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This page is primarily **advertising and light humor**, not political satire. The left side advertises "Smart Styles" magazine for spring fashion. The centerpiece, "Stories with Smiles," contains three short humorous anecdotes: 1. **"The Usual Way"**: A sleeping porter survives a train wreck undisturbed, mistaking the crash for routine coupling—humor based on racial stereotypes about African American railroad workers. 2. **"Recognized the Notes"**: An Irish immigrant mistakes Chinese laundry characters for musical notation, relying on his flute—ethnic humor playing on Irish-American stereotypes and unfamiliarity with Asian writing. 3. **"Saving Precious Cargo"**: Two Scottish men in a sinking boat prioritize saving whisky over a drowning companion—stereotyping Scottish frugality and drinking habits. The page represents **early 20th-century ethnic humor**, relying on exaggerated national and racial caricatures common to Judge magazine's audience. Modern readers would recognize these as offensive stereotypes, though they were mainstream entertainment then.

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THE PERFECT COSTUME! Do you want this Spring’s costume to be the most attractive, stylish and becoming you have ever worn? Do you want it to follow fashion with a taste and discretion that will express your own personality exactly? SMART STYLES THE MAGAZINE OF INDIVIDUALITY Offers you a unique service of ad- vance style presentation that is authoritative, and style adaptation that will exactly meet your per- sonal requirements. For “‘the perfect costume’? this Spring and Summer, you want the help of SMART Styles—advanced, complete to the finest detail, cor- rect, smart, personal. The price is 25 cents a copy. But for the privilege of becoming ac- quainted, we will gladfy send you six issues for the price of four. SIX MONTHS OF SMART STYLES FOR A DOLLAR BILL Send the coupon today, for six splendid issues of Smart Styles, every one a revelation. THE JNO.J.MITCHELL COMPANY $1.50 worth of Smart Styles for $1.00 Smart Styles, 4B West 25th St., N. Y. C. I accept your introductory offer. For the enclosed $1.00, enter my name for six months of Smart Styles beginning with the current issue. (Canadian and Foreign, $1.50) Stories ‘with Smifes The Usual Way—The Limited Express tore madly along through midnight dark- ness. Suddenly the alert engineer sprang to the lever and set the brakes. The sparks flew from the rails as the locked wheels slid along with a cry as of pain. The lights were extinguished as car after car toppled from the rails. Then came a shuddering silence, more terrible than the harsh grating of iron on steel. Some passengers made torches from fragments of wreckage and searched for dead and injured. A sound singularly like a snore issued from a pile of debris. Hastily removing several pieces of twi ed iron, they dragged forth a slumbering porter. “Great heavens!’’ they exclaimed. “Didn’t you know there had been a wreck?”’ “Well, gemmun, I sho’ felt somethin’; but I done thought we was couplin’ on de dinin’ cah at Jackson.’’—Youth’s Com- panion, Recognized the Notes—It takes a good deal to stump an Irishman. John P. Mc- Kinley, counsel for the Consumers’ Com- pany, is proud of his own Hibernian an- cestry and never overlooks an opportunity to tell a story reflecting on the resource- fulness of Pat. He entertained the Men’s League of the Church of the Epiphany recently with this one: An Irishman who had come to New York was met at Ellis Island by his brother Mike. The latter undertook to show Pat the sights of the big city, pointing out the City Hall, Wall Street, Trinity Church and the tall buildings. At length they came to Chinatown. Pointing to a Chinese laundry, Mike ex- claimed, ‘‘Look at that sign, Pat! Sure, an’ ye never saw the like o’ that in Ire- land! Can you read it?”’ “No,’’ replied Pat; ‘‘but, begorra, if I had me flute here, I could play it.”"— Chicago Inter-Ocean. Saving Precious Cargo—Two Scotchmen had been having a good time on the heather doons of a leetle island, apd were rowing back home across the firth, says Dean Mortimer Cooley, of the Uni- versity of Michigan, when the boat cap- sized. Dean Cooley told the story to the Engineers’ Club a few days ago. Angus had clung to the boat, and Jock, who had clung to the bottle, was flounder- ing bravely in the deep. Although a poor swimmer, he struck out for the skiff, holding the bottle in one hand. Aftera few strokes he became exhausted. “‘Angus,’’ he cried, ‘‘I dinna thenk I can mak’ it.’” “Well, if ye canna mak’ it, Jock, throw it,’’ called back Angus.—Chicago Inter-Ocean. 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