Life, 1910-07-14 · page 30 of 40
Life — July 14, 1910 — page 30: what you’re looking at
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This page contains satirical humor pieces typical of Life magazine's editorial content. **"A Prediction"** addresses women's suffrage, predicting that despite men's current resistance, women will eventually win voting rights. This reflects the pre-1920 suffrage debate. **"Light on the Kitten Question"** is a children's humor piece contrasting two boys' explanations for where kittens come from—one invoking the stork myth, the other biblical creation—poking fun at childhood logic. **"Baseball Term: A Wild Pitch"** appears to be a cartoon about baseball, though details are unclear from the OCR. **"Degrees for Brides"** satirizes a proposal to create academic credentials in household management for married women, with humorous fake degree abbreviations mocking domestic stereotypes (e.g., "B.A. = Blatantly Argumentative"). The remaining content consists of advertisements for J. & F. Martell Cognac and a book review for "Dr. Thorne's Idea" by J.A. Mitchell.
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$ASSOR} A Prediction Has Woman since Time's earliest spring Ever set her heart upon a thing She never got? I reckon not! And though just now man will not let Her have her way—well, you can bet He'll have to give the suffragette The suffrage yet. —Boston Transcript, VI. NylLv Only After the Fall Ursox: Do you have to be examined by a physician before joining tie Avia. tors’ Club? Downinc: No; not until after you have made your first flight—Chicago News. Degrees for Brides A curriculum of household ic ment for married women was advocated by Mrs. St. Loe Strachey in a discussion upon a “University Standard in Home Science '' at the Women's Congress the White City on June 8. We are left in the dark as to the syllabus, and as to whether the fair aspirant for matrimonial Light on the Kitten Question Two small boys were discussing the arrival of a baby sister and also some little kittens, Paul (aged four) said to Robert (aged six): “Where do you s'pose these kittens came from? Did the stork bring them just like he did baby sister?" Robert answered in disgust: “Of course not, goosic, storks couldn't bring kittens—God made them. He said, ‘Let there be kittens,’ and there was kittens.”” —Ledics’ Home Journal. BASEBALL TERM A WILD PITCH honors will try it on the dog 9r a dummy husband. Should degrees be conferred on successful candidates, we hasten to enter a caveat against some familiar nitials obtaining the following accepta- tion Blatantly Argumentative. = Moderately Affectionate. BC. Barely Connubial. Sc.D. == Scarifier of Domestics. ‘ Litt.D, = Litter Distributor. LL.B. = Loves Lots of Bridge. Mus.D.= Musically Defective. —Punch. Lape is published every ‘Thursday, simultaneously in the United States, Great Britain, Canada and British Possessi $5.00 year in'advance. Additional postage to foreign countries in the Postal it $1.04 a year? to € Single current copies, 10 cents, Hack numbers, after three from date of pabl ts. No contribution will be returned uniess accompanied by stamped and addressed envelope. 1. dors not hold iteelf responsible for the lors or nomreturn of unsolicited contrioutions. Lire is for sale by all Newsdealers in Great Britain, ‘The International News Company, Breams Chancery Lane, London, E.C., England, Acexts. Lirentano’s, 37 Ave. de I’ Opera, Park also at Saarbach’s News Exchanges, 16 John St., Adelphi Strand, W.C., Londons 9, Rue St. Gears Paris; 1, Via Firenze, Milan; Mayence, German The text and illustrations in Live are copyrighted. For Reprint Rights in Great Britain «rh to Lire, 1 Southampton Row, London, iW. C Prompt notification should be sent by subscribers of any change of address. J. & F. MARTELL Cognac (Founded 1715) kkk FINE OLD AND LIQUEUR BRANDIES GENUINE OLD BRANDIES MADE FROM WINE OF THE COGNAC DISTRICT Sole Agents G.S. NICHOLAS & CO. New York Copyright, 1910, by J. A. Mitchel * Woth March Drooping Heads Dr. Thorne’s Idea i J. A. Mitchell Author of THE LAST AMERICAN, THE PINES OF One Dollar, Net Like R. L, S.s world, “Dr. Thorne’s Idea? (George H. Doran & Co... $1) is quite “fell | of a number of things. There are criminals ard their crimes and their victims, and a very human and humanly wise minister, and a bishop, wbose legs, like those ol Sir Willoughby Patterne, are soy, in character, and a circus, both before and behind the scenes, and a boy wrth honest eyes and a criminal heredity and a loyal-souled lite girl with a dissipa:3 dot and a ring that~but there are too many to name,them all, and, besides, a mere list can give 0° idea with what interest the author, John Ames Mitchell, has clothed ‘all of them, Mose thar most novels, it has individuality in the manner of the telling. —V. ‘imes. LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 17 West 31st Street, New York comicbooks.com