Life, 1898-01-06 · page 15 of 20
Life — January 6, 1898 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three distinct items: **Main Cartoon ("The Irony of Fate"):** Shows a fashionable woman with two male relatives. The caption jokes that she inherited her mother's attractive appearance but her father's less desirable traits—a common Victorian-era humor about heredity and family resemblance. **"One-Sided" Editorial:** Critiques Bishop Burke's excommunication of Mrs. Charles Miller for marrying a Protestant in a Presbyterian church. The author argues the Catholic Church's rule is unfair: it permits Catholic-Protestant marriages only if a priest presides and children are raised Catholic, but excommunicates those who don't comply. The piece supports Miller's defiance as justified protest against discriminatory church policy. **Minor Items:** A "Pegasus Contest" explanation (about Life magazine's poetry-illustration feature) and two brief jokes about milk purity and marriage. The page reflects early 20th-century tensions between American religious denominations and debates over institutional religious authority over personal life choices.
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W? one else, natured, LoRENcE. Seova L—- Hs THE IRONY OF PATE: TO HAVE A MOTHER WHO LOOKS LIKE THIS, AND THEN TO “TAKE AFTER" ONE'S FATHER. EN a man is not disturbed by something that annoys some he believes that he is good- OST people turn their attention to the task of knowing them- selves a good deal like a man setting out to discover a gold mine. One-Sided. ISHOP BURKE (Ro- man Catholic), of Mis- souri, is reported to have excommunicated from his church Mrs. Charles Miller (late Miss Moriarity), her mother, and other relatives and friends who were pres- ent recently at her wedding. She was married early in December to Mr. Miller in a Presbyterian church, by a Protestant clergyman. Bishop Burke says that sort of thing doesn’t go, and he proposes to put a stop to it. It would simplify matters a good deal for some folks if the Roman Catholic Church would systematic- ally expel every member of its communion who married a Protestant, and all con- niving relatives and friends. As it is, a Catholic is per- mitted to marry a Protest- ant provided a priest does the marrying, and an agreement is made that all children of the marriage shall be brought up Catholics. The Roman Church consents, that is, only on con- dition that everything debatable shall go to her, That doesn't seem a fair deal, and any Protestant who stands out against it—as probably Mr. Miller of St. Joseph has done —is entitled to the sympathy and support of his fellows, Life’s ‘‘Pegasus"’ Contest. E have received an inquiry from a reader who would like to know “if the given picture in Lire may illustrate a line or lines of the poem,, without being influ- enced by the lines which precede or follow it.” As there may be others who are doubtful on this point, we would say that the lines selected, for which the picture was drawn, are entirely independent of the lines preced- ing or following, so far as the picture is concerned. A Good Article. 67S your milk pure?” asked the new customer, “Tt is, ma’am,” replied the dealer, ‘I use nothing but imported chalk and distilled water.” 1A) gett a science in which there are no experts.