Life, 1910-07-28 · page 32 of 40
Life — July 28, 1910 — page 32: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertisements and humor columns** rather than political cartooning. The main satirical content includes: **"Our Foolish Contemporaries" cartoon**: A before-and-after comparison mocking how marriage changes men. The joke: a bachelor who went home late, took a wife casually, and lived recklessly is now domesticated—he comes straight home, stays put, and "had to learn a thing or two" because "he wed a suffragette." This reflects early 20th-century anxiety about women's suffrage movements constraining male freedom. **Humor snippets** mock vanity (a woman confessing to priest about admiring herself in mirrors), Darwinian economics (high prices as "struggle for existence"), and journalism (a newspaper editor with tiny circulation applying to heaven—satirizing failed media ventures). The page reflects **Edwardian anxieties**: suffragettes as life-limiting forces, consumerism, and social pretension. The tone is lighthearted rather than biting political commentary.
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