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This page satirizes American commercial boosterism and the "Buy American" movement, likely from the 1920s post-WWI era. **The Main Story:** A traveling salesman boasts of selling American-made goods (cut glass, harmonicas, straw hats, millinery) globally—London, Paris, Peru, Berlin. The joke's twist: he reveals he's actually been selling to American towns *named* after foreign cities (Lima, Ohio; Paris, Kentucky; London, Texas; Berlin, Wisconsin). The fisherman and lawyer who'd been impressed—their "cracked-brain theories" about American superiority—are deflated when they realize the salesman has been cleverly equivocating all along. **The Poem "Next Summer":** Complements the satire by celebrating staying home and enjoying American-made goods rather than traveling abroad—reinforcing nationalist consumer sentiment. **The Fashion Cartoons (right):** Mock women who uncritically follow Paris fashion trends as ridiculous, while praising those who embrace American styles. **Overall Satire:** Judge mocks both American manufacturers' exaggerated export claims *and* Americans' blind devotion to foreign (especially Parisian) goods and aesthetics—exposing nationalist marketing as hollow rhetoric.

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a —________ Peggie—Jack, what was there about Gladys you didn’t like? Jack—Another feliow's arm. do is to call them to their attention. There is millinery, too—Paris is aching for some good, American-made, U. S. A.-made mil- linery “What you givin’ us?"’ inquired an inno- lander. There wouldn't no woman buy no American-made hats nor sses, either."* ure they would! In fact, they would be willing to wear U. S. A. styles in both gowns and hats, learn to prefer them to Paris styles in time, if we would make them for them. “T guess you ain't never been in Pa: said the lawyer. **Yes, I have—and London, too,"’ replied the salesman. ‘I seil ail those towns. The crowd, which up to this time had evidenced only che interest to which a man who has a cracked-b theory is entitled, acw sat up and paid him the respectful at- tention that properly belongs to an accom- plished liar. “Yes, I was in Paris last week, and Peru week before Sold a nice bill of Amer- ican cut glass in Paris."" The man who had just told the story about catching a six-pound small-mouth black bass got up and offered the salesman his seat. “That's my line," taking the proffered tesy; ‘ said the salesman, at with a nod of cour- ‘cut glass—made in the U. S. A. Take London, for example: There used to be a lot of English cut g' sold in Lon- don, but I sell practically all the glass they buy there now—cut glass, I mean," A cold sweat broke out on the brow of the bass fisherman, who saw his throne about to tumble with a crash—a crash of cut glass. ‘I suppose you call on all the stores in London,’’ he d. Well, all but one,"” said the salesman; I but one. At that, I am generally able to get in there the night before and get out the next noon."* The salesman ob: grin that was spreading i ful contagion from face to face. “Of course,” he said, *‘you gen- tlemen understand that, when I am talking about United States trade opportunities, about selling 1 the cheer- harmonicas in Berlin and straw hats in Peru and millinery in Paris aad cut glass in London— talking about Berlin, Wi Peru, Ind., and Paris, Ky. London, Tex., don’t you? If you don't, then you are no worse off than a lot of manufacturers in How ridiculous to meekly follow the vagaries of fashion ! = />. Ty PORTS. the United States that I know, Well, good-night. I've got to write up a few nice orders. I've just been in Lima, O., and sold a nice bill, and now I've got to make Holland, Mich., and sell some more!" Next Summer IR ME no more the foreign shore Which called me yesterday; No more shall Rome lure me from home, | Nor Paris, giddy, gay. I shall not view the Nile of blue; Venetian scenes will lose me, too. \ My mind's inclined the scenes to find “*Made in the U. S. A. The desert’s waste I shall not taste, Nor note the sky of gray Which oft enshrouds the London crowds (Of late far from blase). No antique tower shall have the power To draw from me a single hour; My mind’s inclined the scenes to find **Made in the U. S. A." IT have no means to v It costs to go away, And I must eat. But what a treat To let my fa stray! So ‘neath the tr with blowing breeze To cool my brow, I'll sit at ease— My mind's inclined the scenes to find **Made in the U. S. A.”” =A, Walter Utting, Ww such scenes; Yet how ridiculous when she doesn't ! WOMAN Pe rm b) fa tital comichooks.