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This page is predominantly **advertising**, not satirical editorial content. It features Hartman Furniture & Carpet Co.'s mail-order credit catalog and a diamond import business advertisement. The small text visible on the right appears to be a **satirical story or column** mocking luxury hotel dining. It describes an absurdly lavish meal presented as haute cuisine, but the descriptions reveal it as pretentious fraud: "fresh" salmon caught "year before last," mutton from "the hotel's private goat farm," vegetables that are all canned, and dressing made with "gasoline." The satire targets wealthy travelers who believe they're eating premium food at upscale establishments while actually consuming cheap, preserved ingredients disguised by fancy presentation. The humor lies in exposing the gap between hotels' claims and reality—a timely critique of Gilded Age consumer deception.

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It will be appreciated. served tepid in an earthenware cup, called coffee, and made chiefly of pea- nuts and Boston beans. “Por dinner he has had a pint of con. somme fresh from the Chicago stock yards, fresh Kennebec salmon caught year before last in Lake Superior, three slices of Southdown mutton killed the day before at the hotel’s private goat farm, canned peas, canned corn, canned tomatoes, canned asparagus, Bermuda potatoes raised in Connecticut, canned lobster salad a la motor, dressed with chives and gasoline, and four kinds of pie—blueberry, apple, lemon and mince he various courses being punctuated h little pecks at the olive dish and the salted-almond cellar, together with sips at the contents of a pint bottle of Pommard, direct from the vineyards of Nebraska. “And then has come his supper, con- sisting of nine steaming waffles, pat- terned after the ten of hearts and covered with Hickenlooper's brown sugarine, warranted to fill with sand the most anemic constitution in seven minutes; three portions of sardine salad, a Welsh rabbit, six handfuls of lady fingers and a quart and a half of iced tea for his nerves. Thus daily has he fed, my son, for three weeks.’ “‘That sounds good to me!"’ e the boy, with a watering mouth. “Yes, my son,’’ said the old gentle man. ‘‘For boys and pythons there is nothing like the general run of hotel tables in the good old summertime.” “But has he taken no exercise, fa- ther?” asked the boy. “Lam coming to that, my lad,”’ said the old gentleman. ‘He has. In be tween meals this weary creature hss climbed Mount Billikillillika ninetees times; attended eight picnics in the woods, filling the overlooked crannies in his interior department with doughnuts, mayonnaise sandwiches and lemon pie; butted a ball over the links in the cow pasture for eighteen holes daily; taken part in two amateur theatrical perform- ances; become engaged to three blonde ladies and one brunette; participated in a straw ride on a foggy night, during the greater part of which a large, lady sat on his foot, while he himself sat on a bale hook inadvertently left ia the straw; walked back to.the hotel dis tances varying from two to seven miles at the close of three awfully jolly mo tor rides, and danced the Boston seven nights out of the twenty-one in the hotel parlor with the seventeen unattached wall flowers dwelling at the same hot not to mention his prowess as a fly sw! ter, in which branch of athletics his ree ord is given at 7.543.789— all of this without a trainer! And on top of this he has changed his clothes not less tha five times a day, in order to live up the sartorial requirements of the aver age resort of this popular ty, “Huh!” said the boy. funny way to rest, ain’t it, pa?’ “No, my son," said the old gente man. ‘‘It is the American way, 8” you must remember not to speak lightly of anything American. You must tf member that Washington, Jefferson std Roosevelt have toiled and suffered snd sacrificed themselves to win our free dom for us, and it ill becomes us ® (Continued on second following page.) culated comicbooks.com