Life, 1913-06-19 · page 17 of 52
Life — June 19, 1913 — page 17: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains two separate satirical jokes, not political cartoons. **"The Soul of Honor"** mocks a supposedly ethical physician whose "conscientiousness" is actually self-serving cowardice—he avoids visiting patients he cannot cure to protect his reputation, abandoning them when help is impossible. **"With Regrets"** is a humorous anecdote about burglars leaving a note on a grand piano they couldn't steal from a looted house. The joke plays on the absurdity of the thieves' question: they're incredulous the homeowner acquired such a large, expensive instrument, sarcastically asking whether it was purchased on installment (implying the owner couldn't afford it outright) or if the house was literally built around it. The Perseus and Andromeda illustration is classical mythological decoration, unrelated to the text below it—a common design practice in period magazines.
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PERSEUS. AND ANDROMEDA The Soul of Honor “L)O you think, as a physician, that he is very con- scientious?” “Wonderfully so. For example, he makes a rule never to pay a visit after it has been demonstrated that the patient cannot get. well.” With Regrets OTICE found by proprietor, left on grand piano by burglars who had looted a house: We had to leave the piano. How did you get it in— on the installment plan or did you build the house around it? comicbooks.com