Life, 1916-08-17 · page 5 of 38
Life — August 17, 1916 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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This page contains a satirical poem titled "The Martyr" about a character named Phyllis who advocates for women's suffrage. The accompanying sketch shows a domestic scene where Phyllis argues passionately about voting rights while her male family members react with resignation. The satire mocks suffragettes by portraying Phyllis as relentlessly earnest—"grim-visaged" and determined—who lectures her family "morning and evening" while they endure her activism. The poem presents her cause as admirable yet exhausting to those around her, using humor to both support and gently ridicule the women's suffrage movement. The page also includes advertisements for Delco electrical systems and Don't-Snore products, typical of Life magazine's commercial content from this pre-1923 era.
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“ BURNT OFFERINGS" hey The Martyr pRts discourses profoundly on Brieux, Sudermann holds her in thrall, Ibsen and Hauptmann and Schnitzler— mon Dieu! Phyllis is pals with them all. Secretly, free from her lofty-browed réle, Phyllis is dazed and ‘subdued, Thinks, in her early-Victorian soul, “ Heavens, these people are crude! ” Privately loathes the eugenic Eugéne, Wishes she'd never begun, Longs to return to her Chambers—but then, It’s being done. Morning and evening, her grim-visaged scale Phyllis courageously mounts ; Strives to be like the proverbial rail, Battles the Onrushing Ounce, Wistfully waives breakfast, dinner and tea, Doggedly rolls o'er the ground, Counts that day wasted whose sunset finds she HAVE YOU A SWEETHEART, Son or Brother in camp or upon the Mexi Border? If so, mail him a package of Foot=Ease, the antiseptic powder to be sh. into the Shoes, and sprinkled into the foot bath. It takes the friction from the shoe and will be of the greatest benefit in that arid, hot climate, where the alkali dust plays havoe with the feet. What remembrance could be so acceptable? Ask your ler to-day for a 25c. box of Allen’s Foot= ‘or a 2c, stamp he will mail it for you sample, address Atten S. Otmsten, y “Don’t-Snore” Trade Mark Reg. U, 8., Canada & Gt Britain, Patent Stops SNORING AND MOUTH, BREATHING ade of Gold, $2. ‘ostpaid. Money refunded any thee without question. 3 sizes-Small, Medium G00 of sales), Large. ‘Attictes sol to procets sess beast ing and avoid "ds ‘rom Marathon’s to Goll. comfortable and Conve ‘Information on Request. SIMPLE Device Co, LEBURG, A., BOX 30, f Jt is Good to be the Owner of a Delco Equipped Car Five years ago the Delco System was the pioneer in the electric cranking field. Today four hundred and fifty thousand owners of Delco equipped cars are the living proof of Delco quality. Five years of continu- ous service under all sorts of operating conditions have thoroughly estab- lished Delco leadership. And contracts for the com- ing year aggregating equip- ment for almost four hundred thousand more cars are a fit- ting endorsement by both manufacturer and owner of the unfailing efficiency of the Delco System. The Dayton Engineering Laboratories Co. Dayton, Ohio DES ELECTRIC CRANKING LIGHTING IGNITION | j Hasn't dispensed with a pound. Phyllis, in private, admires a curve— Just an occasional one— Still, she’s a rag and a bone and a nerve— It’s being done. Militant soap-boxes under her feet, Yellow rosettes on her coat, Phyllis hurls Reasons at crowds in the street, Shrilly demanding the vote. Phyllis, at heart, gets along pretty well Minus the polls, as it were, Much as the primrose impressed Peter Bell So is the ballot to her. Home, she believes, is her only True Sphere— Politics can’t be much fun, Still, one must struggle for suffrage, my dear— It's being done. Dorothy Rothschild. comicbooks.com