Life, 1915-10-28 · page 46 of 52
Life — October 28, 1915 — page 46: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two distinct pieces of satire: **Left side:** A mock-serious poem satirizes early 20th-century medical practices—specifically vaccination and experimental treatments. The narrative follows "Jones," who receives increasingly extreme inoculations (cowpox vaccine, rabies treatment, tuberculosis bacilli, typhoid serum, etc.), each causing new ailments. He eventually dies, yet doctors insist they could have saved him with one more injection. The satire targets the medical establishment's overconfidence in experimental treatments and their tendency to treat symptoms by introducing more pathogens—reflecting genuine contemporary skepticism about aggressive medical interventions that were poorly understood. **Right side:** A brief racist joke (using period dialect) about marriage prices in Sumatra, presenting it as humorous that men would need money to "buy" wives. This reflects the casual xenophobia and misogyny common in early 20th-century American humor. The page is primarily **advertising** (Mocul cigars, Hansen gloves) with literary promotion for novelist Bronson-Howard.
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da eal GEORGE BRONSON-NOWARD Bronson-Howard has written the most impressive novel of the year. “God's Man” is a thrilling nar- rative of the New York of now, one of the works of fiction that deserves to be called a novel, in the sense of the word when we speak of Dickens, for ir- stance. The scene is New York and Long Island; time, present day; purpose, to show through the lives of three young men ‘the social injustice of modern civilization, “God's Man” is powerful, dra- matic, absorbing, original in both substance and style. Thirty-five speaking characters live in_ its four hundred and seventy-five pages and appea! to every emotion. Large itee, loth. $1.40 ant, at all bootsetlers or malted by THE BOBBS-MERRILL CO. Publishero ee The“Vivela France” Number Dated May 27, 1915, was one of the most popular issues of LIFE ever published Copies can still be procured at this office at 25¢ each the usual price for back numbers over three months old, 17 W, Sist Street, NEW YORK CORK TIP OR PLAIN END — st Mahers of he, Sengee Dedicated to Allopaths First they pumped Jones full of virus from some mediocre cow lest the small- pox should assail him and leave pits upon his brow. One day a big dog bit him while fishing on a log; then they filled his veins in Austin with extract of mad dog. Then he caught consumption, so they called Dock Ber Lin in and injected half a gallon of bacilli into him. His friends were rejoicing at the prospect of his cure, but then he caught typhoid fever and death seemed quite sure. The doctors then with some sewage did inoculate a hen and injected all its gastric juice into his abdomen, But as soon as he recovered, as, of course, he had to do, there came along a great big snake and bit his thumb in two. Then again his veins were opened to receive about a gill of some serpentine solution with the venom in it still. To prepare him for a voyage in an Asiatic sea pure blood was pumped into him from a leperous old Chinee. Soon his appetite did quit him and he couldn't eat at all, so some virus of dyspepsia was injected in the fall. But his blood was diluted by the cures that he had taken, so one day he laid him down and died, and never did awaken. Though with Brown-Sequad Elixir they tried resuscitation, he never showed a single sign of reviving animation. But the doctor, he could save him, he per- sistently maintained, if he only could inject some life into his veins. —Lee Bridges, in The Houston Chronicle, ‘Say, Johnsing,” commented Rastus, looking up from his paper, “it says heah dat in Sumatra a man kin buy a wife foh. foah dollahs.”” “Foah dollars!" gasped Johnsing. “Ef a niggah’s got foah dollars he don’t need —Dallas News, HANSENBILT WASHABLE LEATHER GLOVES combine eleSance and practical use for semi- dress occasions, Wash them in soap and water. They dry out soft and shapely as new. Every man who wears a Hansen Blove of any type gets a new light on love service. Modish style, correct fit, ample protection—with plenty of finger and wrist freedom. HANSEN GLOVES ‘Write for the Hansen free book on our wide variety of gloves and mit- tens for motoring and dress, for driv: ing and Seneral-service. Leadin§ dealers are Hansen dealers. O C. Hansen Manufacturing Co. comicbooks.com