Life, 1904-05-12 · page 15 of 20
Life — May 12, 1904 — page 15: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several satirical items typical of Life's editorial humor: **Top cartoon**: Mocks New York City's absurd street-car ordinance repealing rules about where Broadway cars must stop, now allowing them to board passengers anywhere—even during blockades and breakdowns. The satire highlights bureaucratic incompetence. **Hearst correction**: A brief jab at newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, clarifying he didn't graduate from Harvard (attended briefly). The cutting final line—"not long enough to do him any good"—is personal mockery of Hearst's intellect or character. **Medical ethics piece**: Reports on Professor Neisser's controversial human experimentation on poor hospital patients without consent, noting he's switched to testing on apes (expensive at 40-75 pounds each). The satire criticizes both unethical medical practice and society's indifference to exploiting the poor. **Humorous anecdotes**: Include a lost hunter claiming superior navigation skills while admitting he can't locate camp, and jokes about wrinkle-removers and potato peelers—light domestic humor. The page reflects turn-of-century concerns: municipal corruption, sensationalist press, medical ethics violations, and marital comedy.
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Notice to the Public: HE Board of Aldermen of the C New York having repealed the *‘ near side” ordinance, Broadway cars hereafter will stop on neither side of the street. To avoid incommoding the public, pas- sengers will be permitted to board the cars when they stop for blockades, breakdowns, and similar causes, which are of reasonably frequent occurrence. H. HV rel-d. FRIEND calls attention to the fact that Mr. Hearst is not a graduate of Harvard College, as indicated in a recent number of Lire, and thinks, for the honor of Harvard, this statement should be cor- rected. Mr. Hearst went to Harvard for a short time; but not long enough to do him any good. HE Morning Leader, London, says that: Prof. Neisser, who has charge of a hospital for dis- eases of the skin attached to the Breslau University, has been compelled to bow before a public protest against is practice of inoculating poor hospital patients without Knowledge with various forms of virus for the pur- pose of watching the effects on the human system, For several months p: © Schlesische Zeitung, been experimenting with propoid apes by inoculating them with particular discases ow finds that this comes more expensive ting wtth human subjects, for the apes cos! forty pounds to seventy-five pounds each. And yet the poor, in their blindness, have When the vivisector ment in dogs and monkeys, what shall he if s humans are withheld OBLIE, HOW DO VOUK FATHER AND MOTHER FREL ABOUT ME? “1 DON'T KNOW, I'M SURE. THEY TOLD SH NEVEK TO MENTION YOUR NAME IN THEIR PRESENCE." Instinct Unimpaired. Motto for a Married Man. TER a long search, we find B® sure you're right, and then Blowso, the valiant hunter, keep it to yourself. where he is lost in the forest. “And you are the man,” we thinking to have some innocent fun with him, “you are the man who bragged in the camp last night about his wonderful sense of location.” ISS “My sense of location is all right,"” wewen he retorted, with some heat. “I knew all the time where I was, but SOME WRINKLE-REMOVER—PLEASE GIVE ME AN 02.,"" blamed if I could remember where SAD A MALGHTY OLD DAME, TO THE CLERK WITHA the camp was OVERZEALOUS, “SoM, AN OUNCE 18 NO GooD; “ P)ON'T you think he’s as ugly TARE "EM ALL OFF—1 WoULD— oa as sin? WAVE A QUART ! "7 SAID CLERK—DUT THEY GAVE mine THR woz. t ‘0; as virtue. A FOTATO PEELER, comicbooks.com