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This page is primarily **advertising mixed with light humor pieces**, rather than political satire. The main content includes: **"A Fair-to-Middling World"** — a sentimental poem celebrating contentment with ordinary life, appearing before prohibition-era whiskey ads (ironic timing). **Small jokes** mocking common foibles: a "bigoted" prohibitionist named Hiram Henry ironically signing articles "H.O."; the mistaken belief that shop-girls stop shopping after marriage; confusion of Henry James with the outlaw James brothers. **Prominent advertising** for Miller Beer, Sunny Brook Whiskey (explicitly "backed by U.S. law" for protection), cigars, and patent medicines (including "Blood Poison" cure — likely for syphilis, a common euphemism). **Practical consumer ads** for house plans by architect George Palliser and children's educational picture books. The page reflects 1907 consumer culture: booze and patent medicines were heavily advertised to mainstream publications, and the "prohibition debate" was already contentious enough to warrant gentle mockery. The overall tone is commercial rather than satirically sharp.

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° all Milwaukee Beer BIGOTED. Sax—“I believe that Oliphant is quite a stanch prohibitionist 2" Fix—" Rabid, my boy, rabid! His given names being Hiram Henry, he has taken to signing his articles Hs 0. ‘MADE AT EG NGARS WEST— meaiee, feed comle magazines, of, fun end iment, sample copies. Send ten: < ‘ten cents in Buel You sarees Company, 225 Fourth Ave., New ¥¢ A FAIR-TO-MIDDLING WORLD. Tove this world as it wags. Don't you? It’s a pretty good world to stay in; The old ship's manned with a jolly good crew, And it's fitted to work and to play in; So we'll sail right along With a shout and a song It’s a merry old world to grow gray in! I take this world as it comes, Don't you ?— Its thorns, here and there, and its flowers ; And whether its skies be of gray or of whether we've sunshine or We can work, we can dream, For we know that the scheme Is ordained of benevolent powers. I love this world with its ups and downs, Its toils and its pains and its piddling. Though we don’t wear diamonds, robes or crowns, We are gay if we pay for the fiddling. So we'll dance and we'll sing In a rosy-round ring : Oh, I reckon it's fair to middling ! —Portland Oregonian. A MISTAKE. It is a mistake for a man to marry a shop-girl simply on the theory that she must have got so dead tired of the store that after she is married she will neve: have any desire to go shopping.—Somer- ville Fournal. A LITERARY SURPRISE. Mrs. Geehaw.—" Hev ye read Henr James's new book, Mirandy 2” Mrs. Giddap—* Dew tell! Has of them wicked James boys writ a book? —Louisville Courier-Journal, LET THE CHILDREN TELL THEIR OWN STORIES. Send ten cents for one of our “Story Pice tures," beautifully printed on heavy coated paper. Each one is a complete story by iteelf, but with no reading matter. The little ones will spend happy hours weaving their childish fancies into stories about the pictures. pictures, pasted in an album, with their little stories written out, will make a most beautiful souvenir of a child’s early life. For fifty cents we will send seven cuts, not one of them of a character to be out of place in a child’s hands. Address Judge Company, 225 Fourth Avenue, New York. you CAN MAKE MONEY By reading Jasper’s Hints to Money-makers. Published every week in LESLIE'S WEEKLY. Ask your news- dealer for a copy of LESLIE’S * WEEKLY. Price ten cents. BLOOD POISON FOR MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS * he body, Hale ganar pare of the body, Hae falling oat, write for for proofs of cures. 100-page COOK REMEDY Co. 1480 MASONIC TEMPLE, Chicago, IIL, U. S. A. a law was passed by Congress and the Senate and signed by the President of the U. S.~to protect NOW READY... “THIS @ THAT” About Caricatar By ZIM. A book of sound advice for the comic-art student $1.50 by mail Address E. Zim, Horseheads, N. ¥. tracts and Baking Powde fal Present ‘oupoma with every coe THE GREAT AMERICA TEA C0. Jox 280, 31-33 Vesey Street, N. ¥. F YOU are thinking about Building a House an in- vestment of $1.00 now will save you hundreds of dollars in building a house, by get- ting the latest and most prac- tical ideas of the noted and capable architect, Mr. George Palliser. We therefore de- sire to call your special at- tention to our new book just issued and containing over ONE HUNDRED UP-TO-DATE HOUSE PLANS THE TITLE OF THIS BOOK 18 GEORGE PALLISER’S MODERN BUILDINGS A new up-to-date book, containin 2s, all new (1902), of houses ranging in cost Amey we to date books contsae Fuuus'Library Butcings, Sommer Hotels, Seablen PUbUE Halls cn ete iis took in a collection of practical designs showing examples of hous recently bait, and ne “plane to everyone thinking of Cading, by rea of hr harng bec. wi very few exsepans, Finnned inthe otinary course ofa busy arches practca daring the Tan few years and bul Varlgus parts of the country within the prices given. Troll description accompanies ack plate, ‘giving ses, height of stories, how built and finished, and improvements contained hs gy 4 ioe to everyone contemplating baild- the plans and designs em! ing them, real results as fo cont and a gud hres * value that can be fully appreciated for their practical wily, and stand alone as re yw some people's homes are planned and what they cost. "To those wanting homes oF seling homesites, members of bulding atacatons, land companies, real-estate men, those having land 10 improve, carpenters rm and everyone Interested of ‘re Invaluable’ and wi i Grove of very grea vale {0 igen, abe 18x Price, bound in heavy paper cover, sent by i zn. Bound in cloth, tes "Sent by mal, postpaid, to any address om receipt fi ordere with remittances to JUDGE COMPANY, 225 Fourth Avenue, New York Remit by money order or check—don't send currency. comicbooks.com