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This page combines two distinct elements: a "Sex Sarcasm" column reprinting witty exchanges from newspapers circa 25 years prior, and a major advertisement for collected works of O. Henry and Rudyard Kipling. The sarcasm section features brief comedic dialogues playing on gender dynamics and courtship conventions of the era—a typewriter girl's quip about paint, a woman's complaint about cold gloves during waltzing, a debutante's concern about insufficient beer at her party. These jokes rely on period-specific social anxieties: women in offices, formal dancing customs, and upper-class entertaining. The advertisement promotes O. Henry as "America's greatest short story writer," emphasizing his humble persona ("just a poor boy from the country") and his literary output of 274 stories compressed into twelve volumes, paired with Kipling works. The pitch targets readers seeking affordable, complete literary collections through a coupon system, highlighting both authors' cultural prestige and commercial success.

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Sex Sarcasm (Brom newspapers and magazines of 2% years ago) “Anything fresh or new this morning?"’ gaid a reporter to the young lady type- writer, as he lounged into a railway a office. . P “Yes,"” she replied. e «What is it?’’ asked the reporter, e abbing an envelope. | “That paint you were leaning so very q gracefully against."’—Graphic, Edna—Mr. Gillyspoon, will you kindly = oblige me by winding your silk handker- chtef around your right hand while you are waltzing with me? e Mr. Gillyspoon—Certainly; but why, I. my dear lady? & ‘Edna—Your cold glove on my bare e back chills me through. —Chicago Herald. ““Mamma,”’ anxiously whispered Miss ay Overtherhine, a fashionable belle of Cin- 5 cinnati, whose mother was giving a grand g evening party, ‘‘an awful blunder has happened!” . 2 “Why, you alarm me, Lulu, dear! d said the mother, inconsternation. ‘‘What is it?” " “It ig not yet twelve, and only five a kegs of beer left!''"—New York Sun. n “Is everything in readiness?’’ said the Boston girl, as she dipped the oars into : the water, preparatory to taking a row. “All ready,’’ responded her lover, who s: held the boat against the bank. a “Then I presume it is in order to re- a quest Mr. Gallagher to release the person of the gentler sex.’’ So the lover let her go.—Boston Courier. Cook (aghast)—Och, mum, I've sphilt a taycup o’ milk over the front of me n besht driss, an’ I’m thinkin’ I’m afther 1s spilin’ it intoirely! Mistress—Oh, Mary, how could you! Was it all we had?—Boston Common- answer that Sensitive, avoiding the limelight, this is the whimsical O. HENRY America’s greatest short story writer-—made when the world tried to lionize him. “Oh, pshaw! Leave me alone! I am just a poor boy from the country.” He preferred the shad- “ows of the street corners where he could gaze upon the hurrying stream of life, deep into the hearts of men and pic- complex interplay of hum: ever were written. And in the bargain, just Send Coupon O. Henry ture for you the generosity, ferocity, kindliness, want, de- votion, the laughter and the mockery, the feverish activity and the stark despair—all the 453 Short Stories 2 Complete Novels an emotions which go to make life. All this he compressed into 274 of the greatest stories that Packed into twelve rich volumes—yours to- day for a little price and little payments for a short time only. to spread this edition to every corner of the country at once, you get without extra charge the best of Kipling, in six rich volumes, 179 stories and poems and his great long novel ‘‘The Light That Failed.”” for 18 Volumes Kipling r wealth. by the greatest English and the _ tized for the stage and for the moving m Young lady (visiting from Oshkosh)— greatest American : short story pictures, the text books of American 2 And is it true, dear Mrs, Gotham, that writers. Half a million dollars is literature embody them, sculptors * only four hundred people comprise the what these writers would have are making statues—colleges are best society of New York? been paid for these stories—50,000 discussing his place in Itterature. t Mrs. Gotham—Yes, it has been so people have rushed to take advan- This offer is passing. The roy- stated. . . tage of this offer. alties on both the Kipling and the Young lady—It's very curious! Why, The first complete edition of O, Henry are heavy and we can’t Fo: here8, Jorgen nambersthan thet in O. Henry’s works sold at $125. and afford to’ make this a permanent Oshkosh 1—Epoch. every set was taken before the sheets thing. Only the demand of ¢ Acharmingly realistic writer says, ‘‘A were in their covers. Already O. thousands of disappointed .¢” woman's crown of glory is a fine head of iy Henry has become a classic. His book lovers caused us to a hair. It must be a great satisfaction f biography is being written in books extend it for these few ? 2 Ban cn Bo poncnated tor tuicee onic == and magazines, his stories are drama- weeks more. K ’ —always provided she has the thirty F122 . o dollars.—Norristown Herald. fis Send No Money With the Coupon Otc oa g Uncouth young man—May I kiss you, if they're not the biggest, the best thing in the covers of a 6” cates rk Miss Jones? book you ever saw or read. Better than moving pictures _@® sh cuarece nal by e Miss Jones (indignantly) —What do you —for these are permanent, real moving pictures of life. BM pean; sir! Better than classics, for these are the living stories of ¢© _ine., Also the six volume s «oa4)_Dont an classies ories ‘ot “Kipling. toad ti ; what Misa ie pth Wal ea are te | today, from Mandalay on the China Bay to 34th Street eh Feta WE 1 ep she . funniest girl I ever saw!—Good Evening. jand Broadway, and from the Piccadilly in London to the ranch _@~ , math’ or ts mani tor, tbo . : on the Mexican border. Send the Coupon before it is too g@ ,setime, “Otherwine,f will. within pHfother—What! Novel reading again, inte. Get both sets shipped at once free on approval. ‘ees cary? Daughter (pulling up the heel of her 25c a week pays for them. Send the Coupon Oa Sere A slipper)--Well, my darling mother, there | and put the full set on your library shelves an: + Name... ; is nothing for me to do. You doevery- | the new joy in your heart. Lad Lecce ’ thing about the house, don’t you?—Bos- Don’t wait till tomorrow and be sorry. j ton Gazette. Send Coupon today and be glad. OO cami y OP re teanttfut very lover of a good cocktail should inaiet that Abbott's 30 Irving Place, ¢' putters pe used fo"mmaxing it insures Your getting the ver escgloimmbineieinoresveurewne Ooeers [Review of Reviews Co., “New vor sf In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. It will be appreciated. cents more a volume and has prove the favorite Uindi a art in thia luxurious binding, eend $1.86 a mouth for comicbooks.com