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**Top Cartoon ("To the Point"):** A mother and child discuss catching a mosquito mid-bite. The joke plays on the child's literal interpretation of justice—asking whether to "make an example" of the insect. This satirizes adult legal/moral rhetoric by applying it absurdly to pest control, mocking pompous language about punishment and deterrence. **"New York Fashions":** This satirizes the fragmentation and pretension of New York high society by proposing that different wealthy neighborhoods (Fifth Avenue, Metropolitan Museum area, Riverside Drive, Harlem) each adopt distinct spring fashions. The piece mocks both fashion writers' tendency to over-complicate garment descriptions and the social stratification implied by geographic divisions within the city. **Bottom Items:** Two brief humor pieces: "Unkind" jokes about a bathing suit revealing the wearer's figure, and "In the Tea Room" plays on the question of whether a theatrical horse prop is real—typical early-1900s social comedy targeting urban leisure activities.

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ike ores, “ T've jast caught a mosquito right in the act of stingin’ me, mother es Hef TO THE POINT. Shall I let it go, or shall I make an example of it?"’ New York Fashions. N VIEW of the fact that New York is getting so big, why wouldn’t it be a good idea for the fashion makers to divide it into districts and appoint a different style for each district? This would make the whole matter much easier, would avoid confusion, would lend a fresh interest to feminine sar- torial questions, and enable the fashion writers to specialize thus: For spring, the women on Fifth Ave- nue, between Fortieth and Fifty-ninth streets, will wear a great deal of velour delaine, with a sprinkling of ruchings on both sides and sometimes in the back. This will usually be accompanied by taffeta hats, worn with a mid- Victorian tilt and surmounted by suitable contrivances. Women in the vicinity of the Metropolitan Museum haveadopted the one-piece frock, either with or without tunics. They will be trimmed with cockades, beads and camel's hair, extending both ways from the bodice. For indoor pur- poses they will be varied by Terry cloth blouses, which may be cleaned at any good laundry. Hats will be globular, with hyperbolic protu- berances on the left side. The women of Riverside Drive met yesterday to de- cide upon costumes. By a vote of 285 plurality, they chose a modified form of that justly popular garment, the three- piece gown. The materials selected were crash toweling, with edgings of fichu and ramparts of irridescent valenciennes in purple, green or old mauve. They will be made with a broad panel on the north- east corner and will give the appearance of bringing the shoulder blades together at a pointnear the waistline. Hats will be of the new griddle type, shading off into the rigoletto. The women of Harlem have practically selected their spring style. It wilt be something like a coat suit and some- thing like a directoire, but not exactly either of them. In order to give a sup- ple effect, it will bave revers cut semi- bias, although some will prefer to leave them whole. The demand for uncut revers is growing steadily. Hats will have no regular shape, but will be built up carelessly with chenille and other entrees, with little handfuls of feathers at intervals. The above will give a fair idea of the possibilities. Furthermore, any woman who doesn’t like the fashion in her UNKIND. “T think I shall give away my bathing suit, John.” ““Twould. It gave you away often enough.” particular neighborhood can easily move. The Old Story. Shoes are on the chiffonier, Trousers on the floor, Shirts upon the chandelier, Wife is at the shore. In the Tea Room. He—*What makes you think the Gilt Pony at the Hippodrome isn’t real, my dear?” She—Because, Jack, he has such a guilty look.’” comicbooks.com