Life, 1911-01-12 · page 36 of 44
Life — January 12, 1911 — page 36: what you’re looking at
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This page satirizes the women's suffrage movement through mock-heroic parody. The main text mimics the Declaration of Independence's language and structure—"We hold these truths to be self-evident"—but inverts it as a "declaration" by men against suffragettes. The satire mocks anti-suffrage arguments: women are accused of "insurrections," refusing domestic duties, blocking sidewalks with parades, and preventing population growth by pursuing public life instead of motherhood. The joke escalates absurdly—a man defending himself against suffragettes arms himself with "a shotgun, a corkscrew and the contest copies of Life." The author, Robert S. Keebler, ridicules both suffragettes' actual activism (climbing on benches to be heard) and the hysterical male resistance to women's political participation. By treating the conflict as a quasi-revolutionary war with dramatic legal language, the satire exposes the disproportionate anxiety men felt about women's rights. The page also contains unrelated advertisements for Egyptian cigarettes and a fishing contest.
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-LIFE: She has suspended man’s leadership and declared herself invested with power to legislate for him in all cases whatsoever. She has excited insurrections of do- mestics, and has endeavored to bring on universal suffrage, whuse known result is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these aggressions man has thus far been tolerant. His tolerance has been answered by repeated injury. He, therefore, solemnly pub- lishes and declares that all marital con- nection between him and the suffrayette is and ought to be totally dissolved And for the support of this declaration he has armed himself with a shotgun, a corkscrew and the contest copies of Lire Robert S. Keebler The Egyptian Cigarette of Quality AROMATIC DELICACY MILDNESS PURITY 4 i Bass, Trout, Muscalonge, Pickerel, > Bluefish, Weakfish, Channel Bass, Blackfish, Striped Bass, Tar- pon and Tuna caught during this season. $1,500.00 IN PRIZES FOR THE BIGGEST FISH At your club or dealer's THE SURBRUG CO., Makers, New York. Better look into this. Get a copy of Field and Stream from your news dealer. You may land a prize winner. Life’s Suffragette Contest (Concluded from page 139) would-be bride requires that he should declare the causes which repel him from so rash a venture He holds these truths to be self-evi- dent, that all men are created for hus- bands; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are Peace, Politics and the Family Leadership. That to secure these it is his right, it is his duty, to throw off suffragette proposals and to provide himself a docile wife for his fu- ture security. To prove this, let Lire be submitted to a candid world. She has refused her assent to his laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the family peace. She has gone to legislative bodies, climbing on benches, roofs, telephone posts, and other places unusual, uncom- fortable and distant from the cradle and the kitchen, for the sole purpose of fa- tiguing them into granting her the suf- frage. . She has endeavored to prevent the growth of population, refusing to take her place in the home and rushing forth into the busy haunts of men. She has kept up club meetings in times of darkness and has sent forth swarms of converts to parade the streets and block the sidewalks. This $1,500.00 will be divided in Monthly Prizes for the biggest fish caught each month during this season, and Grand Prizes for the entire season in each class. The prizes include silver cups, $70 shot_guns, $30 rods, $4o reels and every kind of Angler's and Sportsman's equipment. 157 Prizes in all. There are no strings to this Contest. Prizes will be awarded whether you are a sub- scriber of Firtp anp STREAM or not. = ani of prizes and conditions of {his contest published: each month in Fretp anp STREAM and also an account of How, en and With What Tackle the big ones were caught YOU INVEN We are going to make you a Special Offer of a year's subscription to Frecp AND Staea (regular price $1.50) with the 1911 Angler’s Guide or one of Jim Heddon’s famous split bamboo, § feet, casting rods, all for $1.75. FIELD AND STREAM PUBLISHING COMPANY, East 21st Street, New York City —= YOUR IDEAS MAY BRING YOU A FORTUNE Witte for our Free Book ¢ gives list of needed to protect them. Patonta Obtained or Fee Returned, Q} No charge for report as to patentability : eed sketch or model, ratents advertised for aale tree. ty H. Ellis Chandlee & Co. Sescopssste Mertvard & Chandiee. comicbooks.com