Life, 1920-10-21 · page 18 of 44
Life — October 21, 1920 — page 18: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three distinct satirical pieces: **"Sunday Morning Golfer"**: A brief joke about a man unable to golf due to church bells—likely mocking either noisy urbanization or religious observance interrupting leisure. **"Women and Traps"**: An essay-cartoon arguing that newly enfranchised women (having just gained voting rights) should use their political power to ban animal traps used in the fur industry. The piece shames wealthy women who wear fur while remaining ignorant of animal suffering, suggesting they now have the power—and responsibility—to stop it. **"Kings in Exile and Archduchesses in Service"**: A satirical piece referencing post-WWI European upheaval, where deposed royalty faced unemployment. It jokes that wealthy Americans could hire impoverished European aristocrats as domestic servants—a humorous commentary on both the collapse of European monarchy and American nouveau-riche social climbing. The page reflects post-suffrage America (women's voting rights, 1920), post-WWI instability in Europe, and early 20th-century class anxieties.
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Sunday Morning Golfer: wow m1 DICKENS CAN MAN PUTT WITH THOSE CONFOUNDED CHURCH BELLS RINGING? Women and Traps | * women continue to wear furs—as un- doubtedly the: of their new civic responsibilities, they will consider the advisability of an anti-trap party. will—perhaps, in view starting We have conservation of forests—why not conservation of the suffering of ani- mals caught in traps? Any man can go into a forest and cut down a tree, and escape with the 1 y But it is getting much harder all the time for him to do this. It has been a big job to have our valuable trees guarded, but itis being done. It will be better done as time goes on. Women in their suffrages now have aa demonstrate one of the life to disregard opportunity most that important things in namely, no people can afford superfluous suffering It is easy for a trapper, in pursuit of his living, and in response to a general fashionable furs, to become indifferent te demand among women for suffering. But nice women, who would shudder in genuine sympathy and concern if they actually saw how many innocent animals Were made to suffer needlessly, have now heen granted .the power to remedy this evil. Modem Version 2 ‘WO hearts with but a date ; ingle candi- Two hands that vote as one.” ~LIFE.: Kings in Exile and Archduchesses in Service LPHONSE DAUD novel called Kings in E.vile [ once wrote a and to- day, if he were alive, he would have ample material for a sequel. In fact, the ma- terial is not only ample now, but it may at any moment be ampler; and we may soon see the fulfilment of the prophesy that there might in a year or two be only seven kings in all Europe, four in the whist-pack, two on the chess-table and As it is with monarchs, so is it with their sisters and their cousins one in England. whom they reckon up by dozens, their sisters and their cousins and their aunts Not only are princes and archdukes out of their jobs, but princesses and arch- duchesses are looking for jobs. The next issue of the Almanach de Gotha may be enlarged with half a dozen pages of want adlets. In fifty ced that they are Austria alone there are scions of royalty, so re ready to needs Situations proclaim thei Wanted. It is reported that some of the archdukes have become junior under clerks and that some of the archduchesses have found places as governesses and even as maids, Here is plainly an opportunity for the newly rich in America who are desirous of associating with royalty or with the sisters and the cousins and the aunts of royalty, Fortunately the Contract: Labor law permits the importation of domestic WONDERFUL WORK ! HANDLE A FEW MORE LESSONS AND YOU'LL. ne HIM LIKE The Bully: paws vv! Twas 1s TH! TROUT OF PICKIN’ ON A TWIN! servants; and there is therefore no rea- son why a few of these impoverished archduchesses should not be assisted im feather in the Leader—it migrants. It would be a cap of a Social would be a glorious peacock feather indeed— € could casually mention that the two neat handed maids who were bringing in the five o'clock tea and the little cakes and the toasted biscuits, were Austrian arch- duchesses. “Of course, they are not ver well trained, and they don't give the serv ice Lam used to the poor things!” BOM but, then, I'm sorry Ant A cownoy comicbookMeaed