Life, 1911-01-19 · page 7 of 44
Life — January 19, 1911 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising** with one substantial poem. The main content is "Life's Suffragette Contest," a satirical poem mocking women's suffrage advocacy. The poem lists absurd "reasons" against women voting—claiming suffragettes lack reasoning ability, that they're prone to "trance" states, that eugenics concerns arise, and making crude jokes about their appearance and bodies. The accompanying advertisements include Columbia Graphophones and Educator Crackers (featuring a bran biscuit). The satire reflects early-20th-century anti-suffrage arguments, presenting misogynistic stereotypes as "reasons" women shouldn't vote. The poem's humor relies on crude physical humor and pseudo-scientific claims about female inferiority—typical of opposition rhetoric during the suffrage movement.
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PRINCESS HOTEL, BERMUDA THE IDEAL WINTER RESORT. Sonopen., Accommodates 40, Outdoor life all, winter. peautfal drives, saddle riding. tennls, golf, yachting. sea tuning. FI pW SWIMMING POOL. Only two trom New York by fast, hixurlous steamers, sailing twice & wee! HOWE &TWOROGER, ‘Mgrs. Hamilton, Bermuda Life's Suffragette Contest (Concluded from page 154) XLVI Reasons! ‘There are reasons fundamental, embry- onically plain, Ridiculously simple to advance, And a potent reason for it is that failure of the brain Called a trance. ‘There are reasons of posterity, you'll cer- tainly admit, And no legislative measure can refute, That a brood of suffragetkins with an acrimonious wit Would not suit. There are reasons of cugenics which may y occur ore subjective reader of my I only stop to mention them, in case he should infer Something worse. There are reasons gastronomic in a plate of pickled ham Or in any smoking protein on your plate; You'd have to rise above this till you didn't care at all What you ate. You may reason till the ultimate is cap- tured and confined, All conjugal ideals may fulfill, But reason never swayed the matrimoni- ally inclined, Never will, If a suffragetic eyebrow has the real and Grecian curve And the eye that lies below it is benign, If a suffragetic figure plays the mischief with your nerve As with mine; If on personal projection you undoubtedly are bent, If in dreams the lovely creature you've embraced, There’s no reason why your arm should not undoubtedly be sent Round her All the Music of all the World is at your command, in your own + home,whenever you please or your friends suggest, if you own a Graphophone » Grafonola (Seca! Type, with ey) (Cobiaet, type—hornless Prices $17.50 to $100. Prices $50 to $225 ‘Columbia Records are Double-Discs Rs ® Seles di ae —flat, black disc records, with music on J iad (cor (oe Bae) both sides, a different sclection on each csietetea: ; ide, and both of unequalled quality. Hearing is believing—Columbia. dealers EB = & everywhere provide the opportunity. E D U CA l O R Though conditions may not favor your incipient address And the barometric sign is not “ sei fair,” This particular Educator is made for a special purposes it contains the natural laxative properties of specially ground Educator wheat bran. An attractive biscuit. Palatable—Infallible—Convenient. Leading grocers sell them. Or write us direct for catalogue of the twenty varieties, JOHNSON EDUCATOR FOOD Co. 236 Tremont Street. Boston, Mi 18s You'll not prejudice your standing by im ploring for a tress Of her hair For suffragetic riots, even suffragetic bites, Though sad, are quite inevitable when The sex is mad and truculent and void of women's rights Which are men. Atan Sutiivan. comicbooks.com