Life, 1916-03-23 · page 5 of 52
Life — March 23, 1916 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and light satirical content**, not political commentary. The left column features "My Lady Votes," a humorous poem by Corinne Rockwell Swain celebrating women's suffrage. It mocks pretentious attitudes while praising women exercising their voting rights—likely referencing the recent 19th Amendment (1920). The bulk of the page contains advertisements: Prudential Insurance's "Prudential Day" campaign, Vacuum Cup Tires (emphasizing durability), and Ledge's Glue. A brief article discusses "A New Use for Bishops," proposing bishops serve on railroad boards of directors. **The satire is mild**: the suffrage poem gently ridicules aristocratic pretension while celebrating democratic participation. The overall page reflects 1920s consumer culture and early feminist victories, not sharp political critique.
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My Lady Votes Lords of the polling place, Put on, put on your coats! The week's vile stain erase— She votes! My lady votes! Votes! Let no sustaining “brace” Glide down your dusty throats! Let virtue reign apace! She votes! My lady votes! Votes! a Margin of Quality See that no hoodlum base Aanoys, or rudely gloats for which you pay so little more when you buy On that patrician face! them, is what takes you so far beyond ordinary She votes! mileages on Pennsylvania Oilproof My lady votes! _ VACUUM CUP y blameless sheep replace ‘eputable g oats! In lavender and lace, She votes! My iy — You’re guaranteed 6,000 miles by the warranty tag on each casing —but it’s the non-cost extra mileage that is making quality fame for these tires. Bear in mind—you pay nothing for the guaranteed skid prevention of the Vacuum Cup Tread on slippery pavements. Corinne Rockwell Swain In many homes throughout the land the first ‘As makers of the famous Vacuum Cup Tires, we confidently place of the month has been transformed from a ‘our name and reputation behind You will know Vacuum Cap dreary bill-day to a cheerful | the new Pennsylvania Ollproof dealers by this Blue and Yel- EBONY TREAD meses . A goatty casing we | vai Prudential Day “Samer | Rubber Go. The National Pay-day * Milhoe All because the bread-winners in these homes = - You pay for the had learned about and realized the value of an Quality =) the Monthly Income Insurance. Have you? ‘ Safety costs Write Dept 55 assy THE PRUDENTIAL you nothing Insurance Company of America : = Incorporated uader the laws of the ‘State of New Jersey Fonanst F. AYDEN Hour Ornce | A New Use for Bishops thing may happen now. The practice Preiicas Mewane, New Jenarr of selecting college presidents to help run railroads promises to increase. It E are not sure what a new era in our industrial life is or ought to be. New eras, from time immemo- aes > ‘ . even a college president has uses rial, have been presenting their creden- . =x} ‘| 4 ; But bishops: Who could have A E S | tials, have been assigned quarters, only spelled that out? There is, of course, to steal away again into the misty past. has revealed the interesting fact that no telling what will happen now. G LU E 10¢ | But whatever a new era ought to be. If it can be demonstrated by this we feel certain it is, by the appoint- unique experiment that bishops can also WILL MEND THAT VASE ment of a bishop on the board of di- be made useful, there is no telling — rectors of a Southern railway. Any- where the thing may end. comicbooks.com