Life, 1910-09-22 · page 25 of 40
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This Life magazine page contains three satirical pieces: **"Look Out!"** mocks the "Hobble Skirt"—a restrictive women's fashion trend that cinched ankles and knees, forcing an awkward shuffling walk. The piece ridicules a snobbish visitor from New York promoting this painful style as fashionable. **"The Ladies' Battle"** references an Atlantic Monthly essay by anti-suffrage advocate Molly Elliot Sewall. Life notes the irony that women arguing *against* women's voting rights actually make better arguments than men do—men appear self-interested opposing suffrage. **"Heyburn of Idaho"** satirizes Senator W.B. Heyburn for his reactionary politics. Life mocks him as anachronistic—notably for opposing a Lee statue in Congress and stopping a band from playing "Dixie" (a Confederate anthem) at an Idaho rally. Life questions whether his behavior is genuine foolishness or calculated publicity-seeking. **"Come Down, Kansas"** criticizes Kansas for not purchasing Roosevelt's popular "African Game Trails" memoir despite his prominence.
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“WHERE EVERY PROSPECT PLEASES, AND ONLY Look Out! ITTLE Orfer Nanny has come from New York to rest, To put on airs and haughty stares and be an awful pest. And when at night the 'skeeters drive the boarders all away, She talks about the latest styles straight from Rude Della Pay. She says no stylish girl would THINK of putting on a skirt That didn’t squeeze about the knees and ankles till they hurt. “We'll all be waddling, shuf- ing like we had the gout, For the Hobble Skirt will get you if you don’t watch out!” “ The Ladies’ Battle” She sa W& like the ind of “anti-woman- suffrage argument that Miss Mol ly Elliot Sewall offers in “ The Ladies* Rattle’? in the September Atlantic. When women talk well on that side of that question, as Miss Sewall does, they talk better than men do. A man is al- ways at some disadvantage in opposing woman suffrage beau: imputation of being woman, Heyburn of Idaho HO knows about W. B. Heyburn of Idaho, and how he came so? He is a United States Senator. We have consulted Who's Who in Americe about him, but there is nothing in it about him that accounts for his anachro- nistic sentim His stock in trade is the Bloody Shirt. He was strong and solitary in the Senate last winter on the subject of Lee’s statue in Statuary Hall, and it was in the paper the other day that he stopped the band at a political meeting in Idaho when in a medley of popular airs it introduced ‘ Dixic.'* There is much that we would like to know about Heyburn, he is so curious and so out of date. Is his peculiarity an incident of youth or of old age? Has he happened to be examined late: ly by any competent alienist? Is Idaho pleased with him? He seems a foolish man, and yet possibly it is all a plan of adver- he is open to the very MAN IS VILE! lisement, Mere is not nearly so likely to get into the paper lesque extravagance of opinion. Perhaps Heyburn would rather be known as a goose than not be known. The tale of his stopping the band went through all the papers, and here we are talking about him, and probably the next Who's Who book will have re about him in it, But does Idaho like that sort of an advertiser ? sense aS gro- Come Down, Kansas K has hollered a lot about Roosevelt, but what is it doing about the African Game Trails? We hope that presently the publishers will disclose how many Game Trails Kansas bought. “YOUR cook has cloped with the coachman, your wife has appendi- citis and your favorite daughter has gone on the stage. Why didn’t you cable me?" “TL kept putting it off from day to day, as the head of your firm expected every moment to announce his failure."