Life, 1911-02-09 · page 41 of 44
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**Main Content:** The dominant feature is a satirical piece on **George Bernard Shaw**, the Irish playwright and socialist. The article criticizes Shaw's excessive virtue—his refusal to smoke, drink, swear, or eat meat—as unnaturally "Satanic" rather than genuinely saintly. The humor lies in the paradox: Shaw's perfect morality makes him *worse*, not better, because genuine reformation requires having *something* to reform from. The anecdote about Shaw replying "I spit" when asked what he does is the punchline—even his vices are trivial. **Context for Modern Readers:** Shaw was a famous public intellectual known for his ascetic lifestyle and socialist views. This piece mocks both his pretentiousness and the socialist movement's disapproval of him (they found him "inhuman"). The satire reflects early 20th-century debates about morality, hypocrisy, and whether virtue without struggle is authentic. **Surrounding Content:** The page is mostly **advertisements** (cigars, weight-loss products, chocolate, books on sex education, and cruise lines)—typical of Life's business model during this era.
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CHE AGHRS -MADE AT KEY WEST Satanic Saintliness His (George Bernard Shaw's) saintli- ss is overwhelming. It is unnatural He has not a single re- He has never detest smoke ne It is Satanic deeming vice. tobacco he a particular dislike to id he clothes himself in the swad- ding clothes of a blameless life in the of Jeger garments. He even goes rest, | have been informed upon ex- ccllent authority—that of the maid who looked after his room when he was stay- ing in the Midlands—in a sleeping bag, yptian mummy in a sarco- In his early days in the Social- nt he was the despair of his Socialists. They regarded him an, where really he was un- human, He was a man who never drank, never smoked, never ate meat, and is objection to the words devil” and “hades,” bein significant, not to say pathetic. There is some hope of a man’s reformation if brother M. 8. 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