Life, 1914-09-17 · page 34 of 48
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This page from *Life* magazine combines humor pieces with advertising, typical of the publication's format. **"Fair Words or Nothing"** satirizes marital dynamics: a husband's attempt at honest criticism is shut down by his wife, who demands flattery rather than truth—mocking both spousal communication and feminine vanity. **"Equality of Sex"** defends female intelligence through anecdote: a Springfield girl protests her mother's dismissal of hens' intelligence by noting roosters aren't smarter, asserting women's mental equality to men—a dig at prevailing sexism. **"To Judge"** appears to depict a convict visiting a judge who accepted a bribe to sentence him for stealing bread—satirizing judicial corruption and disproportionate punishment for poverty. **Advertisements** include the Hupp Motor Car Company ('1200 model) and an illustration of romantic recreation, emphasizing consumer goods and leisure. The illustration captioned about "attractive apartments" on asphalt streets satirizes real-estate marketing's absurd emphasis on mundane details over actual livability. Overall, the page targets hypocrisy, gender prejudice, and institutional corruption through gentle satire.
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Fair Words or Nothing “George,” said the wife to her gener- ally unappreciative husband, “how do you like my new hat? “Well, my dear,” said George, with great candor, “to tell you the truth——" “Stop right there, George! If you're going to talk that way about it, I don’t want to know,”—Ideas, Equality of Sex There is a little girl in Springfield, Massachusetts, who, like many of her sex, resents the imputation that the feminine mind is not so strong as the masculine. One day her mother remarked on the apparent lack of intelligence in a hen. “You can't teach a hen anything,” she said. “They have done more harm to the garden than a drove of cattle would. You can teach a cat, a dog or a pig something, but a hen—never!" “H'm!” exclaimed the child, indig- nantly. “TI think they know as much as the rooster: —Youth's Companion, Nowby, JvDGE icted of accepting bribe): 10 SEE you. CHAP YOU SENT UP FOR FIVE YEARS FOR STEAL- ING A LOAF OF BREAD Useful Information Soon after Tommie Fletcher's teacher had introduced her class in language to the ditto mark, Tommie went to visit his aunt. While away he wrote the follow- ing letter to his father. Dear FatHer: I hope you are well “ «mother is sister “ Ro 8 grandmother is -well. you were here. mother was “ sister “ “ Dick. = * grandmother was here, you would send me some moncy. Your loving son, Tom. —Everybody’s. A Cheerful Outlook Lavy (engaging a page boy): Well, how soon can you come? Pace (readily): At once, mum, Lavy: But surely your present mis- tress won't like that. Pace (brightly): Oh, yes, she will, mum! She'll be only too glad to get rid of me—London Opinion. YM THE taneously in the United Sates. Great Britain, ©: =e iomal_pestage to foreign countries in the Postal U “anda. © cente. Single corvent copies, 12 cents, Wack eumbers, after three méaths fro Issn prioe to 1900 out of peiat LIVE te pahtished every Thonday, ant Rerieish - $1.04 a year; re of publication, tribution wll be veturmed Wi at 4 accompanied by stamped and addressed envelope, LAR docs not reiponstale for the lott oF turn of unsolicited contr@ntiont, sTIPR le for sate by all newadeaiers tn Great Britain and may be oltained trom tontatiers tn all the. pi gities of the worl foreiga trade supplied trom Live's London Office, Rolls House, Breas Bi London, EC. The text and itiustrations tm VAVR are copyrighted, For Rep LA Southampton Row, London, WC. Prompt notification shoutd be cent by mnbseribers off any change of address, Rights tm Great Britatn apply (0A 1200 The new Hup is rallying all the old friends. And they, in turn, are bringing in a host of new ones. Why should it not be 80? So much for so little not even this plant has ever produced before. Hupp MotorCarCo., Detroit Price, $1200 f. 0. b. Detroit Ta Canada, $1400 f.0,b. Windsor “SAW SOME AWFULLY ATTRACTIVE APARTMENTS TO LET IN THE CITY TO-DAY, ISABEL, ON THE LOVELIEST ASPHALT STREET WITH BEAUTIFUL CEMENT SIDEWALKS” (B ‘ by Ww