Life, 1911-12-07 · page 22 of 112
Life — December 7, 1911 — page 22: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. It contains multiple product ads (footwear, mineral water, art prints) interspersed with short humorous anecdotes and poetry. The substantive content includes: **"The Cure That Kills"** — A brief article praising Denver's dog catcher who survived 2,000 dog bites without seeking Pasteur treatment (rabies vaccination), contrasting him favorably against those who panic after bites. This reflects early 20th-century skepticism toward medical intervention. **Small jokes** scattered throughout, including one about a telephone operator and "well-connected families" (a pun on phone connections). **Historical anecdotes**: a story about Lord Marlborough and a French grenadier at the Battle of Blenheim. The page reflects *Life* magazine's typical format of mixing satirical commentary with advertisements and light humor, though nothing here constitutes sharp political satire. The dog-catcher story's anti-alarmism is the closest to editorial commentary.
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LIFE COMFY The Cure That Kills As to the official dog catcher of Den- ver, who has been bitten two thousand times and is still hale and hearty, Dr ootwear J, W. Hodge saye2 “Had this much-bitten dog catcher of the big city of Denver on receiving a dog bite become rattled and acted upon the advice of some rattle-headed doctor by hiking away to the nearest: Pasteur ’ treatment, he would in all probability long taken his dep sphere to th institute for ‘ preventive 0 have The Water that gives | you a clear head It is because of its rare, un- usual properties as a solvent, that Londonderry so won. | derfully cleanses the system. | A_ light, sparkling water, with only those elements that the body needs. ‘Londonderry! Mineral Water is the first aid to good health. Unequalled as a_ palatable table water and as a “mixer,” = = Londonderry is, be- sides, the water that keeps you in best physical and mental tone. ture from this mundane t unknown realm from whose bourne no traveler has ever re- turned, and wherein there are neither The Peerless biting dogs, Pasteur fakers nor squirt- A Comly-Felt alipper. trimmed with, ribbon. in colors tom a n_ doctors. Keepers of metropolitan dog many thousands of confined, superintend ents of big canine hospitals and dog s of sick and escriptions are pounds in whi do: are annually shelters wherein thousar homeless dogs of all nually confined and cared for, all have the same report to make, namely that they na dog or man b from ‘rabies’ or * © never s drophobia Loxo Maxteoroucn, admiring a French grenadier taken prisoner at the battle of Blenhe for he was a man Picture Comfys over six feet vand For Children told him; “If ere had been $0,000 Dutch Kids and Rabbit 2. Brow men like you in the French army, it Clews Pi could not have been beaten.” To which $1.25, Child's $1.10 Delivered the grenadicr replied here were ——= plenty of men such as T, but we lacked martial looks. one man like you! Sparkling (efferves- ; cent) in three table { sizes. Plain. (still) in half-gallon bottles. If you are so situated that | you have trouble in obtais- ing it, write us and we will } see that you are at ont supplied. LONDONDERRY LITHIA SPRING WATER C0. Nashua, N. H. The Tailor-Made Women's, Nary Bue. Lightand Dark Gray, Prige Red. Wine, Brow $1.25 Men's, Ked, Brot Glue! Dark Gray. 180 Delivered LUA = Send for our handsom: showing m: Dan’! Green Felt Shoe Co. 110-112 East 13th St., New York Well Connected “ Yes," remarked the telephone git! as she gazed out at the waves and wor dered what their number was, “I ao connected with the best families in oot city."—Catholic Un File CopleuPrints You know the fame of these Prints, the acknowl. edged standard of art reproduction, Know also that we send them on 3 —through the art stores or direct. as you wish. Our patrons find this a convenient way to select their gifts for Christmas c. Of their high quality Vcould not wish better.” Tom fifty cents to $50.00, trated Catalogue, nearly 400 cuts, ‘a Handbook of American Art, sent ! | ot “| The Voluptuary and the Hero Whoever ‘clasps the smiling and soft- shining taper, Will find it end in darkness and in noi- With pleasure so; but who strikes self denia May light his spirit’s fires at the clean sparkle’s glint Poetry of the Orient, by W. R. Alger, birthday Tie Royal Band was play'ng for th King, Louis XIV., the “Miserere of Lully.” The King on his knees at so was the whole court. His Majesty kept the awkward attitude until the ed of the hymn. the Kies turned to the Count de Gra asked how he found the music. “Ver sweet to the ear, Sire, but very hard o# the knees.” me vapor 's flint, for 25 centa: (stampa accepted); this cost de= ducted from purchase of the prints. Exhibitions for schools, clubs, churches, ete. Family Portraits done on private order from daguerreotype, tintypes, old photographs, etc. Sie Ca +, Copyrigh CURTIS & CAMERON oop. Putit Mibeary BOSTON 5 «Pp dy EA. Abbey, and by Someone said to Dufresny: “ Poverty iy ys and by is no crime.” “Tt is much wors he answered. 988 comicbooks!¢o