Life, 1905-05-18 · page 13 of 32
Life — May 18, 1905 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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This page from Life magazine (March 8, 1905) contains several satirical pieces: **Main Cartoon**: Shows a figure (signed "Taylor") labeled "If Theodore Should Go Hunting with William"—likely referencing Theodore Roosevelt and William McKinley or another William, using the hunting metaphor satirically. **Content Focus**: The page primarily features reader correspondence about animal welfare, specifically a fundraising appeal for Naples' stray dogs. A working-class woman contributor urges Life to republish and promote donations for a Dogs' Home, fearing the alternative is vivisection without anesthetics by medical students in Italy. **Satirical Jokes Below**: - A surgeon arriving in Hell being tortured with hot pincers until "medical science does its work for nothing"—mocking doctors' reluctance to work without pay - Two robins whose neighbors won't associate with them because they have a fancy nest made of "real curled hair" versus common straw—satirizing class-based social snobbery The page reflects early 1900s concerns: animal cruelty, medical ethics, class divisions, and humane reform movements.
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A Forecast. HE Russian fleet were better slow, If chance there be to have To-go, Yet Jap or Russian presently Must have a squad-run on the sea. John BR, Tabb. DITOR OF LIFE. Dear Sin: I have just seen—in Lire of March second—your appeal for the dogs of Naples, Iam sure it will rouse the interest and sympathy of every lover of dogs. But may I suggest—and ask —that you will publish it again, and that you will give it a more prominent place in your paper. It is true that we look for good things—and find them—on even the advertising pages of Lirk, But still those pages are not the des? to attract real interest and attention. And will you not also. say that you will receive contributions for this object ?- It is so much easier and simpler to send to you than to send to England or Italy. Lam taking the liberty of enclosing my small contribution to you. I wish it was more, but it is all Lcan do, for 1 am a working woman and earn my dollars, But I love dogs, and I most earnestly hope that those who are able will give generously and promptly — ‘to save noble brutes from human fiends.” I wish that every one who cares for dogs would read * Trixy " (by Elisabeth Stuart Phelps), and learn what cruelties are perpetrated in New York Very truly, W. HL. S. Napves, March 8, 1905. At the request of our correspondent (whose contribution has been forwarded), we take pleasure in reprinting the ap- peal referred to. Save tHE Poor Doss. The Naples Society for the Protection of Animals offered some time ago to undertake the eare of stray dogs seized by the police, and the painless de. struction of those unclaimed, provided the municipality of Naples defrayed half the cost of building the Dogs’ Home and paid 3¢. per day towards the maintenance of each dog. : The Veterinary College has now outbid the Society by offering to p vide the building gratis. This means that nearly all the dogs will be vivi- sected, as in Italy there is no restriction on vivisection, and all medical students make experiments on living animals without using anesthetics, To save them from this terrible fate the Society must build the Home entirely at its own expense, For this the funds in hand are quite inadequate £70 more will be needed, of which £300 have been already guaranteed. WILL YOU HELP? F Any money given for this purpose will be returned if the scheme is not carried out ations will be gratefully received and promptly acknowledged by P.H. Johnston, The Beeches, Carliste, and Me, Leonard T.Hawks- ley, 2, Via Vittoria, Naples, Italy, Any contributions sent to this office will be duly for- warded.—Ep., oF Lirr. Advertisement. RESPECTABLE money to religious purposes. billionaire wishes to give away his References exchanged HE NEW ARRIVAL (a prominent surgeon): What punishment do I get ? His Hicuyess : You'll have your appendix pulled out with red-hot nippers every fifteen minutes, “ For how long?” “Oh, until medical science does its work for nothing. IRST ROBIN : Our neighbors won't speak to us. Seconp Rosin ; Why not ? “ Why, they have a nest made of real curled hair, while ours is only common straw.” comicbooks.com