Life, 1911-06-01 · page 15 of 52
Life — June 1, 1911 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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This page contains literary humor pieces rather than political cartoons. The main illustrated piece parodies Rudyard Kipling's jingoistic style ("And after Kipling"), telling of a man who chose cigars over his beloved Maggie. The joke: he lost her anyway—she married another man and now smokes herself, leaving him a "Duke of Geese" (fool). It's satirizing male vanity and the changing social freedoms of women, who increasingly smoked and made independent choices. The smaller text pieces below mock various subjects: a factory owner whose child-labor profits depend on children working mills, a poor flat-dweller creating a fake "reception room" from a drawer unit, and a final quip that women care more about their appearance than intelligence. These snippets reflect early 20th-century attitudes about class, women's emerging independence, and gender stereotypes.
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AOWALK Ea HE WON REGGIE WAGERED THAT THE REV, MISS BROWN WOULD The Betrothal—Afterwards (And after Kipling) RING down the old cigar box, not for a Cuba rare, But since, to remember Maggie, I keep all her letters there. Letters that say she loved me, postscripts that never fail ‘o limit my joy in smoking, and ask me if I inhale. hen came the ultimatum; she’s to have no smoke in her frocks ; So I wrote her a sweet dismissal, and ordered another box. A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a Smoke,” wrote, and the Fates were laughing at thought of their little joke. or I had been Priest of Partagas a matter of seven year, \nd now I am out of the priesthood, and only a simple peer. MARRY HIM, AND SHE DID—BUT TO ANOTHER GIRI. 'T was scarcely a short month after, the doctors bade me to cease, And Maggie has wed another, and I am the Duke of Geese. So take up the old cigar box, and put it back on the shelf, For women have changed their manners, and Maggie now smokes herself, Harold E. Porter. A Great Love Y: Threadler seems to be very fond of children. : He has reason to be. If it wasn't for children his cotton mills wouldn't be paying him fifty per cent. fu HAT a cunning chiffonier!" “Yes,” said the flat-dweller, “isn't it? That was our reception room and we had a set of drawers made to fit it.” OMAN—the only sex which attaches more importance to what's on its head than to what's in it. comicbooks.com