Life, 1910-07-28 · page 25 of 40
Life — July 28, 1910 — page 25: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three separate satirical pieces: **"Now It's Roosters"** mocks a newspaper report of a woman contracting rabies from a rooster bite. The satire ridicules both the sensational medical claim and the automatic assumption that everything traces back to dogs—the piece jokes that doctors reflexively blame canines even when clearly inapplicable. **"Ex. Doc."** is a brief humorous verse warning against "the blonde and the brunette," suggesting romantic entanglements cause trouble. **"Teaching"** (by Elias O. Jones) offers social criticism of American education. It argues teachers wrongly assume people *want* instruction and mistakenly teach what *teachers* find important rather than what people actually need. The satirical conclusion: teachers remain poorly paid because they haven't learned that people prefer practical example over abstract instruction—ironically, the very lesson teachers should teach. The illustration at top shows figures in formal dress labeled "AS REQUIRED BY LAW," likely depicting dress codes or social conventions of the era.
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— Hh i i | | AS REQUIRED BY LAW Now It’s Roosters YOWL'S LITE KILLS WOMAN FIRST KNOWN CASE OF BABIES FROM SUCHE A SOURCE Ravy Mawa, Pa, June 22—Mrs. Gertrude Crompton, of Phila- St the Tryn_ Mawr Hospital here, according to the ns, from rabies, The woman had been bitten at her home large rooster, ani is the first time es is known to have developed from the bite Hs Gazette. and Pasteur are not “ phazed"" iy t rooster should have been sent to the Pasteur he was married. Probably he was bitten y by some child who had once owned a di must always get back to a dog in these hydrophobia cases. Ex. Doc. Y son, I've tr: led round the world And many maids I've met There are two kinds you should avoid— The blonde and the brunette such trifles. Institute the day on a hot ¢ OTS of people have to tell what they are going to do, or they would have nothing to tell. Teaching HE. chief mistake that teachers make is in assuming that people want to be taught. From this it is easy to make the correlative mistake of assuming that the people want to be taught the same things that the teachers know. This leads to the third mistake, that what teachers know about some things is more important than what other people know about “other things. Accordingly, teachers are content to accumulate a few traditional items of knowledge, such as the date of the battle of Hastings, the color of Charlemagne’s hair, the discoverer of the Monroe Doctrine and the function of the Greek ac- cusative That's why teachers are so poorly paid tinue to be poorly paid unti not want to be taught. W will proceed to mind their ow business properly will require bearing on They will con- they learn that the people do en the teachers learn that they To mind their own the gathering of facts which When the people sce that own business they will come All of which back to the fact that example is better Ellis O. Jones. business. modern li Ts ore minding thei done. around want to know how it merely brings us precept comicbooks.com