Life, 1920-08-05 · page 35 of 48
Life — August 5, 1920 — page 35: what you’re looking at
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This page primarily features advertisements (Tiffany & Co., glove and flower ads) alongside a brief satirical commentary titled "Don't Talk!" The piece mocks **Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont**, a prominent suffragist who apparently advised newly enfranchised women *not* to vote. Belmont argued that voting would strengthen the existing "boss system" rather than genuinely empower women, and urged them to "husband" their newfound power instead. The Life magazine commentary is sharply sarcastic: it presents Belmont's suggestion as actually having one merit—it costs nothing. The final jab implies that any women's movement costing nothing deserves "serious consideration," a backhanded insult suggesting her advice is worthless because it requires no real effort or investment. This reflects early 20th-century debates within the suffrage movement itself about how newly voting women should exercise political power.
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