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This page contains satirical commentary and advertisements from an early 20th-century American magazine. **"Pause" Editorial Satire:** The opening column mocks public health policy, specifically compulsory smallpox vaccination. The satirist notes an apparent paradox: vaccinated people who contract smallpox experience severe illness, while unvaccinated cases in Sandusky, Ohio are mild. The piece sarcastically suggests health boards should enforce vaccination to restore smallpox's expected deadliness ("ten to forty per cent" fatality rate). This appears to critique either vaccination skepticism or heavy-handed public health mandates—the sarcasm suggests absurdity in the policy debate itself. **Advertisements:** The page features two product ads—Hartford Shock Absorber for automobiles and Carstairs Rye whiskey—typical of Life's commercial content. **"Light Wanted" Essay:** A philosophical reflection on human nature and generosity, discussing how we blame others for incompatibility rather than examining our own character flaws. The page primarily showcases Life's mix of satirical social commentary and period advertising.

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oss ely He me Low in has from book: rom Lire’s addressed of Ram 88, Pause COMPULSORY vaccination faces another embarrassing problem. Now that smallpox is known to be un- warrantably severe when it attacks the vaccinated human being, it is lately found that, by some strange misfortune, the smallpox that reaches the unvac- cinated is extremely mild in type. In the majority of these latter patients their physicians are hardly able to recognize the disease at all as small- pox, so slight are the manifestations. There were sixty just such cases in Sandusky, Ohio, last year. Some of them were hardly sick. This is not as it should be, and the health board ought to shut down on all sanitary rules, revoke hygiene and vaccinate everybody. It is hoped by such meas- ures that the disease may be induced to assume its standard prerogatives—its “high fatality rate described in med- ical text-books as ten to forty per cent. in Europe and Asia.” Ohio is behind history in her sta- tistics. By all means let Sandusky be vaccinated and so have her smallpox as she should have it. ci up, everybody! There will be no Kultur in the next world. ‘ve Got Em Fooled Now!” “IfTjust wanted awhiskey, I'd ask forwhiskey,butwhat nant is Carstairs, When I pour it myself from the teo-refillable bottle I get Carstairs. Why don’t you? Carstairs 1788 Rye 1915 IN THE NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE— “a good bottle to keep good whiskey good.’? Pure; mellow; aged ia wood, Sewart Distilling Co. Palledetsbla New York Baltimore aa Impossible? Yes, but this is what springs Try to do! There is nothing gentle about a spring. When a jolt compresses it, a spring's only impulse s to whip every one out of the car y sible. spring s uu from actual bumps, but not from being throwr yout and not from vibrations—and vibrations are harder on your body even than bumps. "Ffartford SHOCK ABSORBER Soothes the Angry Spring Stretch a rubber band. it snap back. That's the way an uncontrolled spring works. Stretch it again and ease it back gently—that’s the way a Hartford Shock Absorber makes a spring work The Hartford reduces spring-action to long. un- dulating waves of motion—free from recoil, shock or vibration—even on the roughest roads. It makes motoring really comfortable. Tt pre- vents accidents by Keeping the wheels on the road It adds years to the life of machinery and cuts down repairs and tire bills. Let us send you a book which will tell you why the Hartford Shock Absorber is standard equip. ment on so many prominent cars and why Ot the racing drivers use it. ‘The book is fice Hartford Suspension Co. EV. HARTFORD, President 192 Morgan St., Jersey City, N. J. BRANCHES: New York Newark Boston Chicago Philadelphia Pittsburgh Kansas City Indianapolis * Formerly Truffauit-Harttord Automobile Manufacturers are now using the finest springs that can be made. If you want more comfort, you must use Hartford Shock Absorbers. a Boulevard Light Wanted T is obvious that we owe more to those who are congenial than we do to those who are uncongenial to us. It is equally certain that if we have a truly generous and noble spirit we will acknowledge that the fault for uncongeniality rests: within ourselves rather than in the person who is un- congenial. It is likewise certain that true generosity and nobility would re- mold the characteristics which cause this uncongeniality. However, it is self-evident that the re-molding of these characteristics would tend to of- fend those who are ordinarily con- genial, and as these are the ones to whom we owe the most, the proper line of conduct is not clear. “ PaisoneR, have you anything to sa: “Only this, your honor. I'd be mighty sorry if th’ young lawyer you assigned to me was ever called upon to defend an innocent man.” —Cleveland Plain-Dealer. comicbooks.com