Life, 1913-02-13 · page 14 of 44
Life — February 13, 1913 — page 14: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains literary and illustrative content rather than political cartoons. The main features are: **"Valentine Weather"** — A poem by an unnamed author celebrating romantic winter scenery, using traditional love metaphors. **"Nature and Style"** — An article discussing American women's adoption of Parisian fashion, attributed to "Mrs. John W. Alexander." The piece critiques how climate influences clothing choices, noting that American women increasingly wear French styles despite their unsuitability for different climates. It suggests this represents a cultural shift away from French environmental influence. **Comic illustrations** on the right show domestic scenarios labeled "Love," "Courtship," and "Marriage" — apparently satirizing romantic progression through humor. The page reflects early 20th-century debates about American cultural independence from European (particularly French) fashion and social traditions.
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Valentine Weather V ALENTINE, weather You can feel somchow the throb Just the blithe feeling t When sly Dan Cupid makes sharper his and keen through the and the thrill of it, enters cach sparrow head chill of it arrow-head— That roguish rascal who scems to monopolize All of the love-arts Valentine weather! ‘The Rosy of cheek is the lad Maidens go clad in their That were once worn hy And see the postman, po the Valentine weather ! Write the same among them improper lies snow's on the in his soft fluff, © fellow, wi Bending his back with a burden of suage and talk the pund about; roundabout " . furry things growling or purry things; at will he do Hets-doux! The old and the young again me tongue And you and I, love, shall we not have part in it, All the old rapture and all the old heart in it— Turn back life’s pa And just be happy—a girl and a boy joy ai again! s, and join in th Nature and Style JOHN W. ALEX- ANDER made a good point the other day when she brought out the fact that American women, in adopting styles, are wearing unsuitable clothes. Mrs. Alexander: We have been following the cus- toms of people who have. entirely different needs from those of Americans with their appreciation of outdoor life. French women seldom walk; transportation is very cheap. nthe shop girl rides to her work, It has been absurd for us to try to copy the clothes of a woman who rides about all day, and then attempt to walk in them. It would appear that climate has much to do with styles; the present movement for American styles is a revolt against the French environ- ment, and may have originated in a ted desire to wear clothes which shall conform to our climate. Let us hope so. In the Sandwich Islands the ladies who move in the best society wear more than an entrancing In the Arctic regions this is quite the reverse, furs being predomi- nant in the lowest circles. In cach instance, however, the ladies of these zones are quite natural scarcely smile. even Owing to the heat we have intro- into homes and_ public buildings, our styles are more or less artificial. Our ladies who appear at the opera with scarcely any more on than the Sandwich Island belles are hy no means doing the same thing the Sandwich Islanders; they are living in a kind of unnatural atmosphere of A false condition is created y conform to it. Their point , indeed, is so peculiar that in duced our A Mischief of Professionalism HE the English militant suffragettes, who have done so much harm to the suffragist cause in England, is attributed to excess of funds in the suffragist has women rise of treasuries, which enabled like the Pankhursts to hecome salaried, pro- fessional agitators. It is wonderful how things work ont, and how often the seeds of success contain the germs of collapse BOUT the time a girl loses her faith in fairy tales she begins to believe in love. THE MASQUERADE A BACHELOR'S POINT OF VIEW comicbooks.com