Life, 1920-12-16 · page 42 of 45
Life — December 16, 1920 — page 42: what you’re looking at
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This page mixes **public service advocacy with period advertisements**. The main content includes: **"Dogs and Their Friends"** — sentimental poetry and prose celebrating dogs' loyalty and usefulness, particularly highlighting a sheriff (John Mathias of Lucas County, Ohio) who rescues impounded dogs by finding them adoptive homes through newspaper campaigns. The piece reflects early 20th-century sentimentality about animal welfare. **Social commentary** appears in "Reflect!" — contrasting wealthy urban women in furs and limousines with Northern trappers and sled dogs enduring harsh conditions, implying hypocrisy about animal suffering. **The cartoon** ("All for the Love of a Lady") shows a stage hound, referencing visiting stage actresses and their dog breeds—a light celebrity culture joke. **Advertisements** occupy significant space: optometry services, tooth/gum products (Forhan's), cigars, and patent medicines—typical period advertising claiming health benefits. The page reflects **1910s-1920s concerns**: animal welfare activism, celebrity culture, and aggressive patent medicine marketing before FDA regulation.
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LIFE Ie SPOLIC iad Insurance Companies Pay About Five Thousand Dollars for the Loss of an Eye. But would YOU sell yours for a million? Conserve your sight while you have it. Be sure to visit your Optometrist periodically, in order that vision defects may be rectified early. If you do not know an Optometrist write this The Emblem of Su Ofice and we will tell you the PrmSracisevee, names of, several near you eck for where you Also ask for the little “Con- cbeain your gases.” servation of Sight’ booklet It's gratis, Associated Optometrists of America, Inc. Home Office—209 1 E. Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia. Jor comfort Auseful holiday gift MADE AT SHIRLEY MASSACHUSETTS SEXOLOGY by Witiam i. Walling, A.M. i mpartsin one volume t ere homed: Karp footy Kee eat ade Sapte sowieds ¢ @ Basband SbeuléBave. Swit ate }s Woman Shoold Have. ‘oung Wil eSbeaidttare, Opinlons and Tale of Contents . Central, Philadelphia, Pa. Dogs and Their Friends The Greeting A thousand velvet eyes aglow with thanks, A thousand tiny paws in welcome waved, An orchestra of barks and neighs and purrs Struck up, and maddest gayety betrayed! Each satin nose will press its owner's hand, Such happiness and frolic will abound When Anti-Cruelty meets all its friends At last, within their Happy Hunting Ground ! —Marie Bordeaux, in the Starry Cross Reflect! Few of us who stay outside and in the comforts of our city homes or offices, think of the hardships that the trappers and their dogs endure in those parts of the world wherein the fur-bearing animals exist. My pretty lady, as she lolls in her limousine, all safely and snugly enwrapped in her cost- ly fox, mink, beaver, fisher, otter and other soft and lovely things of the kind, the while her snuflling Pekingese or poodle seeks refuge beneath her well-robed arm, perhaps never casts a thought towards the lonesome hunter of the North who trudges along obliterated trails that only his dogs can un- failingly discover! True, the white man often carries a compass; but his main de pendence is on his dogs. —Freeman Lloyd, in Dogdom, A Humane Sheniff Dog placement, scarcely different from child placement, well known in the parlance of social work, is a specialty with John Mathias, sheriff of Lucas County, O., who finds it his official duty to imprison un licensed dogs. When he first came back to the “ pound” with his patrol filled with the innocent vic tims of his lawful net and pole, he was so touched—for he loved dogs—that he started a campaign for adopters of dogs in the Toledo newspapers. He has been most suc- cessful in his appeals. In fact, up to the present time he has saved every yellow mongrel of them all.—Starry Cross A Stage Hound The presence here this week of two prominent rs, reminds us of what the hoy answered when asked the bre dog. Said the little fe “He's half lier and h am Re ALL FOR THE LOVE OF A LADY aA danger signal — tender and ay gums EALTHY cannot lve e} Pyorrhea germs into the body, its viealty and q many ills, tracted to rd the tem of the pe germs that bere pockets abou & Four out people over fory this daease. 6 neednothaves your dentut ef tooth and gen spection, And Fronrtes aay ging Festus Forhan's Fe Gums wil » Pyorrhea—or & its progrens~é inume and wel sisently. Or whire and claw qui se leeding gam. already set a. Fochan’s aces to directors, consult a. immediately special FOR . Baa THE en GUMS # .... ‘Montreal Cates Aah -MADE AT KEY WEST: Sure Relief El Li-AN XUM comicbooks.com