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# Life Magazine, Volume XXVI, Number 672 The main cartoon depicts two figures in conversation—one appearing disheveled and the other more formally dressed—with the caption "THAT'S WHY" and dialogue: "WHAT ARE YOU IN FOR?" / "'CAUSE I CAN'T GIT OUT!" The page includes a poem titled "LOVE SURPASSING" by Carlyle Smith about preferring cats and tea to alcohol, followed by a section called "THE CASE IS ALTERED" about a wealthy girl with a "pug nose." Below is a letter from William Osler at Johns Hopkins University, responding to Life's "ANTIVIVISECTION-CRUSADE," defending medical research practices. The magazine's editors reply, noting they're sorry to lose Osler as a subscriber but understand his position. A small cartoon titled "A TRAINED NURSE" appears at bottom right, though its specific meaning is unclear from the image alone.
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NUMBER 672. LOVE SURPASSING. HAVE no use for cats at all, ‘They seem to me to be The very concentration of The blackest treachery. I have no use for tea at all, For, candidly, I think Of all the drinks that e’er was drunk It is the poorest drink. And yct, this afternoon, I hold A cat upon my knee, And stroke him kindly, while I sip Deep draughts of breakfast tea, And all because I love dear Mab So very deeply that I've even admiration for Her tipple and her cat ! Carlyle Smith. THE CASE IS ALTERED. =— ‘©CEE the girl with the pug nose!" “Hush! She is worth fifteen million dollars in her own right.” “ What a charming retroussé!"" WELL! VANDERBILT-MARLBOROUGH WEDDING— Church Card for sale for highest bid received before Monday nest. Address A. B., 103 Herald.—New York ferald. THAT’S WHY. “WHAT ARE YOU IN FOR?" ‘Cause 1 Can'T GIT OUT!" WE publish the following to show how hot the vivisector’s mind be- comes when it encounters opposition : “LIF, " ANTIVIVISECTION-CRUSADE. To the Editor of Tie Mepicat. News, Sir: I write to thank you for the sensible and outspoken letter to Life, which is reprinted in the Newsof last week. Since the appearance, some months ago, of a venomous and malicious antivivisection-cartoon, I have neither bought nor looked at Life. For years I had enjoyed its pages. buc a journal that insults my best friends insults me, and I shun it as I would a blackguard of the slums. ay Witttam OSLER. Johns Hopkins Univ: Bactimoxe, Ocrosen 21 e ST. Of course we are sorry to lose Mr. William Osler as a subscriber, but we are constrained to admit that he does a wise thing in not reading LIFE. It would only irritate him. He will find a more congenial and soothing occupation in mutilating his four-footed friends—if that happens to be his trade. A TRAINED NURSE. comicbooks.com