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This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. The dominant content is a Hartman Furniture Carpet Co. advertisement promoting open-account credit purchasing—a relatively novel concept in 1912. The small essay "A Tip for Success Seekers" (right column) is a morality tale about resource conservation, illustrated by an anecdote about a man who "drifted" through opportunities until accepting a cashier job at a restaurant. Through careful observation—studying weather patterns and mechanical systems—he rose to prominence, eventually securing a lucrative position with a city weather bureau. The essay's implicit message: success rewards those who nurture their talents and observe the world carefully, rather than passively accepting circumstances. The Keeley Institutes advertisement (bottom) promotes treatment for alcohol and drug addiction—a legitimate medical service of the era, though modern readers would recognize such claims with skepticism. The page reflects early 20th-century consumer culture and progressive-era faith in both commercial accessibility and self-improvement.

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Our multi-million dollar resources (all our own capital—we do not do busi- ness on borrowed money) give us such tremendous buying and trusting power that we can offer you terms that no ordinary concern would even dare think of, Investigate this honest, digni- fied and protective way of saving money and of making your home beautiful to your friends, a comfort and delight to yourself, on terms that rege mean but just’a few pennies a day, mie Send your name and address on a ts postal card now for our great 1912 5000 Sehave Bargain Catalog. ” Hot Sprin: Las Angele For Liquor and Drug Users A scientific remedy that has cured nearly half a million in the past thirty-two years. Administered by medical specialists at Keeley Institutes only. Write for particulars To the Following Keeley Institutes: St. Loals, Sto,. 801 Locus St. Vittebure, ra. as Fifth Ave. Dwight. 1 Mane 4, . M Marina. Ind. Raftalo. N.Y. Crab Orebard. Ky. Piaina Vortiand. Me Lexingtan, Masa Kansas City, Mo. N.Y. In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. It will be appreciated. A Tip for Success Seekers. By AUGUSTUS WITTFELD. NE OF the secrets of success lies in the conservation of your natural or acquired resources. The man with a gift or talent should nurse that gift or talent as he would a swell-salaried sine- cure. To illustrate: Once there was a man who had drifted over the sea of opportunity like a dere- lict, deep-sea dredge, and turned down innumerable good jobs in his endeavors to land a position. He was long on as- piration, but short on ability; conse- quently he was persona nutmeg grater when the man with the Matthewson de- livery was wanted. From persistently pounding the pike in his endeavors to land the lucrative but illusive position, he gathered unto himself the most beautiful crop of corns that had ever been grown in captivity, which fact greatly handicapped (or, rather, footicapped) him in his pursuit of the paying position. Finally, in disgust, he accepted a job as cashier in a restaurant, where he had leisure galore to rail at fate and cuss the callouses on his trilbies. During one of his many moments of leisure from cranking the cash com- putater, an idea entered his fertilized brain. He awoke to the fact that his walkmobiles were en rapport with the ever-changing meteorological condi- tions. He made an exhaustive study of the phenomenon, and in a short time he was able to forecast the weather with remarkable accuracy. Elated with success, he offered ad- vice to the patrons of the food garage on the advisability of raiding the rain- stick rack in view of an impending rain storm or shedding their flimsy nonaware for flannels to forestall the zeroward meandering of the mercury. The unfailing accuracy with which he hit the barometric bull'’s-eye brought him to the attention of the high-muck- a-muck of the hygroscopic department (or whatever you call it), and he was offered a position as assistant to the fiction writer of the weather bureau of a large city at a munificent salary. He accepted, made good, and rose until he became the head gazeebo of his section. Then he commenced putting on alot of dawg. Bought a gasoline launch and a blue buzzabout, played drawbridge whist, and attended the ball games and other social functions. From motor boating and automobil- iousness to massaging and manicures it is a joy ride, and it was not many moons until the man of one talent was patron- izing a ‘‘hand’’-maiden and putting up comicbooks.com