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This page is primarily a collection of advertisements and short satirical pieces rather than a single coherent cartoon. The main literary content is "The Woman with the Broom," a poem about an exhausted housewife worn down by domestic labor. The piece uses her as a symbol of women's oppression, asking rhetorically who made her a "slave to sweeping and soap." The poem's final stanza suggests a political warning: when these overworked women gain voting rights, they will "sweep away the dust of centuries" and overturn existing social structures built on "cant of politics" and "hypocrisy and greed." This reflects early-1900s anxieties about women's suffrage—the piece uses the housewife's condition to both sympathize with women's burdens and express concern about their potential political power. The rest of the page contains typical period advertisements for whiskey, perfume, pianos, soap, and patent medicines, interspersed with brief humorous anecdotes.

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THE WOMAN WITH THE BROOM. (Writte: after seeing a farmer's wifecleaning house) Bowed by the cares of cleaning house, she leans Manager—"' The villain doesn't seem up tol In other days I did not fail betimes with hope “What are the inhabitants of the Sulu archt- the mark to-night.” Press-agent—* Tell him galore pelago called?" ‘There is no specific name for Upon ice broom and gazes through the dust, ‘Aailderness of wrinkles on her face ‘od on her head a knob of wispy hair. Who made her slave to sweeping and to soap, hin, that smiles not and that never rests, nchioned in stall, a sister to the cow? Who loosened and made shrill this angled jaw? Who dowered this narrowed chest for blow. P - ‘. Of sluggish men-folks and their morning fire? Is this the thing you made a bride and brought To have dominion over hearth and home; To scour the stairs and search the bin for flour, To bear the burden of maternity ? Is Aad pillared a bright land on smiling homes? Down all the stretch of street to the last house There is no shape more angular than hers, More tongued with gabble of her neighbors’ deeds, More f uvinge, x More fraught with menace of the frying-pan. Ob, lords and masters in our happy land! How with this woman will you make account How answer her shrill question in that hour When whirlwinds of such women shake the polls, Heedless of every precedent and creed, Straight in hysteric haste to right all wrongs? s will it be with cant of politics, king of trade and legislative boss, With cobwebs of hypocrisy and greed, When she shall take the ballot for her broom And sweep away the dust of centuries? ‘ein W. Sanborn in New York Sun, An all-the-year-round tonic that tones up the blood and gives new life to the system—Ab- tous. the Original Angostura Bitters. Get it from grocer or druggist. De recordin’ angel nebbah gets enny info’ mation from de grave-stone.—De man who has an appetite fo" glory ‘Il starve toe death lookin’ fo! hit.—Arkansaw Thomas Cat, the wife they wove who framed our law d with nerve-ache and rheumatic that the box-office will not pay salaries till a week from Saturday."—Syracuse Herald. Dr. Ball's Cough Syrup invariably cures promptly all catarrhal affections. This wonderful medicine performs to-day, and has performed in the past half-century, the speediest cures of colds in the throat, chest and lungs. “What is arbitration, pa?’ ‘* Well, itvis a good thing for you, Tommy. When your | mother wants to whip you I coax her off, and | When Iwant to whip you she coaxes me off."— | Indianapolis Journal, Dr: Siegert’s Angostura Bitters, the world- renowned appetizer and invigorator, is used ovet the world, Beware of imitations. A SWORN STATEMENT. (From the Canajoharie Courier.) CANAJouARtE, February 27th, 1900. Jacob Routstone, being duly sworn, deposes and says he is actually going out of the boot- and-shoe business in this village of Canajoharie, New York, on or about April 1st, 1900. Jacow Rourstone. 3] Sworn to before me this twenty-seventh day of February, 1900. William Bellinger, notary public. I make this sworn statement so as to show you that I am positively going out of the shoe business, and I will give you the greatest bar- gains in boots and shoes you ever had in Cana- joharie. This is a sure go, and all the stock left after the first of April will be moved out of town. Come and get boots and shoes at al- ‘most your own prices. Jacon Roursrone. When dizzy or drowsy take BEECHAM's Pitts, it Shampooing WITH Packer’s Tar Soap thoroughly cleanses every pore, gives vigor to the scalp, and renders the hair soft, lustrous and healthful, Send for our leaflet, “The Value of Systematic Shampooing THE PACKER [IFG. CO., (Suite 87 N.) 81 FULTON ST., NEW YORK. THE NATURAL FONDNESS OF THE CONSTANTLY GRowING ARMY OF ALE DRINKERS FOR A GOOD OL0 ALE HAS PLACEO EVANS: BREWINGS IN THE FRONT RANK OF AMERICAN INDUSTRIES, * Yes,” the witness declared, **I could give further evidence against the prisoner; but, as Kipling says. ‘ That's another’"—— "* Never mind what Kip Ling says,” interrupted the magistrate, “+ The Chinee can testify fur him- Self when his tum comes.”— Philadelphia ress. THE TWO LEADING PERFUMES OF THE SEASON. ‘These perfumes Intessencess One able on rata the fra- rance of a. juet of Y-CUT FLO’ Nothing could be more a late and re- fined for s HOLIDAY. PRES- ENT than these new extracts, Sold everywhere, ot full- size bottle seat on fepritign Olice, 46 East Hh ‘St. New York. To greet lace missives which the mail delivered ‘at my door. Now, I at later hour awake—my heart is not late. My dearest joy ’s the buckwheat cake Ann slides upon my plate. Detroit Free Press, The new Sohmer piano-factory occupies eight large lots, situated a short distance from the Ninety-second-street ferry at Long Island city. In building the factory the firm has spared no expense, and can safely claim to possess the most perfect piano-forte house in the United States. “By the way,” said the sweet young thing gently, ‘*I read not long since of a lunatic be- ing restored to reason by a blow on the head. But this was a lunatic, not an idiot.” -With that she gave a thoughtful look at her daily en- emy. ‘I knew of an idiot getting cured that way,” the savage bachelor hastened to answer. “*As soon as she hit him with a flat-iron he ap- plied for a divorce."—/ndianapolis Press. Ausistant—* How shall I catalogue this book describing a hunter's adventures?” Librarian —"‘Among inventions."—Fliegende Blatter. We tremble to think what might be the result if there were no czarina of all the Russias and the czar and dowager empress of China were to form a more perfect union.—St. Paul Dis patch, THE “SOHMER” HEADS THE LIST OF THE HIGHEST GRADE PIANOS. SOHMER PIANOS Sohmer Building, 9%, Sth Avo., cor, 22d St. Salesroom reater New fork. EARL & WILSON’S S LINEN ARS A Constable K2Ca Paris Novelties. Lace and Chiffon Neckwear. Silk and Crépe Sashes, Embroidered Silk Waists. Silk and Batiste Ties, Stocks. Lace Yokes, Blouses and Fronts. Parasols, Gloves. Reoadvoay A igth te. NEW YORK. them,” replied the little Boston boy.‘ They may be classified, perhaps, under the general name of fish. There ate sharks, flying-fsh, and others, with tortoises or turtles of various kinds, which, however, are not fish, but”— “What are you talking about, Ticklowell? I am asking you about the inhabitants of the Sulu islands.” “I beg your pardon. You asked me about the inhabitants of the Sulu archipelago, I assume that everybody knows an archipelago is merely a sea or body of water interspersed with islands."— Chicago Tribune. “And he gave you only a dime for finding his big pocket-book ?” ‘* That's all, He said he would have given me more. but the money in the ket-book wasn’t his—he was only holding it in trust for a client. So he gave me a plugged dime.” “Plugged?” “* Yep; but he said if I'd bring it around to his office in a day or two he would give mea nickel for it."— Cleveland Plain Dealer, A TRUE STIMULANT Wil Strengthen AND NOT DEPRESS Cheer AND NOT INEBRIATE, Comfort AND NOT IRRITATE Please AND NOT. DISAPPOINT THE PALATE, THESE ARE THE QUALITIES OF Hunter Baltimore Rye TRapE MARY Sold at all Piret Clase Catéa and 80} Jobbers. WM. LANAHAN & Balt re, Md. ELECT R URY PERONUE RACINE BOAT MFG. CO.,:Box 4) Racine, Wis. ‘THE WILSON DISTILLING CO,, Baltimore Ma. Established 1823. WILSON WHISKEY. That’s All! comicbooks.com