Life, 1918-05-23 · page 12 of 40
Life — May 23, 1918 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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This page from *Life* magazine contains two separate items: **"Marse Henry!"** (top left) is a humorous poem celebrating someone named Henry Watterson, likely the prominent Kentucky newspaper editor and public figure. The verse praises his wit, pen, personality, and romantic appeal—a lighthearted tribute using exaggerated Southern dialect ("Marse Henry"). **"Doctors Disagree About Drinks"** (bottom) discusses medical disagreement over alcohol consumption. The accompanying illustration shows working-class men drinking, while the text notes physicians' conflicting views on whether alcohol is harmful. The piece references Prohibition-era debates about alcohol's health effects, noting doctors' varying positions contradict earlier medical consensus against drinking. The cartoon labeled "Reggie" depicts working-class figures in conversation, likely satirizing social pretension or class-conscious speech patterns.
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Marse Henry! Ma8S8 HENRY Wat How do you do! Here's to the best of you! Here's to the zest of you! Here's to the rest of you, Chipper and true! You're great! And we say it With due medi We calmly. resay Without reservation You're a wonder in years, And your mind’s so elastic Tz even appears Too enthusiastic. You're bully! We freely and fully Admit it. And how often, Marse Henry, You hit it! You've got everything That a man ought to keep. Your pen has a sting; Your wit's never asleep. You're a love and a dear— God's happiest endeavor. May you live without fear Forever and ever! TLL. M. Doctors Disagree About Drinks OCTORS know just about as much about rum as other experienced and observing people, and no more. That is evident whenever one com- pares the opinions of a group of as- sorted physicians on the use of alco- holic Leverages. Some denounce them root and branch; others, quite the contrary. There is no more agreement among medical men about alcoholic OPFICER JOCKO INSTITUTES VIGOROUS SEARCH FOR VIOLATORS OF THE ANTI-LOAP= ING LAW, Reggie Perey: 1 sWovLh SAY 1AM. IN MADISON SQUARE GARDEN IT WOULD BE A CASE OF Con- doctors, heverages than among laymen. temporary including are much more afraid of alcohol than they were two generations ago. Tem- perate people drink more sparingly Doctors are much charier of preseril- people, ing whiskey to consumptives or build- ing up drink-habits in invalids, . That is all to the good, but the old question Will the coming man drink wine ?— is no more settled than it was fifty years ago, and will not be settled hy prohibition: “Science” has not condemned wine ARE YOU VERY MUCH IN DEBT? IF | WERE TO HOLD A MEETING OF MY CREDITORS STANDING ROOM ONLY.” as unfit for human consumption. It still drinks quite a bit itself, and profits or loses by it according to the judg ment, constitution and temperament of the individual drinker. One drink may be another man's. p but almost everything that is potent, whether money, rum, religion or love, man's is good or bad acc it takes and the ma Ss" A: quarreled Slackers! ding to the form who takes it The Smiths have never SEISA : comicbooksegiay