Life, 1916-09-07 · page 14 of 40
Life — September 7, 1916 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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This page satirizes early 20th-century anxieties about women's suffrage and the coming "Millennium" (modernized future). **Top cartoon**: A lion lounges in bed with a woman, captioned with his dismissive comment about cohabiting together—satirizing male resistance to women's equality. **"Requiescat" section**: Celebrates women finally abandoning suffrage campaigns ("They can't campaign for suffrage any more, Thanks be!"), mocking anti-suffrage sentiment. **"A Doubtful Advent"**: The main satire. A delegation warns the "Millennium" (arriving figure) that women's advancement will bring catastrophe—no more wars, business competition, unemployment, medical experimentation. A physician and minister protest losing their professional authority. The satire ridicules these doomsday predictions as absurd, exposing how opponents exaggerated women's equality's dangers.
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The Lion: LOOK WERE! THIS MILLENNIUM IDEA ABOUT OUR LYING DOWN HER IS ALL RIGHT, BUT I’M BLOWED IF YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE ALL THE BEDCLOTHES Requiescat A Doubtful Advent H women vote—Millennium or before— HE Millennium was on the point of arrival when there One restful joy I see. came to him a delegation of protestants. . They can't campaign for suffrage any more, “If you com da manufacturer, “there will be no Thanks be! more fighting, no more war orders, no exorbitant prices and no competition. You will ruin many big businesses. “And what is more,” joined in the labor man, “ many of us will lose our jobs. Labor will become cheaper and un- employment common. Thousands in our breweries, bars, dives and other places will be thrown out of work. You will cause much mise: “Ple reflect” (it was a physician who spoke) “on the s ‘k you will give to science. With proper living and right thinking dise: we know it, will go. You will not allow experimentation upon living creatures. You will strike at the heart of the medical profession “And lastly,” said a minister, who was also a profes- sional reformer, “everyone will be so good that there will he no field for the noble souls who are engaged in uplift.” The Millennium mused as the delegation departed. “Here I had been led to expect,” he reflected, “that I would be welcomed with sweet music and an absence of speeches. I think I'll wait another thousand years.” Ad. Schuster. “1 DON'T KNOW WHERE I’M GOING, BUT WHEN 1 GET THERE I'LL BE CLAD,”