Life, 1917-11-08 · page 14 of 40
Life — November 8, 1917 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three distinct pieces of satire: 1. **Top illustration**: A social scene captioned to mock a politician's wife who is a legislator, orator, and novelist. The joke critiques her multiple roles, suggesting her husband's life is "one long vice-presidency"—implying he's merely a supporting figure to her ambitions. 2. **"A Dream of Brave Women"**: A poem celebrating historical female warriors and leaders (Artemisia, Joan of Arc, Florence Nightingale), satirizing contemporary debates about women's expanded public roles. 3. **Bottom dialogues**: Two brief exchanges—one about employee vacations, another about medical inoculations—using workplace and domestic settings to comment on social attitudes, likely reflecting early 20th-century concerns about labor rights and public health. The page collectively satirizes evolving gender roles and social modernization.
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746 renal MN rl In Background: THAT’s TUPPER’S NEW WIFE. PROMINENT ORATOR, AND SHE HAS AL: A Dream of Brave Women 'HE trumpet calls! And, from the realm of Dis, Penthesilea with her Amazons, The Babylonian Semiramis And Carian Arten , Sheathed in bronze, Sweep forth again. n the exultant song Of Deborah awakes those flames of war, Imperial Zenobia and the strong Boadicea, Britain's queen. Once more Rides Joan of France with Danish Margaret, Strides Agustina, Saragossa’s maid, And, with her battle-ax, comes Jeanne Hachette. But, high above all hosts of spear and blade, There shines a face of pity, worn and pale,— The sweet, pure face of Florence Nightingale. arthur Guiterman, Humbling CALLER: You seem to be very strongly in favor of acations. Emptover: I certainly am. They teach employees that the office can exist without them. SHE'S A MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATURE, A WRITTEN A NOVEL. “ME SAYS HIS LIFE NOW IS ONE LONG VICE-PRESIDENCY.” HY do you call your car ‘The True Love WONDER HOW T OR CHAP FEELS, rom “ Because it never runs smooth.” YOU SAY HE HAS ROTH TYPHOID AND SMALLPOX. INOCULATED AND VACCINATED? HE WAS. FOR BOTH,