Life, 1910-09-01 · page 11 of 48
Life — September 1, 1910 — page 11: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains a romantic story titled "Satisfied" (top) and a cartoon titled "The Optimist" (bottom). The story depicts a young woman rejecting a suitor's proposal, claiming she cannot respect a man who lacks ambition and wears cheap clothes. She insists on marrying someone with higher social standing and financial success. "The Optimist" cartoon below satirizes this materialistic attitude. It shows a group of women standing in the rain beside a broken-down automobile, apparently stranded. Despite their predicament, their optimistic expressions suggest they remain hopeful—likely about finding wealthy husbands regardless of circumstances. The "Hobbs Corners" road sign and rural setting emphasize the contrast between their modest situation and their elevated expectations, mocking the era's preoccupation with marrying for money and status.
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Satisfied size and capacity of an anthropoid ape; whose conception of w ality and good faith is bounded by the latest conventional I O you respect me?” : society rule, and who knows as much about the true science As she uttered these vital words the beautiful girl of living as a cigar store Indian? Respect you! I should gazed tensely at the young man to whom but a short time be- say not! But I love you with all my heart and soul; life ¢ she had plighted her troth. He was not slow to respond. without you would be a desert waste, and I ask for nothing “Never!’" he replied passionately. “How can I respect but to be your devoted slave all the rest of my days. O, cature who wears the clothes that you do; who spends darling! say that this is all you desire!" me every day over her hair than the average chauf- “It is, it is," she whispered, clinging to him with a re- s over his auto; who never has an original idea, and newed ardor. “New I know everything is all right; but pends for her stock in conversational trade on the chance there have been times when I feared that perhaps our mar- ions that impinge upon her brain, which is about the riage would not be an ideal one.” Carsien 3 Guggee OPTIMIST comicbooks.com