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Life — May 29, 1913 — page 34: Life, 1913-05-29

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This page mixes advertisements with editorial content addressing early 20th-century gender debates. The central cartoon depicts a woman injured by a razor—likely satirizing domestic danger or foolish behavior, though the exact reference is unclear without fuller context. The major feature is a book advertisement for Ellen Glasgow's novel *Virginia*, which frames the real satire: it critiques the "old régime" confining women to domestic duty. The advertisement poses rhetorical questions challenging whether complete absorption in children and household sacrifice constitutes a married woman's true duty, and whether women's exclusion from intellectual/public life causes marital failure. This reflects Progressive Era anxieties about women's changing roles—as more women sought education and public engagement, traditional domesticity faced ideological challenge. The novel apparently dramatizes this tension through a wife isolated from her husband's intellectual life. The page also includes vintage anecdotes and a Cheney Silk Cravats ad—typical period advertising filler.

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1090 CoE CRAVATS Men of good taste desiring correct style, worth of ma- tenal and beauty of design will choose their Spring neck- wear from Cheney Silk Cravats. Offered in new lines of knit and crocheted four-in- hands, flowing-end four-in-hands and standard Cheney tubulars. At your dealer's. CHENEY BROTHERS Sitk Manafoctarers deh Avenve and 18th Street NEW YORK Enough Said On his cighty-fourth birthday Paul Smith, the veteran Adirondack hotel- keeper, who started life as a guide and died owning a million dollars’ worth of forest land, was talking about boundary disputes with an old friend. “Didn't you hear of the lawsuit over a title that I had with Jones down in t summer?” asked Paul. ard. “Well,” said Paul, “it was this way I sat in the court-room before the case opened, with my witnesses around me Jones bustled in, stopped, looked my wit- nesses over carefully, and said: * Paul, are those your witnes: ‘They are,’ said I. ‘Then you win,’ said he. ‘I've had them witnesses twice myself.’ —Argonaut. Tracuter: How many zones has the earth, Johnny ? Jouxnxy: Five. Teacner: Correct. Name them. Jouxxy: Temperate, intemperate, ca- nal, horrid and ozone.—Washington Star. z _ VIRGINIA k “ DIDN'T I TELL YOU HOW DANGEROUS IT WAS TO EAT RAZORS?” “HUT MA, THIS WAS NU The IG TEX D This Elastio A Comfort Feature isfound oaly ta SNUGTEX BELTS. The Me for comfort yet holds snugly. Appeals to every wel, dresasd man, expecially automobilists and cuvotany ze with fashionable. sul Speclal Fabric 500 Doubleday, Page & Co. Webbing Co, Pawtucket R! ] Your Husband but Domestic Troubles? @ Is complete absorption in your children, to the exclusion of all other interests, the rea/ duty of a married woman? Q Will the old ideal of a shelter- ed life, seclusion from the vital work of the world, and self-sac- rifice hold its own against the awakening to larger interests among women of to-day? Q Who is to blame, if, through her inability to share one thought with her husband outside of their domestic life, a woman’s mar- ried life is a failure? @ These are the thoughts which one finds uppermost after read- Mise Ellen Glasgow ing the powerful new romance. By Ellen Glasgow Author of ‘‘ The Battle-Ground,”’ ‘‘ The Voice of the People,”’ etc. Q In Miss Glasgow’s new story the heroine is Virginia Pendleton, a Southern girl, the product of that old régime in which a woman's usefulness in the world was bounded by her capacity to love and her willingness to sacrifice herself for her husband and children. So complete is this devotion that little by little Virginia and her husband are leading lives apart, he in his writing, she in her daily abnegations. It is this situation and the tragedy of it, which Miss Glasgow works out in her powerful story. With his first successful play, Oliver faces the fact that his wife is hopelessly cut off from him; his two girls, products of an age when women everywhere are looking abroad and finding their interests outside their home, are out of sympathy with their mother, whom they regard as out-of-date; and Virginia stands midway in her life with nothing to look forward to and the deep sense of having outlived her usefulness. Decorated Wrapper and Photogravure Frontispiece. Net, $1.35. At all Book-Shops and at Our Own in the New Pennsylvania Station, New York City Garden City, N. Y. ee comicbooks.com