Life, 1903-08-13 · page 12 of 24
Life — August 13, 1903 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page features satirical commentary on three topics: **"Alcohol"** (top): The cartoon depicts a well-dressed man rejecting a woman's advances in a garden, captioned "I don't belong to that union." The accompanying text humorously questions why society ferments sugars into alcohol rather than ink, suggesting fermentation processes could serve better purposes. A small sketch below shows two characters (Isaacs and Jacobs) discussing a "successful blumenthal" who "has failed at everything"—likely mocking a public figure or business failure. **"Advice"** and **"Medical"**: Brief satirical columns offering humorous guidance and commentary on medical practices, including references to tetanus treatment and formaldehyde. The overall tone reflects turn-of-century American satirical humor targeting contemporary social attitudes, scientific developments, and public figures.
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Vat a success Cupid Alcohol. 7 HY should it be that when sugars and starches ferment, certain of their atoms rush together and form alcohol ? Why not ink instead of alcohol? Or if that were not well, in view of literary tenden- cies, then caramels? The suggestion that the processes of di ordered thus with to giving the W.C. T. U. araison detreis hardly sat- isfying. Of course, if there were nothing to get drunk on, there would be no such virtue as sobriety, and the “more virtues there are, the better. Blumenthal has made ! [DONT KELONG TO THAT UNION Advice. ] AN T stand the hea: Pwill kill me I much fe the maiden cried, * You're so much cooler here.”” “Oh, try to live,” Medical. N order to be of any avail as against tetanus, doctors now say, the antitoxic agency need be introduced into the circulation simultaneously with the toxic principle. And of course, inasmuch as the conventional methods of introducing the antitoxic agency are comparatively noiseless, no boy is likely to find time for them until the day after the Fourth of July, at the vi arliest. It is some comfort to reflect that formaldehyde, or embalming fluid, a powerful antitoxin, is probably an ingredient of red lemonade. Sst PETER: What did you do on earth? O spmir: I was the leader of an excursion band. “Well, take your harp over to the Christian Science department. They don’t know over thero I SAACS Jacol Yes. He has failed at everything. what discord is.”’ comicbooks.com