Life, 1907-02-14 · page 13 of 28
Life — February 14, 1907 — page 13: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains editorial content addressing social debates of early 1907. The main cartoon depicts a woman figure (appearing to represent "Woman" or feminine virtue) encountering a small dark figure, illustrating the caption about "the first man hadn't known the first woman long before he had to get out and dig"—a joke about women's expectations burdening men. The text includes a letter from R.B. Nason criticizing Life's editorial positions on theater reform, animal cruelty, and other causes, suggesting the magazine was known for progressive advocacy. A brief "Natural Question" joke follows about wealth and guilt, likely satirizing the conscience of wealthy industrialists. The overall page reflects Life's role as a satirical voice commenting on contemporary social reform movements and gender relations.
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LL RIVER, Mass. Eprror or Lire ir—It appears that all preachers of are not of the same opinion as those who take issue with Lire over the matter of divorce, as witness the following, quoted from a “platform” presented. by President Hyde, of Bowdoin College, to the Maine Congregational Conference: : “We will support the family as God’s in- stitution for uniting man and woman in love, for rearing children in virtue and for ministering to the aged in tenderness; we will counsel due consideration before mar- LIFE * riage, and forbearance and forgiveness until seventy times seven in the delicate adjust- ments of family life; yet when adultery, de- sertion or gross and wanton brutality break the bonds of domestic affection beyond the power of patience and charity to restore, we will sanction for the innocent party such relief from intolerable tyranny as the law of the State allows.” When two such guides as Lire and Presi- dent Hyde blaze the trail, it would seem that those who cut across it might do well to hesitate lest they rush into a way that even angels would fear to tread. But concerning missionaries. Are there not missionaries of various stripes? I trust you will continue to lampoon and lambaste those worthies (God save the mark!) who would force perverted Scripture down the IT 18 RECORDED THAT THE VIRST MAN HADN'T KNOWN THE FIRST WOMAN LONG BEFORE HE HAD To GET OUT AND DIG THE PATRON SAINT OF THE BALLOONIST throats of befooled “heathen niggers.” But why not give us a word now and then, by way of contrast, about the other kind— such men as Bishop Talbot, for instance ? Or is he sui generis? Yours truly, Jan. 29, 1907. R. B. Naso. Extract from a Letter to “Life” “TT IS only because I am feeling unable, financially, to subscribe this year that I have to stop the paper. It is the best of its kind, and in my esti n far ahead of the foreign ones with the same end in view. your fight against the theatre trust, y to animals, and other reforms. A Natural Question “MAM is uncle Jake very wealthy?” “Enormously so, dear.”” “What is he guilty of?” comicbooks.com