Life — February 20, 1913 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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CHARLIE LEE CAN YOU READ THIS REBUS? (PATROL wacon} be (The correct answer to it will be published in next week's Lire.) A Bargain is getting a bargain Mr. (President or Professor) Taft at five thou- sand a year. Any reliable advertising agent will bear us out in this statement. Of course Yale won't get all of him at that price. President Taft is a good deal of a man and he will have enough of himself left to pick up many an honest penny from clients and others who stand in need of any good advice he is able to give But Yale will have enough of him, so that she can put his name on all of her handbills, point him out to cam- pus visitors on gala occasions, and also, we hope, send him out when there is y formal traveling or speech-making to be done on behalf of the university England and Suffragettes HE English suffragettes who were convicted of throwing acid into the mail boxes in England have been Given sentences of eight months in This will enable them to rest up and recuperate for a new campaign of destruction. If these offenders had been men they would have been given terms of many years in prison; they would have been rendered ineffective towards doing any further mischief. The English law was once upon a time notoriously drastic. It was not so long ago when common theft'in Eng- land was punished by death. Are the English authorities growing timid? It would seem so. prison. ae RRS OFAC Last Friday afternoon as Dr. Bo; Kure, Dr. Poysen Van Squert and Dr amuel Ruddygore were approaching the Halls of Agony they were ac- costed by a man who planted himself in front of them and exclaimed ; “ Why don't you bloodthirsty freaks try to cure the sick instead of torturing everything you can lay your hands on? The three OF course he was crazy Dr. Easy Killor thinks he might be an old-fash something equally foolish scientists ignored him. ned family physician or It is deeply regretted by investiga- tors at the Rockefeller Institute that the public should lose confidence in this research work merely because so much is promised with such small re- sults. Solham Lyre, M. D., who con- trols the editorial columns of the New York Chime. ice, however. s doing splendid serv- He says the majority of readers believe everything that is told them, particularly if expressed in scientific language Another able writer on the Chimes is Dr. Foolhamsum Mohr. Dr. Seer- ham Boomer nsiders Mohr as con. vincing a writer as Dr. Gull Reedurs. Dr. T. Jerms-Jerms received a somewhat impertinent letter recently in which the writer said: “ Instead of squirting your poisonous filth into the army and navy, who are perfectly well, try and raise the rate of recover the hospitals.” Evidently written by some demented person cination sin who does not believe in’ vac- Sentimental people have an idea that hospital patients should not be used for experiment. But Dr. Alphonso Virus and Dr. Tryon Paupers are both convinced that hospital patients are of in the dissemina- tion of non-contagious diseases the greatest servi ISDOM ral, lor the college kind is a factory-made ar cle, known as learning: hand made, and and there i i street tense,” Natu- bered, we call geniu: is of many kinds common-sense is nerally home made; ion known on the ff," in society as “ pre- in the Bible as “hypoc- risy.”” comicbooks.com