Life, 1908-11-26 · page 9 of 24
Life — November 26, 1908 — page 9: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**Main Cartoon ("A Woman's Work is Never Done"):** The silhouette shows numerous women of various social classes engaged in endless household and domestic labor, holding a "49¢ Today Only" sale sign. This satirizes the relentless, undervalued nature of women's work—suggesting domestic labor is perpetually discounted and never truly valued or completed. **"Tips for Vivisectors" Section:** This critiques animal vivisection (medical experimentation on live animals). The text presents opposing medical opinions: some doctors defend vivisection as scientifically necessary, while others argue it contributes nothing to medical advancement. The accompanying sketches humorously depict a frog "walking on his uppers" (wearing worn-out shoes), mocking the practice through anthropomorphic satire.
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“A WOMAK’S WORK IS NEVER DONE Intimately Interesting “e 5 E have received through the mails the following com- Tips for Vivisectors W munteadon: Mrs. C. Van Astorfeller sent for one of our employees recently HE great triumph of the vivisectors 9 how her some Eden undergarr is maintained to be the antitoxin a single exception all were in exce They had been treatment for Diphtheria, but the Reg washed at home with boiling water and soap. Only or at istrar-General’s Returns, so far from showed a number of ren! ich Mrs. Van Astorfeller declared to he due to the fact that while on a trip to Florida I sent the supporting this contention, demonstrate 5 arment to a laundry, where it had been torn, that the death rate per million persons during tHe five years 1901-1905 (the We are delighted to know that Mrs, Van Astorieller’s antitoxin period) was far above that of the pre-antitoxin undergarments are, with one exception, in good repair, and period, 1876-1850. that the rents in the excepted gar- ment were induced in a Florida laun- John H. Clarke, M. D., in Our Meanest Crime, says: “ So dry, and not, as might have far from vivisection saving human beings from being experi heen supposed, by aliding _ mented upon, it actually necessitates it.’ down the cellar door. “There is no proof that the millions of animals that have been cruelly tortured and sacrificed to the whims of scientists have produced the slightest benefit to science.""—Dr. J. S Harndall, Royal Veterinary Surgeon. With the recent discoveries concerning electricity and the X-rays an entirely new science has been born, To pro mote knowledge now it is not necessary to resort to vivi- section.""—Dr. Foveau de Courmelles, Paris, March, 1908. “As a surgeon I have performed a very large number of operations, but I do not owe a particle of my knowledge or skill to vivisection. I challenge any member of my profession to prove that vivisection has in any way advanced the science of medicine, or tended to improve the treatment of disease.” —Dr. Charis Clay (the late). visecnon is an ignoble debauch."’—Date: “WALKING ON HIS UPPERS comicbooks.com