Life, 1910-07-21 · page 7 of 40
Life — July 21, 1910 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon:** Two men dining across from each other illustrate the word "LIFE." The accompanying text satirizes how "Yes"—a simple word—has caused disproportionate social damage: unhappiness, financial loss, disputes, fights, and electoral consequences. This appears to critique impulsive affirmation or agreement in relationships and politics. **Bottom Cartoon:** Titled "Jones, a Dyspeptic Scientist, is Studying the Process of Digestion. He is Now Able to See How He Feels," it shows a man using an X-ray machine on himself while a woman and child observe. This mocks the era's enthusiasm for scientific gadgetry and medical technology, suggesting obsessive self-examination or hypochondria among contemporary scientists and the wealthy. Both mock social pretension and technological excess.
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“yrs” is a simple word spelled with three letters. It has caused more happiness and more unhappiness than any other word in the language. It has lost more money for casy lenders than all the holes ix all the pockets in the world. It has started more dipsomaniacs on their career than all the strong liquor on earth, It has caused more fights than all the “ You're a liars"* that ever were spoken. It has procured kisses and provoked blows. It has defeated candidates and elected scoundrels. It has been used in more lies than any other expression It is not meant half the time it is said. Will it continue to make such a record? Yes. yay Wi 2 Le dllipia A Wen ea Widowers T is a sad thing to be a widower, If a widower mopes around and won't mingle in society and refuses to take part in any little innocent amusements the women say he is putting it all on for fear folks will think his grief is not real. If he mourns for the conventional period and then begins to sit up and take notice the women say he is a callous brute and they pity the woman who is foolish enough to marry him. If he puts in all his spare time with his children they say it is too bad he doesn’t pick out some motherly woman and marry her and give his children a real home. If he doesn’t spend all his spare time with his children they say the poor little things are cruelly neglected, and that's what might be expected of a man, anyhow. ZZ) JONES, A DYSPEPTIC SCIENTIST, IS STUDYING THE PROCESS OF DIGESTION. ME 1S NOW ABLE TO SEE HOW HE PEELS.