Life, 1911-03-02 · page 17 of 52
Life — March 2, 1911 — page 17: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon: "Historic Affinities"** This satirizes actress Mrs. Leslie Carter by comparing her to Michelangelo's famous artistic subjects. The cartoon depicts her posing as a model for male artists, with a playbill visible. The joke appears to be about Carter's theatrical prominence and the pretension of treating commercial entertainment as high art comparable to Renaissance masterworks. **"Alienists Discredited" Article** This discusses a legal case involving someone named Robin and Judge Swann. The text criticizes "alienists" (psychiatric expert witnesses) whose credibility has eroded because they routinely testify on opposite sides of sanity cases. The article argues the public has lost confidence in their ability to reach reliable conclusions about defendants' mental state. **"How Times Have Changed" Section** This contrasts religious ideals with modern materialism—the Koran asks what charitable deeds a dying man performed, but modern society (represented by "Bradstreet's," a credit-rating agency) focuses instead on property and financial worth. The accompanying cartoon suggests wealthy figures now concern themselves with material goods rather than moral legacy.
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HISTORIC AFFINITIES MRS, LESLIE CARTER INSPIRES MICHAL ANGELO Alienists Discredited N Mr. Jerome's fight with Judge Swann and his court over the question of Robin's sanity, public opinion seems to be almost universally with the court. Mr. Jerome's alienists said that Robin was crazy. The jury thought him not too crazy to Le tried, and the trial went on, Mr. Jerome is shocked and scan- rouble is that the public has got used to hearing minent alienists testify for and against the sanity of de- fendants in important trials, until it has lost all confidence in ability of the alienists to decide in a difficult case whether a man is crazy or not. Twelve jurymen could agree about Robin's guilt, but twelve alienisis selected at random would hardly agree about his sanity. So far as court proceedings go the credit of the alicnists is very low. How Times Have Changed man dies they who survive him ask what property he The angel who bends over the dying man asks good deeds he has sent before—The Koran. UT the Koran was written many centuries ago. have changed greatly since then. Most of the old angels Much of what, in other days, have died off in the meantime and, in their stead, has arisen Was donned by Miss MacFluff, a thoroughly commercialized race of angels who are content to She now considers (plain to see) let Bradstreet’s settle such questions. A lot of useless stuff. comicbooks.com ‘