Life, 1916-01-20 · page 11 of 44
Life — January 20, 1916 — page 11: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three distinct elements: 1. **Top illustration**: An advertisement for city apartments, showing a man reading near a sign advertising rentals "near subway and park." This is straightforward commercial advertising with no political content. 2. **"Open to Question"**: A poem criticizing women's suffrage, arguing women's proper place is domestic (making pies, sweeping, baking) rather than voting. This reflects anti-suffrage sentiment, likely from the early 1900s before women gained voting rights. 3. **"Short History of the Philippines"**: A satirical section mocking American ignorance about the Philippines, referencing Admiral Dewey's conquest and mentioning disputes between Taft and Harrison (likely Theodore Roosevelt's Secretary of War William Howard Taft). It critiques U.S. imperial governance of the islands. The "Stock Report" cartoon jokes about business operations being sold like stocks, with humorous pricing.
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fi——IN THE CITY _ Py ALL IMPROVEMENTS: NEAR SuBWA\ JBWAY AND PARK APPLY TO C.OMFORT THE ART OF ADVERTISING Open to Question DIDN'T raise my girl to be a voter, I brought her up to make the pies and cake; I didn’t teach her how to run my motor, I only taught her how to sweep and bake; Let men of every station do the voting, The woman's place is always in the home; There'd be more peace to-day If fathers all would say, “T didn't raise my girl to be a voter.” Short History of the Philippines According to the Popular Conception 'HE Philippines are a number of islands that we got from Spain some time ago, when Admiral Dewey captured them before breakfast one morning. The prin- cipal ones are Mindanao and Luzon; they are inhabited by a race of people called Filipinos, who know almost as little about how to govern themselves as the men we have sent there to govern them. Among these are Mr. Taft and Mr. Harrison, and they recently had a dispute as to which knew the least. This ended in a draw. What we are trying to do with the Phifippines is to get them to govern themselves eventually as badly as we do, but this is a long way off. In the meantime, we are very good to them, and are teaching their children how to read and write and play politics, which is the chief end of all Americans. PRICES SMALL OPERATION $500.00 MEDIUM bs 1000.00 ” 2000.00 STOCK REPORT “OPENING FIGURES WERE HIGH AMONG PROFESSIONAL OPERATORS " comicbooks.com