Life, 1910-11-24 · page 7 of 48
Life — November 24, 1910 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and commercial content**, not political satire. The main features are: 1. **O'Sullivan Rubber Heels ad** (center): A lengthy advertisement promoting proper walking posture with diagrams showing "normal" vs. "abnormal" foot placement. This reflects early 20th-century health-consciousness about gait and body mechanics. 2. **Overstick Invisible Rubbers ad** (top left): Period footwear advertising. 3. **Hamburg-American Line cruise ad** (lower left): Promoting Caribbean and world voyages. 4. **Cortes Cigars ad** (bottom right): "For Men of Brains." The only editorial content visible is "Life's Suffragette Contest" and an article titled "Why Any Man Should Not Marry a Suffragette"—this represents Life's satirical stance **opposing women's suffrage**, a major political issue of the era (pre-1920). The piece uses humor to mock suffragettes as unsuitable wives.
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cramer a protection and They keep Four fect warm yinwet weather,and can & sng without injury ordiscomfort. EVERYBODY NEEDS EVERSTICKS. sways for sale where good shoes are eold. ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES. None genuine whth- out THIS cord. Life’s Suffragette Contest (Concluded from page 894) VIIL Why Any Man Should Not Marry a Suffragette Since far back in times primeval woman has sat quietly and demurely on the little rear seat assigned to her, man’s pampered favorite, his toy in his hours of ease, his tool, sometimes, when masculine cunning failed before masculine sagacity, for when has man’s wisdom not surrendered to feminine craftiness? For ages upon ages woman has lived in her little sphere, ignorant of the multitude of sins cov- ered by “ ‘detained at the office on im- portant business” or “compelled to attend a special meeting of the Broth- erhood of Joiners.” She has nursed her idol, man, proud of his pre-emi- nence, worshipful of him, her dictator, her protector and not a few times her betrayer, but always the god of her faith, the culmination of her joys and Carry Your Feet Parallel inWalking Normal Method Wear O’Sullivan’s y Live Rubber Heels STEP LIVELY And Gain a Little Every Step The More You Walk the More You Gain (SEE DIAGRAM OF THE NORMAL AND ABNORMAL WALK HEREWITH) THE PROPER WALK In the proper walk, the feet zhould be carried parallel with one another, to that a line from the center of the knee would pass through the second toe.’ If this line hits the inner side of the great toe, the walk is abn.rmal In the proper walk you strike the heel first, bear your weight on the outer edge of the foot, using the ball cf the foot as the fulcrum by the aid of the calf muscles to lift the body. O’Sullivan’s Heels of Live Rubber encourage the proper walk <1: casy, graceful, natural—the live rubber energizes your step. With th =e effort you can walk brisker and farther on the Live Rubber Heels, Thereis so much difference between Live Rubber and junk rubber that we must repeat our warning to refuse substitutes for O': ‘Sullivan’ ‘8. When Live Rubber is so essential to rettore nature's resi oy to your walk and junk rubber is so worthless for the purpose, it seems criminal that some un- scrupulous dealers, for the sake of the little extra profit, foist -the inferior article on you—unless you iasist on O'Sullivan’s, e price of crude rubber has advanced, but the O'Sullivan Rubber Co, will not advance their price—50c. always. Shoe dealers everywhere. O’SULLIVAN RUBBER CO., - ‘OWE, Mass. of Walking Absorms: Method of Walking ea yeight 1890 Humphrey O'Sallivan, Lowell, Muss. ee her ambitions. With the ideals she All of these islands of "Perpetual June" are aay we and comfortably reached under the most pleasant conditions upon the spl. Prinz" and other steamers of the Atlas Service of the Hamburg-American Line ‘Weekly sailings to Cubs, ice, Panama, South and Central America, Crain of 23 and B3 deze daaticn $135 ai ‘140, cudiag hotel expenses Crete Havana by the 5.8, fair 11000 tone. Thrwueh sckets Toad froen West Gotu Panis Three eeeelal crabs toe Weel Indies, Spanish Mein, Paoama Canaland Jclike 12500 tons, largest steamer going to the West ladies wo Cruises 28 days duration, having January 26 and Fe tod Febuary 25 Cout 180. and up: Si 16 days ch Cost $85 Other Cruises to the Orient, South America, Around the World, up the Nile, ete. Guide and Travel books for sale, Send for illastrated bookiet. HAMBURG-AMERICAN LINE, 41-45 Broadway, New York Philadelphia Boston _ Pittsburg _ Chicago St.Louis San Francisco has cherished destroyed, the veil re- moved and her in possession of the heretofore hidden secrets that have so long remained screened behind the great curtain; with that sweet woman- ly faith and simplicity that have kept her through all the centuries the one uplifting influence of man’s otherwise mundane existence, gone, why should any man surrender the cherished joys and thoughts of sweetheart, mother for a cold, cheerless allia with a political consort? Prudence, no less than in the days of our fathers, still dictates that established customs. should not be changed for light and transient causes. It is better that the affairs of State suffer while evils are at all sufferable than that man should sully the time-honored holy bonds of wedlock by becoming a woman's ward- heeler. a Robert F. Reeves. 5 CIGARS “MADE AT KEY WEST