Life, 1913-04-10 · page 9 of 48
Life — April 10, 1913 — page 9: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from *Life* magazine contains three satirical pieces: 1. **"A Toast to the Stone Age Girl"** — A poem mocking women's suffrage by listing primitive characteristics (couldn't read, write, make hills, take trips), sarcastically praising a woman who lived in a cave. This attacks the women's rights movement by suggesting women lacked capacity for civic participation. 2. **"Why Not?"** — Questions why Cubists don't dominate literature like they dominate visual art, then lists absurdist poetic phrases. This mocks Modernist artistic movements as pretentious nonsense. 3. **"Results"** and **"Answer to Rebus"** — Brief political commentary comparing British and American militancy, and dismissing "turkey trot" dances as inappropriate. The page represents early 20th-century conservative satire opposing progressive social and artistic movements.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
A Toast to the Stone Age Girl ERE'S to the girl Who rose with the morn, Who worked all day, Who knew no pay, Who had no hat, Who wore no rat, Who had no clothes (Nor misery from those), Who could not read, Who did not write, Who knew no “ bridge,” Who made no bills, Who took no trips, Who lived in the cave That Jack made. Why Not? HY should the Cubists have the art field all to themselves? Why not do the same thing in liter- ature? Bang Pst Catamaran Soup Explosion Cut up daisies elephants Bungy de Bung Micau Softly Softly Translucent Beams falling aslant Hoop Pistache ashes Bang Bang Bang This is a typographical impression of a nude woman falling down a well on the Fourth of July. Results RITISH militancy is not unlikely to bear fruits conspicuously in advance of those yielded by the revolt of American womanhood. Its soil is no better, perhaps, but are not its methods more intensive? Certainly walks to Washington can hardly be expected to reduce flesh like being locked up in jail and refus- ing to eat Answer to Rebus in Last Week's Life HE turkey trot and the bunny hug dances should not be tolerated by thoughtful parents. RIGGS: I see the capitol at Albany was so badly built that it is likely to fall at any time. Isn't that unfor- tunate? Griccs: Not might fall, you know, when the Legislature was in session, necessarily, It D* FRIEDM speaking of his new turtle serum, says: “ Progress will necessari be slow.” Might we suggest that for a speedier should make his serum from rabbits; the hare is a notably quicker Proposition than the tortoise. cure he THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH comicbooks.com