Life, 1910-10-27 · page 35 of 44
Life — October 27, 1910 — page 35: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertisements and readers' letters**, not satire or political cartoons. The notable content is a letter titled "Against It" from "Constance Cameron," a woman opposing women's suffrage. She argues that women seeking the ballot and imitating men's dress represent degradation and misguided imitation of English culture. She dismisses suffragists' desires as childish—comparing them to children screaming for a toy they'd quickly lose interest in—and predicts women wouldn't even vote if granted the franchise. This letter **reflects the anti-suffrage arguments circulating in 1910**, just before the women's suffrage movement gained major momentum in America. The editor's choice to publish it suggests Life engaged with contemporary political debates, though the magazine's satirical stance on the letter itself remains unclear from the page. The remaining content consists of product advertisements (typewriters, cigarettes, shade rollers) typical of the era.
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4 HARTSHORN SHADE ROLLERS Bear the script name of Stewart Hartshorn on label. Get “Improved,” no tacks required. Wood Rollers Tin Rollers Against It Dear Lire: Can you not tell us in your valuable magazine what is the matter with American women? I am a woman—not a suffragette— and I am ashamed for my sex! It is incredible how they can so de- grade and make themselves contempt- ible. As long as they are not men, why not be content to be simply women? Surely they ought to understand that cach sex has its peculiar privileges which the other cannot share, This wild desire to scize the ballot and imitate men even in dress reminds one of the desperate American effort to ape the English, and the result is something that is neither “fish, flesh, nor good red herring.” They are very like cnildren screaming for the one toy cherished, yet if they ever suc- ceeded in getting it they would prob- ably at once cease to care for it, and very likely never vote at all after ihe t time. The following lines are, I The Cigaret you can smoke all day without a trace of “nerves — because it’s just pure, clean, sweet tobaccos, blended by artists. Prove it. MAKAROFF RUSSIAN CIGARETS 15 cents and a quarter AT YOUR DEALERS MNetearofy - Botrn Mail address—95 Milk Street, Boston SmithPremie MODEL 10 VISIBLE has just been awarded the Grand Prix over all competitors at the Brussels — International Exposition The Smith Premier Typewriter Company, Syracuse.N.Y. Branches Everywhere think, the best description of the mod- ern woman that could be given: “In glowing health, with boundless She knows so ill to deal with tim She needs must play such pranks as these.” Yours sincerely, Constance CaMERon. October 6, 1910. Dogs and Science Deak Lire: Every week I buy Lire and read it from cover to cov First I glance at the pictures and smile, then T read the no jokes and chuckle, after that I read the editorials and ponder, next I study the automobile advertisements and decide what car I’d buy if I were rich, and finally I turn to the articles and letters on the subject of vivisection and— throw down the paper in disgust The question of animal experimenta- tion has been attacked and defended hy (Continued on page 720) FOR p MEN, AGAR. BRAINS 1GARS “MADE AT KEY_WEST— comicbooks.com