Life, 1908-01-30 · page 8 of 22
Life — January 30, 1908 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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**The Main Cartoon** ("Two of a Kind"): Shows two hunters hiding behind a tree stump. One tells the other not to shoot, saying they forgot to load their gun and "the Dom burd won't wait"—a dialect joke playing on hunting incompetence. **"Good News for the Foul-Legged French"**: Satirizes the Paris medical faculty's rejection of a proposal to teach vivisection (surgery practice on live animals). The piece mocks this decision as scientifically backwards, contrasting French squeamishness about animal cruelty with practical American medical training. **Other sections** include brief humorous pieces on procrastination and creditors' meetings, typical of Life's satirical commentary on everyday American life and attitudes.
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TWO OF A KIND “FUR HIVEN’S SAKE! DON’T SHOOT, CASEY; YE FORGOT TO LOAD YER GUN.” “BEGORRY, OL MUST, PAT; TH’ DOM BURD WON'T WAIT.” Good News for the Four-Legged French ils slipping from the New York Herald brings welcome news to Americans who have a decent regard for animals, We hope that public opinion may achieve similar results in our own country: Panis, Saturday.—It has been decided. by the Paris medical faculty that there shall be no chance of vivisection or animal surgery in Paris. » This scientific body rejected the proposal made ~______. by some of the members of the municipal council, thought to be interested in science, to establish a professorship for the purpose of initiating for students a practice of surgery by experimenting on dogs and other living animals. The medical faculty replied that this has nothing to do with science and nothing justifies such vivisection. By operating on animals the students never learn how to operate on the human body, but rather are led to make serious mistakes. ‘The faculty added it considered that vi ction was inhuman and even immoral. Time Is Money NOPD: There was to be a meeting of my creditors to-day. Topp: Well, wasn’t there? “No. They unanimously agreed that they couldn’t afford to spend the time.” PROCRASTINATION is the W. T. Jerome of time. Consoling Thoughts About the Young O NOT expect too much conversational wisdom from the young. There are two classes of young persons: those who do not think at all, and those who think wrong. To think right requires knowledge, and of that the young can have only a very limited supply. A young person, therefore, who utters mistaken opinions is not necessarily foolish, but gives the only evidence possible of having begun to think, and of being, there- fore, in a hopeful state of progress. SEE THE INKY RACER RACING FOR THE INK-FRASER! comicbooks.com