Life, 1911-10-26 · page 17 of 50
Life — October 26, 1911 — page 17: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon ("Sirens"):** Shows Uncle Sam in a boat being lured toward women's suffrage activists on shore holding "Votes for Women" signs. The satire suggests women's suffrage is a dangerous temptation that will shipwreck the nation—a common anti-suffrage argument of the era. **"Pardoned" Article:** Criticizes Governor Dix's pardon of Captain Hains, who killed an unarmed man (Annis). The piece acknowledges Annis's widow's legitimate suffering—her home destroyed, separated from children, forced to work—yet still opposes the pardon. The satire appears aimed at those defending Hains rather than the governor. **Humor Pieces:** Three brief jokes about marriage and writing. The final cartoon shows a man threatening to call his wife to scare away an unwanted visitor—satirizing wives as formidable domestic forces. **Context:** This reflects early 1900s anxieties about women's expanding social roles, suffrage activism, and changing marriage dynamics. The tone treats these as threats to masculine authority.
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ment, it is much better to put it into clothes. It is vulgar and unpatriotic to wear anything that lasts. Only by constant change can the right effect be produced upon the men, and as they furnish the money they must be kept where they belong. We are doing this on a scientitic prin- ciple, where before this it was done by women individually and in a hap- hazard way. “Tam glad,” said President Taft, “that the result of this great move- ment has made ‘no difference in the tariff; I rather feared that it would.” Never! Although we originate our own styles, we import our materials from the remotest corners of the earth. Come in and look over our sealskin Mother Hubbards. Warranted not to fade. Life’s Fashion Reform League. Pardoned APTAIN HAINS, who killed Annis, has been pardoned by Governor Dix. We don't grudge him his release, but lest it should encourage anyone to do what he did, it seems proper to point out that under the evil influence of his brother he made a dreadful mess of a bad job. The shooting of Annis, help- less, unarmed, only half clothed, was one of the most disgusting exhibitions of cold-blooded butchery that this com- munity ever saw. Not long ago when a movement was afoot to have Captain Hains pardoned, Annis’ widow in a bit- ter letter protested against the pardon. She told what ruin the killing of her sIRENS (?) husband had brought upon her; how it had broken up her home, separated her from her children, and driven her out to find work. As an innocent victim, both of her husband and of the men who butchered him, she had a right to protest. The kind of ruin wrought by an un- faithful wife is not curable by fire- arms. Punishment in such cases is in- evitable, but it takes care of itself. Cap- stain Hains’ chief service in the part of injured husband was in giving the com- munity a horrible example of what not to do and how not to do it. see veelest Helpful Suggestion “YYZHAT are you writing?” asks the fond wife. "Bunch of jokes,” says the toiling husband. “TI don’t see why you go to all the trouble of writing them out when you know the editor will not accept all of them. Why do you not go to his office, tell them to him, and then write the ones he wants?” EACHER: Tommie, what is the fu- ture of “I give"? Tosemie: “ You take.” “IP YOU DON’T GO AWAY AT ONCE I SHALL BE COMPELLED TO CALL MY WIFE”