Life, 1910-02-24 · page 34 of 36
Life — February 24, 1910 — page 34: what you’re looking at
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This page primarily contains **advertisements and editorial content** rather than political cartoons. The main visual element is a **Knapp hat advertisement** featuring a man in profile wearing a fedora. The substantive content is a **debate about animal vivisection** in the "From Our Readers" section. A correspondent criticizes Mr. McWilliams's defense of animal experimentation, citing brutal practices: starving dogs, subjecting them to ice baths, forcing them to run on treadmills, and surgically removing organs. The writer invokes Claude Bernard's authority that animals under the paralytic drug curare experience "atrocious suffering." This reflects **early 20th-century anti-vivisection activism**—a significant reform movement that questioned scientific ethics and animal welfare. The passionate tone indicates this was a heated public controversy. The page otherwise advertises Wallstreet cigarettes and promotes upcoming Scribner's magazine articles, including Theodore Roosevelt's hunting narrative.
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-LIFE: 7 —— Mr. The first Derby made in America was a manly language of Mr. McWilliams I might ridicule him not a little on his statement that the animals would strug- gle if they were not etherized. He should examine some of the illustrations of instruments in the Lautenschlogee Catalogue, where one is described as “made entirely of steel and thoroughly well worked, so that no accident can McWilliams has evidently not heard of the drug curare, so often used in vivisection, which paralyzes motion and increases sensibility. Claude Ber. nard says that the condition of dogs under curare is one of the “most atrocious suffering which the imagination of man can conceive.” Mr. McWilliams says that ignorance The C & K Shop makes hats for the discriminating—those for whom the best is none too good. Knapp-Felt Hats are made in two grades, $6 and $4. THE CROFUT & KNAPP CO. Broadway at Thirteenth St. New York From Our Readers (Continued from page 341) them for 17 and 28 days, and others that while starving were given an ice-cold bath for 30 minutes and then placed while wet in a cold room for the night? In another case “they starved a dog for three days; made him run in a tread- mill one hour daily.” In. still other cases the pancreas was removed and the animals starved. If I wished to resort to the ungentle- FAMOUS q WALLSTREET CIGARETTES Hand Made Purest Turkish Tobacco From maker to you By mail only 100 for $2, 250 for $5 YOUR |NITIALS ON EVERY CIGARETTE WiTH (CHARGE IN LOTS OF 250 UP Special Cignretes fr banquets ot private oth ty ince oe pore crn de on chwt none, $20 for ‘1006 $10 for $00: '$5 for 250. Aes oF at fos petkcm, wo it them to yoo th tanfdence and wil goaraniee ataaction. R. MORGAN @®CO. 80 Wall St., New York happen even with the strongest animals under operation, experience having taught the necessity of having this in- strument made of the strongest mate- rial.” In the March Scribner Trekking Through the Thirst to the Sotik—by Theodore Roosevelt A picturesque account of a march through the waterless country, with many hunting ia cidents and impressions of the natives. By Edith Wharton The Legend—Tales of Men is worse than stupidity. I agree with him. S. M. Farrecc. New York, February 2, 1910. Some Musical Recollections of Fifty Years By Richard Hoffman Intimate and charming impressions of the musical life and many famous musicians, it cluding Mendelssohn, Liszt, Jenny Lind, and others. Color Arrangements of Flowers By Helena Rutherfurd Ely Beautifully illustrated in colors. and lover of flowers. An article of practical interest to every garden make The Third Part of Rest Harrow _|By Maurice Hewlett « The Great Railway Rate Battle in the Wes By Samuel O. Dunn An Untrodden Road. By Eliot Gregory Another Danbury Rodd Aviator Story Princess Thu-Thur’s Half-Holiday. By Frederick Palmer The Angel of Lonesome Hill By Frederick Landis A journey off the beaten track in Frat: $3.00 @ year. 25 cents a number. CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS, New York 342 comicbooks.com