Life, 1910-10-20 · page 13 of 44
Life — October 20, 1910 — page 13: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**Main Cartoon (top):** Shows two women in a domestic setting discussing a third woman named Evelyn. The caption reads: "Club Member: 'Oh yes, I'm very fond of Evelyn; but one has to admit she's a trifle effeminate.'" **The Satire:** This is a joke about social hypocrisy and gender expectations. The speaker is criticizing another woman for being "effeminate"—supposedly too feminine—while speaking to someone equally feminine. The humor comes from the absurdity of women judging other women for displaying traditionally feminine traits. **Secondary Content:** Articles about Cambridge hotels and capital investment appear below, with an unrelated small cartoon about foolish behavior. **Context:** The satire reflects 1910s-20s anxieties about changing gender roles and social pretension among club women.
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Club Member: om, ves, 1'M VERY FOND OF EVELYN; BUT ONE Meum et Tuum HERE came a burst of thundered sound. “These are My Policies!'’ said the great man, Once in a while some other would-be great man would attempt to edge in a word, but he was choked off quickly enough. At last, when the great man paused for breath, a little, meek-looking individ- ual at the edge of the crowd piped up: “That's all right, Theodore, but don’t forget it’s us common voters that keeps up the premiums on your policies.” The Taft Hotel HE New Haven House, a time-hon- ored hotel in New Haven, Connecti- cut, just across the street from Yale Col- lege, is about to be torn down. It will be replaced by a bigger and more modern edifice, to be called the Taft Hotel. TULL There is no known hotel in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but if there was one just across the street from Harvard College, and it was torn down, would conserva- tive investors replace it with a Hotel Roosevelt? To be sure the Taft Hotel is being built, they say, with Taft money; but still its name shows confidence that Taft is a good name. Why is Capital Touchy? APITAL is proverbially touchy. At the slightest hint of regulation it threatens to take its mines and mills and quarries and franchises and skyscrapers and city lots and charters and fly away with them to some foreign clime, never again to play in the American backyard. The reason for this extreme sensitive- ness of capital, however, has never been made entirely clear. Is it because capi- tal has been spoiled by overindulgence, MAS TO ADMIT SHE'S A TRIFLE EFFEMINATE. overcoddling and overprotection? If so, possibly two or three good round spank- ings would not come amiss. “IGNORANT POOLS! HAVE You } A HOBBLE SKIRT BEFORE? '* VER SEEN comicbooks.com