Life, 1898-03-31 · page 3 of 20
Life — March 31, 1898 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This page from *Life* magazine features "Olympus Up to Date. On the Eleusinian Way"—a classical mythological scene rendered in modern early-20th-century style. The illustration depicts Greek gods and goddesses alongside contemporary figures engaged in modern activities like cycling and automobiles, creating satirical contrast between ancient mythology and modern life. The accompanying articles—"Still Fresh," "Sister Somerset's Saving Grace," and "Consciousness of Power"—appear to address social commentary, likely including references to feminism (Sister Somerset suggests suffragette activism) and power dynamics of the era. The overall effect satirizes how classical ideals clash with contemporary society, typical of *Life* magazine's sophisticated social satire during this period.
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Still Fresh. IIE flowers are faded that I sent, My dearest girl, to you. 1 would be happy if the bill, Mas! had faded too. Sister Somerset's Saving Grace. ONTRIBUTORY evidence that Lady Henry Somerset isa wo- man of the works, additional to the evidence of her anti-White Ribbon views on sanitary regula- tions for soldiers in a tropical climate. comes OLYMPUS UP TO DATE. ON THE ELEUSINIAN Way in an unexpected way through the Critic. The ~ Lounger” cf that journal testifies that ouce, when a guest with the late Miss Willant at the Priory, Lady Heury’s country home in Eng: land, though Miss Willard aud Lady Henry drank Apollioaris, “there was wine on the table; for Lady Henry does not force her guests to accept her own principles or imitate her own practice." For another thing, the Priory isalso the home of Lady Henry's son, Somers Somerset, * who is not necessarily a total ab- stainer because his mother is. If this be indeed Lady Henry's com- mon-sense attitude as hostess and mother toward “ banishing the wine-cup,” one wonders not a little how she has so long managed to maintain her standing as a sister in the W.C.T.U. By the generally understood doc- trine of that organization, there is one depth lower than that of the drunkard in the gutter, the depth touched by the outwardly respectable person, be such person Yale pro- fessor, Princeton divine or lady of the White House, who connives at putting the bottle (de- canter) to the lips of neighbors (other respectable persons) when entertained as guests, ‘The wit who said that hell foryPuritans must be a place * where everybody has to save his own soul and mind his own business," un- doubtedly cast a prophetic eye down the cen- turies to the W. C. T. U. and its mission. But Sister Somerset won't then be there. There is saving grace in common sense. ONSCIOU: itself, SESS of power is power comicbooks.com