Life, 1911-02-23 · page 9 of 44
Life — February 23, 1911 — page 9: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The main cartoon depicts a gnome-like figure sitting atop a large pile of coins, wearing a crown and holding a pipe—the archetypal image of wealth and greed. The banner reads "GOLDENGLORY GOUT," suggesting that excessive wealth brings physical ailment (gout was associated with rich indulgence). The two text sections below discuss: 1) "Securely Buried"—about Mrs. Augusta Stetson's remains and Christian Science burial practices; 2) "Life's Suffragette Contest"—announcing a $300 prize for reasons why men shouldn't marry suffragettes. The page satirizes both wealthy excess and contemporary social debates over women's suffrage rights. The cartoon's grotesque miser character embodies the satirical critique of materialistic greed common to Life magazine's social commentary.
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A SUCCESS Securely Buried of many tons weight, If physical resurrection is expected, and occurs, it seems bound to be accompanied by a degree of emphasis that can hardly fail to attract public attention, even if it happens, as would scem suitable, on the Fourth of July. INCE the newspapers reported that Mrs, Augusta Stetson had foretold that Mrs. Eddy would come back, the mortal mnants of that remarkable woman have been interred by the wing of the Christian Science following which is unfavor- Life’s Suffragette Contest able to the idea of her resurrection and also to the aspirations of Mrs. Stetson. The work has been thoroughly done. The HE announcement of the winner of the three hundred dol- Papers relate that the leader’s relics lie in the cemetery in a lar prize, offered in Lire’s Suffragette Contest for the bronze casket in the centre of an eight-foot cube of steel and best reason, or reasons, why any man should not marry a concrete, the whole doubtless to be topped off by a monument _suffragette, will be made in our issue of March second. comicbooks.com