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This page contains primarily **advertising and humor snippets** rather than political cartoons. The content reflects early-20th-century concerns: **The humor pieces** mock social pretensions and marital dynamics—a wealthy doctor with hypochondria, a newlywed's naïveté about alimony, class anxiety about appearing "tired" (wealthy people apparently set boots upright, not on their sides). One joke contrasts English restraint with American excess (skyscrapers). **The advertisements** reveal period preoccupations: health tonics (Angostura Bitters for "pure blood"), piano manufacturers advertising quality, and prominently, **coffee replacement products** and caffeine-related ailments. A woman's lengthy testimonial describes coffee-induced nervousness, heart palpitations, and exhaustion—reflecting contemporary anxieties about stimulants and modernity. The beer and ale ads at bottom show alcohol as a respectable social beverage. **Overall:** This page illustrates Gilded Age anxieties about health, class status, and the physical effects of modern stimulants, wrapped in gentle satire.

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Recently his mother noticed that at bed-time every night he laid his little boots | together upon their sides instead of setting them upright. “Please tell me why you always place your boots in that way ?” she sai because they must be tired much all ¢ adelphia Ledger. H cone, Clear complexion tes pure blood—re- sult from use of Abbott's Angostura Bitters. Tess—"1 just met Miss Nuritch and she said she was in a great hurry to get down town and buy some gloves for your feet. What on earth was she driving at?” Jess— My feet? Oh! I invited her to my lawn féte this afternoon."—Philadel- phia Press. Mrs. Upjohn (a few years nence)—" I suppose we 'Il have to drop the Throgsons out of our set. Airs, Highmore —“ Cenainly. They have begun to make trips with those Evans Ale EXPERIENCE and constant effort to improve it have resulted in making it the perfect, flawless beverage that it is—118 years of forging ahead. Any dealer, Anywhere, Any pla Cm tase AOS Perantasiey 4790, Mrwery aed Welling Werks, Hotere, 3-1. cheap ten-dollar flying - machines that everybody is using."— Chicago Tribune. JUST ONE DAY R BROUGHT OUT “ During the time I was a coffee drink- er.” says an lowa woman, “I was nerv- ous, had spells with my heart, smothering spells, headache, stumach trouble, liver and kidney trouble, I did not know for years what mace me have those spells, I would frequently sink away as though-my last hour had come. “ For twenty-seven years I suffered thus and used bottles of medicine enough to set up a drug-store—capsules and pills and everything [ heard of. Spent lots of money but | was sick nearly all the time. Sometimes I was so nervous I could not hold a plate in my hands; and other Cockney—" Thank the Lord there is one thing we've not got in England.” New Yorker—« Say, what's that ?” Cockney —" Skyscrapers.” New Yorker—* Well, you want ‘em your skies are so bad they need scraping. —Harper's Weekly. times | thought I would surely die sitting at the table. “This went on until about two years ago when one day I did not use any cof- fee and I noticed I was not so nervous ;|and told my husband about it. He had been telling me that it might be the cof- fee, but | said "No, L have been drinking coffee all my life and it cannot be.’ But Eczema Ordinary “medicated soaps are ing but soap and have no medicinal cfiect. Glenn's Sulphur Soap d fects, heals eruptions, eczema and cures itching. can be Cured with Glenn’s Sulphur Soap te. a cake at all drug stores, or mailed for aoe. by THE CALS Ke GHITTENTON COs 118 Felton Stay Sew Yorks Hal's Hair and Whisker Dye, Black or Brown, tocta, daily in toilet and bath. You after this I thought I would try and do without itand drink hot water. I did this for several days but got tired of the hot water and went to drinking coffee, and as soon as I began coffee again I was nerv- ous again. This proved that it was the coffee that caused my troubles. “We had tried Postum but had not made it right and did not like it, but now I decided to give it another trial, so I read the directions on the package carefully and made it after these directions and it was simply delicious, so we quit coffee for good, and the results are wonderful. Be- fore, I could not sleep, but now I go to bed'and sleep sound ; am not a bit nerv- ous now but work hard and can walk THE “SOHMER” HEADS THE LIST OF THE HIGHEST GRADE PIANOS SOHMER PIANOS Sohmer Building, in Sth Ave, cor 22d St. Ye Only aalesroors miles, Nervous headaches are gone, my heart does not bother me any more like it did, and I don't have any of the smother- ing spells and, would you believe it? Tam getting fat. We drink Postum now and nothing else, and even my husband's head- aches have disappeared ; we both sleep sound and healthy now, and that’s a bless- ing.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek gan. Look for the book, “* The Road to Well- ville,” in each package. ‘You will get more prompt attention and better service by mentioning JUDGK when answering advertisements. A Baltimore avenue boy, aged six, “Why,” answered the little boy, «it's | walking so| I lay them sideways so] “No,” growled the man, "Ihave no | use for newspapers.” “Indeed !" retorted Sherlock Omes. “Then what, pray, do you do on a street- car when there is a lady standing in front of you 2" The fellow winced, There was visibly no reply to be made to this.— Pittsburg Post. wealth ought not to keep * said Plodding Pete. “No,” answered Meandering Mike. “IfT had my way I'd make it a regular annual resort for de rich. Den it ‘ud git more comfortable an’ luxurious fur us | other boarders."— Washington Star. | «De Boose is always telling the stalest old stories about his alleged ancestors.” “Yes. But I fancy his family tree must have heen a chestnut."— Cleveland Plain Dealer, His wife is an ardent worker, isn’t she 2?” “Yes; she won't travel in the west because she heard that the climate is stimulating."— Cleveland Leader. temperance Oculist— Yes, you have a bad case of cross-eyes. Were they always that way ?” Caller— No, sir. I's of recent occur- rence. I think I got it while I was watch- ing the workmen on a skyscraper and trying to look at an automobile accident in the street below at the same time."— Chicago Tribune. Backlotz — “That newcomer is very rich, isn’t he 2” ‘Subbubs—" He's either very rich or very ignorant. He says he's going to raise enough vegetables in his garden to supply his table this summer." —P/iladel- phia Press. AFTER a morning’s shopping nothing will recuperate you so much as one of those delicious Club Cocktails. They are the correct thing to offer your friends whenever they call. They are both a tonic and stimulant, and fill a distinct place of their own. Easily served and ap- preciated by ladies and gentlemen alike. Buy some Manhattan and —" Martini, and ask your friends which they prefer. Of all dealers. Specify CLUB COCKTAILS. G. F. HEUBLEIN & BRO., Sole Proprietors HARTFORD NEW YORK ay }\ n High Life ] / The most exquisite beer brewed in Milwaukee brewing. | NEW YORK TO CHICAGO— IN 24 HOURS OF LUX- URIOUS RAILWAY TRAVEL —BY NEW YORK CENTRAL. nana comicbooks.com