Life, 1913-03-20 · page 19 of 44
Life — March 20, 1913 — page 19: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two satirical pieces from Life magazine: **Top Section ("Milestones"):** Editorial commentary on newspaper standards. The author argues for a scientific bureau to rate newspapers' truthfulness and security, noting that current taste standards are governed by "irresponsible papers." This reflects Progressive Era concerns about media accountability. **Bottom Cartoon ("Peace at Any Cost"):** A dialogue joke about militant suffragettes. The first Englishman asks why his colleague tolerates his wife being a suffragette; the second replies that when she's outside "wrecking things," at least there's peace at home. The joke sardonically treats suffragette activism as destructive nuisance-making, mocking both the activism and the husband's acquiescence to it. **Mythological Figures:** Mercury, Minerva, and Venus discuss "1913 shape" hats—likely satirizing fashion fads and perhaps associating women's fashion concerns with classical mythology, possibly to mock or belittle them. The page reflects anti-suffragette attitudes common in mainstream American humor of this era.
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MILESTONES against another, but nobody takes any stock in this, be- cause these screams are based invariably upon envy or prejudice of some kind. But if we could really know the truth about our favorite paper—if it were possible by a public analysis to determine the amount of security and truth that it is publishing in proportion to the inse- curity and untruth, think of the effect upon the public! At present our standards of taste are largely governed by the irresponsible papers. If there was a bureau of newspaper publicity which issued bulletins of the standing of a newspaper based upon a_ scientific analysis, we might then be able to de- termine whether it was desirable to continue our paper or not, or whether it was desirable to replace it with some other. Peace at Any Cost A : , g " LAY IRST ENGLISHMAN: Why d I ts ; > \\ B ? G hy do SS Me ms Peng > you allow your wife to be a militant suffragette? Seconp ENGLISHMAN: When she’s Mercury: Goop MEAVE WHAT DO YOU AND MINERVA WANT WITH busy wrecking things outside we have THOSE OLD HATS OF MI comparative peace at home. Venus: MY DEAR MAN, IT HAPPENS TO RE THE 1013 SHAPE. DH 2 ote Coshing= comicbooks.com