Life, 1917-09-06 · page 12 of 40
Life — September 6, 1917 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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**Main Image:** "The Willowbys' Ward" - a domestic scene showing adults and a child, illustrating a narrative about obtaining a professor's consent for a house-warming party. **Left Article ("Help! Help!"):** Satirizes women's suffrage activism. It mocks the idea that women's clubs might call upon defenseless men to support family interests in peacetime. The piece ridicules the notion of armed conflict between civilians, sarcastically suggesting "French bayonets" could be defensive tools. **Right Article & Cartoon ("German Sportsmanship"):** Critiques German military culture as inherently aggressive and dishonest. The piece argues Germans cannot accept defeat, blaming their war losses on false reporting rather than actual defeats. The cartoon depicts this attitude through an adult-child interaction about donating ships, suggesting German dishonesty toward government. Both sections reflect pre-WWI American anxieties about feminism and German militarism.
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MOLLY AND MRS Help! Help! HOUSANDS of people to-day are seriously contemplating fleeing from the suburbs to some place of refuge from their friends who solicit subscrip- tions, But where can they go? Cer- tainly not to the city. No matter where one lives, it seems to be a question as to whether a man shall be permitted to support his family in peace and quietness or shall be compelled to give all of the money which he thus makes to lovely ladies, come around and insist upon taking it away who from him: When a band of women representing a woman's club call upon a defenseless man, nothing but a regiment of sol- with Krupp guns and iers armed French bayonets can be at all useful for purposes of defense. THE WILLOWBYS' WARD. 14 WILLOWBY DECIDE TO GET THE PROFESSOR’S CONSENT TO A HOUSE*WARMING German Sportsmanship G TANS are thoroughly bad sportsmen. They cannot endure defeat of any sort. Athletic games are almost unknown to them. heir chief times of peace is drinking sport in which the defeated sport. in beer—a ones are too numb to know what has happened to them, Poker will never be played in Germany ; for the average German who held a full-house a; four of a kind would be more than likely to pick up an ash-tray and throw it with vicious intent at the gentleman who This explains why the German army falsifies so in- Tt never won his money. dustriously in its war reports. reports a defeat. Kenneth 1. I HI= boor we have alws Roberts s with us. o “WELL, MY LITTLE “| WANT TO DONATE GOVERN MENT, RUT THEY'RE comicbooks#erg}