Life, 1909-06-10 · page 9 of 32
Life — June 10, 1909 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three distinct pieces of satirical content: 1. **"Modernized" section**: A proposal to reprint a classic work with updated editorial commentary, though specific details aren't clear from the visible text. 2. **"Duplex"**: A brief joke about Henry H. Rogers having "two arterial systems" of blood—one warm, one cold—used selectively. This appears to satirize Rogers as a ruthless businessman, suggesting his nature is fundamentally divided between human warmth and cold calculation. 3. **"Handsome Conduct of a Sheep Dog"**: A humorous anecdote about Harry Morrison stuck in a quagmire near Chester, PA, rescued by a sheep dog that attracted help from William Peel. The joke emphasizes the dog's intelligence and loyalty—it never asked for reward or recognition. The page uses humor to comment on character and morality in business and animal behavior.
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AFTERMATH—COM MEN CEMENT Handsome Conduct of a Sheep Dog OME of the animals have delightful traits. On May 17, Harry Morrison got stuck in a quagmire near Chester, Pa, and was slowly sinking. He shouted for help as long as he could. Nobody saw him but a sheep dog, who hap- pened to be passing. The dog ran down to the tracks of the Reading Railroad and managed to attract the attention of William Peet, of Chester, whom he led to Morrison’s relief. Peet got help and managed to get Morrison out. But the dog " scampered off as soon as it caw that Morrison was safe.”” That was nice of that dog. Never left a card, or gave his name to the reporters, or filed an application for a Carnegie medal; just scun out as soon as he saw he was not needed. The dog did not know Morrison and nobody knows the dog. Ha, Ha! ENATOR DEPEW takes the natural view that the Re- publican promise of real tariff revision was an after- dinner joke—New York World. HE mills of the gods grind slowly, but they never shut down for strikes MODERNIZED Reprint the Profane Classic ! suggest to the Sun to issue a pamphlet including its editorial on the Profane Classic and all the ensuing correspondence. It would wonderfully set forth what forms of literature really get home to the hearts of American readers. Nothing since “ David Harum" has excited a more inter- esting popular response than the Profane Classic. Duplex HERE was a theory that the late Henry H. Rogers had two arterial systems, one for warm blood and the other for cold. He had both kinds of blood in him, and used both, but they very seldom got mixed. OWARD: Before marriage he said he'd go to the ends of the earth for her. Cowarp: And after marriage he did it—to get away. * CAUGHT ”” comicbooks.com