Life — September 10, 1925 — page 11: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis of Life Magazine Page This page features a **Lucky Limericks contest** where Daily Life readers submit humorous five-line poems for cash prizes ($25,000 grand prize). The contest rules require limericks about specified topics, written on laundry lists. The main illustration shows **Mr. and Mrs. Fred Trowel**, who won a villa for submitting a limerick. The accompanying "To-Day's Limerick" references a Russian monk whose "heart hath ne'er within him burned" and mentions London Bridge falling. **"The Whams" cartoon** (bottom) depicts a domestic argument about money, with a woman complaining about financial hardship while her husband dismisses her concerns—typical Depression-era satire about class anxiety and marital conflict over household finances.