Life, 1916-05-25 · page 9 of 40
Life — May 25, 1916 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon: "Dad (visiting son in city and put in room with twin beds)"** A father visits his son in the city and worries about sharing a bedroom with twin beds, humorously concerned about who will occupy the other bed. The joke plays on Victorian-era prudishness about sleeping arrangements and implications of impropriety. **Bottom Cartoon: "At the Hairdresser's"** A woman requests her hair be arranged "like Mary Pickford's" — referencing the famous silent film actress Mary Pickford, a major star of the early 20th century. This reflects the common practice of women requesting fashionable hairstyles modeled after popular celebrities. **Text**: Discusses President Wilson's qualifications and administrative experience, suggesting his fitness for office despite previous roles as schoolmaster and governor.
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Dad (visiting son in city and put in room with twin beds): I KNOW WHO's GOING TO OCCUPY THAT OTHER BED fellow creatures. An intelligent and able man such as Mr. Wilson is, could not be President for three years—and th such years—without a very great addition to his available human experi- ence. The world of a president of Princeton may be limited; the world of a governor of New Jersey may be limited, but the world of a President of the United States is big, and for the last twenty-one months has included the whole terrestrial aggregation. We are used to speak of Mr. Wilson as the schoolmaster, but never schoolmaster went to such a school as he has been to these last three years. We have seen him dragged along to new attitudes and new opinions, and compelled by im- placable events to new positions. Mr. Root found his temperament and train- ing an obstacle to good government, but what of his training since the great war began? What of his training since he first put his hand to the problem of Mexico? Is he still the man he was three years ago? Is he still the man he ago? was two years In some respects, of course, he is the same man. The make-up of him hi: not changed. But he is a man r trained by a tremendous discipline— a man who has carried such a load of responsibility that the wonder is it has not crushed him. But it hasn't. He seems to be in good working order. But what manner of man he is to-day we hardly know. What his training has done to him, wherein it has changed, expanded, magnified him, we cannot yet clearly perceive. All we have to guide us as to that are his words and his actions as occasion re- veals them, We shall know much more about that by November. Meanwhile we are warranted in believing that the experience of the present administra- tion, especially in foreign affairs, is an asset of great value to the country, not lightly to be thrown away, through mere impatience or desire of chan E.S. DURNED IF I CAN GO TO SLEEP TILL, AT THE HAIRDRESSER'S E MY HAIR LIKE MARY comicbooks.com