Life, 1914-11-19 · page 8 of 44
Life — November 19, 1914 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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**"Church Warden" Cartoon**: A church official (labeled as a "conductor on week-days") stands before a bench of seated parishioners. The joke plays on the hypocrisy of someone who behaves one way at work and another at church—the caption "FARES, PLEASE!" suggests he's a bus conductor during weekdays but adopts religious authority on Sundays. **"Lawyer and Clients"**: Satirizes the legal profession's complexity and potential for fooling clients through technicalities and court delays, suggesting lawyers profit from clients' ignorance. **"Sex in Business"**: A straightforward social commentary that married women leave employment while married men seek advancement—highlighting early 20th-century gender discrimination in the workplace. The page reflects Progressive-era American satire targeting institutional hypocrisy and professional exploitation.
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Church Warden (who is a conductor on week-days) + Lawyer and Clients MAN who acts as his own lawyer has a fool for a client.” This is a tradition carefully kept alive by our always-alert legal profession, But it is probably true. It is also probably true that fully nine-tenths of all clients are fools whether they act as their own lawyers or not. Indeed, it is such a perilous thing to trust one’s interests to the superficial technicalities and artificialities of lawyers, the cumbrous machinery and the delays of courts, the in- dispensable ignorance and stupidity of juries, and the whims and prejudices of judges, that all clients should be pr sumed to be foolish until they have proved themselves wise. Sex in Business. T may be instinct, it may be custom, but anyway it is a fact: 1, That when a woman marries she doesn't want her job any longer. 2, That when a man marries he wants his job all the more. Consequently— 3. That as long as there is marrying and giving in marriage, business, being desirous of reliable help, will discern a difference between the sexes. HEN virtue hides her face it is called modesty; when vice does likewise it is called shame. FARES, PLEASE! Alphabet of the New Winter Dances WFULLY attractive; Boldly begun. Carpingly criticized ; Daringly done. Easily enemied ; Fearfully fly! Gracefully gyrated ; Horribly high, Impishly innocent, Joyously jimp; Kickily kittenish, Luringly limp. Merrily mischievous, Naughtily nice! Obesity’s order. Propriety’s price. Quietly questioned, Rampantly railed; Sinuous serpentine, Twinkingly trailed. Undue undulations Virtuously veiled, Willowy wavering Xpertly xpressed; Young yielding youthfulness, Zigzagging zest Carolyn IWells. The Public Interest T you think old Phiscal really has the public interest at heart?” “No doubt of it; but I wish there was some way of having the public interest at heart without having the public by the throat.” “T° She: wy bo you CALL ON ME IN SUCH A CONDITION? “I CALL ON YOU—HIC—TO DISPERSE!”