Life, 1901-02-14 · page 9 of 20
Life — February 14, 1901 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis: Life Magazine, Issue 129 This page contains three distinct pieces: 1. **"February" illustration** (left): A decorative seasonal artwork showing forest undergrowth and animals, labeled with the month. 2. **"But I" poem** (upper right): A romantic verse with apologies to M. Edmund Rostand, exploring the theme of love and human connection through nature imagery. 3. **"A Bad Man" anecdote and "Shall We Ever Know?" article** (lower right): Satirical pieces. The first is a brief dialogue joke about church attendance. The second discusses vaccination debates, citing Dr. Pickering's arguments that vaccination—contrary to medical consensus—actually increases smallpox mortality, using English cities as examples to question the practice's efficacy. The accompanying illustration shows a rat near food, captioned with skepticism about the parson's advice.
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But! (With apologies to M. Edmond Rostand.) Tue Max. I do not love, but— Love. In truth he does not love, But—every time my lady passes him, HTis soul is all aflame, his blood aglow With life, his mind a mass of hair And laughing eyes, and curves and swerves Of every movement. Oh, no—he does not love, But when you speak of hate, his soul revolts To find a thorn upon the rose’s stem ; He plucks a flower for itself alone. i . no! But when he hears her voice — es into the air, \ DANGER. And feels its freedom ; when he learns that she bend And that one flower that she wears at night— A snowy puff within a coil of gold, Are one with Nature in her gift of life— He gleans the good of being! Love? Why, no! But ab! that But—the doubt of Love! He loves not—but there comes the passion-throb ‘That bursts its bounds, that lends the universe A tongue that speaks of her, that gives theeye The will to find her in the evening star— And ear to hear her in the whisp'ring wind, He does not love—but when he feels himself Beyond himself, he calls on me to speak For him, his friend—Oh, no! he does not love! Montrose J, Moses. A Bad Man. IS WIFE: Even if we do take a pew in church, you needn't go. Von BLuMER: I know it. But it looks as if I countenanced the thing. Shall We Ever Know? CCORDING to the majority of highly-respectable physicians vaccination is—at least it ought to be—and must be—a protec- tion against smallpox. But Dr. Pickering, an eminent English physician, says : “Wherever you have most vaccination and inoculation there you have most smallpox. For seventeen years Leicester, England, has had no vaccination, and last year there were but two per cent. of deaths from smallpox out of the number of cases. In Sheffield, where 95 per cent. are vaccinated, there were 648 deaths. In Bradford out of 974 cases last year, of whom over 700 were vaccinated, 110 died. every one of whom had been vaccinated. I could take you through fifty cities of England with the same story. The more vaccination the more smallpox and greatest fatality. “We have nursed and kept smallpox here by vaccination instead of stamping it out.” Cupld : 1 WONDER WHETHEK THE PARMER WILL SAY ANY> So where are you? TUING IF 1 TAKE ONE. comicbooks.com