Life, 1916-05-25 · page 13 of 40
Life — May 25, 1916 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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The main cartoon depicts Uncle Sam (recognizable by his striped pants and top hat) controlling a bear and bull on leashes—standard symbols for market downturns and upturns respectively. The text explains that the stock market "perked up considerably" on Monday following medical news from Abyssinia (Ethiopia) about a tribe discovering a cure for financial ailments. This is political satire mocking how markets react to trivial foreign news. The joke suggests investors are so desperate and irrational that they'll chase any rumor, however absurd or geographically irrelevant, as a market cure. The bottom section includes an unrelated piece about periodic publishing challenges and a separate cartoon labeled "Mr. Potato," making this a typical magazine miscellany page.
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Bulls and Bears HE market perked up considerably on Monday in response to news from Abyssinia that a famous medicine man of the tribe of Kiliolalikali had dis- covered a serum which was a sure cure for all financial ills, pains and distresses, real, imaginary or subconscious. It is said that Dr. Balikalinokalani, for such is his name, has been experimenting for a long time in order to find just exactly the proper specifical prophylactic which would correct the mistakes of the past, render the mistakes of the present null and void, and make the mistakes of the future impossible. According to the report, King Highdodedidodeday turned over to Dr. Balikalinokalani an en- tire zoological garden for the pursuit of his experi- ments. When the 200 was nearly depopulated EYES OF THE BLIND 985 An Unpublished Theatrical Advertise- ment Roosevelt Open Air Theatre Mr. Roosevelt's Au Revoir Appearance. Theodore Roosevelt presents Theodore Roosevelt in Theodore Roosevelt's Comedy-Tragedy, IF | WERE PRESIDENT. To be presented by Mr. Roosevelt for the benefit of the Theodore Roosevelt Boom. Direction of Theodore Roosevelt (by arrangement with Theodore Roosevelt) This is a picturesque little story founded on fact and fiction. It abounds with punch and pep, going from the sublimely ridiculous to the ridicu- lously sublime. Between the acts the cast will give an exhibi- tion of dumb-bell ringing and Big Stick swinging, in which he has no peer. Reflections at the Funeral of a Periodical HE trouble with making a successful periodical is that you have to learn how by doing it, just as you have to learn how to live by living. If one only knew how beforehand’ it would be easier and not so expensive, but no one does. the persistent and patient physician finally decided to make a composite culture of a lamb, a bull and a bear. This, if any- thing, ought to be ideal, he reasoned, The lymph of the lamb, he reasoned more in detail, ought to be beneficial to the blood of the bull, which, added to the circula- tion of the bear, ought to render each sufficiently obnoxious to the other as thor- oughly to matriculate the stalactites, and thus reduce the resultant aberration to a state of complete bewilderment. Dr. Balikalinokalani has already sailed on the Pharmacopeia, and is expected to arrive about the middle of the month. In the meantime prices will be treated with oxygen, optimism and other stimulants, makeshifts and temporizations., I Colonel House a reformer? Yes, of course; but it is understood that his reformatory propensities have been a good deal alleviated by knowledge. Mr. Potato: 1 JUST CAN'T MAKE MY EYES DEMAVE comicbooks.com