Life, 1919-09-25 · page 26 of 40
Life — September 25, 1919 — page 26: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon:** A school principal and teacher debate women's roles. The principal argues that training children is a "higher calling" than marriage, while the teacher counters that without women fulfilling the "lower calling" of bearing children, there would be no students to teach. This satirizes early 20th-century tensions between feminism and traditional domesticity—mocking the condescension toward motherhood while exposing the logical contradiction in viewing child-rearing as simultaneously noble yet inferior. **"The French Babies" Section:** A fundraising notice acknowledging donations for French war orphans during WWI, listing contributors and amounts ($353,028.14 total collected). **"Trouble Makers" Cartoon:** Two men discuss labor unrest. One blames "radical labor agitators," the other jokes that unions are the only institution these agitators disrespect. The caption suggests siccing this "irresistible force" against an "immovable body"—likely satirizing contemporary labor strikes and management conflicts, with dark humor about using one social problem to solve another.
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Gouren 20H The Principal: Miss wrowN, 1 wis You The Teacher: yes, Miss MATTHEWS; WOULD GIVE UP THIS IDEA OF ING OF CHILDREN IS A FAR HIGHER CALLING TH MARRIAGE, THE TRAIN= ‘ THE MERE BEARING OF THEM, BUT IF IT WEREN'T FOR THOSE OF TIE LOWER CALLING, WHOM WOULD YOU HAVE TO TRAIN? The French Babies | yee has received for the relief of the French war orphans, in all, $353,028.14, from which we have remitted to Paris 013,855.50 francs. We gratefully acknowledge amounts the receipt of the following Renewats: Winifred Morris, Dover, Del., $3; Mrs. J. W. Reynolds, Brooklyn, N. Y., $36.50; Mrs. Henry A. Kimball, Lakeport. \. H., $73; Mrs. Elizabeth B, Edson, Washington, D. C., Paywexts ox Account: Harry G. Bickley, Williamsbur; Phyllis Charles, Ellwood City, Pa., $5; Frances wood, O Mrs. R. J. McDonald, Valley City, N. D.. $6; F., Little’ Rock, Ark. $ uy U. Yarnell,’ Vancouver, Wash’, $3; Mr. and Mrs, A. Keeney Clarke, New York City, $10, NUMBER 3744 ti Pa., $3; 1ill, Lake: N. D. BABY Already acknowledged Royalties on “ Marching Van Pragg, New York City.. Trouble Makers RAWFORD: Radical labor agitators are causing most of the present unrest. CrassHaw: Judging from their remarks, the United States is the only Union they don't respect. $55.18 "TWOULD BE A HAPPY DAY FOR MOST OF US IF WE COULD “SIC” THIS IRRESISTIBLE FORCE AGAINST THIS IMMOVABLE BODY comicbooks.cqnim