Life, 1926-10-14 · page 12 of 44
Life — October 14, 1926 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three satirical pieces mocking early-20th-century American politics and social conventions: 1. **"Just Between Us Girls"** cartoon depicts two women discussing voting rights. One argues women should vote because they're "twenty-one" and deserve political participation. The other sarcastically responds that women are "morally superior" to men—implying that if women truly were superior, they wouldn't need to engage in the "vilest" and most corrupt aspects of politics like buying votes with cigars and money. 2. **"The Changeless Seasons"** is a brief poem about summer and winter pleasures. 3. **"The Meeting Point"** cartoon shows a woman waiting by a sign marked "CLEVELAND," asking when her parents wake up; her father's only response is about the newspaper. The page satirizes female suffrage debates and gender dynamics of the era.
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10 Life [SUST BETWEEN US CIRLE “WE really OUGHT to vote, my dear, because I mean we're twenty-ONE and everything and I mean MOTHER says that the trouble with — the COUNTRY is that so FEW of the really NICE kind of people take the TROUBLE to VOTE which is what makes us have perfectly FRIGHT TICIANS running the COUNTRY with disGUS half-CHEWED. cigars in their mouths and simply BUYING votes all the time to clect themselves or some- thing—I I think it’s ACtually the VILEST thing I've — ever HEARD of, because T mean we're really the GR T country in the world beeause we have all kinds of perfectly delightful conVENI- ENCES like BATHtubs and every- thing which are really FRIGH'T- fully searce in EUrope and I mean we are sort of MORALLY superior to other nations! And I mean I think if us girls sort of took our ob- liGAtions kind of SEriously and everything we could ACtually do a simply treMENdous lot in imPROV- ING politics and getting really at- TRACtive MEN to be INGress- men and things instead of sort of ob- NOXIOUS people who chew ciGARS and look like Mr. COOlidge who may be a perfectly NICE person and everything but is worse than FATHER the way he keeps talking about eCONomy all the TIME, be- cause T mean I think it’s perfectly riDICulous to talk about eCON- omy when we're the RICHest coun- try in the world and everything— don't YOU, my dear?—I mean I ACtually DO!” Lloyd Mayer. New Paths to Glory OACH: And didja carry ice like I told ya, last summer? Canpipatr: No, I gotta better job selling electric refrigerators, The Changeless Seasons ELL, all things must end—and the summer Must end as all other things end. So good-by to the peaches asprawl on the beaches Of Asbury, Bar and Ostend. Ta-ta to the tennis with F s! Pip-pip to the golf with Estelle! Adicu to the sodas and hot-dog pagodas! In bricf: to the summer, farewell! For winter, drear winter is coming. So it's ho! for the boat or the train And ah, there! to the peaches asprawl on the beaches Of Palm, Waikiki and Biscayne. Hey, hey! for more tennis with Myrtle! Yah-hoo to more golfing with Flo! More chocolate sodas; more hot-dog pagodas! In brief: to the winter, hello! Baron Ireland, The Meeting Point Are your parents always up when you get in? Sue: Only my Dad—Mother doesn’t get up so The Newsdealer: wet, JAKE, WHAT'S THE NEWS THIS MORNING? comicbooks.com