Life — November 13, 1902 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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423 Virus. Ww. can imagine with what interest the London Medical Congress heard Professor Welch, of Johns Hopkins, intimate that he was in the way of discovering a universal virus which will give immunity from, or prove a remedial agent in, all diseases. If each person is to be inoculated but once, or twice, at the outside, in case blood-poison supervenes, a radical revision of the price will be necessitated. Naturally, the popular dollar inoculations of the present day will go out. The Girl Who Didn’t. (A FABLE.) ONCE upon a time a Girl Decided that she Would Go In for Health rather than Fashion, and would be a True ‘Woman such as Men Like to Talk About in the Abstract. She wore Spring Heels on Number Seven shocs, and Shivered at the Very Idea of Corsets. Her Waist measured Thirty-Six Inches, while her Hips and Bust were Only Thirty-Two. She Wouldn’t curl Her Hair, and as she Thought Powder Vulgar, Her Face was always Red and Shiny. Her Clothes were all Made to Hang From the Shoulders, and she never Sat On Her Spine. By the Time she was Twenty-Five Men ran when They Saw Her Coming or Going, they Never Knew Which, and Women Looked at her Through lorgnettes and Said she was an Unsexed Creature ! Mora: The Easiest Way is always the best if you are agirl! Gi Cswans always takes his whole family out with him in his automobile whenever he goes."’ “What for?” “Ho is afraid if he doesn’t he might run over some of them by mistake.” HF CAN'T FAIL. She: WHY ARB YOU 80 SURE YOUR PLAY WILL BE A sUCCESS? “WHY, EVEN THe MANAGER BLUSHED WHEN WE READ 17." Fitted for It. s RS, FLANDERS i tells me she has gone in for a course of health culture.” “Well, she always did have a mag- nificent constitu- tion.” HE reasons for much ~ philanthropy would « not look well in print. CUSTOMER: Is this book good? SALESMAN : it's andir’ the No, but it’s by a prominent author poser, waar ane vou srvPrINo YOCRSEL? POR? DIDN'T {TELL Tor To DIET? it’s tho last one out. Patient: Yea, BCT YOU PRESCRIBED IRON POR a TONIC. comicbooks.com