page 7: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# "Life: The Conceited Tennis Ball" This page contains a poem by Arthur Guiterman personifying a tennis ball's boastful perspective on its athletic prowess. The poem celebrates the ball's speed, agility, and decisive role in determining match outcomes—"I am the chap who is certain to win." The accompanying illustration depicts a domestic kitchen scene where a young girl (identified as "Small Elizabeth") asks her aunt about pie-making. The caption reads: "Aunty, do you have pie so much because it is easy to make or because it's easy to eat?" The page appears to be general entertainment/humor content rather than political satire. It represents *Life* magazine's typical early-20th-century mix of light verse, domestic humor, and pen-and-ink illustrations aimed at middle-class readers.