Life, 1911-02-02 · page 49 of 52
Life — February 2, 1911 — page 49: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This *Life* magazine page contains multiple elements: a political argument against women's suffrage disguised as a letter to the editor, advertisements (Chartreuse liqueur, Woodbury's Facial Soap), and a romantic fiction excerpt ("A Unanimous Verdict"). The main satirical content is **"The Suffrage People,"** a letter opposing women's voting rights. The author argues that giving women the ballot would be worse than Reconstruction-era Black male suffrage because women allegedly represent "sex corruption" and lack sense. He dismisses female activists ("suffragettes") as emotional and destructive (breaking windows, heckling politicians). This reflects actual anti-suffrage rhetoric from the early 1900s—the period before women gained voting rights (1920). The piece uses pseudo-logical arguments common to that era: women are naturally unsuited for politics; their participation corrupts elections; their activism is irrational mob behavior. The juxtaposition with beauty-soap advertising is unintentional irony by modern standards but typical of the era's conflation of femininity with domesticity, not citizenship.
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LIFE: because they have no husbands to heckle privat “T know it,” she whispered. “ But you don't know my family—yet, as well y as I do. If you did, you would under- Therefore I can in a measure under- é stand that when they are all unanimous stand the state of things abroad. But (i wine Chartreuse against any one thing—why that’s always it passes my comprehension how any ef the orly sensible thing to do é ican woman with an appreciable ToL. M. trace of common sense should join in bas always been and still is made by the Carthus- the clamor. There is no more use in go- fan Monks (Peres Chartreux), who, sinee their ing inst experience than in playing e. een Incated at Tar- from France av Mice old lavels ead The: Suilfisee Peosle against four aces supplemented by ie Oullrage Pp’ pair of bowie knives. Experience has ed by the Monks have been ad- ‘ederal Courts of this country to be : demonstrated bitterly throughout thirteen sovereign Commonwealths what happens He een eerie sowadays KuSwn as when the ballot is put, en bloc, in ban:'s unfit to hold it. Negro suffrage was less a crime, less a debauchery of free insti- tutions, than woman suffrage would be, for this reason: woman suffrage adds to clections the only corrupt element now The Original and From a Letter in the New York Sun Not the example of Colorado, neither the tongues of men and angels, will ever in the least affect the suffragette mad- : Liqueur Se Acai cons tii one which should rouse pi ay Peres tims. To me it seems cynic Fate’s re- venge on England for her colonic! lacking, that of sex corruption, Since policy; she sends the flower of her you human nature and especially woman na- artreux nhood to spend its strength in alien ture is what it is, there can be no doubt —GREEN AND YELLOW— riot, leaving young womanhood to la- that the candidate with the maculate ment, recor] would command the votes of the In other words, the suffragettes heckle public men and break laws and windows (Conelnded on pages96) At first-class Wine Merchants, Groce The Cafés. jor & Ce 45 roadway, New York, N. Yo. ‘Sole Agents for United States, per care sh every man a A Unanimous Verdict (Concl.ded from page 283) “A telephore message for you, sir, from Miss Recdle. She wishes you to call her up.” ng to the instrument. He got ; is this you,” came her voice. “Can you come at once and see m Mother and auntie are out.” ington’s t refused to be quieted. “She wants to get it over,” he siid to himself, Ard then to her: “T thought it was to-morrow night.” “It was, but we might as well have it over with right su “Tl be right up.” Twenty tes later, as he once more | Woodbury devoted his | entire iite to | heakinand | it needs, and read the wrapper the Woodbury wrapper, will bring per- On the 12-page wrapper around every cake of Woodbury’s Facial Soap the reasons forall the more common skin troubles are given and the proper treat- ment to relieve them, Every form of bad skin—rough skin, manent relief. The fecling it gives your skin at its first use is a promise of what the steady use of it does. It costs 25c a cake. No onc hesitates at the price after their first cake. Stepped into the same room where he had had already two memorable interviews, he felt the door suddenly close behind him, and a pair of soft arms clinging around his neck. Then he thought for nt that it was a dream. Then he held her tight. mean it?” he gasped. to have you? “To be sure you ar 0 his eyes with a con- And she was such a clever intelligent, experienced had ever met. He was He couldn't und arest,” he said softly.“ They us against me. They told dropped on his shoulder. ss, dead, lifeless looking skin, enlarged pores, ‘blackheads, pimp! caadruff, all have definite causes, andin almost every instance these causes can be removed. Youcan keep your complexion flawo- tess if you will. Woodbury's Facial Soap, used in con- junction with the treatments given on Woodbury’s Facial Soap ,%;°« For sale by dealers everywhere ‘otice the Double Box and Free Chamois, 250 a Box Write for Samples For 4c. we will send you a sample of Woodbury’s Facial Soap. For roc. samples of Woodbury’s Facial Soap, Woodbury’s Facial Cream and Wood- bury’s Fac THE ANDREW JERG: Spring Grove Ave., Cincinnati, O, Powder. Write today. ‘s CO., 2605 He ey 5 a, i” SFY. o at comicbooks.com