Life, 1915-07-22 · page 15 of 44
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This page contains three separate pieces: 1. **"The Greatest Wedding Ever"** announces Champ Clark's daughter's wedding—a massive society event with trains, cars, and postcards, satirizing the scale of high-society celebrations. 2. **"J. Card. Gibbons Not for Suffrage"** critiques Cardinal Gibbons's opposition to women's suffrage. The text argues his concerns about women's political power are exaggerated, and that women's natural interests in domestic welfare should logically extend to voting rights. The satire mocks his paternalistic reasoning. 3. **"When the Doctors Agreed"** (bottom) is an illustrated anecdote about a patient and General Grant, with accompanying sketch showing a man on horseback. The joke's specific point is unclear from visible text. The page reflects early 20th-century debates over suffrage and women's rights.
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hon) JUST TO KEEP THEIR HANDS IN J. Card. Gibbons Not for Suffrage IX a letter lately addressed to Mr. Nugent, the celebrated New Jersey politician, Cardinal Gibbons has re- iterated his opposition to woman suf- frage. It is not at all violent— Cardinal Gibbons is always gentle— and it is personal and not ecclesiastical, but it is quite positive. “TI still hold,” he says, “that the ballot would drag woman from her domestic duties into the area of politics and rob her of much of her charm, goodness and true influence.” That sounds like an echo of a de- parted world. But this world that has succeeded the one that has gone goes pretty rickety just now, and the lost world may be reclaimed again, In the long run women are going to do in the future the things, more or less, that they have done in the past, and the mass of them are not going to concern themselves with political government. It is not one of the great natural in- terests of women. Their natural inter- ests are domestic, and where the vote is offered them these natural interests will continue to hold them, If the vote were what the more ardent suf- frage politicians think it is, it might do to women what Cardinal Gibbons fears. But the suffrage politicians im- mensely overestimate the vote’s power. Suffrage would affect women as a squall affects a lake, tumbling it for a moment and raising waves that soon smooth out, There is nothing ahead for the world that will be much affected by women's votes, but there is nothing ahead that will be unaffected by the power of women as factors in civilization. And probably that power is increasing, as the result of the better education of women and a lot of other things, _ AIN'T IT GREAT TO BE YOU! THAT ON “Gre, BILL! 151 among which the noisy suffrage agi- tation is much less important than it sounds, M. The Greatest Wedding Ever HAMP CLARK'S daughter Gene- vieve had the record wedding. There were more people, more motor cars, more reporters and more food than was ever seen before at a wed- ding in these States. It was like a State fair. Every one in Missouri was vited, and people came by trainfuls. The bride’s picture was sold on post- cards. Never such a wedding. She is Mrs. Thomson now, guide and companion to James M. Thom- son, publisher of the New Orleans Item, Congratulations, brother! When the Doctors Agreed HE learned members of a lunacy commission had just pronounced a patient sane. “Huh!” said the patient. “Of course I am sane! Last time I saw General Grant he gave me a ball of red yarn, and he said: ‘Bill, if you can’t make a steam boiler out of that yarn no man can!’" 1 USED TO CARRY A PEACH LIKE MYSELF”