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This poem, credited to W. Foss in the *Yankee Blade*, satirizes the sentimental gratitude of the 1890s toward past generations. The piece uses ironic exaggeration: modern people praise their ancestors for enduring primitive hardships—living in caves, fighting wild animals, eating roots—so that contemporary readers could enjoy comfort: taverns, newspapers, classical music, and leisure. The satire cuts both ways. It mocks both the romanticization of the "noble savage" past and the complacency of fin-de-siècle society, which congratulates itself for progress while conveniently forgetting its debt to human suffering. The title "Fin de Siècle Gratitude" suggests a shallow, fashionable sentimentality typical of the 1890s. The page itself is primarily **advertising**—pills, soaps, bicycles, beef extract—with this poem as filler content characteristic of period magazines.

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AYER’S PILLS constipation, dyspepsia, jaundice, sick headache. THE BEST “ remedy for all disorders of \ the stomach, liver, |, and bowels. Every Dose Effective | THE PERFECTION OF CHEWING CUM. A DELICIOUS REMEDY FOR ALL FORMS OP "3 of an ounce of Pure Sin matredon recelptct 2 ral | They lived on roots and they dwelt in caverns, FIN DE SIECLE GRATITUDE. We're glad that we liv On the apex of all John, Hans, Giovanni, Of whatever land and clime. But we stand on the crest of a tumulous of terror ‘That bares its heart to the moon, Of the bones of men through the ages of error, Of the fellows who died too soon. jean, Ivan, and Michael Soa vote of thanks to those premature fellows Is a graceful thing to give, For they were the feliows who blew the bellows ‘That the flame of hope might live. With a bear-skin for a robe, ‘That we might lounge in ten-dollar taverns ‘And read the Duily Globe. They lived on roots that the fair potato Might gladden our boards to-day, ‘And they-foaght with spear that we salgbt read Plato” And’ttar Paderewsky. play. They fouglit»the snake“and the-bear and the ison, And the thipgs that bite and sting, ‘Thatswe' might rage to the broad horizon Atid fear nd living thing. So thanks to the men whoate buried under ‘The years that have passed away,- _- For they are the men who stored with thunder The dynamo of to-day, On their pyramid of Basen on the crest of existence, We take the present’s boon And thank those fellows way back in the distance— The fellows who died too'soon, SW. Foss in the Yankee Blade, Oddly enough, when-the’avefage man begins to plan about his summer vacation: the amount ‘of money at his disposal is the last of the things | he thinks of. —Somerville Journal. CAUTION—See that the nase ya te on cach wrapper. Each abet vera figest 10. featers, ruina of fous emt eaonae ve cents in stamape BEEMAN CHEMICAL | ~~ JBth Edition, postpaid for 2c. (or stampa). THE HUMAN | HAIR ‘Why it Falls off. Turns Gray, ‘by vrot. HARLEY PAl ©. BY Lone & Go 1013 Arch Bee Philndn: Pa, “Every one should read this little book."—dthenaum, EARL KWILSON'S LINE ST IN THE WORLD. DON’T YOU WANT TO HEAR? (THE AURAPHONE will surely belp you if you 40. It is a new scientific invention which will restore the hearing of any one not born deaf. When in the ear it is Invisible, and does not cause the slightest discomfort in wearing. It is to the ear what the glasses are to the eve—an ear-snectacle Write for particulars THE AURAPHONE COMPA SY, 00 and 302 Powsxs Buocx, Rocests Liebig Company’s= Extract of Beef. 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The Place JOHN H. wooDdURY, DERMATOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, nd Sireet, New York City. iy. haven't you heard about the ‘exctusion bill and that all the dear Chinese are going to leave the country ?"—Zvening Sun. | “AMERICA'S GREATEST RAILROAD, NEW YORK (ENTRAL FOUR-TRACK TRUNK LINE. «Reachi its through cars the most import- ant Perm 2 centers of the United States ard Canada,-and the greatest off Amierica's’ Health and’ Pleasure resorts. ‘Direct Line to NIAGARA FALLS by way of the historic Hudson River and through Sontteaiics pceee Mea i trains arrive at a rt from GRAND CENTRAL STATION, 4th Ave. and gad Sty ‘New York, centre of Hotel and Residence section. FRANK LESLIE'S WEEKLY. i Prase of Fices & Root Purina Co., Fern Avtnut, New Yom. ONLY RAILROAD STATION IN NEW YORK. comicbooks.com