Life, 1917-06-21 · page 14 of 38
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This page contains three distinct elements: **Main illustration** ("The Willowbys' Ward"): A domestic scene showing three men dining while a woman serves. The caption notes Mrs. Willowby "has never permitted the Professor to smoke in the house"—a joke about household authority and gender dynamics in domestic life. **"Semper Paratus" cartoons**: Two panels labeled "Yesterday" and "Tomorrow" showing a conscripted soldier with military gear, referencing military conscription and the contrast between civilian and military life. **"The Republican Way"**: An opinion piece discussing post-WWI politics, specifically whether France should reclaim Alsace-Lorraine through military force or voting. It warns Germany may seek revenge and expresses concern about the Hohenzollern family's political ambitions, reflecting post-WWI tensions and anxieties about future European conflict. The page reflects early 20th-century American concerns: domestic gender relations, military conscription, and international politics following World War I.
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THE WILLOWBYS' WARD. 3 WILLOWBY HAS NEVER PERMITTED THE PROFESSOR TO SMOKE IN THE HOUSE The Republican Way NEW YORK newspaper reader writes a letter to the editor headed, “Alsace and Lorraine After the War.” He puts this question: If France takes back those provinces by the strong hand of force rather than by vote of their citizens, will not Germany sing for the next forty years what France has sung for the last forty, Revenge? Whatever happens, Germany will be seeking re- venge upon her present enemies, not for forty years, but for four hundred unless she learns the obvious fact that by devotion, industry and the intelligence of such leadership as that of Karl Liebknecht she has progressed several centuries beyond her present constitution and the family called Hohenzollern. Nobody knows this better than the Hohenzollern SEMPER PARATUS family, and that’s what worries the big and little THE CONSCRIPTED COMMUTER Wilhelms. comichooks.¢om