Life, 1902-12-11 · page 16 of 24
Life — December 11, 1902 — page 16: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising** with a lead satirical poem titled "Just a Girl." The poem mocks the cultural obsession with romantic love and women's power over men by cataloging historical disasters supposedly caused by female desire: Adam's fall, Troy's destruction, and men's general enslavement to romance. The accompanying **short humor pieces** extend this theme through domestic comedy—a father's dismay at having a daughter, and a joke about a supposedly virtuous woman who hypocritically smuggles European fashions, exposing female weakness for luxury goods. The satire reflects early 1900s gender attitudes: women are presented as simultaneously powerful (driving men to ruin) yet frivolous and morally inconsistent. The humor relies on stereotypes about female materialism and the inevitability of male susceptibility to feminine charms. The remainder consists of period advertisements for whiskey, cigarettes, and a golf instruction book.
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JUST A GIRL. Many a throne has had to fall For a girl Just a girl; Many a king has had to crawl For a girl, Just a girl; When the hero goes to war He may battle for the right, But ‘tis likeller by far That he sallies forth to Aight For a girl. Just a girl. When the doctor turns to say: “It's a girl, Just a girl,” Papa murmurs with dismay: “What! A girl, Just a girl?” Ab, but why the sadness there? Why the Siterness displayed? Some day some strong man will swear That the great round world was made For that girl, Just that girl. SENSORS AT NvLLy Why did Adam take the bite? For a girl, Just a girl. Why was Troy swept out of sight? For a girl, Just for a girl. 0, would heaven still be bright, And would any good man care To achieve it, if he might Never claim forever there Just a girl, Glorious girl? —Chicago Record-Herald. "8 unusually conscientious, you say?" indeed; even in the smallest details of "Able to resist any sort of a temptation?” “Unquestionably.” “Has she ever been to Europe?” The champion of woman looked startled, "he said, “of course. if she had a chance to smuggle a few gowns into the country, why ening Post why—that’s a different matter.""—Chicago “As was the custom in that day,” says the Rev. A. B. Cabaniss, “the people all begged the olf preacher to appoint a day of fasting and prayer for rain, which he did. At the appointed time the house was crowded with people, all anxious for rals After reading a chapter in the Bible the good olf brother prayed as follows: “0 Lord, thou dost see our sad condition ! streams are dried up. Our grass 13 parct Our crops are withering! © Lord, we need ra the heavens seem like brass and the earth iroa We beg and beseech thee, O Lord, to send us +: But we don't want a mizzlin’, drizzlin® that would not wet our ground. And we don't wart a dashing, splashing rain, neither, for that would wash our hillsides away. But, O Lord, do give vs an old-fashioned, steady ground-soaker? that the earth may bring forth food for man and beast, aré Brother Doublebead Bob Burton's pond may fill up, and bis mill be able to crush the corn, and be may make a few more runs of his still for the benefit of the brethren.” “The good old members all responded with a hearty amen to this, thinking it expressed their wants exact! Richmond Religious Herali. Our rain, reat Britain, ‘The International News Compat Established 1823. WILSON WHISKEY. That’s All! Hunter Baltimore Rye The Highest Standard of the American Gentleman’s Whiskey THE WILSON DISTILLING CO. Balamore, Me Wx. Lanauax & Sox, Baltimore, Md. Th This notice will’ ~=s appear = ins tthis_— issue SUBSCRIPTION BOOK HINTS TO GOLFERS| 160 pages, 16 vignettes, 24 photographs, and 56 diagrams. Price, $1.25. Egyptian Cigarette of Quality Sample pages will be sent on application if written for before Dec. 10. The book will be issued Dec. 15th to subscribers only, and vill not be for sale at any bookstore. Address NIBLICK, P. O. Box AROMATIC DELICACY— MILDNESS— PURITY At your club or dealer's Boston, Mass. 1579, FOR WEAK STOMACHS A PLEASANT AND AGREEABLE BEVERAGE ARMOUR & COMPANY, CHICAGO ROYAL L. LEGRAND 02.76 i47657 5400855 28 7 ora comicbooks.com