Life, 1905-05-18 · page 12 of 32
Life — May 18, 1905 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three distinct sections: 1. **"Our Fresh-Air Fund"** - A charity appeal for a children's organization needing bathing suits, blankets, and building repairs. 2. **"News of the Book World"** - Brief anecdotes about authors, including a humorous story about Mr. Brownson Peters, whose book "A Knight and a Dev" sold 50,000 copies. The joke involves Peters not recognizing a customer he'd met while buying trousers. 3. **"Essential Inequality"** - A satirical piece questioning whether women should have equal legal status to men, arguing theoretically women deserve equality but practically it doesn't work—with the implicit satire being this reveals hypocrisy in denying women's rights. 4. **The main illustration** (captioned "What William Should Go Hunting With Theodore") depicts a man in military/hunting attire, likely satirizing Theodore Roosevelt or a contemporary political figure.
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574 -LIFE- Our Fresh-Air Fund. F the many friends of this charity happen to feel in a generous mood just now, Lire would gladly welcome any passing dollars. We have a splendid brook, anc bath house, but we need a hundred bathing suits. We also nec hundred double blankets, and these will cost a hundred dollars. d building a little edifice for meat and milk, painting the main house and indulging in certain minor but inevitable repairs. But we like to keep our fingers from the children’s fund; therefore, any little donations for these purposes will be most thankfully received News of the Book World That’s Fit to Print. * which just gone to its gooth printing, was riding in an clevated car. conductor came up to hi Jones paid his fare A story is going the rounds it Mr. Brownson Peters, A Knight and a Dey which sold 50,000 copies before it was written as buying a pair of trousers. ked the tailor. sent Miss Amelia in author of “ Mrs. Bill, the Still,” which is be atized in fourteen languages and fc six dialects, for her keen retorts . od morning,” said a friend, meeting her in the “Good morning.” answered Miss Bunn, without a moment's hesitation Essential Inequality. OME are asking, in a ay, if the Osler inter- dict lies upon women as ¥ on, and the answer is not far to seck. TI lly, ; practically, it Under th ius of the law, whose business it will be to carry out t ficent project, a woman of course, be presume 1 she is proved sixty, and inas- much as she is barely as old as she looks, anyway, only men will ever be chloroformec As to the possibility of club women being ttoact less like sixty when they clect th WHAT TO WEAR has to be admitted that anythi ss I—IY WILLIAM SHOULO Go HUNTING WITH THEODORE, comicbooks.com