Life, 1914-01-29 · page 32 of 40
Life — January 29, 1914 — page 32: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three humorous anecdotes satirizing common human foibles and professional practices: **"The Medicine That Helped"** mocks the placebo effect and doctor-patient relationships. An elderly woman recovers from typhoid fever, attributing her improvement to the doctor's temperature-taking ritual (the thermometer under her tongue) rather than actual medical treatment. When the doctor skips this step, she demands he return, revealing she credited the *procedure* over the *medicine*—a joke about imagination's power in healing and patients' misplaced faith in doctors' practices. **"Inside Information"** satirizes medical profiteering, depicting appendicitis as a condition doctors invented to justify lucrative surgeries that empty patients' bank accounts. **"Answering Literally"** features a German immigrant witness who comically misinterprets a lawyer's question "what do you do?" as asking about his health rather than his occupation—a gentle satire of language barriers and literal-minded responses. The page is primarily **advertising and humor content**, typical of Life's satirical magazine format.
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The Medicine That Helped Imagination must always be reckoned with in medicine—sometimes as a friend, sometimes as a foe. A certain doctor, says the Washington Star, treated an old woman for typhoid fever. On each visit he took her temperature by putting a thermometer under her tongue. One day, when she was nearly well, the doctor did not bother to take her tem- perature. He had hardly got onc hun- dred yards from the house when her son called him back. “Mother is “Come back at one The doctor returned. As he came into the sick-room the old woman looked up at him with angry and reproachful eyes. “Doctor,” she said, “why didn’t you give me the jigger under me tongue to- That always did me more good than all the rest of your trash.” —Yonth's Companion. worse,” said the man. Comfort Without Extravagance, Hotel Woodstock, New York ir it FROM FLORIDA Direct to Your Door If you want Grape Fruit of the best quality and) with the real flavor, let me ship you a special box direct from my own Nurseries in Cocoanut Grove, Florida. Grape Fruit from this far southern section of Florida is grape fruit par ex- cellence. Every piece carefully selected and packed in a box containing from to 80 according to size, the 46, 54 64 sizes being the most desirable. Cost per box delivered at your house or nearest express office is $6 anywhere east of Chicago; small additional express charges ‘to more distant points. a box of my delicious fruit will want it regularly. |S: guaranteed. Grape f to foreign countries wit tation and duty charges Ns J. WAINWRIGHT, Jr, Overbrook Nurseries Florida Cocoanut Grove, EGYPTIAN DEITIES Plain or Cork Ti “The Utmost Cigarettes BD OS Inside Information “Father,” said little Rollo, “ what is appendicitis?” “ Appendicitis, my son,” answered the deep-thinking father, “is something that enables a doctor to open up a nd remove his entire bank ac- Home Journal. man’s, anatomy count."—Ladies’ Sliced Oranges with a dash of Abbott's Bitters are, appetizing and healthful. Sample of bitters by mail, stamps. C. W. Abbott & Co., Baltimore, Md. A GENTLEMAN, rushing from his dining- room into the hall and sniffing disgust- edly, demanded of Jeames, the footman, whence arose the outrageous odor that was pervading the whole house. To which Jeames replied : “You sce, sir, to-day's a saint's day, and the butler, ‘e's ‘igh church, and is burning hincense, and the cook, she’s low church, and is burning brown paper to hobviate the hincense jap FRE ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE Shake Into Your Shoes Allen's Foot~Fase, the antiseptic pow- Ger for the feet." Are youa trifle sensitive about the size of your shoes? Many people ear shocs a sie smaller by shaking Allen's oot=Kase into them, Just the thing for Dancing partie: id makes tight-filting or new shocs feel easy. If you have tired swollen, tender, aching feet, Allen's Foot Kase will give instant relief, The Standard Remedy for the feet for = Quarter Cen We have over 30,000 testimonials TRY If TO-DAY. Sold everywhere, 25. Do not accept any substitute. TRIAL PACKAGE eent by mail. Foot-Ease.” ALLEN 8. OLMSTED, Le Roy, N. ¥. Answering Literally In one of the Brooklyn courts a recent case, reported in the Times of that city, requited the testimony of a young Ger- man immigrant. “ Now, Britzmann,” said the lawyer for the plaintiff, “what do you do?” “Ah pretty vell,” replied the witness. “Tam not inquiring as to your health. T want to know what you do.” * Vork 1" “Where do you work?” continued the counsel. “In a vactory.” “What kind of a factory?” “It vos bretty big vactory.” “Your honor,” said the lawyer, turning to the judge, “if this goes on we'll need an interpreter.” Then he turned to the witness again. “Now, Britzmann, what do you make in the factory?" he asked. “You vant to know vot I make in der vactory?” “Exactly! Tell us what you make.” “ Eight dollars a week.” Then the interpreter got a chance to earn his daily bread. —Youth's Companion. vos WA may br Mowe RAND comicbooks.com