Life, 1900-02-22 · page 15 of 20
Life — February 22, 1900 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three distinct satirical pieces: **"Pandora's Error"** (left): A poem with accompanying illustration about Pandora's Box. The satire references the classical myth, suggesting that Hope—released alongside all evils—causes disappointment. The illustration shows two figures in what appears to be a domestic crisis. **"A Courageous Crusade"** (right, top): Mocks the *Evening Journal*'s moral crusade against the play "Sapho" for immorality. Life's satire is that the Journal only attacks independent theaters because attacking the Theatrical Syndicate would cost them advertising revenue—revealing the Journal's hypocrisy. It won't sacrifice profits for actual moral principle. **"Annoying Testimony"** (right, bottom): Criticizes vivisectionists (animal experimenters). Sir Frederick Treves, a distinguished surgeon, testified that animal experiments produced useless and misleading results for human surgery—yet vivisectors ignore this evidence because they enjoy the practice itself, not scientific truth. **Bottom cartoon**: A dark joke about insurance: a man claims his father-in-law's death is "fully covered by insurance," suggesting relief at inheriting money rather than genuine grief.
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* LIFE « Pandora's Error, Tash Pandora! Think what weeping, HEN Pandora's Angers prying, Hurts, and sbocks, and knocks, Dett at picking locke, Idle sowing, useless reaping, Oat hitethe wana sont Apibe You had saved us, just by keoping All tho ills and evils lying Hope within tho box! In Fate's magic box— Madrline 8, Lridges. With these, Hope came gaily wringing, Listand worstotalll €T A RUGER is seventy eight,” re- Bascless dreams and fancies bringing, marked Cumso, Disappointments lightly flinging, “But he fights like sixty," remarked Where they chose to fall, Cawker, A Courageous Crusade TA Evening Journal has sct about improving the morals of the stage, and gocs to work in characteristic fashion, It threatens to print the names of persons who attend the performances of ‘Sapho,” holding that play up as an especially immoral one, “Sapho” is produced at a_thea'ro which is outside the control of the Theatrical Syndicate, The Journal's attack may, perhaps, lose the Journal the advertising of that one theatre — not in itself a very considerable loss. Why doesn’t the brave Journal attack the nastiness in the Syndicate theatres? Because any attack on the Syndicate means the loss of the advertising and free seats for all the Syndicate theatres— a very considerable loss to a sheet like the Journal. Annoying Testimony. R. TREVES, the distinguished English surgeon who patriotically offered his services and went to the seat of war as Consulting Surgeon, studied - at the vivisection trough and he has put on record his experience, that the results obtained from expcriments on animals in his special department cf sur- gery were not only useless but absolutely misleading for the surgical treatmect of men, But what has that to do with the pleasures of vivisection? It is not evi- dence the vivisector wants. It is more dogs. There is so much fun at his end ¢ BORROWBY CAN'T DINE WIT! ~ , HIS FATHER-IN-LAW HAS JUST DIED, A t ne ee ee ee ‘ ” of the knife that opinions of this kind “WHAT A SAD Loss!" ; “THR LOSS 18 PULLY COVERED BY INSURANCE.” only irritate him,