Life, 1898-07-21 · page 12 of 20
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 52 This page contains three humorous anecdotes with accompanying cartoons: **"A Professional Reason"** depicts a patient questioning a doctor about withholding surgical details, with the doctor's reply that disclosure would prevent consent—satirizing medical paternalism. **"A Glory to the City"** recounts an incident involving the Fifth Avenue Stage Company, where a driver's horse escaped, creating chaos. The story humorously describes the attempted capture and eventual arrest of the driver rather than the horse, poking fun at bureaucratic absurdity. **"A Low Trick"** shows illustrated sequences of what appears to be childhood mischief or pranks. The final section praises **Thomas A. Edison**, describing his electric farm in New Jersey and his eccentric habits—wearing the same suit for years and working extensively with thunder and lightning experiments—presenting him as both brilliant and peculiarly obsessive.
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a) cae oat A Professional Reason. ATIENT: Doctor, why didn’t you tell me what this operation was going to be? “My dear madame, if 1 bad, you wouldn't have consented to it.” A Glory to the City. T= following extract is from the Annual Report of the 8.8. P.C. A. Society. It seems to indicate that Lire’s ancient friend, the Fifth Avenue Stage Company, is still doing the same old business, and in the same old way: Stephen Goa driving a team of stage partially Joaded with passen Street and Fifth Avenue, the nigit horse was so play hardly walk. The *« officer, on duty there, had sent the team home a few 1G rove the hors again whil e arre: atter stated to the officer “1 CAN'T HELP IT, WILLIE, YOUSE LOOK so —— Goop tng, but no notice was taken of it, and Goad was ordered to drive the horses on thetr regular trip as ustial. The facts were submitted to City Magistrate Wentworth, who promptly Issued @ warrant for the arrest of Donnelly, and he was held for trial under one hundred dollars hall. 4 photormph of the decrepit animals was taken and offered in evidence atthe trial of Donnelly, in the Court of Spectal Sexstons, Judges Jacohs, Hayes and Holbrook. The ptcture spoke more eloquently than the testimony of living witnesses, and xo Impressed the Court that Justice Jacobs sentenced the defendant to pay a fine of fifty dollars, or be Imprisoned for ten days, at the same time warning him that tf he was ever brought before the Court again on a similar charge a much more severe punlahment would be meted out to him. In the case of Goad, sentence was suspended. DMIRAL CERVERA has need to take caro that he is not killed with kindness, The American heart seems to warm to him a great deal, and if, as has been reported, he and the other Spanish officers who are prisoners are to be paroled and allowed to spond the summer whero they will in this country at the cost of Uncle Sam, they will probably havo a good many moro polite attentions offered them than they will know what to do with, There is no reasonable doubt that they will be invited to go to the Omaha Fair, and, if they accept, their presence there will probably bo conducive in an important degree towards inclining our West- ern brethren to hope for peace on easy terms for Spain. Thomas A. Edison. HOMAS A. EDISON is the owner of an electric farm in New Jersey, and keeps off the mosquitces by surrounding himself with dried currents while he works. He stays home most of the time and deals extensively in thunder and lightning, but when business is dull he packs a few samples ina Gladstone bag and canvasses the country, He has always had the repu- tation of leading a very rapid life, and his principal occupation has been that of turning night into day. At one time he was a telegraph operator, but, not being able to receive more than three hundred words a minute, he gave it up and went into the discovering industry. His collection of ohms is said to be the finest in existence, and as for volts, he has them to burn. Strange to say, Mr. Edison is very fond of clothes, wearing the same suit sometimes for four or five years. comicbooks.com