Life, 1911-02-02 · page 50 of 52
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This page contains a satirical article titled "The Suffrage People" (continued from page 285) attacking women's suffrage activism. The author—identified in the visible text as **Martin McCulloch-Williams**—expresses contempt for female political organizing, claiming women are "natural snobs" who use "unfair advantage" in club politics and are motivated by vanity rather than principle. The piece ridicules women's political involvement as driven by "passion for distinction" and warns that if men stop "reverencing women," civilization will collapse. The author suggests women escaping household duties now seek public attention through reform movements. **Context for modern readers:** This represents anti-suffrage sentiment from the eve of the 19th Amendment's ratification (February 1920). The page's advertisements (whisky, tooth powder, dress ties, magazines) are period ephemera. The satire reflects widespread male anxieties about female political participation and independence during this pivotal moment in American women's rights history.
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TREE From to seriously by various and sundry of the America’s cult to join their ranks upon the ground that it would be “such a satisfaction to Most be in the same movement with members of the real Four Hundred.” Famous If in all the history of elections or of politics there can be found dirtier pages i = than those which record women's club Spring politics I should like to see them. My Waukesha, experience of them is very limited; praise be for the fact. But by way of a Wis. slant I have been inside several choice ructions and say deliberately that the woman who will not take an unfair ad- vantage to carry her point or her ticket e is ‘the exception, not the rule. Upon a A time, happily brief, I sat in the seat of The Standard Whisky authority over a “Woman's Page.’ “One hundred and thirty-one years "The S There I was bombarded by rival factions by which All Other Whisky is Judged adh ” our forefathers knew and relished. The recognized of a patriotic society, so called. The medicinal whisky. The whisky for all who appre things they said of each other, the things ciate more than ordinary excellence in liquor. they tried to have me do would make Jam E P Whi angels weep and a decent gentleman in es — Pepper s Dlack blush if he could. “ + ra Money back if not satisfic pulse is “the passion for distinction.” rhe ersrere. anvenere East of the Rocky Moearaics, “ Ww * The orld’s Best at bottom of much more than half our The Jauias Eo Fe pose DisitineCompeay Table Water’ present stir and hurlyburly. Woman, Dept. 110, Lexingtoo, Ky. This same unruly passion 1s to my mind 4 quarts $5—Bottied In Bong-— 32 quarts sis In NEW Sterilized Bottles only appreciable purchasable moiety holds the balance of political power. Yet even The Suffrage People y I that is not the worst count in the indict- pient against suffrage. When men are (Concluded from page 285) 4 P BS ‘ no longer able to reverence women they feminine contingent—they so dearly love . will cease to reverence anything. The 5S dashing devil of a fallow. Farther: OOTH PO! DER fecling that they must be strong, brave, more, women are natural snobs: the best Ce roe 4 aces saga beens - re are eee ‘i ' jo be guarded, is basilar to civilization esser, the silk stocking, the candidate 9, o be guarde dress : itt ec _Jt’s the Oxygen Extinguish it ond there will be no boly with the socicty hall mark, would be the in Calox (Peroxide of Hydrogen) that renders it so efficient as a : : an for their votes, with or without cleanser of the mouth and whitener of the teeth. of holies where a light can burn. mai tcs, h Dentists advise its use. Physicians prescribe it, Martina McCutocnt-Witttass. money and price I have been appealed All Druggists, 25 Cents Sample and Booklet free on request New Yorx, January 13. McKESSON & ROBBINS - NEW YORK ish" for the Calox Tooth Brush escaped from the household tasks that once compelled decent orderliness, 1s feeling her oats; therefore she pines for MAGAZINE the limelight. She wants to have her | Representative Monthly of California name in the papers; therefore she starts * : west. something. It used to be a Hospital for and the Great South 56 7 d 120 to 130 pages every issue. Pipped Hens; now it is some capital 1 BY Good Stories, Interesting Pictures, letter Reform of about equal usefulness fF i ee ee eine matte Anything goes so long as it gets the pro- of interest to Homesceker moter before the public, entitles her to F ifs wear badges in all the colors of the rain- : F A bow, and lets her rustle with supreme P r THE TIE satisfaction in feeling herself It 5 . WITH THE ,; But ak these alia Philosophers to A os do something practicable, and where are H BUTTON-ON they? Echo answers, where indeed? , ” Ge TABS For instance, to discourage bargain FYE West Coast Moasie a counters by staying away from them— ig the largest standard Perfect DressTie insist tte ins Ste des vaste er ec lent or mean that in extremity some- * the only One - Dollar-a- Year/ PATENTED JUNE2I, 1898 AND MAY 09,1905 hody'’s toil is going for naught \ fyyos monthly on the Pacific Coast ‘THE only way to be sure that the tle you get is a “PER- The fruit of debasod suffrage is ra- L Te otter trowieteed FECT DRESS TIE,"* made with Tle and Tabs in one pine and the tainting of elections. It = yor posted on Western piece, Is to look carefully for this label, on the neck- pened wherever negro aollrage Gre- | £ Opportunities. B band HE PERFECT TIE.” Sold everywhere and Los Apgelés, Cal. made only by ; ar KEYS & LOCKWOOD, Union Square, North - New Yor vailed; it will happen again wherever an comicbooks.com