Life, 1915-12-16 · page 42 of 44
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This page contains **social commentary and advertisements** rather than traditional cartoons. **"Be Quieter, Girls"** criticizes San Francisco high school girls for overdressing. The author argues that public schools should teach style and proper dress—presented as an art form—to benefit girls' character and their mothers' example. The piece satirizes excessive, attention-seeking fashion as tasteless while defending refined style education. **"Chlorophyll in the Blood"** mocks a contemporary medical fad. Doctors Williams and Beveridge allegedly proposed injecting chlorophyll into cancer patients' blood. The author absurdly extends this logic, humorously suggesting why not also inject rubber shoes, nails, and brussels sprouts? The satire critiques gullible acceptance of unproven medical trends and "Providence's remissness" in not naturally equipping humans with chlorophyll. The remaining content concerns **Wilson and Bryan's political alignment** regarding Germany and armaments, plus period advertisements for gloves, hotels, and a sexology textbook.
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EeREsE OWNE GLOVES “Te’s a tteeee that’s all you need to know aboutaGlove.” “Highty—tighty!-One of those sweeping, egotistical, advertising slogans,” you say. But isn’t it some- thing more? How many things that are bought and sold have given satisfaction for over one and a third centuries? Fownes Gloves have, se'e © Fownes See's £94 Oe SHOe Oe Sent KeS8e & BeEEee Be Quieter, Girls OME of the girls in the San Fran- cisco high school have been over- dressing, and a delegation of San Francisco mothers has visited the Board of Education to protest against what they consider a reprehensible practice. There seems to be some sort of sense in that protest. Public schools are usurping more and more the ab- solute functions of parents. If the business of a public school is to teach girls how to think better, why not to dress better? True style is one of the greatest of arts, Most of the girls who attract at- tention and some horror, dress badly. They have no real sense of real style. Their idea of dressing is to shock somebody. Too many of them succeed at this horrible pastime. Most of them who do succeed have gone to public schools, for the rich private schools do not, a rule, encourage loud dress- ing. If our school girls could be taught how to dress it might have a good effect upon their mothers and grand- mothers. Grnas: Bilson expressed a good deal of sympathy for poor Blank. Did you try him for a contribution? Dinns: No, 1 know Bilson; he’s like the letter “p"—first in pity and last in help.—Bostoni Transcript. Chlorophyll in the Blood ‘HE serumatic campaign moves blithely forward. One of the latest suggestions is to introduce chlorophyll into the blood of cancer sufferers. Two doctors, named Wil- liams and Beveridge, are given as authorities on the subject, and this statement is offered in evidence: No one needs to be told that chlorophyll, in the plant leaf, through the action of sunlight, combines car- bonic acid and water to form organic sugars and starch. But no one has hitherto had any conception as to what chlorophyll might do when brought into the circulatory system of a warm-blooded animal. Which suggests that there is no tell- ing what may ultimately be introduced into the blood of warm-blooded ani- mals. Rubber shoes are excellent on sloppy days, ten-penny nails are useful in building houses, soap is splendid for removing dirt and grease, while Brus- sels sprouts, if properly prepared, are much relished by the nobility. Nobody knows what might happen, however, if all these were introduced into our arteries, But there is hope. The doc- tors will get around to them in time. Meanwhile they are busy on chloro- phylL. A more or less all-wise Provi- dence, although lavish in supplying plant life with chlorophyll, was very stingy in bestowing it upon the circu- latory systems of warm-blooded ani- mals, but it is all right now. The doc- tors are about to remedy a more or less all-wise Providence’s remissness. Ellis O. Jones. \WHEN Bryan splits away from Wil- son, Bryan is wrong. Notice the note to Germany awhile ago, and now the armaments matter. Wilson and Bryan have been right together in a good many efforts, for ee COCOCTCES Bossert A transient—residential hotel of charm and comfort on aristocratic Brooklyn Heights overlooking New York harbor. MONTAGUE-HICKS-REMSEN STREETS BROOKLYN SEXOLOGY by William H. Walling, A.M., M.D. imparts in a clear whol Tol pao. 3 purr ed BDU, tangn ele. LOCKWOOD PUB CO., Dept 76, Bryan supported Wilson in some of his very best endeavors, such as the Pana- ma tolls repeal bill. Sad to say, they have both been wrong often enough, as (presumably) in the concerns of Mexico. But when they have split, Wilson has heen right. Fifty-six Years before the Telegraph folks enjoyed pure, mild, mellow stairs Rye. Call for Carstairs Re in the non-refillable bottle— “A Good Bottle to Keep Good Whiskey Good.’ PETER 7. CAREY, PRINTER