Life, 1919-02-06 · page 8 of 38
Life — February 6, 1919 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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The top cartoon depicts a figure labeled "Business" being struck by hammers labeled "Peace Terms for Germany." This satirizes post-WWI peace negotiations—specifically the harsh reparations and terms imposed on Germany, suggesting they were economically destructive ("business" was being hammered). The "Women in War Clothes" section discusses female military uniforms during WWI, noting that women had taken on unprecedented roles as nurses, drivers, and Red Cross workers. The accompanying sketch shows a woman in military attire with a rifle, captioned "The Girl Who Used to Drive a Nail with Her Hair Brush"—a humorous contrast between traditional femininity and wartime military service. The final item, "An Important Cablegram," appears to be satirical advice about prioritizing work over family duties during wartime.
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“LIF SE - “WHAT Women in War Clothes IME was when the only women in uniform, besides Quakers, that one ordinarily saw goi about were the nuns and sisters of the Roman Catholic orders, Then there came to be Salvation Then deaconesses of the When the war he Army lasses Episcopal Church women in uniform became more ire Red Cr appeared in garb almost as soon as the quent. < nurses and workers Germans fetched loose; but it was not until our country got into the war that SS women in uniforms really began to abound, and women not in uniform to feel that they were out of it More or less consecration seems te go with all the uni forms our sisters wear, from the nuns who were pioneers about it to the sadly dressed but admirable conductorettes There are women now in boots and breeches who drive women, quite startling in blue and brass: nd light bine of the YL W. C. A. and the Red Cross, and many, many others. cars, police women in blue If the sutfragists have arade some time at get out their share of these ned women, it will he a very handsome show, indeed. We got far cnough into t war to become pretty much all organized, and a larg portion of us uniformed And, stars above! what a lot of good it did us! Might Help at That house with Spanish ADDY was confined to the fuenza, and mother was busy sterilizing the diy k-reom. asked four-year-old Dona which had come from “Why do you do tha Because, dear, poor daddy: lias germs; and the get on the dishes, so then T hoil them, and that kills all horrid germs.” Donald turned this over in his litth mind for sev minutes. Then * Mother, why don't you buil daddy? An Important Cablegram Pakis pr’ ASE hurry home and attend to yo Tun Ame DVICI Those whe who do need it won't profit by it—if they is the most worthless conmmodity in the wor t profit by it don’t need it, and t could, wouldn't need it TIE GIRL WHO USE TO DRIVE A SAUL WITH HER HEAR RRUS