Life, 1910-04-21 · page 17 of 44
Life — April 21, 1910 — page 17: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon** ("A Folly of Which No Woman Would Be Guilty"): A sketch of women at what appears to be a social gathering, with the caption quoting a bartender offering drinks. The satire mocks the contradiction between women's claimed moral superiority and their actual behavior in social settings. **"What Grover Would Have Done"**: A hypothetical scenario imagining President Grover Cleveland's response to a papal message from Cardinal Merry del Val. The joke satirizes Cleveland's perceived corruption or favoritism by suggesting he'd bribe church officials—a commentary on political patronage and machine politics of the era. **"Civilization?"**: A philosophical critique arguing that "civilization" means nothing more than the capacity to enjoy life, not the supposed intellectual achievements theater managers and railway companies claim to represent. **Bottom Image** ("The Last Hope Gone"): A photograph showing the S.P.C.A. (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) ignoring animal cruelty, sarcastically captioned to criticize the organization's apparent indifference to vivisection—a heated contemporary debate.
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