Life, 1911-11-23 · page 14 of 44
Life — November 23, 1911 — page 14: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The cartoon depicts a horse-drawn wagon stopping before a storefront advertising a "Horse Show" with "Moving Pictures" and "One Week Only." The image satirizes the contrast between modern entertainment (moving pictures/early cinema) and traditional horse-based transport and spectacles. The accompanying text discusses the magazine's club policies—admitting women, maintaining decorum, and encouraging membership. The text emphasizes social propriety and logic governing the club's operations. The separate article "Can Anyone Tell?" by Ellis O. Jones addresses scientific terminology, specifically distinguishing between "materia medica" and "pharmacopoeia," suggesting readers had confused these medical/pharmaceutical terms. It's a lighthearted educational piece typical of Life's mix of humor and instructional content.
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he Crsenas LOOKING BACKWARD We have also been asked whether we admit ladies. Not asa rule. We have a few old maids who have been put up for a few weeks by friends who hoped that their condition might be made worse by contact with the club. But, generally speaking, women don’t care for the club. No woman is a pessimist long enough. Her business is to create them. We grow stronger every hour. Only yesterday four hundred abandoned suburbanites joined. It is possible that you are light hearted and go about with a smile on your face. This is a false condition of mind. Look inward, not outward; downward, not upward; be a grouch. Our club is governed by stern, inevitable logic. The club will meet next week in Greenwood Cemetery ; week after next in Wall Street; after that in City Hall Park, unless it is decided to the contrary or worse places can he discovered. We urge everybody to join. Life is short and there may be little time left to sorrow, Can Anyone Tell ? PUZZLED correspondent wants to know the differ- ence between a materia medica and a pharmacopia. This is a fair question, but, frankly, we can hope to in- dicate merely a few broad lines along which the problem is to be attacked if a sane solution is to be expected. The old explanation that a materia medica grows wild, while a pharmacopazia is domesticated, no longer suffices. Mod- ern science must be more precise if it is to fulfill its des- tiny. A materia med erefore, is more closely related to the nebular hypothesis than the pre-Darwinian philos- ophers were willing to admit. A pharmacopeia, on the other hand, in its pure state, has all the appearance of a more attenuated phenomenon. But authori differ. Lack of space prevents a more extended discussion at this time, but we do not think the matter should be dropped. If any of our readers can throw light on the subject we should be glad to offer a suitable reward in recognition thereof, Ellis O. Jones. comicbooks -com