Life, 1905-08-31 · page 17 of 24
Life — August 31, 1905 — page 17: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several satirical pieces mocking contemporary social trends: **Book Reviews Section**: Lists recently published books on etiquette and romance, including Charles Harcourt's "Good Form for Men"—the text jokes that Harcourt's guide to proper dress codes (frock coats, cutaways, detachable cuffs) is too large to carry for handy reference. **The Cartoon**: Shows two well-dressed men in conversation. One claims his husband is a "Healer"—the other sarcastically asks if he means a "Ward or Christian Science?" This mocks the era's proliferation of alternative medicine practitioners and faith healers, conflating them with Christian Science practitioners. **The Vivisection Satire**: The main text ridicules claims that animal experimentation yields anti-aging serums and fatigue cures. The satire is biting: they extract fluid from exhausted dogs via treadmill torture, then inject it into horses, whose blood is then transfused into humans. The writer sarcastically concludes medical research is "full of surprises—especially when based on vivisection," implying the logic is absurd. **The Bug Dialogue**: A simple visual pun about marrying a large fly.
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written by women for the benefit of wom- en,” which doubtless explains some of the things one sees. Mr. Harcourt has undertaken tochange all that, He is kind but firm, The office hours of the frock coat, the social status of the cutaway, the inherent incompatibility of detachable cuffs and top-hats are codified and explained. Unfortunately the book is a little large to be carried about for handy reference and will have to be studied nights. J. B. Kerfoo The Foot Errant. By Maurice Hewlett (The Macmillan Company, $1.50.) Love's Cross Curren By Algernon Charles Swinburne. (Harper and Brothers. $50.) The Sunset Trait. By Alfred Henry Lewis. (A. S. Barnes and Company. $1.50.) A Dicker in Souls. By Will S. Gidley. (The M, W. Hazen Company.) The Storm of London, By H. Dicksberry. (Herbert B. Turner and Company. $1.50. The House of the Black Ring. Wy Fob, Pattee. (Henry Holt and Company. $1.50.) Goot Form for Men. By Charles Harcourt. (The John C, Winston Company, Philadei- phia. $1.00.) HE: My husband is a Healer. He : Ward or Christian Science? Yet Another. G® T results are at last com- ing from vivisection. We see, from a speech reported in the London Abolitionist, that there is now not only a serum to arrest the advance of old age, but one to cure fatigue, “obtained by fa- tiguing a poor dog on a sort of Mr, Bug: 1sX'T YOUR WIFE A LITTLE FLY? Mr. Fly NEVER MARRY A LARGE FLY. WELL, 1 SURELY WOULD -LIFE- 257 Hes WE FELL IN LOVE WITH EACH OTHER AT FIRST SIGHT, DIDN'T WE, DARLING ? She: YES, DEAREST, BUT 1 AM ALMOST POSITIVE I SAW YOU FIRST. treadmill until it drops down wearied and nearly dead, and then expressing juice from its muscles, which is forth- with injected into the veins of a hor: whose blood is finally drawn off to be afterwards pumped into human beings name of anti-toxin, so as to invigorate them when they are tired out!” Up-to-date medical research is full of surprises—especially when based on vivisection. under the ‘ comicbooks.com