Life, 1914-06-04 · page 49 of 52
Life — June 4, 1914 — page 49: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising** for consumer products (Nabisco wafers, Adora biscuits), interspersed with book listings and other commercial notices. The only cartoon appears at the bottom: a satirical drawing mocking feminism. It shows a man presenting a woman to another man as "a rabid feminist," with the response suggesting she be put "in the harem of that Turkish wife-beater"—implying her feminist views would be "corrected" through subjugation in a Turkish household. **The satire's point:** This reflects early 20th-century anti-feminist mockery, ridiculing women's rights advocates by suggesting they deserve harsh treatment or domination. The "Turkish wife-beater" reference plays on Western stereotypes of Ottoman/Turkish men as brutal oppressors of women—darkly joking that such oppression would silence feminists. For modern readers, this illustrates how mainstream American magazines published contemptuous humor targeting the emerging women's suffrage and rights movement of that era.
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