Life, 1915-02-04 · page 12 of 44
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**Top Cartoon: "Charity Theatricals"** The sketch depicts a theatrical scene where a woman announces she'll kiss her husband for charity. His reluctant response—"Oh, no! It's all for the poor, religous, you know"—satirizes hypocrisy in charitable fundraising. The joke mocks how people invoke noble causes (helping poor clergy) to justify uncomfortable social situations, suggesting charitable events were sometimes pretexts for impropriety rather than genuine benevolence. **Bottom Image: "Stealing a March on the Enemy"** This photograph shows what appears to be a sleeping dog, humorously captioned. The phrase "stealing a march" (gaining advantage through stealth) juxtaposes military language with domestic animal behavior, creating mild comedic contrast. **Article: "Vice"** The text discusses growing social concern about vice becoming commonplace and "uninteresting," particularly in youth culture and literature.
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CHARITY THEATRICALS “AT THIS POINT, MRS. SMYTHE, I AM SUPPOSED TO KISS YOU, WILL YOUR HUSBAND MIND, DO You THI “ou, no! Vice HOULD not something be done about vice? not danger that it may go out? At one time vice was popular with all kinds of people. Now that it has been written up so much in the maga- zines and books it is coming to be so common that few people are any longer interested in it. How can vice live under this disadvant owe a duty to ourselves to protect it? At one time one had to be over twenty-one before one really began to enjoy vice. Now it is free for all. The toddling infant reaches out for the last best-seller. If this keeps up it will soon become so that no young girl will want to read any more meretricious books. This means that the publishers will suffer and hard times will come. Vice should be kept from this sort of fate. Ever since the days of the Roman Empire it has been the chief support and mainstay of the best people in the community. If it is going to become uninteresting we may no longer IT'S ALL FOR THE POOR BELGH Is there Do we not ‘s, YOU KNOW.” hope to keep up the pace. When those who do not have vice are no longer envious of those who do, are we not in a had way? comichooksKeom