Life — December 2, 1897 — page 14: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

NO SWEARING ALLOWED. FIGHTING 15 ROHIBITED. “NAW YOU DON'T, MY FAIR AND BEAUTEOUS MAID! 66 A WKWARDNESS is a great misfor- tune,” sighed the nursemaid, as she accidentally droppec the baby down the well. A BLOODLESS ENCOUNTER, * LIFE: Lay |} ai CARD IN THE DECK." Facts. CCORDING to the report of a certain society in New Eng- land: “The majority of the American public is at present compl hood- winked on the subject of vivisection. It has been led to believe three gross falsehoods: “1, That the practice is a rare and occasional one only. “2, That great benefits to the heal- ing art have been derived from it. “3, That anesthetics are invari- ably employed. “Were it not for the belief in these three fallacies, the whole monstrous system of scientific torture of ani- IN THIS CLUB THE QUEEN IS HIGH, AND YOUR KING IS THE LOWEST mals would be stopped in a week by a national outcry.” Perfectly true. And if animals had votes the system would cease with amazing suddenness. It would be discovered with something of a jerk that four-footers had rights, and that “Science” could dispense with cutting them up alive. HINKING that belief in a personal God has lost its vitality, and so its influence, Dr. Felix Adler suggests that we deify the State and worship that. To persons with whom the suggestion finds favor LiFE begs to offer Mr, Platt, as a very handy and suitable ready-made Devil. comicbooks.com