Life, 1910-08-11 · page 19 of 40
Life — August 11, 1910 — page 19: what you’re looking at
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**"The Returns in 1920"** (top cartoon): This celebrates women's newly won right to vote (the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920). The poem mocks the elaborate fashions women wore to the polls—violet voile, gray, taupe chiffon, pink piqué—treating voting as a social fashion event. Named figures like Mrs. Catt (likely Carrie Chapman Catt, suffrage leader) are referenced. The satire gently pokes fun at the spectacle of women's first voting while acknowledging it as significant. **"Last Minutes in Advertising"**: Satirizes how modern women seeking notoriety pursue unconventional paths—striking, suffrage activism, arrests—rather than traditional scandals. The satire notes that displaying themselves as homemakers (in model kitchens, aproned) or activists creates public demand and press coverage. **"The Eternal Question"**: A brief joke where a boy, asked what his busy father does at the office at night, replies "That's what ma wants to know"—implying marital suspicion about the father's evening whereabouts.
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BUT IT WAS EASY ENOUGH, AND WITH AN INCH TO SPARE Last Minutes in Advertising HE neurotic young woman who craves notoriety no longer clopes with her fat tableman or his chauffeur Gowned in costly simplicity, she becomes a strike sympathizer ilitant suffragist to get herself arrested, Thus her fu- ture is assured for nine days © ascendant neither loses her jewels nor Be-aproned, a stocking-darner in one represen To-day’s star in her pet poodle dog. ! 1 cook book in the other, she receives tives of the press in her model kitchen. In a week all the men town insist upon taking their womenfolk to see her although the latter in turn insist that they need not see to convince themselves of her qualifications as an actress The matron who finds her charms in thraldom to one hu vand docs not, as formerly, seck to dispose of: him, 1 ately or otherwise. Attired in an extravag. old jeweled bag dangling from 3 on the street corner declaimi cost of high li TI creating a demand for the output of her charms. The Eternal Question TEACHER was trying to explain the dangers of over- work to one of the smaller pupils ‘ow, Tommy,” she pursued, “if your father were busy and said he would have to go back to the office at night, what would he be doing?” “That's what ma wants to know.”’ street gown er braceleted a she ig to the masses upon the she finds a most effective hod of The Returns in 1920 HERE are the women going to?’ id Files-on-Par “They're going to vote, they’re going to vot g policeman said nakes them look so fine, so fine?" -on-Parade ; “They always dress up for the polls The big policeman said “ For the women are out voting, you observe their brave array ! Mrs. Mackay is in violet voile and Mrs. Catt in gray Mrs. Belmont wears taupe chiffon, Miss Milholland pink piqué— morning! Carolyn Wells For they're out to cast their ballots in t S. P. C. A. HERE is a great need of a Socie Cruelty to Automol sitive and, for all we know, they have just as much soul as anybody else. Who of us have not heard them sob, throb, wince, tremble and wheeze? haps the most usual form of cruelty is shown toward the spark plug. A spark plug should be treated lovingly and unselfis! cleaned, fed and exercised, string halt, spavin and colic Many thoughtless people do not realize how trying it is for the Prevention of piles are ¢: sen- as gently and other plug. If not properly is liable to botts, glanders, upon an automohile’s be brought into sudden and violent contact with ani or an inanimate object Try to put yourself in an compelled to run over a little child, even if it were but a poor child? Particularly should we watch oter our work auton those noble machines of burden without which ‘o's place. How would you like r daily wants would not be supplied, or at least but sparingly and irregu- 1 lovers of automobility should carefully co suggestion and put it into effect if pos MOME TREATMENT FOR REDUCING WEIGHT comicbooks.com