Life, 1917-02-01 · page 38 of 40
Life — February 1, 1917 — page 38: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from *Life* magazine (appears to be early 1900s based on references) contains mostly advertisements and public service announcements rather than satirical cartoons. The main content includes: 1. **A cruise advertisement** to the West Indies, noting it sails "a week after Inauguration" and avoids "bleak March weather"—typical travel marketing. 2. **An editorial criticism** of medical professionals proposing household disease surveillance on December 6th. The piece sarcastically attacks this as invasive government overreach, comparing it to authoritarian control and arguing that fear itself causes illness. This reflects early-20th-century resistance to medical interventionism. 3. **Allen's Foot-Ease advertisement** promoting an antiseptic powder. 4. **A brief "Domestic Finance" joke** about a family living beyond means, with a wife suggesting issuing bonds. 5. **A Red Cross membership recruitment drive** listing various membership tiers and benefits. The page is primarily promotional material rather than political satire, reflecting the magazine's mixed content model of that era.
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LIFE to the WEST INDIES Under the American Flag Join the American Express Travel Depart- ment’s luxurious 24 day cruise to Cuba, Jamaica, Panama, Costa Rica. Sailing March 10 Sails a week alter Inauguration. Is gone during Lent. Returns a week before Easter. Avoids bleak March weather. Palatial American Steamship Tenadores. Write, Telephone or Wire AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY Philadelphia Boston Chicas» Detroit st Latis Cleveland Les Angeles Sa Francisco Cheer Up! the Worst Is Yet to Come oe It is, none the less, the representa tives of this very school of medicine who propose to invade the households of the United States, on the 6th of every De- cember, and make the country cheerful for Christmas by confiding to it all the diseases it has without knowing it. Such wholesale interference with liberty has never been heard of in the world before. It goes beyond anything ever dreamed of arbitrary political power, and, in the days of the Pilgrims, would have made Archbishop Laud pale with envy. It is reducing the world to the level of a stock farm ruled by veterinary surgeons. It is the grossest surrender to material- ism the world has ever seen, for it en- tirely ignores the result of all this ter- rorism upon the human mind, which, whether the gentlemen who propose the new procedure realize it or not, is, the world is steadily, if somewhat slowly, be = ginning to perceive, the source of all dise case. Sie, ie Really the medical profession is a little hopeless, It seems to think that it is possible to go into every household in the country, and pour a tale of disease The Antiseptic Powder to Shake Into Your Shoes and sprinkle in the Koot-Bath. It instantly relieves the pain you suffer from Chil- blains, Frost-Bites, Bunions, Callouses or from Tired, Aching, Swollen Feet, blisters or sore spots. The troops on the Mexican border use it, and over 100,000 packages have been used by theGerman and Allied troops in Hurope because it rests the feet and makes new or tight shoes feel easy. For 28 years the standard comforter. Sold everywhere, 2Sc. Den't accept any substitute. FR E TRIAL PACKAGE sent by mail, Addreas ALLEN 8S. OLMSTED, Le Roy, N.Y. and sickness into the ears of every hu- man being above the age of thirty, with- out increasing the volume of disease. What would inevitably follow the exer- cise of such authority would be a cy- clone of fear, despair and desperation, which would develop into a chronic con- dition of disease, which would in turn sap the vitality of the entire nation. The audacity of the proposal, in short, can only be said to be equaled by its folly. —The Christian Science Monitor. Domestic Finance NICKER: This family is living be- yond its means. Mus, Kicker: Why not issue bonds? HE Duke of Wellington, having finished his little job at Waterloo, retired into his tent and resumed read- ing the copy of Lire which he had been sagacious enough to order in advance. Opportunities to Join alfa Your Red Cross And Receive an Interesting Illustrated Monthly Magazine The American Red Cross, the official humanitarian organization of the United States Government, in a recent meeting, provided several new classes of membership as follows: Subscribing member, including subscription to The Red Cross Magazine, = yearly Contributing “* Sustaining“ “4 “ Life “ “4 “$25 one payment Patron “ “oo “$i Annual member, not including subscription to The Red Cross Magazine, $1 yearly When you take a membership which embraces subscription to THE RED CROSS MAGAZINE you not only have identified yourself with a large humane and patriotic institution, which is interwoven with your own Government, but you actually assist it in three important ways to carry on its varied and numerous philanthropies: (1) You aid the Red Cross chapter which is nearest to your address in its local humanitarian works; (2) You contribute to the war-relief preparedness of the National Red Cross, and strengthen it for its peace-time and disaster-relief undertakings; (3) You not only receive THE RED CROSS MAGAZINE, a live monthly, with articles and pictures from all over the world and with the entire realm of human progress as its field, but you assist the Red Cross in disseminating its educational material. Furthermore, the profits of the Magazine go to the work of the Red Cross. ie “ Every resident Membership Enrollment Blank ot tbe Astenican Rev G eaider r RICAN Rep Cross, United States Washington D. C. ‘ ia a is eligible to iC | Red Cross and membership in to remain a the Red Cross CROSS | member , to be enrolled as a see membership desired) American Red Cross. Send THE RED comicbooks.com