Life, 1899-11-09 · page 7 of 20
Life — November 9, 1899 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 367 **Main Cartoon:** "Why Our Cousin Bull Is Not Enjoying This Fight" depicts a rotund, well-dressed man being attacked by three soldiers while a fourth watches. The "cousin bull" reference appears to satirize a wealthy or aristocratic figure (possibly representing business interests or a specific political figure) being assaulted—likely commentary on class conflict or labor disputes of the era. **"Professor Tolbert Discovers Something":** A scientific humor piece explaining electrode experiments on a dog's brain to demonstrate nerve responses—typical early 20th-century popular science satire about academic pretension. **"The Censor" / "Hard":** A dialogue mocking newspaper censorship, with a censor preventing publication of "military secrets" while a character named Stokes complains about debt.
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@ 8 §) ) @ WHY OUR COUSIN BULL IS NOT ENJOYING THIS FIGHT. Professor Tolbert Discovers Something. W"* learn from the . London Zoophilist : that ono * Professor Tolbert of Chicago desires to know how the brain works and how it affects the muscles, and he has hit upon tho plan of boring holes through @ dog’s skull and fixing ivory plugs in tho holes, towhich are to beuttacbed electrode knobs resting on the surfaco of the dog’s Brain, As the professor then plays on his knobs he can watch the effects ‘on the various parts of the poor animal's brain and muscles.” Why doesn’t tho playful Tolbert get a piano and bave done with it? Or is the dog cheaper? Not only cheaper, probably, but a heap moro fun, as the agony of the dog {s real, whilo that of the piano is only mechanical, And tho vivisector who does not {inhale real agony—of others—and plenty of it is not of the inner brother- hood. The Censor. EWSPAPER MAN: I should like to telegraph home that the com- manding general is an idiot! Censor: I regret to inform you that we can permit the transmission of no military secrets, Hard. GOReLE: Yon seem to feel it very much to think that she jilted you. Stone: I do. It will now take me years to get out of debt.