Life, 1901-01-24 · page 15 of 20
Life — January 24, 1901 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several brief satirical pieces typical of Life magazine's style: **"On the Sands"**: A cartoon showing a bishop and another figure discussing vaccination. The satire mocks anti-vaccination sentiment by having a character claim vaccines cause disease—leading to the sarcastic retort that this "almost equivalent to asserting that the medical profession is not infallible!" This appears to reference early-1900s vaccine skepticism. **"Uncrowned"**: A humorous poem about a poor poet admiring hats in a shop window, desiring material goods he cannot afford. **Other brief items** include: - A jab at pianist Paderewski regarding rumors of his death - Mockery of Cleveland's voting record - A joke about a snobbish woman who refuses medical help from her cook's social class and dies of a cold The magazine's satire targets pretension, medical pseudoscience, and class hypocrisy—common Life themes. The vaccination piece is historically notable as anti-vax sentiment existed even in this era.
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ON THE SANDS “DELIONTED To SEE YOU, BISHOP! DOWN FOR A REST, 1 PResUME?" “YES, I'VE BEEN IN THE SLUMS FoR A MONTH" “antl INDEED! BUT THEN, IT's NEVER TOO LATE TO MEND, You KNow,” ton. In that year I again had myself vaccinated, ‘Then I began to make @ close study of vaccina. tion, I was led to make this stady by finding many children, children of parents whose blood had always been tn a perfectly healthy condition, aMicted With a degrading disease resulting from the Injection of virus into their veins, I was not long then in reaching the conviction that vac- clnating was an evil practice. Did you ever ! Why, this is almost equivalent to asserting that the medical profession is not infallible ! 75 Uncrowned. } EFORE the hatter's window show The poct stood, and sighed, “Ah me! Never was long-felt want so filled As that long-wanted felt would be. “Alas! what boots it thus to stand? The muse to hustle it behooves. Tf but the ghost would only walk As often as the spirit moves!" "THERE is no proof that Paderewski was killed in a duel in Paris as lately reported. The Paris police have not heard of it, and the eminent piano- pounder himself has made no admis- sion of his death. The story is defec- tive in inherent probability. Mr. Paderewski has not as yet even begun his series of farewell visits to America, and has by no means got out of this world all that it owed him. The tale seems entirely untrustworthy. Per- haps he had his hair cut and that started it. Confident. ERVOUS MOTHER: Are you sure, Willic, that the ice is safe? “Oh, yes! It wouldn't be safe if there was another boy with me, but I'm going alone.” T° stop the wrangling between two Atlanta papers, one of which maintained that Mr. Cleveland had voted for McKinley at the recent election, Mr. Cleveland has disclosed in an autograph letter that he did not vote for President McKinley. It looks a good deal as though Grover had helped himself to the mustard, doesn’t it? Still, there was a cold- water alternative, and possibly he took to that. A Martyr to Principle. «¢« AH, poor thing! Her end was sad in the extreme.”” “ Indeed !'" “You know she always revolted at the idea that there could be anything in common between her and the lower classes."* ‘So I have always heard.” “Well, she caught cold from her cook, and was so ashamed that she refused all medical aid, and died !"* comichooks.