Life, 1907-07-18 · page 9 of 28
Life — July 18, 1907 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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The main cartoon, titled "A Duet," depicts a man smoking a pipe in profile. The accompanying text "An ABC Formula" by Ellis O. Jones humorously catalogs what happened to an investment in "WAS Americana Dementia Co., Unlimited"—from being "bonded" through various misfortunes (robbed, scuttled, trimmed, watered, zeroed) to final ruin. Below, "Colors of Passion" discusses Professor Ernest Gates's experiments measuring chemical changes in subjects' breath during emotional states like anger and jealousy. The text notes hate produced the most nervous excitability. The page also includes brief satirical exchanges about American sentimentality and a notice about San Francisco's carman's "strike," reflecting early 1900s labor concerns. The overall tone mocks both financial schemes and pseudo-scientific emotion research.
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A DUET Colors of Passion LI isa trifle slow in giving this news to his readers, as he gets it from the London Zoophilist. However, a trip across the Atlantic and back may give it additional value. Professor Elmer Gates, of the Laboratory of Psychology at Washihgton, has been experimenting upon animals with the volatile constituents of the breath of persons who were the subjects of anger, jealousy, grief, etc. The Daily Mail (May gth) says that: Alter condensing the volatile constituents of the breath of his subjects, the professor obtained a brownish sediment fro: row, and a pink sediment from remorse. Of the brownish subst: fessor administered doses to men and animals. In every case it produced nervous excitability or irritability In his experiments with thought conditioned by jealousy, he obtained another substance from the breath, which he injected into the veins of a guinea-pig. The pig died in a very few minutes. After concluding, from his various experi- ments, that hate is accompanied by the greatest expenditure of vital energy, 81 An A BC Formula WAS Americana De- mentia Co., Unlimited. B bonded it, C capitalized it, D dignified it, E elaborated it, floated it, G gobbled it, H handled it, I invested in it, J juggled it, K kidnapped it, L looted it, M manipulated it, otiated it, O organized it, P promoted it, Q quecred it, R robbed it, S scuttled it, 'T trimmed it, U underwrote it, V victimized it, W watered it, X exposed it, Y yellowed it, and Z zeroed it Ellis O. Jones PRANGER: You Amer- icans are very sentimen tal, don’t you think ? Native: Oh, very Whenever there’s a_rail- road accident and forty or fifty of us killed, we talk about it for fully a week after. 1 this passion precipitates several chemical products precipitated in one hour of intense hate, according the death of perhaps fourscore persons, as the as known to science. ptomaines are deadliest p T USED to be bread, and cheese, and kisses. Now it is champagne, duck, and divorces. Drawing the Line AN FRANCISCO, CAL. Eprtor Lip EW YorK: Dear Sir—This city is in the full enjoyment of a carmen’s Feeling” runs high, as the accompanying adverti ment shows. Yours truly, June 18, 1907. WANTED O. G. Dornin. thing and housecleaning by the day, Lydia R. Todd, 248 Boutwell st., an Bruno aves.; will not work on cars run by strikebreakers. comicbooks.com