Life, 1913-02-20 · page 9 of 48
Life — February 20, 1913 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two satirical pieces about women's domestic and social roles. **"Husbandette"** (top) mocks a woman who adopts masculine authority at home, locking her husband in a "dungeon" and dominating him—inverting traditional gender hierarchies for comic effect. The byline "H.H." credits the author. **"The Rummage Sale"** (bottom) depicts a crowded scene of mostly women conducting a charity sale, with one woman prominently featured in the center. This satirizes women's volunteer charitable activities and social gatherings, suggesting both their importance in community life and the satirist's view of such activities as somewhat frivolous or worthy of gentle mockery. Both pieces reflect early 20th-century anxieties about shifting gender roles and women's increasing public participation.
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Husbandette OME, lock me in my dungeon O, tarnished are the art-bronze chimes cell; ‘Tis dusty on the rubber plant, That She was wont to sound; Bring bread and Adam's ale; Near where we loved to sit And last week's Weekly London Times Let mournful curfew toll the knell, The stately book-rack elephant Is nowhere to be found. And ery my house for sale. Is saddle-galled with grit. For She—alone—pays party calls No more shall Thomas-cat at eve The timid iron stag at bay Upon her social set. Come forth, and loud rejoice Upon the hirsute lawn Alone, unwept within these halls Nor proud canary strut qui Tilts rusty eyes to greet the day I wait until the Suffrage palls, To hear his master’s voice. Upon this Sabbath dawn. My sorrow calls to cloister walls— | am a Husbandette. IL “4 THE RUMMAGE SALE comicbooks.com