Life, 1916-08-10 · page 11 of 38
Life — August 10, 1916 — page 11: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains two distinct pieces: **"The Grave of Liberty"** (top illustration): A dramatic wartime image showing explosions or artillery fire near water, likely depicting WWI combat scenes. The caption suggests loss of civilian freedoms during wartime. **"Worth Trying"** (bottom section): A brief satirical article about osteopathy as a treatment for infantile paralysis. It reports that Detroit's Osteopathic Society claims success rates of 85 percent in treating the disease. The accompanying small cartoon labeled "Preparedness" shows a figure, likely satirizing medical overconfidence or the eagerness to promote alternative treatments during wartime health concerns. **"The New Fairy Tales"** (right column): A poem about exaggerated war stories soldiers will tell after WWI ends, mocking the likely tall tales and embellishments that will emerge from combat experiences.
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E OF LIBERTY Worth NTERESTING tales are coming this way of the osteopath’s success with infantile paralysis. It appears that he cures 85 per cent. of his cases, against the 43 per cent. of the Regular M. D. This is borne out by instances where PREPAREDNESS. Trying Doctors of Medicine have sent their own children to the osteopath. The following is from a statement of the Detroit Osteopathic Society in the Detroit Free Press: The osteopathic system of treat- ment for this disease very thoroughly accomplishes the objects of success- fully flushing the spinal cord cells, and clinical evidence gathered from many cases treated both at the home of osteopathy in Kirksville, Mo., and by the large number of skilled osteo- pathic physicians throughout this country shows at the outset a very slight mortality and a_ remarkable degree of final improvement. Detroit Osteoratnic Soctery. Detroit, July 10. 227 “The New Fairy Tales” Or Baron Munchausen’s Successors UST think of the stories that will be invented, We'll hear them when war-days are over, The number of men who will say they prevented The Germans from landing at Dover. The sappers will tell you they let off a mine Just under the German headquarters, And then there's the man who bom- barded the Rhine With his own special line of trench mortars, Then the flying men say they dropped bombs upon Lille, Where the whole German army was hidin, will tell how a shell pierced the back wheel Jones neatly Of the new motor-bike he was rid- ing. And then all the stories of fights on the Aisne, Long stories of carnage and slaugh- ter: fell in the river,” the heroes ex- plain, “And found it was blood and not water. The prisoners, too, will have stories to tell, Tt was all the staff's fault they were taken; How they nearly escaped, how intern- ment “hell, How they longed for poached eggs and good bacon. And what will my yarn be, you're anxious to know. Of course, /’'ve no need to tell lies, sir. I took a*small part at the end of the show— the fellow Kaiser ! I'm who captured the comichooks.