Life, 1916-06-08 · page 41 of 46
Life — June 8, 1916 — page 41: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising** rather than editorial content or satire. The dominant feature is a Coca-Cola advertisement showing well-dressed people at what appears to be a social gathering, with the slogan "Good road–good car–good crowd–now make it a good party with a treat of Coca-Cola." The left column contains two brief opinion pieces: one criticizing proposed mandatory blood tests for schoolchildren before enrollment (framed as government overreach), and another satirical definition of a "hyphenated citizen" as someone fleeing oppression only to abuse their new country's government. Below are advertisements for the Biltmore Hotel in New York and vacation destinations in Northern New York. The bottom right corner features a short humorous anecdote about Professor Lounsbury of Yale, a pedant who, when asked what "looks like rain," pedantically responds "Water"—the joke being his literal-minded, unhelpful answer.
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Ofte 1as st? Ge BILTMORE Where the social life of New York centers by day and evening CLOSE TO ALL THEATRES AND SHOPS: Bad Days Ahead The extreme limits to which ad- vocates of medical examinations in the public schools will go in their craze for experimenting upon school children is indicated by the follow- ing news item in the Boston Post, | January 19th: “ At a meeting of the J Ford Hall Town Folks Jast night at Kingsley Hall, it was voted to pre- sent to the Legislature a bill to make it compulsory for all children, before entering school, to undergo a blood test for the purpose of discovering the presence of any serious disease. The bill further provides that in case of positive or doubtful findings, the question of treatment be immediately taken up and the entire family exam- ined."—Medical Freedom, HAT a prospect! If doctors are to break in on us at their own pleasure, why discriminate against the clergyman, the carpenter and the plumber? Our spiritual condi- tion is certainly worth considering, and we all know the danger of unsanitary fyelnas \yPHENATED Citizen: One who \ nobly fices from a land of oppres- sion to a country where he can abuse the government according to the dic- tates of his own conscience. Good road-good car- good crowd--now make it a good party with a treat of Demand the genuine by full name— nicknames encourage substitution. 22 THE COCA-COLA CO., ATLANTA, GA, Send for Free Booklet—"The Romance of Coca-Cola,” Cr— — iw va — — Americas Summer Paradise Beautifully ill 360-page Vacation ¢ near by. . ase senet Paradise seovering il “What looks like rain, professor?” he caer iy thls 2 pelion cre teniitery 7-6 A chuckled. “Ha, ha! I've got you there. Address M. J. POWERS, General Passenger Asent, Delaware & Hudson R. R., Albany, N. Y. | Professor Lounsbury, of Yale, is a foe ‘Mountains of” Northern New York. to the purist and pedant neon reer LAKE GEORGE LAKE CHAMPLAIN AUSABLE CHASM LAKE PLACID SARATOGA SPRINGS COOPERSTOWN The Center of Real Vacation Land On his summer hohday the professor gazed out across the lake one gray and sultry afternoon, and remarked “Tt looks like rain.” A pedant was seated in a rocking-chair What looks like rain?” “Water,” Professor Lounsbury an- swered, coldly.—Tit-Bits. comicbooks.com