Life, 1913-03-20 · page 41 of 44
Life — March 20, 1913 — page 41: what you’re looking at
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This page consists primarily of **period advertisements** rather than satirical content. The dominant image is a **Velvet tobacco ad** featuring a man's head in profile smoking a pipe, with the slogan "the smoothest tobacco" and "not a bit of bite." Other ads promote Dixon's Graphite (lubricants) and Buffalo Lithia Springs water. The editorial content includes a **brief anecdote about vaccination attitudes** among physicians—describing a doctor who privately opposes vaccination but stays silent publicly, thus retaining influence to shield patients, versus an outspoken opponent rendered powerless by his known bias. This satirizes medical hypocrisy and the strategic value of discretion. A short humorous **dialogue** mocks an art critic who claims small pictures leave him cold but only likes grand canvases—revealed to be a picture-frame maker (implying financial rather than aesthetic motivation). The page reflects early 20th-century concerns: vaccination debates, nostrum medicine (lithia water marketed for gout and rheumatism), and satirical observations on professional pretense.
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THE SMOOTHEST TOBACCO In this uncertain world all things are smooth to lO¢TINS “the man on the inside.” He ne spn humidor jars A Thcughtful Practitioner Here is an extract from an article by C. S. Carr, M.D, in Health, showing the attitude of many phy- sicians toward the practise of vac- cination: A physician in my office not long since said to me, “ What is the use of your opposing vaccination? Do you get anything out of it?” I replied, I get nothing out of it, of cour: i 1, I think you lose y a'matter of fact, I can shield pe rom vaccination. I do not believe in vaccination any more than you do, but I keep still about it. Ido not raise any public Protest against it. Thus it is I can give any school child a certificate siating my belief that he should not be vaccinated, and it will be hon- ored by the superintendent, But you are known to be opposed to vaccination, hence it is they will not honor your certificate, for they re- gard you as prejudiced against Therefore your position about vac- cination makes you absolutely im- potent to shield the people from vac- cination, while my prejudice in keeping my mouth shut enables me to prevent vaccination as far as I have patients. Therefore I am do- ing more to, prevent vaccination than you are.”"—Brain and Braten, A Charitable Bishop When that celebrated actress, Mrs Cibber, in Dublin, she sang in the Oratorio of the Messiah. A certain bishop was so struck with the extreme sensibility of her manner, that he could not refrain from saying loud enough to be heard by numbers round him: “Woman, thy sins be forgiven thee!” “Livtie pictures leave me cold; it’s the grand canvases that I like.” “You're an art critic?” a frame maker."—P. Challenges comparison with any other known mineral water in the world on its record of results. Dr. Roberts Professor Emeritus of Materia Bartholow Medica, General Therapeutics, etc., Jefferson College, Philadel- phia, said, in ‘*Practical Treatise on Materia Medica and ‘Thera- peutics,"” 1899, that Buffalo Lithia Water “‘contains well-defined traces of lithia and is alkaline. It has been used with great advan- tage in gouty, rheumatic and renal affections.” Dr. Richmond, Va., ex-President George Ben Southern Surgical and Gynecolog- Johnston ical Association, ex-President Medical Society of Virginia, and Professor of Gynecology and Ab- dominal Surgery, Medical College of Virginia, says: ‘When lithia is indicated, I prescribe Buffalo Lithia Water in preference to the salts of lithia, because it is thera- peutically superior to laboratory reparations of lithia, lithia tab- lets, etc."* University of Vienna, Chicago, Ill, declares: “I have found Buffalo im Lithia Water of undoubted service Ch.D.Ph.G. in the treatment of Uric Acid Gravel, Chronic Rheumatism and Gout.” Voluminous Medical Testimony on request. For sale by the general drug and mineral water trade. BUFEALO LiTHiA Sppiugs WATER (9 Sprites. vincuua comicbooks.com