Life, 1913-07-24 · page 32 of 40
Life — July 24, 1913 — page 32: what you’re looking at
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This page contains multiple brief humorous pieces typical of Life's satirical format: **"Dear Ancestors"** mocks penny-pinching behavior through a story about two miserly Missouri brothers who sued over a small debt, then balked at paying their lawyer's reasonable fee—suggesting inherited stinginess. **"Couldn't Matter Much"** jokes about a wife's bargain-hunting at a fire sale, where she proudly purchased stockings at discount despite their feet being burned, suggesting women's illogical shopping priorities. **"Painting the Lily"** satirizes well-intentioned but patronizing charity—a church congregation donating Christmas gifts to a Black school in Mississippi, then embarrassingly discovering three young women had already packed curling irons, revealing unexamined prejudices about appearance standards. The **"Inquiring Son" pieces** present gender stereotypes: men use reason to determine right action; women rely on instinct to assume they're always correct. **"A Militant Suffragette"** (illustration) depicts a woman using a tennis racket as a weapon against a man—contemporary satire of the women's suffrage movement, portraying suffragettes as aggressive rather than principled. The whiskey advertisement anchors the page commercially.
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” =3NUT-SCISSORS Couldn't Matter Much was to take place in one of the down- town department stores, That evening F when her husband came home he looked Dear Ancestors about at a number of bundles which Two close-fisted Missouri brothers sued 2m - cn , were lying on a table. a neighbor for three hundred and sev- # “Well, Mabel, what did you find at enty-five dollars owing on a land deal. that wonderful fire sale?” he inquired. They engaged the best lawyer in their é “Oh, Will, I got some of the loveliest county-seat. { silk stockings at twenty-four cents a pair! The lawyer won the case. The broth- § Z 3 There isn’t a thing the matter with them, ers called to see about his fee. One poe = : except that the feet are burned off.” stayed outside and the other went in. hye —Harper’s Magazine. “How much is it?” he asked. / ae Well,” said the lawyer, “I won't VD : a 4 be hard on you. I have known both you \ Painting the Lily boys since you were children, and I A church in Illinois decided to send a knew your pap. I guess three hundred ' box of Christmas gifts to a negro schoo! dollars will be about right.” for girls in Mississippi. The pastor The inquiring brother went out dazed. a * urged the members of the congregation “Lordy, George,” he said to the one - to bring useful gifts. On the night the outside, “I'm durn glad he didn’t know t : Py box was packed it developed that three grandpap too!"—Saturday Evening Post. f of the young ladies of the congregation Inguirine Sox: Papa, what is reason? 7 vs Sane dt bodsices Pik Foun Paxext: Reason, my boy, is that which enables a man to determine what 2 a is right. . ¢ nee ic “T enjoyed the Boston barbers.” Inguinixe Son: And what is instinct? . ae “How so?” Foxp Parent: Instinct is that which “They discussed ethical questions in- tells a woman she is right, whether she iNsweNRORUATION stead of hair tonic.” is or not.—Tit-Bits. —Washington Herald. Live is poblished every Thursday, simultaneously In the United Stites, Great LAMe fs for sale by all newsdeaters ia Grest Britain and may be obtained from booksellers tn all the pris! Vomessions.. $8.00 a year in advance. Additional pestage to Foreign countries in the Poral Union, $hol.a year citi el the world. The foreign wade wappiied from Live's Londoa Odie, Cannea Howse, reams Bolan, to Chanda, 52 Sente. Single current coplen, 10 ceath. "Mack numbers, aher three mouths from date of publication, Loption, Ea €. $5 Cents. Iasnes price t0'1910 cot of print The text and dtlustratio are copyrighted. Fur Reprint Rights tn Great Britain agpiy are vs contribution wilt be returned wntess accompanied by stamped and addressed excel i Lietp rerpomsiite for the loss or nancreturn of unssticited contributint, id be sent by subscribers of any change of address. By Appointment. UsHer’sS WHISKIES The refined product of a firm famous throughout Six Reigns A MILITANT SUFFRAGETTE shoes { Standar Centur s comicbooks.com