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This page contains several distinct elements: **Main Content:** Reader letters to *Life* magazine's editor, debating **vaccination against smallpox**. One letter sarcastically praises "Lucky Mules" (two-legged humans forced into vaccination), while another doctor defends vaccination, noting he'd vaccinated 1,500 workers and observed only two cases of side effects (erysipelas). The debate reflects early-1900s anti-vaccination sentiment versus public health advocacy. **Advertisements:** Period product ads (Kodak cameras, cigarettes, hotels, paper company, bridge club cards). **Illustration:** A sketch of an "Egyptian" figure advertising cigarettes—likely reflecting the era's casual ethnic stereotyping in marketing. The vaccination debate was genuine public controversy in 1910, with some opposing mandatory vaccination on freedom/safety grounds while health authorities pushed it as disease prevention.

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“IARESE WORLD TOUR — ORIENT ‘There can be no stronger proof of the worth of an Also: Tour Spain, Sielly, Italy (Christmas in Rome) | enen'the fact that Ie iemldely imitated, Malcaan Speed Pictures— Kodak Convenience. The mile-a-minute automobile, ex- press trains at full speed, race horses, athletes at their highest strain, instan- taneous indoor pictures, home portrait- ure, ordinary time exposures—these are all as one to the No.1A Speed $60.2 Fitted with Zeiss-Kodak ‘Anastigmat Lens /. 6.3. Pictures 2% x 4 inches, Size of camera, 2% x4 x9% inches. Uses daylight loadin; ‘odak Film Cartridges. Has Graflex Focal Plane Shutter, speed of 1-100 of a second. Kodak Catalogue free at dealers or by matt. EASTMAN KODAK Co. ROCHESTER, N. ¥., The Kodak City. France, sailing Nov., Dec., Jan., Feb. have Imitated the name and have endeavored to tinitaten DE POTTER TOURS (3:5) “S243 suggestion, for I think you erred in the monument you erected to the discov- erer of spliced arteries. Really, when you come to think of it, it is perfectly useless to graft chickens’ legs on a cat, while on the contrary, what would be more appropriate than to graft on the head of your most learned and pro- found editor the ears of an ass? Very truly yours, James F. Porter. June 24, 1910. Lucky Mules To tHe Epitor or Lire: “Oh, Happy, Happy Mules!” is the heading of an editorial in a news- paper, with sub-heading as follows: “Well May the Two-Legged Mules— pst ¢ Bo adard, correct In every particule social correspondence OLD Hig. meets every requirement of the most exactiy man. Let us send you the OLv Hantrsiire Bond Book of Sas mens, It contains suggestive specimens of letterheads and cis business forms, printed, Uthographed and engraved on tbe ry and fourteen colors of OL Hasrsnixe Boxw. Write for it on your present letterhead. Hampshire Paper Company} South Hadley Falls, Mass. The only paper makers tn the world muta] ustrely. Makers of Old Hem The Stationery of a Gentiena| and alto Old Hampshire Bond Tyee Paper and Manuscript Covert. From Washington Dear Lire Before seeing your cartoons on vivi- section I thought a few jabs to the jaw and a kick in the ribs was plenty, but “since taking your wonderful re- storer” (to senses) I think my 30.30 rifle and a soft nose bullet full of tur- pentine when shot in a tender spot is none too good. Keep up the good work and don’t for Heaven sakes stop the treatment. Just ponder over the turpentine for a moment. Joun G. Taner. From An Angry Gentleman Dear Lire: Until recently I had supposed that a gross exhibition of ignorance or stupidity was likely to be a rather sad sight, but your marvelous pictures of the vivisectionists have at last shown me conclusively what true humor is. You really excel in this specialty and I look forward every week for some- thing new and refreshing in this line. Pardon me. however, for offering a Deities ‘The Utmost in Cigarettes” We don't count the cost when we make them. You wont when you smoke them Cork Tips or Plain Here and there an individual, or eral individuals, become foul-bodied enough to demand the eruptions by which they are classed as smallpox patients; they don’t have to “catch” it, really. When this occurs it means a smallpox scare, and the health boards and doctors generally set to work ram- ming the cowpox game, and with the working class it is to submit or quit. One very intelligent and conscientious doctor who chanced to read the item in Lire headed Father's Plea,” wrote me that within the past year he vaccinated 1,500 workmen at the command of the concern for whom he is company physician, and although he had believed in vaccination as a pre- ventive of smallpox as taught him at college, his observations, together with articles he had read of late, had caused “grave doubts as to the justification of this procedure. At present,” he writes, “I have two cases of erysipelas resulting from vaccination, and one seriously affected arm, which I fear CLUB “An Ideal Bridge Eighty Million of Them—Envy Their Four-Legged Brethren in the Mines.” The writer enumerated quite a num- ber of points in which the long-eared, four-legged mules were better treated than were the two-legged ones, the poor, overworked and under-paid la- boring men. But the brainy editor failed to name one of the most nificant advantages which the mules have over the working class: they don’t have to be vaccinated to get or keep their job! 122 the patient may lose; and I have had two cases of smallpox in well vac- cinated patients—what about that?” Cuartes E. Pace, M.D. Boston, June 17, 1910. (Continued on page 125) Position Unrivalled in LONDON. LANGHAM EH )TEL In Fashionable and Healthy Locality. Redaced Inclustoe Te-ms during August and September. comicbooks.com