Life, 1913-02-27 · page 31 of 40
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This page satirizes early 20th-century anxieties about parenting and discipline. Dr. John Lovett Morse (likely a real authority figure) argues children need corporal punishment. The article then comically asks *who* should administer it—certainly not mothers, who are occupied with opera, bridge, and women's clubs; not fathers, exhausted from work; and certainly not hired help, as no child would accept discipline from a stranger. The satire's point: modern society has made traditional parenting impossible. Parents are too distracted or tired, yet lack alternatives. The piece mocks both parental negligence and the impracticality of the old "licking" system in contemporary life. The cartoon at bottom right, titled "The Story of a Life," depicts a figure's arc from infancy ("Salve!") through adulthood to old age ("Vale!")—reinforcing themes of life stages and responsibility.
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Reversion to Type very youngster needs a licking once in a while, and when he is to get it he should have a good one.” —Dr. John Lovett Morse of Har- rd. But who is to administer it? Cer- fun, tainly not the mother, who, if not | at the opera, is playing bridge, attend | ing sessions of the woman's club or | stumping the State. | . Certainly not the father, who, when he comes home, is nervously tired out with the business of keeping the wolf ery from the door. If any father in these | ind days should attempt to train his chil- | ny dren, he would undoubtedly break his down, and then what would happen? nt He carries all the sail he can without 7 the responsibility of training a child— ——— rd. assuming that he is so recklessly ex- ‘ o at, travagant as to have one. Certainly not any person hired for S ure -- Sim p ] eC == S avin g ed such a duty. Besides, no child would 8 submit. A boy, for the sake of giving Oiling System transmission gears, in turn splash it through a pocket and tube, to the universal joint. Thus but one kind of lubricant. instead of three, is requirea for motor, transmission and universal. The oil constantly returns to the crank case basin. to be cir- culated and used again; but the passage of sediment, dirt or eral filtering screens; and the fly- is this Unique Oil is cheaper than parts. So the Hupmobile engincers have devised an ingeni- ous system, illustrated in detail above, whereby oil is positively fed to every part and point where it is needed. his parents some pleasure in their bleak and barren lives. might easily consent to have them whale him occa- sionally, provided the whaling was light enough not to hurt. But a stranger, never! riacipal vi ¢ se i $5 f6eC eS. WR Be grit is prevented by se apr We agree with Professor Morse that The Hupmobile system is force-feed, a system pe wheel is surrounded by a pan, with perforations at such the old-fashioned licking ought to culiar to this car and one that has distinct advant- height that sediment cannot be drawn up from the main oil icine come back. Why not begin with the ages over both the pump and splash systems. asin Threatens coahectet eth It escapes the compli- cation of the pump, because the motor fly-wheel itself sup- plies the pressure; and the uncertainty of the splash, because the throttle controls the oil fed to the motor, 90 that the proper quantity is automatically used at all motor speeds. Engineering ingenuity has not devised a system of lubrication more simple oF efficient or economl- parents? If some of the mothers of to-day could be taken across the knee and given a good spanking, and if they could be made to transmit the same energy to their offspring, much good might be done. “Tit never write to a college girl again.” “Why not?” Ob, nothing much. I have just learned that two hundred of her class- mates read my letters regularly.” —Washington Herald. cal; yet this is the system of the $975 Hupmobile. This oiling system is typical of the high class construction found throughout the Hupmobile. It is another bit of design that iustifies our belief that the Hup- mobile is, im its class, the best car in the world. HUPP MOTOR CAR CO., 1231 Milwaukee Ave., Detroit, Mich. tubes and ducts of ample size carry the oil directly to bearings, gears and moving surfaces The flywheel, running in. oil, throws the oil upward by centrifugal force into a copper tube, with sufficient pressure to carry it along to the regula- tor and distributing points. Referring to the illustration, you see that the oil is conducted to the main crankshaft b by three tubes, and by meansof duc the crankshaft itself, tothe crank pin bearings. The oil spray from these, as the shaft revolves, lubricates the camshaft, and the cylinders under ordinary conditions; but as an added precaution, separate leads are provided to conduct oil directly to the cylinders, forcing it into the hollow piston pins and into liberal grooves around the pistons. So much for the efficiency of the motor oiling. Now we come to the economy of this system, 32 A Happy Marriage Depends largely on a knowl edge of the whole truth about self and sex and their felation to life and health, This knowledge does not come intellizenily of itself, nor correctly from ordinary. every-day sources, Hupmobile 32" Touring Car, fully equipped, $975 ‘ 32; pass, Touring Car, fully ea., $1175 f.0.b. Detrott Serevslv ete F "32" Roadster, fully equipped, 975 f.0.b. 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