Life, 1911-07-20 · page 25 of 40
Life — July 20, 1911 — page 25: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two distinct satirical pieces: **Top Cartoon & Story**: A romantic comedy about a man who intervenes in a woman's (Margy's) relationship to "save" her from an unsuitable suitor (Rev. Panfield), only to discover his own fiancée (Eunice) has left him—manipulated by the very reverend he was trying to thwart. The satire mocks male presumption and interference in women's romantic choices. **"Snap-shots at Truth" Section**: Three brief cynical observations about American life: that people irrationally repeat summer hotel visits, college graduates waste their education, and—most pointedly—a political joke suggesting men should "take the vote" while women "take the voters," implying women manipulate male voters. This likely references early 20th-century suffrage debates, satirizing both male political anxiety about female voting power and women's actual political agency. The overall tone is light mockery of gender relations and social pretension typical of Life's satirical style.
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PSE S)s Zs EMS in reply, with great tears in her soul ful eyes, Thereafter, for a full month, I was filled with the proud consciousness of duty well done. For had I not saved Margy? Until one morning my blow came— in the shape of a note from FE: a package returning my ring. “For some time,” she wrote, “I have been realizing that I could not give you the Jove that a man has a right to ex- pect. [know it is best for both of us that we should part. Will you ever for- give me?” There was more like this. And to think, in my anx Margy, I had overlooked Eunice; for I knew at once that the Rev. Panfield was at the bottom of it. I hurried to Margy. A man always iikes some woman to lean on in a time like this. I handed her the letter silently. “T knew it was comin shes: “T knew Mr. Panfield was after her— MAS, V. 0. T. WILLONILLY MAKES A CONVINCING Bae ri a from the beginning. He tried to make you think it was I. She just told me were engaged.” You knew it!” I exclaimed sternly “Then why didn’t you save her? Why didn’t you break your promise to me d tell her the whole story about him why didn’t you?" I did,” said Margy, Jaresy Snap-shots at Truth ISE men change their minds about the comforts of the average sum- mer hotel; fools keep right on going year after year. It is lamentable what a perfect botch the average college graduate can make of a perfectly good education. If college graduates were logical thinkers and efficient workers, this coun- try would be pretty well off by this time e,ladies, We'll take vote and you take the voters. us comprom ARGUMENT BEFORE THE “ HOUSE” Jeraldine: WILLIAM MEANS GOOD; JAMES MEANS -RELOVED, 1 WONDER (oLusiING) WHAT GEORGE ateaNs? Mrs. Fondhopes: weit, paventter, LET US HOPE THAT GEORGE MEANS BUSI- NESS comicbooks.com