Life, 1909-04-01 · page 39 of 52
Life — April 1, 1909 — page 39: what you’re looking at
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This page contains **satirical commentary on women's rights and gender roles** circa 1909, alongside period advertisements. The main cartoon depicts a marital dispute where Mr. "Sufferer-Gette" (a pun on "suffragette") asks his wife for a latch-key to attend a fathers' club meeting doing charitable needlework. His wife, smoking a pipe, angrily refuses—she's too busy with her own activities: Women's Emancipation League, Charity meetings, policewomen's concerts, and women's science lectures. **The satire's point**: It mocks the emerging women's suffrage and emancipation movements by inverting traditional gender roles. The wife's hypocrisy (demanding freedom while denying her husband's autonomy) is presented as absurd. The cartoon ridicules both militant feminists and the "hen-pecked husband" trope popular in early 20th-century humor. The page also includes an essay section on women, discussing philosophical debates about female nature, alongside conventional advertisements (Angelus player-pianos, hair restorer) targeting period consumers.
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On Women (Continued from page 458) js just a little too much, She thinks Dickens treet J estes a fool of her and Thackeray the same, ely more so. The anti-woman philosophers she dapises with a touch of amusement. She knows she has them where she wants them—under her feet, and “the heel of the woman,” it is written, “hall bruise the head of the serpent.” I hope [have wered the good woman whose query iseonfession and avoidance, for it says only that women “are not offended ” by the frenzies of the philosophers named; huh, they “consider the fource."—William Marion’ Reedy, in St. Louis Mirror. Y TAILOR RY. FURS In 1909 “My love,"” mentioned Mr. Sufferer-Gette. “I wender—I wonder whether you would let me have the use of my latch-key this weel Latch-key? "" bellowed his wife. “ What the dickens do you want with a latch-key, my good pan “Well, my love,’’ coughed Mr. Sufferer-Gette, “we are holding a series of fathers’ foregather- ings at the club this week, when we hope to do alittle needlework on behalf of the poor. Miss Narey has kindly consented to come and talk to us about her recent Farthest North trip, Great heavens!"’ roared the irate wife, bang- ing her pipe upon the table to emphasize her words. “ Don't you know your duty is at home? Besides, on Monday I've got to attend the Women's Emancipation League; Tuesday, the Sisters of Charity meeting; Wednesday, the local policewomen's concert; Thursday, the Daugh- ters of Toil lecture; Friday, the Women’s Sci- if ess - delights afforded by really ence Research class; and on Saturday our foot- wl gobs smoker. Now, dontt..you: forget— godd\music are nowhere’ so completely rea- ception. ff 29H" duty is at home!" —IWasp. doe A Sceptic lizéd asti the home in which there is an tzsche's self ia Scorr: I remember reading of a very rich nanipy- f} can who said he'd sooner be poor. or in- Mort: Yes, and probably you remember read- enhaver fH ing somewhere that all men are liars.—Boston sit all I) Tronscript, PLAYER-PIANO If now, or in the future, you contemplate the possession of a player- sucassin ov i piano, it is your duty to yourself and to those who are to participate in its a ua . enjoyment, to visit your nearest ANGELUS dealer and have him dem- dvance. j onstrate the ANGELUS instruments to you. Do not, as some others bee have done, permit yourself to be led to purchase any other instrument before you have made this investigation. First, hear and play the ANGELUS instruments yourself. In this way you will avoid the certainty of disappointment later on. Let us send you the dealer’s name. THE WILCOX & WHITE CO. Established 1876 MERIDEN, CONN. (Regent House, Regent Street, LONDON.) A Man's Best / ont Look Old Man is born to expend every particle of strength that God Almighty has given him in Mrs. Graham's doing the work he finds he is fit for—to stand . it out to the last breath of life and do his best. § HAIR RESTORER ; We are called upon to do that, and the reward we all get—which we are perfectly sure of if TRIAL BOTTLE FREE Quali Ly we have merited it—is that we have got the a Gray ice faded bale &F work done, or, at least, that we have tried to do f cok pounseras soa piow aise: by avor the work: for that is a great blessing in itself; the ald of Mra. Graham's Quick Hair and I should say there is not very much more Restorer which ina few days "7 AS ALWAYS | reward than that going in this world. If the Restores Gray Hair man gets meat and clothes, what matters it to:tls waisted slot, partes heratess“eabiy euntieg whether he have £10,000, or £10,000.000, oF Ponitvely ure 0 ia resulta. Makes the tale rich wad £70 a year. He can get meat and clothes for Peeper tae eee ea gestere oF by mall. 64-page that, and he will find very little difference in- - trinsically, if he is a wise man.—Carlyle. MRS, GERVAISE, GRAHAM, (546/ Miclirsn Avanee, Chieaes, 49