Life, 1910-01-13 · page 12 of 36
Life — January 13, 1910 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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This *Life* magazine page contains three satirical pieces: 1. **"Tolstoi on Women's Clothes"**: Critiques Russian writer Leo Tolstoy's moral stance against fashionable dress, noting his influence extends from high society to the working class. The satire questions whether clothes are merely "habit" or if Tolstoy's reach into fashion morality is overblown. 2. **"His Master's Footsteps"**: An illustration showing a man following a dog's paw prints in snow, likely satirizing blind imitation or servile behavior. 3. **"The Woman's Exchange"**: A cartoon depicting two women in an exchange, suggesting commentary on women's social or economic transactions (details unclear from visible text). The page overall reflects turn-of-century American satire targeting social pretension and gender dynamics.
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88 Tolstoi on Women’s Clothes Why is gambling prohibited, and why are women not prohibited from wearing dresses that provoke sensuality? They are a thou- sand times more dangerous.—Tolstoi. T is to wonder what is the good Tol- stoi’s idea of dresses that provoke sensuality, Won't somebody show him the picture of Lydia Maria Child in a low-neck gown in the December .1meri- ine, and learn whether he at excellent and heroic lady's costume under the ban. He must know that clothes are a thing of habit, and re decent or indecent largely as custom has made them so. Tolstoi’s intelligence has the longest range that exists. It extends all the way from high peaks of human vision down to a point of view that would fit comfortably on Mrs. Carrie Nation. Now he secs like a great and saintly sage and again as a Russian peasant. It is curious. Rumored Disgust of Mr. Bradley Ty" Times reports Mr. John R. Brad- ley, who financed the polar expedi- tion of Dr. Cook, as being “disgusted with the whole affair,"’ and at a loss to know how he ever came to be mixed up in it If everything comes out which some investigators expect to prove, Mr. Brad- ley may be still more disgusted. The crucl doubts that have overwhelmed Dr Cook’s story of his exploits do not neces. sarily include the supposition that he fooled his backers. Indeed, there are stories to the contrary, but, so far, no more than vague tales of second-hand hearsay. In all that concerns Dr. Cook it is still hard to determine where igno- rance left off and knavery began. . MIS MASTER'S FooTsTERS More Testimony hopes Mr. John D. Rockefeller read the first page of the New York Herald of December 27, 1909,—an illuminating story of the cruclties practiced in the Halls of Agony—persistent, useless cruelties. Tt still ‘son, this orgy of blood and torture, sustained by Mr. and, worst of all, permitted by law. Such disclosures make civilized humans sit up and think. Taft in Action HE weighing and measuring of Taft in action by an at- tentive country reminds one of Lincoln's anxious trying out of generals in the Civil War to find one who would fight and keep on fighting. McClellan, Halleck, Hooker, Burnside, Rosecrans—they were all good men, but Lincoln had to keep on looking. We know Taft can fight a skirmish—there was the case of Wallace—but can he fight a battle through and go on? OOK here, doctor, how much are you going to charge me for this operation? “Oh, you've got enough to worry you now, without facing THE WOMAN'S EXCHANGE that.” comicbooks.com