Life, 1918-10-17 · page 13 of 38
Life — October 17, 1918 — page 13: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from *Life* magazine contains two satirical pieces: **Top illustration** ("To Escape the Maternal Wrath"): A comedic domestic scene showing a woman chasing a man on horseback through a street—a visual joke about marital conflict and the man's desperate escape. **"What Every Stomach Knows"** (left column): A satirical article discussing nutrition science. It references Professor Thomas Burr Osborne, a real authority on proteins, and mocks the public's tendency to accept dubious health claims. The piece skeptically examines whether certain "mysterious substances called Vitamins" have actual nutritional value—reflecting early-20th-century uncertainty about vitamin science. **"Compensations" (right column)**: Brief wartime commentary about homefront sacrifices, mentioning neighbors sending talking machines and someone going to France for the Red Cross. **Bottom illustration**: A salesman showing fashion models, captioned "Salesman Sam: let me show you our latest models."
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a re teat What Every Stomach Knows WRITER in the Atlantic Monthly has been rash enough to trespass upon our intelli- gence by stating that the best way to maintain one’s health is to eat what one pleases. This statement has, of course, been made before, but usually by common folk with no hygienic reputation. Now that Professor Thomas Burr Osborne, who is declared to be “one of the first au- thorities in the world on the subject of .” reiterates it, we naturally sit up and take notice. Professor Osborne says that while there are exceptions due to certain causes, but that, gener- ally speaking, few people overeat, “perhaps it might be well to pay a little more respect to instinct.” He also declares that certain foods which have hitherto been supposed to be valueless in reality contain “mys- terious substances called Vitamines, the TO ESCAPE THE MATERNAL WRATH absence of which in a food renders it incapable of supporting life”; also that few people really overeat. In our ignorant and irresponsible way, we had suspected all this before. And the fact that it is now reaffirmed by a competent authority does not necessarily tend to make us revise our reprehensible opinion. A ee Compensations RAWFORD: You seem cheerful over the hardships of war. Cransnaw: Why not? My neigh bors have sent their talking-machine to one of the cantonments, and the girl across the street, who used to sing and play half the night, has gone to France for the Red Cross Salesman Sam: LET ME SHOW YOU OUR LATEST MODELS comicbooks.com