Life, 1911-06-15 · page 16 of 44
Life — June 15, 1911 — page 16: what you’re looking at
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This page contains multiple satirical pieces targeting early 20th-century social attitudes: **"The Onjernoo" and "A Suffragette"**: The cartoons mock women, particularly suffragettes (women's voting rights activists). The left figure represents an idealized woman as mere physical attributes; the right depicts a suffragette as masculine and undesirable. The suffragette caption sarcastically suggests that granting women voting rights will devalue their political power ("marked down to ninety-eight cents"), implying women voters are worthless. **"The Human Cock Book"**: A dehumanizing recipe reducing women to physical components—"kitten," "wiggles," "dimples." **"Specialists" and "True"**: Social commentary criticizing professions (doctors, lawyers, clergy, bankers) for profiting from human misery rather than solving problems. **Victor Berger reference**: Notes the lone Socialist congressman's verbal activism despite minimal political power—mild political satire. **"Three Kinds of Liars"**: Philosophical observation about human nature and self-deception. The page reflects early 1900s anti-feminist sentiment and class-based social criticism typical of Life magazine's satirical approach.
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1160 sought me out. Now you laugh at me. It’s not clubby, it’s not ladylike. Must you go?” “You really would like to know who Tam?” “You interest me somewhat learn to like you.” “ Listen—I am Happiness.” “Ob, my dear girl, I—say—" “But I am going away.” “Then I shall follow you to the ends of the earth.” “Of course you will. That's all that makes life worth living!” “My word, but you are a stunner, now that I look at you closely. Married lady, I presume? If I may be so bold, who was the lucky chap that caught you?” “ NOBODY!" (She vanishes with a mocking laugh.) Kate Masterson. Liars HERE are three kinds of liars: 1, The man whom others can’t be- lieve. He is, harmless. Let him alon 2. The man who can't believe other: He has probably made a careful stud of human nature. If you don’t put him in jail, he will find out that you are a hypocrite. 3. The man who can't believe him- self. He is a cautious individual. En- courage him. IT might HE Hon. Victor Berger, the lone Socialist member of Congress, loses no opportunity to be heard. He scems to make up in activity -what he Jacks in numbers. “EWP 'E : The Human Cock Book THE ONJERNOO A pound and three-quarters of kitten, Three ounces of flources and sighs; Add wiggl and giggles and gurgles, And ringlets and dimples and eyes. HE devil was asleep when man was made, but he awoke before woman was completed. He: 1'Lt BET YOU A QUARTER, TOMMY, YOU CAN’T COUNT UP 70 EIGHT WITH Your E CLOSED. HUNDRED A SUFFRAGETTE To the power that already lies in her hands You add equal rights with the gents; You'll find votes that used to bring two or three plunks, Marked down to’ ninety-cight cents, Specialists If a man is sick, be goes to a doctor; if in a Tow with his neighbors, he goes to. @ lawyer; if in spiritual’ trouble, -he consults A minister or priest: if in. business straits he calls. upon ‘the banker.—World’s Work for June. RUE, and how absurd when you come to think of it. A doctor makes his living by people who are sick, a lawyer by those who are in trouble, a minister by those who are afraid, and a banker by those who want to borrow. In other words, when a man hasn't sense enough to learn how to take care of himself, he goes to some one whose chief concern it is to keep him in this condition as long as possible in order to make as much money out of him as the law allows. Ambiguous DESPATCH from Albany tells of a proposal, requested by the mili- ry authoritics, limiting the sale of liquor to a half mile of the West Point Academy. The despatch doesn’t state whether the object of this is temperance or exercise. comicbooks.com