Life, 1907-05-23 · page 21 of 24
Life — May 23, 1907 — page 21: what you’re looking at
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This page consists primarily of **advertisements** from approximately the 1910s-1920s era, with one substantive satirical piece. The main content of note is **"A Plea for the Sparrows,"** which satirizes proposed legislation to criminalize feeding sparrows and offer bounties for dead ones. The author argues the bill is impractical and counterproductive: making it illegal to feed sparrows would criminalize "half the little girls in Boston"; offering bounties would attract dangerous "hoodlums" with shotguns onto private property; and poisoning sparrows risks contaminating restaurant food. The piece defends sparrows as "truly American" contributors to urban ecology. The remaining space contains period advertisements for B.V.D. underwear, batteries, whisky, and candy—typical commercial content of the era. A humorous poem about "Kitty's Little Supper" and a cartoon showing a man complaining that a sea-gull's tall tales distract his boys provide light entertainment filler. The sparrow piece reflects Progressive Era conservation debates and American humor about legislative overreach.
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A Plea for the Sparrows OME years ago a bill was offered in our Legisla- ture lo make ita criminal offense to Jeed a sparrow, also to offer a bounty jor dead sparrows. We ap- peared at the hearing and suggested that the first clause would make half the little girls in Boston criminals, and the second would cause the towns about our cities to swarm with hoodlums who would overrun other people’s lands with poison and shot- guns, destroying every bird they could find. We also suggested that hoodlum shotguns might be danger- ‘ous not only to all domestic animals but to the fami- lies of those who owned them, and that if poisons were used the Legislature would have to be very careful at the cafés ad restaurants as to what kind of birds they were cating on toast. We also sug- gested that the sparrows were as truly American as any of us, for they were born here, that they had lived thousands of years in the Old World, that they had kept many of our streets and parks free from canker worms and on the whole had done vastly more good than harm. The proposed bill did not *| pass. —Our Dumb Animals. HE sun never sees the dark side of anything. — Success. GREAT BEAK*SPRING WATER “Ite parity has made it famous.” FORD Time and Money and—A Motor Car ANY DOCTOR WILL TELL YOU his practice seemed to drop off alarmingly as toon as he had gotten himself a motor car. Seemed as if he was idle two-thirds of his time. WHEN HE FIGURED IT OUT, however, be found his practice and income were steadily in- creasing and that, thanks to the speedy, tireless car, he could handle just three times the work. make three times as many calls in a day if neces- tary, as he could before, and still retain his own health. 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