Life — December 16, 1926 — page 9: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 7 The top cartoon depicts a corporate ceremony where a company president presents a purse of 1,000 asses to an employee named Methuselah in recognition of 500 years of service. The humor relies on the pun "asses" — simultaneously meaning donkeys (shown in the illustration) and money/currency slang. The page contains humor columns titled "Staccato Travelogue" (brief observations about American cities), "Embarrassing Moments" (social awkwardness), and "More Delicate" (a Q&A column about etiquette). These satirize urban life, automotive embarrassments, and social propriety of the era. The illustration of a trash can labeled "Just a Girl That Men Forget" uses personification to mock men's treatment of women as disposable.