Life, 1895-07-04 · page 5 of 18
Life — July 4, 1895 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This 1915 *Life* magazine page satirizes opposition to women's suffrage. The top cartoon mocks anti-suffrage arguments by showing a woman activist confronting men who claim they're "too busy" with serious matters (implied: military/governmental concerns) to grant voting rights. The middle section, "The Nine Incorruptibles," lists nine prominent New York women legislators who've formally opposed suffrage extension. The accompanying cartoon depicts a woman literally "bearing arms"—stacking weapons and ammunition—a visual pun suggesting anti-suffrage women are complicit in violent, masculine politics while hypocritically denying themselves political voice. The bottom dialogue jokes about a hair-dye customer, offering comic relief while continuing the page's theme: mocking those who resist women's political participation as absurd or self-defeating.
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‘THAT GLORIOUS FourRTH !—NoT A CELEBRATION, THE NINE INCOR- RUPTIBLES. HE highly moral New York State Legislature of '95 having passed the * Nixon Reso- lution,” to the effect that the question of Woman Suffrage go before the people for their decision, Mrs. Francis M. Scott, Mrs. George White Field, Mrs. David H. Greer, Miss Eleanor G. Hewitt, Mi: Florence Lockwood, Mrs. Elihu Root, Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Mrs. Everett P. Wheeler and Mrs. George Waddington have been very much stir- red up, and have formed an association opposed to the Extension of the Suf- frage of Women. “It is desired.” says this recal- citrant band of nine, “to form branches in all cities and towns throughout the “BeEGoRRA, AN’ I WONDER WHAT THE DIVIL THIS THING 18 ANNYHOW? SOMETHIN’ TO ATE, I SUPPOSE, FOR THERE'S A DIVIL AV A RAT HAS GOT INSIDE AV IT AN’ HAS LIFT HIS TAIL A SHTICKIN’ OUT. I'LL GIVE IT A WAR-R-RMING IT'LL REMIMBER |" 5 State, and ladies who desifé torefiter their protest against Woman’ Siiffrage are earnestly requested to send their names to the Secretary of the Central Associa- tion, Mrs, George Phillips, 169 East 6oth St., New York City. This seems a worthy cause, and LIFE loves a fair fight. Ladies, if you feel that your mission in life lies within the broad scope of your own household, now is the time to step up and record your convictions. EFFECT ON LODGER ABOVE, WHO RY THE STRANGEST COINCIDENCE WAS PUTTING THE FINISHING TOUCHES TO HIS NEXT SUNDAY'S SERMON ON ‘* HOw GREAT A MATTER A LIT- TLE Fire KINDLETH."—From James I/1., 5. WHAT HE WAS AFTER. LERK: That gentleman you sold a bottle of hair dye to three weeks ago was here again to-day. DrucGist: Was he bottle ? “No, sir; he wanted to know if we kept wigs.” after another HE HUSBAND (seeing his, wife off): You must promise not toask for money every time you write, THE WIFE: But that would necessi- tate my writing so much oftener. comicbooks.com