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This page contains several satirical pieces mocking early 1900s social changes: **"Before and After"** ridicules the "New Woman"—a wife who abandons domestic duties (darning socks) for club activities while her husband must now do the housework. **"The Last Luxury"** jokes about wealthy families with so many servants they need additional servants just to pull service chains—absurd over-automation of the rich. **"Where Many Stop"** references Reno, Nevada, which was known as a divorce destination where residency requirements were loose, replacing Buffalo as the punchline destination—commenting on rising divorce rates. **"Fatal to Success"** mocks women's suffrage, suggesting women won't support voting rights because registration requires disclosing their age (playing on period vanity humor). **"Knew Roosevelt's Failing"** and **"The Grasshopper and the Ant Again"** appear to reference Theodore Roosevelt and contain dialect humor typical of the era. The latter retells Aesop's fable with modern Wall Street/financial speculation themes, suggesting wealth-seeking over honest labor. The page reflects Progressive Era anxieties about changing gender roles, labor, and consumerism.

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Before and After. By A.B. LEWIS. LOVED a pretty maiden— She was all the world to me; She had the rocks and could darn socks So neat and prettily. I won that pretty maiden; But here is just the rab— She spends her rocks, I darn the soeks, While she is at the club, The Last Luxury. N-YEAR-OLD Arthur had been tell- ing impressively of the number of servants employed in his home. He con- tinued: ‘‘And our house is fixed so t if you want a drink, or a window raised, or to go upstairs, or anything, all you have to do is to pull a chain!" “But what do you want with so many servants in that sort of a house?" asked one of his hearers. “‘Oh,"’ replied Arthur, ‘‘we have the servants to pull the chains. “*As Sure as the Vine."" AS SURE as the vine grows round the stump, He's a lucky old chap who holds the trump. Where Many Stop. 66\JOU DON'T hear that ‘Put me off at Buffalo’ cry much nowadays."" “*No; Reno seems to have been sub- stituted for Buffalo.’’ Fatal to Success. Tes suffrage movement, I'm con- vinced, Will ne’er become the rage, If on the registration books They have to give their age. =W ROOSEVELT’S FAILING. Farmer Weati ‘em th’ ‘ Rooseyvelt Deacon Buxzle Farmer We them's all ‘I's 1 Remember. By DON CAMERON SHAFER REMEMBER, I remember The house where I was born, The little stairway where my Came calling me at morn. vax —'* These here pertaters air ov my raisin’, an’ I've named “ Named yer potatoes arter Teddy Rooseyvelt, eh? What fer ?"’ therwax—'* Wa-al, Deak yew come tew look ‘em over an’ most ov Farm, as his Wall Street Holdings were constantly increasing. “Ah, my Unfortunate Brother,’’ said dad pathy! In thunder tones he used to yell Till I was up and gone Upon my way to get the cows Before the peep of dawn. And then I had to throw down hay To feed each patient beast, And fill the woodbox every day— It took two cords at least. I did the milking, shelled the And ‘gave the horses grain corn, Then worked like fun from sun to sun And did those chores again. PERHAPS the young wife wo nearer making ‘‘bread like moth- er’s”” supply the dough lik Dox't hitch you! to a star uld come if her husband would e father. rr wagon the Grasshopper, How you, who are only cut out u have my sym- for work, must en- vy my advantage over you in being able to Jump and Sing and to Fly!"" Ry we ; Unless your income’s growing, Your wheels are oiled, and you expect Some pretty rapid going. The Grasshopper and the Ant Again. A STROLLING Grasshop- per Minstrel came one day upon an Ant Farmer making hay according to the latest Scientific Principles inculeated by the Bureau of Agriculture. Incidentally ne was turning over in his mind the question of buying anew Auto and installing a Wire- less Station on his Home “" Ah, my Unfortunate Brother,’ said the Grass- hopper, ‘you have my sympathy. How you, who are only cut out for work, must envy myad- vantage over you in being able to Jump and Sing and to Fly.’ The Ant, deciding before he spoke to put in the wireless plant, replied, “That's all right, my friend! tility’s all very well in its way, but these days the specialist’s the one who really gets ahead!"" Moral: The knocker is outside the door. Versa- SPECIFICATIONS FOLLOWED. “Well, Mame would have it that I should take her out and plow her sky-high an’ spread myself. I 'm satisfied if she is."’ comicbooks.com