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This page satirizes the unexpected outcome of women's newly gained voting power in Seattle. George Creel had written in *Century* magazine that Mayor "Hi" Gill was a corrupt "champion of the saloon and disorderly house" who should be recalled. Yet after women voters gained the franchise, Gill was *re-elected* by 14,000 votes—the opposite of the reform outcome Creel predicted. Life's satire cuts two ways: it mocks Creel's naive assumption that female voters would automatically support moral reform, while also questioning whether women's suffrage would truly transform politics. The article notes skeptically that determining "how it works in the long run" will take "twenty years, or longer to try it out." The surrounding advertisements (Sanatogen tonic, whiskey, frivolous "diversions for bored women") reinforce the satirical tone—suggesting women voters weren't the moral crusaders reformers expected.

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How About “Hi” Gill? MONG the exploits of voting women recorded by George Creel in the March Century was the recall of “Hi” Gill, Mayor of Seattle, de- scribed by Mr. Creel as “the open and avowed champion of the saloon and disorderly house”. The magazine had barely reached its readers’ hands when “ Hi" Gill was re-elected Mayor of Seattle by a majority of fourteen thousand. Please, George, tell us more about “Hi”, and how it happened. Were the lady-voters snowed under, or is it true, as some of the papers say, that “Hi” reformed and won back their favor? This looks quite important. We want to know about it. In all these cases when the lady-vote accomplishes some- thing definite, the thing to discover is how it works in the long run, To beat a bad candidate is little help unless he stays beaten. To pass a lot of re- strictive or prohibitive laws is no help unless they prove acceptable to the community, The first fruits of woman suffrage disclose very little as to the real worth of that innovation. It will take twenty years, or longer, to try it out. T° offset the high cost of living, Congress gives us food for thought, nuts to crack, and meat for argument in the provisions of the tariff and currency bills and the income tax. oA” rich whiskey ‘with the flavor ofan old vintage. Old fashioned dis tillation— ripened by age only. “O PEBBLEFORD Old Fafhioned Quality Kentucky Bourbon Bottled in Bond CLEAR SPRING DISTILLING CO, BOURBON, NELSON COUNTY, Kr. “I wish I could stay home tonight and rest” HEN the nerves have been exhausted by business or anxieties, even pleasures seem but a new drain, Yes, even “rest” is often hard to get, for sleeplessness fre- quently adds its burdens to loss of appe- tite and the distresses of indigestion. .To this crisis Sanatogen brings the common- sense help of a concentrated food-tonic containing the very elements that are actually being clamored for by the nerves. The “‘lift’’ of Sanatogen’s good cheer to the cells of the system helps sancly and naturally the rebuilding of strength in the body. This has been the experi- ence of many of the most active of the world’s famous men and women—as their grateful letters testify. And over 19,000 practicing physicians write, over their own signatures, words of praise which may well give you confidence 8 in Sanatogen’s power | fring fess siecr tothe to restore. oa er Sanatogen is sold by | Arselé Bennett, good druggists every- | «na. where in three sizes “Fhe Tonle eflect of en om we tes from $1.00. Grand Prine International Congress of Medicine, London, 1913 19.0 2) for Elsert Hubbard's New Book—'‘Health in the Making.’? Written in his attractive manner and filled with his shrewd philosophy together with capital advice on Sanatogen, health and contentment. It is free. Tear this of as a reminder to address THE BAUER CHEMICAL CO., 24-E Irving Place, New York. Sunitogen {sto my uind a tree food toale feeding the nerves. i9 novelist EN HYSICIANS G 19,00 OV Diversions Wanted ANT —Unwholesome diversions, ve lost all interest in home, family and other real By bored women everywhere. Women who ings of life are in us places to go and frivolous things to do nd how useless. Motoring, bridging, tangoing, matinéeing, gossipping and eating are still good for a large portion of each day, but not cnough to close the yawning gaps when the dreadful emptiness of such lives can not be effaced from the thoughts. Highest cash prices will he paid from the hard-earned accumulations of husbands and fathers, Address T Society for the Promotion of Neurasthenic Sanatoria, Quackville, Vacuum Place, N. Y. need of a constant supply of frive in order to keep their minds from dwelling on how bored they are comicbooks.com