Life, 1912-06-20 · page 20 of 44
Life — June 20, 1912 — page 20: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several satirical pieces typical of Life's humor: **"The Manless Man"** is a tongue-in-cheek essay listing all the women who control a man's life—from his mother and nurses through school, college, business, and marriage. The satire targets early 1900s gender dynamics, suggesting men are entirely dependent on and subordinate to women at every life stage. It's gentle social commentary on masculine powerlessness. **"Science Do Move"** mocks medical research by describing an absurd procedure: researchers use lit cigars to dilate mouse veins before injections. The joke is that this impractical method has now been "modernized" with an electric cigar lighter for female lab assistants. It satirizes how research sometimes prioritizes convenience over sense. **"Good Hearted"** and **"Just One"** are brief joke snippets about automobiles and a colonel's "boss" (likely a donkey), employing wordplay typical of period humor. The illustrations support these satirical pieces with period-appropriate cartoon styling.
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Personal Intelligence JUNE 18, 1912. M*. FOULKE E. BRANDT is spending thirty years in Danne- mora prison. Mr. Mortimer L. Schiff is enjoying Mr. Howard Gans is practising law in New York City. Judge Otto Rosalsky is still handing out prison sentences in his capacity as a judge of a New York criminal court. The Manless Man 1S mother is a woman. The first person to tal him is a female trained nurs After she gets through with him, his mother and another nurse (mostly es his father care of nurse) control him. He s on Saturday nights. His school teacher is a woman. In college he is in love with chorus girls. When he goes into business he spends most of the time in his office with a woman _ typewriter. At dinners he sits next to women. He talks politics with women. He marries a woman. When he dies and goes to Heaven the first person he inquires for is—a * woman, TYPOGRAPHICALLY SPEAKING A TYPEWRITER FACE AND THE INITIAL LETTER “Science Do Move” OLLOWING is from the Medical Record: A good-sized white mouse weighs 5 grams, 1% ounce; lately Wasserman has had quite some diff culty, owing to the enormous demand for mice on the ly responsible for many fa the animals were not stron With an extremely fine dermic needle one ce. is inje into the dorsal tail-vein of the mouse, after the veins have been dilated by a lighted cigar being car- ried past the tail a number of times. It is rather a severe test for the stants to smoke all the necessary f many experiments are car- in one day. Since some of the “ Praeparateusen” (female lab- MENT oratory assistants) are to carry on this work, an electric cigar lighter has been’ substituted for this: pur- This is interesting as showing the effect of “research” on the medical mind. Good Hearted IRST BOY: Dese automobile guys never give a feller a ride. coxd Boy: Oh, some of ’em do—if run over yer! Just One HY object to the Colonel’s having just one little boss? How can a shepherd get along without a crook of some kind? comicbooks.com