Life — January 7, 1915 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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“AT IT AGAIN” Attention, Unemployed! R. OSGOOD, chairman of the board of the Victor-American Fuel Company, is opposed to labor unionism because he says it is a work- man's “absolute right to say whether he shall work or not and where he shall work". What more do the army of the un- employed want than that? Here is full authority for any idle man who wants a job or any employed man who wants a better job to go and take it without further parley. Do not bother with labor unions or other indirect methods of bettering your condition. Just pick out the employer that you prefer, whether public or private, and notify him that you are about to attach your- self to his payroll. If he objects, refer him to Mr. Osgood. “A AADE in Germany. “Unmade in Belgium.” S° many topics were swept into the corner by the war that a single exception ought to be noted, if only for historical accuracy. No more unpropitious time in the age of the world could there have been to usher in a new fad, that, in spite of wars and rumors of wars, of battleships exploding and millions killed in gigantic schemes of murder, this fad should not only be intro- duced to a horror-stricken world, but should actually have acquired a place by itself in the newspapers—surely is there any greater marvel in the annals of advertising? We refer to the twilight sleep. Unless we mistake not, our good friend, Colonel McClure, of magazine fame, is responsible for this newcomer. He officiated as godfather at its birth in a magazine “LIFE: A Fame That Worked Its Own Way article. Drawing-rooms, knitting circles, woman's clubs, mothers’ congresses and family circles (if there be such left) are now reap- ing the benefit. In fact, it is a regular topic of conversation at all places, except in the suffrage circles. What is the twilight sleep? It is a personally conducted tour for new babies, arranged, as we understand it, at the least possible inconvenience for the father. Its great popularity, we firmly believe, is due to the wide appeal it makes to all married men. We are violating no secret when we say that the dis- comfort of having children has been keenly felt, although patiently borne, by a large proportion of married men all over this country. Every father, as he fondly gazes into the eyes of his latest born, has the firm conviction that he never, under any circumstances, could summon up the courage to have another. All this is now past. Fathers all over this grand land can now, thanks to the twilight sleep highball, have as many children as they like without the slightest inconvenience. In the face of a medical discovery like this, no wonder the war shrinks back. Before the twilight sleep came into the limelight Mr. Bernard Shaw declared that he wouldn't have a baby for ten thousand dollars, T.L. M. THE MODERN MAID AND HER FOREFATHERS