Life, 1912-11-21 · page 9 of 44
Life — November 21, 1912 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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This page satirizes women's suffrage and political participation. The top cartoon mocks men reacting to women entering politics, showing physical chaos and disorder. The text argues wives should adopt their husbands' names in politics to avoid confusion—a transparent argument *against* women's independent political identity. The lower cartoon, "When the Doctors Are Ill," depicts six alternative practitioners (homeopath, Christian Scientist, herb doctor, allopath, alternative healer, osteopath) as quacks. This satirizes competing medical philosophies of the era. The references to the "Equal Franchise Society" meeting and specific women's names indicate this was written during early-20th-century suffrage debates. The satire mocks both women's political aspirations and non-conventional medicine simultaneously.
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calls for aid from— His sister: 118 His fiance : AND HE'S LOST HIS FRONT TEETH. His mother: put we pivn'T prov THE ball! ladies. This innovation is now get- ting pretty near home, and with no ap- propriate reduction in the cost of pas- sage to Europe. We begin to wonder how long wom- en will continue to be called by their husband's names. Why should they? Perhaps it is convenient; perhaps they like it, but happily, in these parts. the theory that the wife's identity is merged by marriage into that of the husband is totally defunct. The Christian Sci- entist, who, when she is ror.” quietly visits a— The homeopathist tor, discards his remedies for— And it should be. But please look at this item cf suffrage news from the Evening Post: Mrs. Frederick Nathan will preside at the annual meeting of the Equal Fran- chise Society. Mrs. A. Barton Hepburn will be the hostess. The nominating committee, consisting of Mrs, Howard Mansfield, Mrs. John Winters Brannan, Mrs. Eldon Bisbee, Mrs. George M. Tu tle and Mrs. Evans Lyle Mahan, have presented the following names ‘to be voted upon: Mrs. Frederick Peterson, Mrs. William B, Boulton, Mrs. John Cor: bin, Mrs, E. J. Nelson Penfield, Mrs. WHEN THE DOCTORS ARE ILL ese herb doc: seeks his the creed of a An allopath, who re from to an— 2233 Egerton Winthrop, Mrs. Stanton Blatch, Mrs. Jessica Garretson Finch. It seems to us that Frederick, and Barton, and Howard, and John Win- ters, and Eldon and George and Evans and William and Nelson and Egerton look out of place at this meeting, and that all these ladies would do well to pattern after Mrs. Blatch and Mrs Finch, and stand in politics on their own legs, and transact their political business in their own names. M* HAPGOOD had been the editor of Collier's Weekly for nine years, and so much the editor, and with such strong evi- dences of the impression of his per- sonality upon that paper, that his with- drawal from it comes with a consider- able jolt. To a pretty large group of citizens it will bring satisfaction and relief, to another and much larger group regret Our crowd is the latter one, but we make bold to hope that the habitual activity of Mr. Hapgood’s mind will not long lack a suitable place of ex- position. And perhaps, since a Democratic ad ministration is about to be organized. it will seem fortuitously timely that Mr. Hapgood happened to be out of Swami, who knows Osteopathist, who he is a fakir and goes starts all over acain and consults a home- opathist, who — ete., ete. comicbooks.com