Life, 1917-09-06 · page 32 of 40
Life — September 6, 1917 — page 32: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three distinct humorous pieces: **"Aut Scissors, Aut Nullus"** (top left): A brief anecdote where a German officer compliments a Belgian boy's donkey in "heavy jovial fashion." The boy replies he thinks too highly of his jackass to name it—a joke playing on the officer's condescension and the boy's subtle insult by comparing the officer to the animal. **"Love Sonnet of an Anti-Suffragist"** (right): Satire of anti-women's-suffrage rhetoric. The poem mocks men who claim to love women precisely for their intellectual emptiness and lack of agency—"empty as a lawless cup of glass." This directly ridicules anti-suffragist arguments that women shouldn't vote because they were intellectually inferior. **Lower cartoons**: Brief workplace humor about laundry services and elephant complaints, unrelated to the suffrage content. **Advertisements** occupy significant space (Perrier water, Clysmic sparkling water). The page reflects early 20th-century American debates over women's voting rights, with Life magazine using satire to mock those opposed to suffrage.
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=SAUT SCISSORS + Aut NULLUS Love Sonnet of an Anti-Suffragist Mabel, my love burns with this flame in- — tense, Not for your beauty, though I find you fair, Not for your charming lack of common = ig wy - sense, Thought too Highly of Both Not for your ignorance beyond com- ie On a road in Belgium a German officer ware , uN met a boy leading a jackass, and ad- pares " , I love you, not because I think your mind dressed him in heavy jovial fashion as £2 . ar yin ae Is empty as a lawless cup of glass; 5 esa ge _. Not for the fascination that | find / That's a fine jackass you have, my Heaiidyou lke fike-a perfect a { - son, What do you call it? Albert, I Puctiecess en ae . ieee No, but because with you, as in a dre: hy SORE We BESET Hine “Ney? Tented I seem a giant, dominant and stro Gh ae Oe oT tne ey cenites As in real life I very seldom seem, hee auuekly 0) Highly: of my Or only after effort hard and 1 Ni But you admire everything | } ; ¢ German scowled and returned 3 \ And all T say yor greet with, “Oh, how “T hope you don’t dare to call it Wil nd all Tsay yousgract st n Tiam, true i ' . —From Alice D. Miller's “Women Are = “Oh, no, officer. I think too highly of Bence” a } Wa my jackass.”"—Paris Liberté. Sie = ta we - rx Epitox: Well, young woman, if the Papnars 5 Mes. Casey: Me sister writes me that story suits me I'll pay you twenty dollars ean RS every bottle in that box we sent her was | for it broken, Are ye sure yez printed “ This IN) Youxe Lavy Action (persuasively) : Mr. Elephant: coxvowsy tHat Moy- side up with care” on it? C Oh, e now. Buy it without reading KEY LAUNDRY! WHENEVER 1 SEND THEM Casey: Oi am. An’ for fear they ] . and I'll let you have it for fifteen dollars. HANOKERCHIERS, THEY CHARGE ME FoR shouldn't see it on the top Oi printed it \ —Boston Transcript. SHEETS, on the bottom as well—Honston Post. | Ca? - oe’ Live is for sale by all newsdealers in Great Rritain ar sellers in all the. principal cities in the world. The f *s London ( Rolls House, Breams din hy stamped and ‘addr ¢ loss ur non-return of opply to Lirt, Rolls House, Breams Buildings, ts in Great Britain o f address should reach this office ten days prior to the date of C., England, issue to be affected. x Of Course Today Because Clysmic is so far the ~~ aristocrat of sparkling waters that hospitality requires it to be on hand whenever one entertains. WY i \ ‘ i} 15 grains of Lithia Salts to the gallon. Sold everywhere in splits, pints and quarts only. Don’t accept ordinary waters ° “zy B he Champagne of Table Insist on genuine SENT YOU FROM FRANCE GREE Sold Everywhere TS | comicbooks