Life, 1915-03-04 · page 43 of 48
Life — March 4, 1915 — page 43: what you’re looking at
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This page mixes editorial content with period advertising. The main text discusses the historical satirization of doctors in literature—noting that writers like Molière, Butler, and Swift criticized medicine as superstition, though this criticism paradoxically helped preserve the profession's integrity by keeping it accountable. The advertisements are era-appropriate: Dunlap & Co. promotes spring hat styles; P&O advertises world tours; and Cunard Line offers ocean voyages. The most prominent advertisement features **Everstick**, a rubber heel product marketed to "fastidious people who dress correctly"—emphasizing fashionable appearance for the well-dressed gentleman. Below this, **Park & Tilford** advertises chocolates and bonbons as delicious confections available nationwide. A small cartoon titled **"The Automobile Face"** appears at bottom—likely a visual joke about how automobile driving affects one's facial appearance, though the specific satire isn't fully clear from this reproduction. The page reflects early 20th-century consumer culture and gentlemen's lifestyle concerns.
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Doctors (Continued from page 366.) his doctor the least human of his char- acters; and with the Revival of Learn- ing and the rise of the whole modern world, the doctors’ position in litera- ture grew worse and worse. It is curious that the coldest, most detached, most modern intellects made game of medicine most: Molitre, Butler, Swift, all specially satirized physical science. It is still more curious that they all speak of it as an ancient su- perstition; as Chaucer says, his doctor could Speak of physic and of surgery, For he was grounded in astronomy. But all this perennial effort was justified, It was justified in order to keep one powerful and admirable pro- fession in its place. By the very nature Worn by fastidious of his business the doctor was prone to become the hypnotist and the hum- people who dress cor- rectly. bug. His continual control of the i | H NOTE THIS —You can depend om the dealer who temporarily strong over the tempo- dels" EVERSTICK™ tocarry the best of everything rarily weak was really an institution which required resistance. There lay in it possibilities of spiritual triumph, which are far more horrible to a healthy mind than mere seduction or RPG.US.PAT OFFICE abortion. And all the great scribes and SPRING STYLES satirists from the beginning who have What Candies made a jest of doctors have not been trying to put them in the pillory as Would You Have2 Celebrated impostors; but rather to save them from being burned at the stake as | "HOSE that in appearance wizards. tempt, that when eaten prove the most delicious? These ats are being made for you. Confections tempting and truly een Sere - a as Ss 178-180 Fifth Avenue | 3 PARK & TILFORD 181 Broadway Chocolates and Bonbons . _ ~ A, wavy brown thal aroma Chicago Philadelphia oe : Maken eben Agencies in All Principal Cities i “temptingly delicious j You can now obtain Park & Tillord Chocolates and Bonkons et 000 = = = iy di - atencies throughout the United ROUND THE WORLD TOURS | y States In New York ot our branch ‘The Best gular Services to E stores and all places of importance. EGYPT, INDIA, CHINA, PHILIP. EEALAHD. "eu Wert’ Trin om % PARK & TILFORD inavtan a onvenrau's. mee, NEW YORK CUNARD LINE, 24 State St, N.Y. “THE AUTOMOBILE FACE”