Life, 1910-09-22 · page 12 of 40
Life — September 22, 1910 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three distinct pieces: 1. **"Life's Fresh Air Fund"** - A fundraising list acknowledging donations for a charitable program providing outdoor recreation for children. 2. **"Ye Colonel and Ye Post"** - A humorous poem in archaic/mock-colonial English parodying historical writing styles. It appears to mock pompous military figures through exaggerated dialogue and archaic language ("ye," "'Evade! Aroint!'"). 3. **"Fashionable"** - A cartoon showing a woman at Town Hall questioning her appearance, with the caption "What are the wild wives saying to-night?" This satirizes women's suffrage activism and social reform movements of the era, suggesting suffragettes were perceived as socially unconventional or "wild." The page overall employs satire to mock both military pretension and women's political activism through humor and caricature.
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THE Ye Colonel and Ye Post Being a Right Doleful Ballad OME hither, Bosses fat and lean That love to rule ye Roast And hear about ye Strife between Ye Colonel and ye Post! Ye Colonel stormed across the West And grilled ye Money King Ye Colonel puffed his ample Chest And uttered sundric Things ‘Vhat warmed ye Post to Fighting It woke ye Welkin, and Proclaimed ye Colonel which Ye Colonel could not stand “ Modest Ye Colonel gave his Arm a Whisk, His Teeth began to gnash: He called ye Post an Asterisk, A Semi-colon Dash! Ye Post rejoined, wade! With kindred Phrases dark, And hurled ye Exclamation Point, Ye deadlic Question Mark! Ye Colonel laughed a grislie Laugh, Y-wot he never shrank, Ktut called ye Post a Paragraph, A Comma and a Blank! Ye Post in heavie Anger said That when he sought for Votes ‘Twould cut ye Colonel's Name “Ted” And put that Name in Quotes! chy Aroint!"" BAN Whereat ye Colonel blew his Horn And fared upon his Quest. Ye luckie Babe which is unborn Will never know ye Rest.” Arthur Guiterman Fashionable “FO is sour wie this fat? “Just able to hobble around.”* Life’s Fresh Air Fund Previously acknowledged.......+.+.$7,004.23 Twitchell Lake Sunday school... 5.75 ceeds of cardy sale and play given by Virginia Ellingwood, Flizabeth Wood, Mary Keck, Har- riet Seymour, Tilly Robbins..... D. H. C.," Memphis... : iven by a group of little girls in Stafford Springs, Conn. sult of self-denial... ee 2.00 0. D. Duncan . $38 F. Dominick, Jr. 10.00 William Ziegler, Ite.....ee..0eee+ 100,00 RRW., Jr and GIR Wee... sgt Monzo Potter. « Proceeds of a play given by the young people of the Quogue Fiel! Clobiassswnesnes i $7,233.49 ACKNOWLEDGED WITH THANKS. Packages of clothing from Mrs, Edwin Gil- bert M. Martin and Mrs. Burr Mills, of Georgetown, Conn, Toys and games from Miss Alice Stocking, Georgetown, Conn, A package of clothing from Mrs Morchouse, of Branchville, Conn. Both Doleful HO is that man at the next table with that signed expression ? the club. “T don’t recall his name," host, “but he is either married to a suffragette; tell them apart now: Ferris downeast, sad, re- "asked the guest at replied the a Republican or one can hardl:: “WHAT ARE THE WILD WIVES SAYING TO-NIGHT? '* comicbooks.com