Life, 1915-08-26 · page 14 of 48
Life — August 26, 1915 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon:** Shows a gender divide—women on the left exclaim "HE'S IMPOSSIBLE!" about a man, while men on the right greet him warmly with "GOOD OLD BILL!" The caption "A MAN'S MAN'S A MAN'S MAN FOR A' THAT" suggests this "Bill" is popular among his male peers but considered difficult by women, likely reflecting early 20th-century gender attitudes about masculine behavior that women found objectionable but men celebrated. **Article & Illustration:** Discusses religion's revival in post-WWI France, noting the French Church broke with the Pope during wartime. A photograph titled "THE MAN-EATER" shows soldiers in a trench with what appears to be a large rat, darkly humorously depicting the brutal conditions soldiers faced. **Bottom Dialogue:** A brief domestic scene about education versus household duties.
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366 HE'S IMPOSSIBLE! “\ MAN'S MAN’S A MAN'S MAN FOR A’ THAT” Religion in France HE war has been expected to revive religion in France, ‘ and no doubt has revived it. But what is going to be the religion of France when the war is over? France broke with the Pope rather than with the Catholic Church. The French Church could have got along with the French Government and made satis- factory terms for itself if the late Pope had permitted it. Roman Catholics are apt to suppose that a powerful revival of the religious spirit in France will mean a return to the conditions that existed before the recent separation of church and state and the taking away of the business of education from the religious orders. But that seems un- likely. The old status broke down. It will not be restored. Recent rules may be modified, but there is more likely to be a revival of faith along new lines than any wholesale reversion to past conditions. As to that, there is some- thing significant in the postscript of a letter of a French quartermaster-sergeant from the trenches in Flanders to friends in New York who had sent him magazines and tobacco : “ P. S.—Before seeing death very near, as T did many times since six months, I was not religious at all; now I'm a real Christian, I don’t mean Catholic or any other sect. And they are all like me. Reading and smoking are the only joys i the trenches.” M* FROST: Agnes, your mother has a headache. Can't you help her get dinner? Aces: No, father. I have to learn this table of food values, THE MAN-EATER comicbooks.com