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This is primarily a **magazine subscription advertisement**, not a political cartoon. The page promotes *Vanity Fair*, described as "the most successful of all the new magazines." ## Main Message The ad warns readers against becoming "social back numbers"—outdated people left behind by modern progress. It uses playful language about the world "moving on all eight cylinders" to pressure readers into subscribing for six months at one dollar. ## The Satire The humor lies in the exaggeration: Vanity Fair supposedly transforms dull people into witty dinner-party guests and provides the cultural knowledge needed to stay current. This gently mocks both modern anxiety about obsolescence and the magazine industry's marketing tactics. ## Content Promises The ad lists *Vanity Fair*'s features: theater, arts, humor, fashion, sports, dancing, dogs, and motors—positioning it as essential reading for sophisticated, modern people. The page also includes a poem about actress Mary Miles Minter, typical of period magazine content. Overall, this reflects 1920s consumer culture and magazine publishing competition rather than political satire.

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Hello! Wake Up! Read VANITY FAIR The most successful of all the new magazines Don’t Be a Social Back Number — J [ seconpenanneressee—rs | If you want to be in the sxial end artistic. acim, tear off the coupon in ket hand corner of this page—and mail it If you are out of step with the whirling prog- ress of our time; if you are removed from its magnetic influences ; if, despite your youth, you are becoming an old fogey, or an old maid, or an old bachelor, or an old bore; if your joie de vivre is dying at the roots— then you must read Vanity Fair, and presto! you will be nimble-witted and agile-minded again—the joy of the picnic—the life of the grill-room—sunshine in the home. Six months of Vanity Fair will enable you to ignite a dinner party at fifty yards Don't settle down comfortably in the ooze. The world is moving, moving on all eight cylinders—some folks are even moving on twelve—and you might just as well move along with them. Don’t stall yourself on life's highroad and be satisfied to take everybody else’s dust. Hop up and take a little joy ride on the red and yellow band-wagon—Vanity Fair's band-wagon. Every Issue of Vanity Fair Contains: THE STAGE: Essays hind-the-scenes vie est plays—with per nt and be- the new + Stories p gers, Composers, conductors and what: ever is new about the old once. THE ARTS: Illustrated news and criticisms of pictures, architec- ture, books, sculpture. HUMOR: The most original and amusing works of our young wiit- ers and artists. Striking and unus erry-R0-round. SPORTS: An illustrated panorama of golf, tennis, football, racing, dozen other ourdoor ting news from the E capitals, DANCING: Outdoor dances, door “dances, thythmic dan cosmic dances, FASHIONS: From Paris, London and New Vork for all disceiminat- ing men and women. DOGS AND MOTORS: Photo- graphs of the best-bred dogs and the best-built motors, with descrip= tions and timely discussionol them. SHOPPING: An index to the best they sell, and a shop: id to interest Try a Little Dollar Diplomacy! You think nothi in your poor deluded way—of paying $2.00 for a theatre ticket, or for a new book, but for only $1 you can secure six months of Vanity Fair, and with it more entertain ment than you can derive from dozens of sex plays or # shelf full of problem novels. Stop where you are! Tear olf that coupes! «: y want your bein ty peudered and well groomed for ‘si mnths, just tear of, fill in ‘end mail the little coupon’ belo We Promise You, Solemaly that Vanity Fi i old kind—but an ALTO- GETHER NEW KIND OF MAGAZINE. I entertaining Magazine for jerns. We are not going to print any pretty girls” heads on its covers. We are going publish no dreary seria stories. Nodiaries of travel. No gloom. No problem stori No articles on tariff, or irrigation, or rail- road ‘rates, or pure food. or any other statistical subject. Condé Nast, Publisher Frank Crowninshield Editor 2S Cents a Copy Three Dollars a Year CELLULOID SONNETS § fl MARY MILES MINTER A diamond isn’t very much for size, But gracious, how it shines and scintillates! No common scale of measurements and weights Can calculate the worth that in it lies. And what is true of diamonds, to the wise, Applies as well in making estimates Of femininity—it demonstrates The smallest package is the dearest prize. For quantity you are not such a much; They label you the “Littlest Queen.” and yet You hold our hearts more firmly in your clutch Than if you weighed two-hundred-twenty net. There's tyranny in beauty’s lightest touch, Marie Petite—with accent on the Pet! W. Kee Maxedl. A Perfect Stranger R several days Mandy, the faithisl cook, failed to put in an appear: ance, Her mistress made anxious inqui ries and found to her dismay that Mai had been arrested. She hastened down to the court-house to sce what could be done. Anna,” was the indigna dis heah fuss is bout a Demeanor, and Ah heahed of her befo’!"” Egg View Note The awning to Bill Waite’s grocery: store got on fire Friday morning and mysteriously burnt up. He believes # will be cheaper for him to turn his store around and have the trade come in froa the north, than to get him another awning. The Conversationatists What were the wild waves saying? T could not catch a word. Tw rls were seaward straying. ‘Their talk was all I heard. a GREAT BEAR SPRING WATER “Its purity has made it famont Ste the case of sit glass toppered bottles. (ADTE)