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What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising** for a humor book collection titled "Man in the Street Stories" from *The New York Times*, with an introduction by politician **Chauncey M. Depew**. The book costs $1.00 and collects anecdotes meant to entertain. The small comic snippets scattered throughout are brief jokes exploiting **dialectal humor** (particularly British vs. American English spelling) and gender stereotypes common to the era. One jokes about how a Britisher spells "horse" as "'orse"—mocking British pronunciation. Others feature domestic situations: a wife hoarding love letters, a boy commenting on expensive jam, complaints about women "suffering in silence." These aren't political cartoons but rather **mild observational humor typical of early 20th-century American magazines**, relying on accent jokes and marriage comedy that modern readers would likely find dated rather than clever.
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road, New York City. Jonathan—"1 say, Britisher, can you| spell horse? Englishman —"'Orse?- Why, certainly. It honly takes a haitch and a ho and har and ind a he to spell ‘orse. Kansas ournal, Dont Worry! USE He—"Here’s a puzzle for you." She—" Let's have it.” hos own, which one w est, and why?" —Philadelphia Ledger. Mrs. de Fones—" Why are you looking over ail those old love-letters that you ae I merely want to imate while was courting you."—Philadelphia Record. x “that you've been Kicking because you've got so much) The family were discussing the ‘high s prices of provisions generally when the small boy butted into the conversation. Jam has gone up. too.” he remarked fa Keeps it on the top shelf now."— New Yorker replied the clerk, "I have to give you so much more to do that you won't have time to kick." Philadelphia Press. “We used to miss that accommodation | ™ train every morning.” “What do you do now that they have taken it off?” | Why, we miss it more than ever."— Chicago News No; but ble: God! we got bacon an’ greens fer dinne "—Atlanta Constitution. Mike—" How did Casey lose his job as postman?” Pat—"He stopped wur-rk the first toime he blew his whistle."—New York Times “We women,” she was saying again, “suffer in silenc “Tcan readily believe that you do suf- fer in silence,” the man replied. “You take so much pleasure in talk." —Phila- delphia Press. If you have a good temper. keep it; if, you have a bad one don't lose it The Columbia Jester. “MAN IN THE STREET” STORIES | From “The New York Times.” 320 pages. Cloth Bound, $1.00. by Chauncey M. Depew, who says of them: “This collection of stories is my refresher every Sun- day after the worry and work of the week. 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