Life, 1912-01-18 · page 12 of 44
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This page from *Life* magazine (page 160) contains three separate articles about charitable work and social issues, accompanied by one illustration titled "The Country Doctor's Fee." The illustration shows a horse-drawn carriage with a doctor's bag, depicting a rural medical scene. The accompanying articles discuss: 1. **"Pioneers in a Good Cause"** — praising the Anglo-Saxon character and the Free Dispensary for sick and lame animals (founded by the New York Women's League for Animals), which has treated 13,000 animals since 1900. 2. **"Let Sleeping Dogs Lie"** — a brief philosophical piece quoting the President of the University of Minnesota about overcoming obstacles through honest work. 3. **"Too many honest people make the mistake..."** — a fragment about beating swindlers at their own game. The content reflects *Life*'s turn-of-century focus on Progressive Era charitable institutions and moral lessons.
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Pioneers in a Good Cause HE average Anglo-Saxon is a be- liever in fair play—for himself. He is not worrying so much about others, especially about his four- footed friends. Starving dogs wan- dering about city streets do not trou- ble him unduly. Lame horses—other than his own—cause him no loss of sleep. But the founders and operators of the Free Dispensary for sick and in- jured animals stand in a different class. This Free Dispensary at 325 Lafay- ette street, started by the New York Women's League for Animals, is the pioneer in such work and has given 13,000 treatments since its opening in January, 1909, to animals of the truly poor. THE COUNTRY DOCTOR'S FEE In the month of July alone it treated ninety-five horses in the open street and no case was lost. At the water: ing stations at both sides of the dis- pensary, from May to November 1, about ninety horses an hour were wa- tered daily during the hot season. Tt distributed 600 summer bridles, Goo fly-nets and 1,500 straw hats. It also distributed emergency shoes to prevent slipping in icy weather. May the good work continue—and lots of it! Let Sleeping Dogs Lie If there is anything that there is anything that is an o is anything man to overcome, it is an income enable him to live without work.—f Toft to the students of the Ui Minnesota. course, but why overcome it, Mr. President? If we have got a burden, if cle, if there Axons Mabe 2ON AL aa ie anybody who is content to be obscure, let’s keep him. Whence are all our pres- ent political troubles derived? From men who lived without work? Not at all. Froma generation of obstreperous and unconscionable money chasers, who started poor like the Rockefellers, Rogers, Ryan, Carnegie, Gates and thousands more, and scrambled so hard and got so infernally smart that the laws we had couldn't begin to hold them. The gentlemen who can’t over- come their incomes are one of our least trials. The fellows who over- come the obstacles to incomes are far more troublesome. T° many honest people make the mistake of trying to beat a swindler at his own game. icbooks.com