Life, 1911-09-21 · page 47 of 52
Life — September 21, 1911 — page 47: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two distinct elements: **social satire** and **advertising**. The left column presents "Ladies, Avoid These"—misogynistic quotations from famous men (Balzac, Karr, etc.) disparaging women's intelligence, independence, and character. Life's satirical point is ironic: by collecting these contemptuous statements together, the magazine exposes the absurdity and hypocrisy of celebrated male thinkers. The effect is darkly comedic, showing how pervasive and socially accepted such views were. The "Monks Win Right to Chartreuse" article reports a U.S. Supreme Court ruling protecting French Carthusian monks' trademark against a competitor, despite French government seizure of their monastery property. The right side features a **Starr Piano advertisement** showcasing an upright piano with classical allegorical imagery above it—women in flowing garments playing instruments. This juxtaposes ironically with the page's misogynistic quotations, as pianos were marketed primarily to women as accomplishments.
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Ladies, Avoid These (What some great men have said ‘about woman in generat) The man who enters his wife’s dress ing room is either a philosopher ot a fool.—Balzac With cleverness, thirty years and a little beauty, a woman makes fewer con quests, but more durable ones.—Dupuy We only demand that 1 woman shoul! be womanly; which is not being exclu sive—Leigh Hunt, If men knew all that women think they would be twenty times more auda cious.—Karr, Women are apt to see chiefly the de- fects of a man of talent and the merits "ot a fool.—Anon. OF all men n was the happiest ; he had ne mothersinclaw—=Porfait. Woman is an overgrown child that one amuses with toys, intoxicates with flattery and seduces with promises. Sophie Arnold A coquette 18 more occupied with the homage we refuse her than with what we bestow upon her.—Dupus MONKS WIN RIGHT TO CHARTREUSE United States Supreme Court Favors Carthusian Order in Fight to Protect Secret of Its Liqueur. By a decision of the United States Supreme Court the Carthusian Monks, who make the celebrated liqueur known as Chartreuse, have won their fight against the Cusenier Company, a New York corporation, to prevent the latter from using the trade-mark and other indicia of the monks’ product in the sale of a similar cordial in this country. The Cusenier Com- acts as agent for the French hquidator, Henri Lecontier, appointed by the French courts to take possession of the prop- erty of the monks in France under the Asso- iations act of 1901, Following the forcible removal from theit monastery, near Voiron, in the Department of Isere, in France, the monks took their liqueur manufacturing secret with them and set up a factory in Tarragona, in Spain, and there have continued to manufacture the cordial, import- img from France such herbs as were necded for the purpose, The French liquidator, it is alleged, under- took to make a cordial identical with or closely resembling the monks’ product. In about all substantial details the claims of the monks have been upheld, except that the defendant company has not been held in con- tempt. Justice Hughes wrote the decision. The jurisdiction of the Circuit Court was up- held. It was also set forth that the monks’ non-use of the trade-mark did not constitute abandonment and that the French law affect- mg it could not have any extra-territorial effect as far as this country was concerned, and that the monks have an exclusive right to the use of the word Chartreuse in the sale of their product in the United States. — York Herald, June 20. 1911. IRST of all a musical instrument of the highest grade—a piano that artists and the most exacting critics pronounce faultless. Played by hand it is a revelation of melodant tone quality. responsiveness and sonorous volume. Nor is it one whit less perfect in its playing mechanism, reproducing the greatest classics with absolute trueness to every variation and shade of the music plus the indi- vidual expression of the player. The Starr Player Piano is not merely the wonder of the layman but the marvel of the trained musician. Charming art views of the carious Starr Models and the home of their production may be had on request Price, $850 (Freight and Handling Additional) THE STARR PIANO COMPANY Factory AND Executive Orrices - - - = RICHMOND, INDIANA ALABAM, a Avenue ONO AK KON, Mill andl ID Mon CINCINSAT CALIFOR CLEVELANH VLGRIDA—PENSACOLA. 8S. P Dav JACKSONVILLE, 307 Main Street MAMILTOS, 105, T INDIANA EVANSCIL| Main Street Seance TNOLANAPOLTS, 138 and 149 N. Per Towra Menetes Delaware Notel tg. TENNESSEY RICHMOND. OXb9%S Main Strect NASHVILLE: NSD Pr ROFE, 120 Broadway SELLING AGENTS IN ALL CiTIES The resistance of a woman is not al- By Hook or By Crook ways a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience—Ninon de These were the names of two c a nent judges in England at the beginnin of the 17th century. They seldom, ever, agreed in their opinions. There was a perpetual diversity of sentiment prevailing between them on the bench. te the case what it 1 , the suitor was sure to have Hook or Crook on his side. They also afforded evidences of the truth of the common observation, the glorious uncertainty of Thus the phrase started. It is often that woman inspires us with great things that she will prevent us from accomplishing—Dumas. Ix reply to some observations of Mr. Dundas in the House of Commons, Sher idan observed: “The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.” 501 comicbooks.com