Life, 1914-11-26 · page 8 of 44
Life — November 26, 1914 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**Left photograph**: Titled "Say, Jack, It's Cold, Isn't It?" shows two figures in heavy coats and hats outside a building marked "AFE" (likely "CAFE"). The caption "Unlawful" and accompanying essay question whether calling something unlawful necessarily makes it wrong—a philosophical discussion about law versus morality. **Right cartoon**: "S" appears to reference "Margery Daw," a nursery rhyme character. The illustrated figure juggles various domestic demands (sun, house, child, umbrella) while a caption questions if she truly lived as the rhyme suggests—suggesting disconnect between romanticized depictions and real women's actual complicated lives. **Bottom section**: Contains a humorous dialogue about honesty and a cartoon titled "Every Dog Has His Day" depicting fate. The page mixes serious philosophical content with social satire about women and morality.
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“SAY, JACK, IT’S COLD, ISN'T IT?” Unlawful ane say that something is unlawful is not necessarily to say that it is wrong, but merely that it is contrary to the opinions of some modern, medizval or ancient law- making power. In order to discover whether an unlawful thing is also a wrong thing, we must analyze both it and the law it contravenes, in the light of common sense, mod- ern desires and present conditions, Good old laws become bad as the conditions which demand them disappear. The reputation of lawmakers rests upon their ability to make good laws, and the number of good laws is never large enough to make such reputations any too secure. When one mingles with lawmakers, moreover, and listens to their hollow-sounding oratory, one marvels how they can be right as often as they are. When lawmakers become so feeble and so out of harmony with their time that only a small minority of their laws are right, thus giving righ- teousness to the large majority of un- lawful acts, a revolution ensues, dur- ing which a new set of lawmakers is installed, E.0.4. EE saw, Margery Daw, Sold her clothes and traveled raw. Was she not a dreadful miss To walk about the town like this? Just a Matter of Business “After a special commission had made investiga- tions concerning the Pasteur cure England refused to permit it to be administered there. Wherever a Pas- teur Institute exists rabies is always to be found.” —Alexander S$. Arnold, in New York Herald, HICH means, the more deaths that are caused from fear of rabies the more moncy you get. Quite a pretty idea. RS. WILLIS: lutely honest? Mrs. Gittts: Yes, indeed. That woman is so honest that she wouldn't even try to steal what is left after a church supper. Then you think Mrs. Bump is abso- “EVERY DOG HAS HIS comicbooks.com