Life — January 15, 1914 — page 8: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# "Ho! for the Girls" - Life Magazine Page This page critiques proposals to militarily train English girls, inspired by Sir Robert Lucas-Tooth's £250,000 donation for boys' military training. The article sarcastically argues that girls—not boys—should receive discipline, claiming young women waste energy on frivolous activities like "dancing the tango and reading modern sex novels." The author suggests redirecting this "horse-power" toward useful training. The cartoon below ("Preference") mocks American attitudes toward modern art: it contrasts refined European appreciation of the Mona Lisa with crude American pragmatism—Americans allegedly only admire art if it belonged to a millionaire or has a certificate of authenticity, missing the point entirely. Both sections satirize class pretension and gender assumptions of the Edwardian era.