Life, 1892-12-08 · page 6 of 16
Life — December 8, 1892 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 330 This page contains several Victorian-era satirical pieces. The top cartoon, "A Happy Faculty," shows academics in chaos—likely mocking university incompetence or professorial eccentricity. "The Wail of the Rejected" satirizes rejected lovers using literary references (Huyley's and Jacqueminot roses), suggesting romantic disappointment among the educated classes. The larger section, "Good Out of Evil," defends vivisection (animal experimentation) as scientifically necessary, mocking sentimentalists who oppose it. This reflects genuine 19th-century debates between scientific progress advocates and animal welfare activists. The remaining items are brief humorous dialogues about medical complaints and social situations—typical Life magazine filler humor of the era, without apparent political significance. The overall tone privileges scientific rationalism over sentiment.
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A HAPPY FACULTY. THE WAIL OF THE REJECTED. ROKE, broke, broke, I forgive you, O Rosalie ! But the boxes of Huyler’s and Jacqueminot roses Will never come back to me. GOOD OUT OF EVIL. ap ] IFE is glad to learn from | 4+ vivisectors that cats and monkeys are always happy after portions of their brains have been removed. If the object of mutilating living ani- mals is to make discoveries beneticial to the human race it seems to us that this state- ment is of tremendous importance, Why any more misery if happiness is so easily within the reach of all? There may be, of course, timid citi- zens who would shrink from having the experiment tried on members of their own families, but sentimental reasons of that nature should have no weight. The vivisector always has had a great contempt for “ sentiment.” Lire considers this the most important discovery of vivi- section. Many will doubt the truth of the assertion, and refuse to believe that removing a portion of the brain tends to LET WELL ENOUGH ALONE. “*T'VE GOT A TONGUE-TIED CHILD, DOCTOR, CAN ANYTHING BE DONE FOR IT?" “Boy OR GIRL?” “Girt.” “Hump! [ THINK YOU'D BETTER NOT INTERFERE WITH THE WORKINGS OF PROVIDENCE, MA'AM.”’ develop a contented spirit, but science has ever encountered obstacles in its progress. Our confidence in vivisectors enables us to swallow any statement they care to make, of whatever size or shape. The “ scientist" who derives pleasure from strapping a dog to a table and cutting him up alive, possesses a sensitive nature that would shrink from falsehood. SURE CURE. ACK HARDUP: What's a man to do, Doctor, when he can't eat beefsteak without getting neuralgia in the jaws? Dr. PortLY: Hm! I'd recommend him to change his boarding-house. A DISEASE. HAT is Scadhunter’s business ?” “He puts in his time looking for a rich wife.” “That isn’t a business ; it's a disease.” oe OOD SAMARITAN: Don't you know better than to drive that poor horse up hill so fast ? O'Connor: Uphillis it? Oh! begorra the nag’s blind and he can’t see it! comicbooks.com Yr) \