Life, 1910-10-06 · page 9 of 60
Life — October 6, 1910 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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This page contains a letters section ("From Our Readers") and advertisements rather than political cartoons. The letters debate women's suffrage. One writer ("Spinster") argues that women deserve voting rights, countering claims that women are unsuitable voters. She challenges the notion that women lack the judgment for independent decision-making, sarcastically questioning why women should be denied this "weapon" when they possess equal reasoning capacity to men. The advertisements include a cocktail liqueur ad and prominently feature the "Richelieu Union Suit"—women's undergarments marketed as providing perfect fit and wrinkle-free appearance. The ads suggest the page's target audience and era's consumer culture concerns. The suffrage debate reflects early 20th-century arguments over women's political equality, a contentious issue before the 19th Amendment (1920).
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From Our Readers (Continued from page 542) not have taken the treatment, and if we had not been infected, said that it was a sin the way Pasteur experi- mented on the animals? Let us fel- lows who own dogs and think a lot of them get together and do some- thing. Very truly yours, Cutarces K. Brest. Pittssurc, Pa., Sept. 12, 1910. A Werd {rom “ Spinster” Dear Lir Your Men's Rights Number is a cap- ital argument for women's. If men had been kept in the sub- ordinate place which women so long held, they would indeed have been just the silly little fools that you caricature in your “Journal of a Neglected Hus- band.” It is the denial of indepen- dence to us by men that makes such a silly wife possible. Don’t you see this? Again, in the jury picture: if eleven men chosen at random would really look at a woman with the hideous in- nuendo your artist shows, then by all means let woman have whatever there is to give her strength and even some advantage over her muscular yoke fellow. The ballot is a strength to man, makes other men who might otherwise misuse him respect and fear him. It gives the weak man more and measures up to your idea of what a realCocktail shouldbe. Simply strain through cracked ice and serve. Martini (cin base) and Manhat- tan (whiskey base) are the mest popular. At all good dealers. G. F. HEUBLEIN & BRO. Hartford New York London NOTE ABSENCE OF SEAMS Rehkelieu_ This se: FASTIDIOUS Union Suit A perfect-fitting union suit is closer to the heart of every woman than any other garment she wears It is the very foundation of the aristocracy of good clothes. The finest gowns are more nearly associated with underwear that offers the least resistance to the perfect draping of nature’s graceful curves. A perfect figure cannot be shown in poorly fitting undergarments. Any figure is vastly improved by the symmetry of the seamless glove-fitting waist of For years there has been no more popular line of women's underwear on’ the market than the son the Frisbie & Stansfield Knitting Company is introducing a new union suit in two weights, medium and heavy. This is a patented garment, knitted to your figure. In all other fine-ribbed union suits it is neces- sary to cut and seam the side rub and wrinkle beneath the corsets. and waist line. You know what that means when coarse seams By our special patented process the texture of the fabric is reduced to a gauze-like fineness at the waist line, without sacrificing strength. As the skin fits the form, so does this garment cling to the waist line. It cannot bunch or wrinkle, and there are absolutely no seams at that point to rub, rip or ravel or to be ground into the flesh by tight-fitting corsets, The new Richeliee. is the only garment for fastidious women, a it reduces the size of the waist. It is perfect in fabric, fit and finish, and the ideal faultlessness of its lines demands its use by women of fashion and refinement. On Sale at the Leading Stores. Priced from One Dollar to One Dollar and a Quarter. If your dealer cannot supply you, give us his name and addre: send us your height, weight and bust measurements and we will see to it that you are served. FRISBIE & STANSFIELD KNITTING CO. Department “F," UTICA, N. Y. “For Ten Years Manufacturers of the Famous Richelieu Underwear.” nearly an even chance with the strong. Why should this weapon be denied to woman? I have no personal desire to vote nor any sense that I need it specific- ally; but I do know, as only a thought- ful and sensitive woman can know after years of independent life in the world, how much disrespect for women still lurks in the breast of the average man. If the ballot would lift us a little in masculine respect, would you refuse it? Education has cer- tainly lifted us. We had to fight for it against all your prejudices and 4S fears. We wanted it to be nearer you, more truly friends with you, as well as to be happier and freer in ourselves. We won the right to independent life, too, by a fight. We are better women for learning how to work, more womanly, not less so. Would you like to carn your living only by dishwash- ing, and be paid only what somebody else deigned to give you? Yet some nen still cry out against woman's in- dustrial freedom. Women are the molders of the race, they say; then perhaps it is the long (Continued on page $46)