Life, 1916-10-26 · page 15 of 46
Life — October 26, 1916 — page 15: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three distinct pieces of satirical content: 1. **"Take Lingham's Tonic"**: A humorous advertisement showing a man with an exaggerated facial expression, likely mocking patent medicine ads common in early 20th-century publications. 2. **The dancing women illustration**: Depicts five women in 1920s-style bathing suits performing "the Slip twist," with text warning readers to "try anti-grip" and "beware of imitation." This satirizes fad dances and the craze for novelty movements of the era. 3. **"Moving Picture Operator"**: A cartoon showing a rabbit and turtle operating a film camera, with the rabbit demanding "more action." This likely satirizes both early cinema's technical limitations and the industry's drive for increasingly sensational content. The "Pink Pills Soak and Stingham" advertisement appears to be another patent medicine parody.
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NIAMS The well-known “Slip “twist cup and —Up to his lips, when on his wrist lip” He felt a grip, steel-sinewed ; Here, too, finds confirmation— The glass fell, and a hoarse voice “He raised his glass"—TRY ANTI- hissed GRIP! =. V4 The words——” To BE CONTINUED. BEWARE OF IMITATION! SS} OAK STINGLIAM| Editorial Note Some streams. we know, more deeply flow, And some for speed endeavor. Short stories come, short stories go, But this goes on forever. Oliver Herford, Frequent Operations R. JOHN J. BOWMAN, director of the American College of Sur- geons, is out against operations, Ac- cording to the newspaper reports, he stated at the annual meeting of the American Hospital Association that “frequent operations are performed without cause.” I found that too many operations were unnecessary, bat in determin- ing the causes, I found that they were performed because the doctors and hospitals were afraid that if they didn't perform the operations somebody else would, and that they would lose the fees. It must be pretty bad when the sur- geons themselves are beginning to ad- mit it. ry 'O the casual convert at gospel mis- Moving Picture Operator: on! 1 say! CAN'T YOU GET A LITTLE sions Millennium is a classical way MORE ACTION? of expressing meal-ticket. comicbooks.com