Life — March 22, 1928 — page 7: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis of Life Magazine Page This page contains three distinct pieces of humor content: 1. **"Watching the Parade"** - A dialogue-driven comic about parade spectators making increasingly mundane observations, satirizing how people talk at public events. 2. **"The Return of the Native"** - A brief poem by Stan Hipp about stealing someone's boomerang, playing on the double meaning (returning/not returning). 3. **"They Take Advantage of It"** - A dialogue between Tom and Harry about office stenographers, suggesting young female workers are sometimes treated as privileged or shirk responsibilities. The humor relies on early-20th-century workplace gender dynamics and assumptions about secretaries' behavior and ambitions (marriage prospects, phone flirting). The illustrations accompany each piece humorously depicting the scenarios described.