Life, 1926-04-15 · page 41 of 44
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This page satirizes opposition to women's suffrage (the proposed 19th Amendment, which would grant women the right to vote). The main cartoon features J. Morgan Greeley, a fictional corporate executive, complaining to his doctor about losing his appetite and ability to work long hours. The joke is darkly ironic: his "alarming" symptoms—inability to spend 2.5 hours at lunch, leaving the office at 8 AM instead of staying late—suggest he's anxious about the coming amendment. The satire mocks anti-suffrage businessmen who feared that allowing women to vote would somehow disrupt the social order and their comfortable dominance. By presenting his minor inconveniences as a medical crisis requiring a "Kohler-Antidote," the writer ridicules such anxieties as absurdly overwrought. The page also includes advertisements (W.L. Douglas Shoes, Old Town Canoes) and an unrelated "Fairy Tale" segment below, typical of *Life* magazine's format.
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+ LIFE - 39 No Wonder He's Alarmed “]'M losing my appetite, doctor,” said “ Hl J. Mor, Greeley, fourth vice- | | president of the Monopolous Finance | Corporation, as he sat down in the con ef - | > | sultation room. “For two years now . | | T've been able to spend two and a half | hours at luncheon and have been more ||! s N | N y fine mericds Knows Best’. at 5 | | than holding my own as a business man But a few weeks ago I found that, try ||| as I would, I could fill only three ash trays at noon and I began to have the most curic to cut my eat- ing ti 1 I'm 3 some of my associates have noti dd the change. If they get the idea that I'm dcan't bear up under the strain of the re not as efficient as I used to be, three-hour luncheon pe TH lose their confidence. THANE STYLISH, comfortable _ “Another symptom th hers me lasts, fine workmanship and is that I can't wait till half-past nir high quality leathers in \V | to show up at the office, I want to be | ||! Douglas Shoes will quickly w | work at eight, at the late Of H your approval — especially since se, I have managed to suppress it, I the low prices assure you the full it's begun to prey on my mind and benefit of the worth-while sav- g TNs et myself and just walk ina n afraid that some morni ing in large quantities for 120 ~ L. Douglas stores and more maa 6,000 Douglas dealers. | ings that result from manufactur- work regardless of the er | | ny new models for u wear, i Women's Si | $5.00 & i | Scores of charmingstylcyin the newest ; i leathers for Spring and Summer wear. | In Ton of | Black with Wedge | Rubber Heel. | | | ed with headaches. WI SR ————E i 7 They are our best AA Tima TTT | people, the ones ed Sante Ediscd by with the superiority HENRY HEADACHE complex. I'm only thirty and have always ) had any trouble staying away fre This is the first announcement of my nation-wide poll on the proposed | new 19th Amendment make of it. I happened + 8 some men who are plannir The amendment will pre all poration have been headaches— ‘¢ before and I ¢ t know wh to see if I'M do for p By compelling every one who starts one, to finish it instanter by taking a safe, balanced prescription. ee a think there's somethi: with me How do you generally feel, after a ol wi ‘ ctor headache? Vote yes [J or no I wish you'd loc er, docto . 8 8 and tell me what's wrong. If I keep If you usually take a drug that on this way I won't be able to close my leaves you depressed, all in, and desk at four o'clock, or I may ready for another headache— 1 noons, or s working g like that what it costs or wha ‘Then you will be glad to know the ivy " name of the safe. balanced pre scription just so 1 can get back on a1 treatment is, four-hour day like the rest of It has been relieving headaches, promptly and pleasantly, and with out nful after-effects, for over SOA | gs le Fairy Tale | CE cessful men,” McCready Vote for Kohler-Antidote, at any drug store. pon a time a man bought a soft collar, and when he wore it, ee | ‘Old Town Canoes” comicbooks.com