Life, 1920-01-15 · page 8 of 36
Life — January 15, 1920 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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This page commemorates **Sir William Osler** (1849-1929), a renowned physician and medical educator. The upper illustration depicts Osler as a beneficent doctor visiting patients. The bottom cartoon, titled "**Up to Date**," satirizes modern labor complaints through the nursery rhyme "Old King Cole." Workers carry protest signs demanding "Shorter Fiddles," "More Music," and "More Pay"—a humorous critique of contemporary labor strikes and unionization efforts. The figure in the center represents an employer dealing with multiple worker grievances simultaneously. The satire suggests that modern workers' demands are as absurd as asking King Cole's fiddlers for better instruments while maintaining productivity—implying labor movements of the era were viewed as unreasonable by *Life* magazine's middle-class readership.
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100 The Best Doctor of All IR WILLIAM OSLER (obit. Dec. 29th) had come to be a great per- sonage. He friend whose acquaintance in nd, Canada and these States was incredibly large, a man who loved his friends and loved the world generally, was a great doctor, a and had benefited and rejoiced both beyond easy computation. The affec- tions of thousands of people will be touched by his death, and that is some- thing very unusual indeed He had lived in three countries, and benefited them all, and was honored and beloved in all of them, Into the activities of a life extremely busy with medical writings, teaching and practice, he managed to infuse an extraordinary social activit hobby. especially the writings Browne. and the cultivation of a hooks, f Sir activ The hobby was and PFhomas His social y was part of his errand in life, which not only concerned the bodies of men and wom- en, but their spirits. He lived in con- stant with all) manner of people, giving out incessantly the kind- ness and that were in him. His house at Oxford was one of the contact wisdom great exchanges where Americans and Canadians came in land, touch with Eng- His hospitalities there were end- The Rhodes made his special charge, and his house was a rendezvous for them. less. scholars he An American who visited him in that house wrote: “He gives out that he is a professor in Oxford University. Well, he is; but his great line is the direction of Old King Cole Is a gloomy old soul; A gloomy old soul “SO THESE AKE YOUK CHILUKEN: WELL, WELL! ECAN REMEMBER WHEN YOU BELONGED TO THAT AUSUKD CLUB AT COLLEGE THAT WAS OPPOSED TO MARRIAGE.” WEREN'T WE SILLY? IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN YOU ORGANIZED IT.” human life. I about with him for a day anda half, and wherever he went he was always directing human life, and wherever he touched it it seemed to fo lighter and blithely.” He is dead at seventy, which is a fairly full term of life for most peo- ple, but it was not for him. of the war, went more He died His labors in it were very great and extremely valuable, but he was the son of a mother who reached UP TO DATE he— one hundred years, and he was as for- tunate in his body as in his mind, and had lived wisely, and might have out- lasted all his work. But his only son and only child was killed in the war, and hy that he sorely wounded in He went on and fin- ished the war, neglecting nothing, but life here was not the same to him as his affections. it had been, and where his treasure was, there it seemed his heart inclined £.S. M. His bowl is taboo, Tobacco is, too, And on strike his fiddlers three! comicbooks.com