Life, 1910-08-18 · page 23 of 36
Life — August 18, 1910 — page 23: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**The Top Cartoon:** A boatman reassures two nervous clergymen in a small boat, claiming "there ain't no need for you gents to worry; you're all right," then adds he's "led a h— of a life"—a crude pun playing on the clergymen's anxiety about morality and the boatman's rough, irreligious past. **The "Authority" Section:** This is satirical commentary on a British suffragist advertisement for "Bible lessons by correspondence" claiming Scripture teaches "perfect equality of the sexes." The author (likely Agnes Repplier, credited at bottom) mocks women suffragists for appealing to religious authority to justify equal rights, arguing that Scripture's actual message is irrelevant to modern political franchise—and that relying on biblical arguments weakens their case rather than strengthening it. **A Sea-Puss illustration** appears to be an unrelated cartoon character. The satire targets the perceived inconsistency of using religious doctrine to argue for secular political rights.
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Boatman: THERE AIN'T NO NEED FOR YOU GENTS TO WORRY; YOU'RE ALL. RIGHT Clergymen: om, axe YOU SURE, CAPTAIN? “Ver—nur 1'Ve LED A H—t OF A LiPe.”’ Authority guinea is such a moderate sum to ask for forty-cight lessons, that one should hardly be too critical on these points, and that mouthpiece of British progress, Motes for Women, surely seven pence could never be better expended than ppears the following advertisement demolishing the doctrine of subordination—a doctrine which God's word to Women, Bible lessons by correspondence, _ in the United States is not at present a recognizable quality onsirating by an unbiased translation and But what is difficult to understand is the pretation that Scripture teaches the per : determination of the English suffragist to lity of the sexes. Half-guinea each square herself with Holy Writ, to make the ty-cight lessons. The Woman’ ‘ prophets responsible for her convictions sm. One hundred and one questions When she has demonstrated by their help her red about the false teaching of subordi perfect equality with man,"’ she is no nearer Seven pence, post p: 19 Cedar than before to the franchise, which is not Southport.” ta granted or denied on Scriptural authority w why, one wonders, should the suffra x : Only a very wise woman doubts her equality eck to shelter herself under the skirts ‘ Only a very foolish man denies it. It is fith or of Jacl? There is, as we are all \ harmless word, and always effective in ora- no religious erced, no political con | tory. Whether Jeremiah or Ezekiel quite un- . no deed, nor doubt, nor disputation, iN derstood its modern significance is little to cannot find, and which has not found, : : the purpose. They are not controlling factors ‘rant in an ingenious expounding of | in English politics Agnes Repplier. ures. Whatever the situation may ! dy —— . there is always a text to fit it. From ¢ yeu) I Mr. Carnegie still dreads the idea of dying urces the “unbiased translation" is 2 : rich, he might establish a fund for the or who stands responsible for its liberal ‘ purpose of providing proper clothing for interpretation, does not appear; but half a A SEA-PUSS Robert W. Chambers’ heroines. comicbooks.com