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This page contains three satirical pieces reflecting early 1900s American society: **"Dess Fishin'"** is a dialect poem celebrating working-class leisure—men escaping labor for fishing, depicted with humor and warmth rather than mockery. **"Murmurs"** offers brief political jabs: references to the **Pinchot-Ballinger controversy** (a conservation scandal under President Taft), Shakespeare authorship debates, and Taft's frequent travel. These suggest frustration with ongoing political disputes that never resolve. **"Ain't It Awful, Mabel?"** satirizes wealthy society women, apparently referencing a real incident where Princess Parlaghy and the Duchess of Manchester quarreled over elevator access at the Plaza Hotel. The satire mocks aristocratic exclusivity and petty status-consciousness—women so preoccupied with social hierarchy they fight over private elevators, necessitating hotels provide exclusive transportation for the wealthy while common patrons use freight. The illustrated sidebar shows women demanding voting rights, suggesting this reflects pre-suffrage tensions.

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H, DE days am wahm en hazy When de springtime cums aroun’, En Ah cleeh et maks yu lazy Diggin’ brown wuhms fum de groun’. Sumthin’ say et’s fishin’ weddeh, Sun too hot to wuk to-day; Sam en Jim en me togeddeh Slip off wheh de eddies play. De ol’ daid pine Drop yo! line Across de run, De big grapevine Det shiel’ de sun. MURMURS. Taene is certainly some class to this exploring business. If a fellow doesn’t discover anything, he is a coward; and if he does, he's a liar. They will probably settle that Pinchot- Ballinger squabble about the time we finally find out whether it was Shakespeare or Bacon who wrote Shakespeare’s plays. President Taft has taken another fly- ing trip East, and it must be some flying aeroplane that will hold him up. Some of those canned cherries that a new bride puts up are more to be pitted than censured. Wheh de speckles run, When fishin’s fine Deh’s lots ob fun— DESS FISHIN. By VICTOR A. HERMANN. Now Sam he sees de blue cohk poppin’, Underneaf de ol’ daid tree. He grabs et Jim—no time foh stoppin’— En skeehy Jim he grabs et me. De nex’ yo’ see our brown laigs flappin’ En stihhin’ up de mud below, Wid a red-eyed turtle snappin’ Foh a bite ob heel en toe. In spring et seem Det man’s one wish Am hug de stream— En fish, fish, fish! Dess keep on fishin’! CUPID & CO. (Unlimited.) Fish en dream, Dream en fish; De eddies gleam, De long lines swish. Dess fishin’! AIN'T IT AWFUL, MABEL? By WILLIAM J. LAMPTON. Saciety mete » “The Princess Parlaghy bats the Duchess of Manchester trom her private elevator at the Plaza. Y GUM! Society is going some, When the swaggers Look daggers At each other, and one Won't let the other run On her elevator! Wow! Don’t that jar you, now? My scat! Make remittance payable to Miss Dear Girl, Mr. Spooney Lover, Debtor. To March 1. One hand 1 1 box candy. April 1, One teeny- weeny kiss ..... 1 dozen rosea April 2, Two teeny- weeny kisses ... 1 novel. April 3, One soul kis . 1 long auto ride. April 4, Several soul If it keeps on like that, kisses... It won't be long till every hotel Where such exclusive exclusives dwell Must have an elevator, A private car, to meet Each hypercritical holder Of a royal lumtum suite. Then every hotel patron Who has the scads to pay Will run his elevator In his own exclusive way, And all the humble patrons Must stand around and wait To catch accommodations Or make their trips by freight. Oh, say! The only way To be the real caravansary kibosh Is to hand out the josh To everything in sight That doesn’t size up right, And swell, And hire the whole darn hotel. Say, rank and title is a snap And money is no sin, But now and then they slip a cog And make the whole world grin, Don’t they? 1 bracelet. Total . Lwedding ring. TT pursuit of art has its recompense. As long as they were only of this sort we did not worry. hair, ruden divorce, It affords an acceptable excuse for poverty, separation, and But since this kind has entered their ranks we begin to get scared, comicbooks.com