Life — October 24, 1930 — page 7: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis This page contains a letter to the editor about a cocktail competition and two cartoon illustrations with the same caption: "Well if it isn't Miss Fiditch, our old school teacher!" **The cartoons' joke:** The humor appears to center on an unexpected, somewhat awkward reunion with a former teacher in an inappropriate setting—the top cartoon shows her on what appears to be a theatrical stage, the bottom in what seems to be a bedroom. The caption's surprise ("Well if it isn't...") suggests the teacher has appeared in a place the cartoonist's audience would find comic or unseemly for a schoolteacher, implying she's changed circumstance or reputation since teaching. The accompanying letter discusses a "Golden Dawn" cocktail that won a London competition and proposes holding a similar contest in America, with humorous suggestions about jury procedures.