Life — April 16, 1908 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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PUBLISHING COMPANY Dear Sirs—I beg to call to and possibly that of your readers, an article which appeared to-day in one of our “great dailies,” in which it relates at length how one Dr. Alexis Carrel, of the Rockefeller Institute, saved the life of a child through the knowledge gained by hundreds of ex- criments, involving vivisection performed , rabbits, dogs and guinea-pigs. The article closes with the following paragraph: “This is the young a child was successfully in this manner, If the cats and dogs and ur not first case on record where so operated upon rabbits have a heaven, the ones which gave expe their lives to give Dr. Carrel the rience which saved the life of Dr. daughter ought to have high places in i Only a small number of us believe heaven for cats and dogs and rabbits. I think, however, that the majority of us agree that, should there by chance be such a place, the unfortunate little beasts which had the misfortune of meeting Dr. Carrel in this world should have the brightest prospects in the world to con A great many of us believe in a heaven for ourselves, possibly even Dr. Carrel him- self, but I do not think we should be justi- fied in encouraging the Doctor in the hope of a very high place in it. Tam, dear Lire, very truly yours, Treoporr B. Trustow. New York City, March 20, 1908. We are forced, through lack of space, to omit the article referred to in correspondent’s letter. It recorded an operation of transfusion of blood. A Letter DITOR LIFE Leslie M. Shaw, special trust envoy, has been here and came with his pncumo- gastric nerve tingling; he croaked and scolded and predicted dire things. We took him to th and he tested the gold cagles with acid and looked sour when they didn’t sizzl nt they were brass howed him the silver, the basis for th ble currency and he fainted; we took him to the smelters, and he protested that the slag was really of more value than the bullion. Then he made us a speech, a careful, insinuating, anti-big-stick speech. He said, and said plainly, that the trusts, the rail- ina ne. our LL roads and the insurance companies had robbed the people right and left, but now they had been caught at it and that if trusted for four years more would certainly not be caught again. Here we applauded. ‘Then he got impatient and said he meant that they would be good and need not be watched. Well, civilization being a matter of cli- mate, and having a climate that a the very highest possible type of civilization, we did not take Mr. Shaw seriously, but hurried him off to banquet after banquet until he really forgot to grow! at things. ‘The pleasantly ponderous Mr. Taft had made a very vivid impression and Shaw came to remove it; but it would not out. Cool, crafty, dyspeptic, he begged for a longer lease of life for Wall Street and Wall Street ways, but we patted him on the shoulder, offered to loan him some mone him away wonde sures Us if he needed it, and se ing how it all came about that we did not approve of uninstructed delegations. THE COMING STYLE (?) © chances of getting w, the smooth Mr, We propose to take the dyspeptic Mr. Sh Root, the equally unctuous Mr. Knox. ‘The rugged Mr. Hughes might come in a good second, but the heir apparent of Mr. Roosevelt is the leading nan, Wuson. Denver, Colorado, 1908, IFE PUBLISHING COMPANY: Gentlemen—Enclosed find Postal Money Order for $5.00 for one year’s subscrip- tion to Lire. A little spice, a little wit, something clever from God's country are absolutely It helps a man to keep digging away, looking for the bright spots, and Lord knows, it's hard enough to do cither in this land of where east of Suez, where th like the worst, where there ain't commandments, and a man can raise a thir ‘This isa Moro fiesta day, a day when all Moros bathe. As I sit by the open office window and look out on many dusky natives splashing around in the tepid waters of the Malabang River, I can’t help t wa contrast between this climate and that at home at the time of wr essential. “some- best is no ten ‘less sunshin but a veyor: ‘our publication, I guess I'll Lit, little thing like that can’t bother a st so send along 1. A. HENDERSON, Address Chie: ) 22, Bure of Lands, Manila, P. 1. >, Malabang, Moro, P. 1, Jan. 16, 1968. LIFE’S Marriage Contest 2XT week Lirr will begin the pub- lication of some of the replies re- this contest which has been announced in the last three issues. On account of the great number of ceived in replies received, it will not be possible to answer all the questions, or to return all the unavailable manuscripts. Contestants are not required to fill in the blank, but can write their replies on a separate sheet. Each contestant can send in as many replies as he or she desires, comicbooks.com