Life — October 26, 1911 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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ge a ola Life’s Family Album wen meet Pree my senate Maxwell Warren Rockwell OME of our greatest men have been born in the remotest places. Mr. Rockwell, for example, was born in Brooklyn. “Tt only goes to show,” we remarked, as we sat in his studio the other day, “that you can recover from almost any handicap if you apply yourself diligently. When did this affair happen, Mr. Rock- well?” “On July 14, 18; And when did you become an ar- At the age of three. I began to do comics in emulation of my father, who had a rare gift for caricature and non- sketches. Then I prepared for Woodstock, Conn., and en- tered the class of '98 at Yale. The Yale Record rejected my maiden offering without thanks, so I determined to de- vote my spare time to football, basket- ball, pool and the classic: “Do you know of any better founda- t for art than that?” “T have never been able to discover any. Except that a little later I began to study medicine. But one day I came across the word alpha-amido-para-oxy- phenyl-propionic. This was too much for me. I gave it up.” “What happened then?” “The fear of meeting this word again made me enlist with the Yale Battery in the Spanish War. When I returned sense college at gan drawing for Lire, got a job in a law library, gave it all up and went to Paris, studying at Julien’s, and at last came back and—.” “Started in to be one of Live's star contributors. In the meantime, Mr. Rockwell, what is your favorite amuse- ment?” “ Being a Socialist—a habit I acquired from familiarizing myself with the works of Rockefeller, Morgan and othe The Tariff Schools ECENTLY in Chicago the oste- opathic brethren defied the allo- pathic and homeopathic brethren to meet them in a curing contest, the State to furnish eight hundred pa- tients to the champions of each school of medicine for treatment. The chal- lenge was declined. This is not so different from the present dispute over the proper way to heal the wool schedule which is making such an inflamed spot on old Bill Tariff. Dr. La Follette bobbed up with his scalpel and induced his consultants to agree that his course was right, but Dr. Underwood thought differently. Dr. Democracy found himself divided against himself; part of him wanted to perform a major operation, while the rest of him wanted to vaccinate. Dr. Taft has several trained nurses on the job, watching old Bill Tariff, and trying to decide whether to give him a pill or hit him on the affected spot with an axe. Meantime old Bill Tariff is worry- ing the public a great deal with his sufferings, especially the wool-sched- ule symptoms, which are readily com- municable to others. Dr. Taft’s trained nurses, Dr. La Follette, Dr. Democracy, Dr. Under- wood and perhaps a few mental heal- ers, hypnotists and fasters will have many an argument over the case be- fore it dies or gets well. The danger is that a lot of people will be likely to demand that we go back to the materig medica of our grandfathers. The Honest Man SUPPOSE,” says the facetious householder to the plumber’s as- sistant who has been sent to repair the leak, “that you are one of those plumbers who always forget to bring the right tool, and then have to spend an hour or so going back for it?” “No, sir,” replied the honest work- ingman, “I always remember not to bring it.” SUFPRAGETTE GUESSING CONTEST 1 entered the Art Students’ League, be- WHICH THREE LARGE AMERICAN CITIES DO THESE THREE MAVORESSES REPRESENT? comicbooks.com