Life, 1913-10-30 · page 11 of 40
Life — October 30, 1913 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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The page contains a cartoon titled "Humor in Spookland" showing two men in conversation, with a joke about the Devil offering water in Hell. Below are two brief satirical pieces. "Baseball and Heaven" quotes Roscoe Gilmore Stett, using a baseball manager's comment about a struggling player to make a religious metaphor about improvement and training. "An Abtruse Subject" critiques the New York *World* newspaper's claim that women dress to please men, arguing instead that women wear clothes for practical reasons and economic competition—not male attention. The satire mocks the *World's* oversimplified views on women's motivations and dress. Both pieces represent early 20th-century commentary on gender attitudes and social behavior.
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HUMOR IN SPOOKLAND First Shade: AND WHAT b1D THE DEVIL SAY, WHEN YOU ASKED HIM FOR A GLASS OF WATER? Second Shade: Baseball and Heaven HE green recruit made blunders by the score; He muffed, struck-out, and did not what he should. The manager was loyal to the core— —* “He needs a little training—he'll make good!” Tf I at last shall stand in Heaven fair, I, who have played so poorly, this I could But hope to hear the Manager declare: “He needs’a little training—he'll make Roscoe G An Abstruse Subject HE New York World disagrees with a certain judge in his statement that women dress to please the men. The MWorld says that women dress for no such purpose, HE SAID HE'D SEE MEIN HELL FIRST. excite their envy. The orld thinks that if it were not for other women no woman would bother'much about her clothes for the sake of mere but to spite other women or man. It takes all kinds of opinions to make a w and the MWorld’s nas it usually i But we are not altogether convinced, We believe thar Id of women, is interesting women wear clothes—or perhaps it might be correct to-day to say that they unwcar them—for both causes. Like other economic objects dependent upon the law of self-preserva tion, they enter into competition for the sake of adding interest to capital and capital to. interest, these asset» being represented in this particular instance by that coy creature, Man. It is supposed that Eve, there being no other competitor in sight, appealed to Adam's stomach rather than to his eye. But who can be sure that Eve did not spend the entire morning sorting fig leaves? comicbooks.com