Life — October 29, 1908 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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464 A Scare HEN it became known that a lady and two children had been severely bitten by in enormous Bullnose pepper. the utmost consternation. pre- vailed, especially in consider: tion of its still being dog-days. The authorities, however, kept their heads admirably, and due measures were promptly taken. The pepper was sent to the laboratory for bacteriological examination, while the victims were committed to the Pasteur Institute for prolonged treatment. By unanimous vote the Common Council ordered all peppers muzzled for sixty days. Ata late hour the situation was thought to be well in hand. R. B. syounc MAN, is it necessary for you to sow your wild oats? “Not absolutely, sir, but I think we will all feel better when I get the thing off my mind.” On Another Bat HE relapse of the country back into the use of the Roosevelt stimulant has been very disappointing. For weeks after the Chicago convention, the sup- ply of the stimulant was cut off. The times became so tranquil that folks com- plained that they were dull, and thou- sands of voters began to fall into the pit of sleeping between meals Unexpectedly Mr. Roosevelt, in the se- clusion of one of the back counties of New York, made a family address about the expediency of adjusting more luxury and entertainment to farm life. The countr down as if it were a cocktail in the desert, and folks brightened up. But dullness supervened again until, in the closing days of Sep- tember, broke out the President's cor- respondence with Bryan, a supply of the “ould stuff’ so ample and potent as to furnish material for a fortnight's long spree. The effect of this indulgence some habituals has been very The Sun, for which had become ouite sober and re. gulped ii upon depress- ing to watch instance. sponsible, went down avain prostrate in “LIFE: All In the Same Boat ONE ON EVERY SHIP Here's Lily, a thirty year old ingenue, His To moth-eaten bromides she clings; She looks at the steerage, and thea says to you, “They hardly look human, poor things! * And So the the anti-Roosevelt gutter, and found aw- ful symptoms in the forecast of the des- tinies of the country absurdly attribute! to Mr. Longworth. The Pr arranged to withdraw to deepest Africa fter next March. When a country has habits fixed upon it as ours has, there ident planned wisely when he is nothing for it but absolute separation from the intoxicating compound Fakes are pretty neariy at a stand off. On Taft side there has been the Cleveland letter, and on the Bryan side the Longworth speech. A Medical Rake Off That surgeons divide doctor bringing them surgical cases isa we'l recorrized evil That it is funda mentally wrong and pernicious goes without It is based o% commercialisen alone As soon 2s the public realize that it is delib: crately sold by the family doctor—in wh it has full confidence—to the surgeon that allows the largest graft, and that it is not sent to the surgeon best equipped for taking care of the case, the public itself will stop the practice at once—Dr. John C. Munroe in a recent address quoted in Canada Lancet. HE surgeon, of course, has not the I opportunity to drum up trade that He has to fees with the famil the family physician has. Governor " He thought he should sec other races— id saw the fact only hit the high places! oO PNee ON A LIBERAL ALLOWANCE P * sent him abroad for his “ vac,” Derby,” the “Grand Prix" and such, wait, more or less dependent upon his previous reputation, for cases to be brought to him. No surgeon can afford to starve, in a country where so many cases are going to seed anyway, for want of proper operations, and therefore it follows that some inducement must be offered to the family physician. This in- ducement is lowered in proportion as the surgeon's reputation increases, the con- sequence being that the family physician recommends to ient the most in- competent man, because there is more money in it for h The patients se ways m to “get it’? both Judging from Sample DON'T think the rich are exception- ally happy. No? Know m Some. Very rich? One to five millions! Oh, but they lead quite a different life from the really RICH! To be sure: but still, don’t you think you can tell just as much about the qual- of molasses from a hogshead of it as you can from a shipload?