Life, 1914-04-09 · page 28 of 40
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**Top Cartoon - "Advice to Suitors":** This satirizes the "eugenics craze" of the early 20th century—a pseudo-scientific movement advocating selective breeding. The cartoon shows a woman's physical decline from age 20 to 40+, suggesting men should avoid marrying women obsessed with eugenics, as they become increasingly unattractive and unstable over time. The humor relies on mocking both eugenics believers and women's changing appearance. **Main Article - "Why is Kikuyu?":** This satirizes Anglican Church bureaucracy and rigidity. Two African bishops attended a missionary social event at Kikuyu and administered communion to non-Anglican members—an act of Christian hospitality deemed heretical. The Archbishop of Canterbury claims helplessness due to lack of precedent. The article mockingly suggests that rigid institutional rules prevent sensible action, while the Church convenes multiple bishops to debate what common sense should dictate.
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“ET FE * 7] Advice To Suitors If Your Loved One Has the Eugenic Craze, Play a Waiting Game { never! 4S WHEN SHE IS 20 YEARS OLD. SOME FINE WORK ON THE PARALLEL BARS Why is Kikuyu ? D°%s it pay to be a good fellow? Both the Bishops of Mombasa and of Uganda, Africa, declare that it doesn’t pay. Last June these two gentlemen, representing the Angli- cans, who were trying to hold up their ecclesiastical ends, were invited hy a federation of missionaries to have friendly doings with them at an African social center, called Kikuyu. The bishops attended and so far forgot them- selves as to administer communion to some of the delegates who weren't regular members of the Anglican Church. This is heresy and schism. But the worst of it is that the Archbishop of Canterbury, who is supposed to know everything, declares that he doesn’t know what to do about it because there is no precedent. How can any bishop act without a precedent? It is evident that the two heretics of Mombasa and Uganda are criminals in being so led away by the spirit of hospitality as to ask outsiders to make one with them. But without a precedent—what is to be done? Under these distressing circumstances, and considering the gravity of the crisis, the Archbishop of Canterbury has consented to ask the advice of the Central Consultation Body of the Church, which consists of the archbishop him- self and fourteen other bishops, each one of which has been appointed by all the other bishops. Their decision, next July, will be awaited with breathless interest by everybody who is not wrapped up in baseball, the tango, politics, battle, murder and sudden death. comicbooks.com