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# "A Ten Thousand Dollar Eye" and "Mr. Browning's Little Gun" **"A Ten Thousand Dollar Eye"** satirizes the era's proliferation of mail-order self-improvement courses. The fictional "Professor Ogle" sells a correspondence course in "Eye-Ficiency"—teaching people to manipulate others through practiced eye contact and expressions (the "soulful eye," "sheep-eyes," etc.). The satire mocks both the absurd promise that success derives from eye control and the gullible public willing to pay five dollars for such instruction. The student's testimonial about getting a raise simply by looking employers in the eye epitomizes the scam's hollow claims. **"Mr. Browning's Little Gun"** celebrates the Browning automatic rifle, a real weapon of the era, praising its rapid-fire capability and ease of use. Given the World War I context (references to "Yankee gunner" and "German"), this appears promotional rather than satirical—celebrating American military technology.

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A Ten Thousand Dollar Eye By Dick Dicwixson YRE I took your course i ciency,” B writes one of our many students, “I couldn’t look in the face half of the people I met. Now I can look my employer straight in the eye, ask for a raise and get it. Only yesterday he raised me without ur to ten thousand a week Such compelling personality is made possib ple gh the discoveries of Professor Ogle. He has dis- covered that the eye is the key to every form of success, and that the so-called force of character is merely a subtle influence emanating from the eye. In a general way it has been known for ages that there was much power in certain eyes. But such eyes have always been considered gifts, an inheritance from Mother ‘Nature as it were. Professor Ogle, however, has demonstrated beyond a doubt that such powerful eyes are more easily acquired than inherited. The underlying principles of Eye-Ficiency are simple in the extreme. Any one with sufficient intelligence to remit five dollars can become a star pupil in our School of Eye-Ficiency. And no matter what your station in life may be, you need our help. We teach truthful eyes to husbands. Your wife, however suspicious, could not possibly see a lie in them. We can train a person to look fifty-seven kinds of daggers. This course is very popular among school- teachers. If you are unable to conceal your true character « Croix de Guer ‘es, but I've not Draws by J.K. Barass “Doesn't your oldest sister ever think of getting married?” because you possess a “‘had eye,” we will teach you how to remove it. On the other hand, millions of meek and cowed wives are learning our simple methods of putting blood in one’s eye. Under our instruction one can acquire an in- fallible “eye for busines his course is given by the man at the head of our own business office. It is very often to the advantage of a hard-hearted person to shed tears, or a tender-hearted person to refrain from shedding tears. The secret of tear-con- trol is revealed in a short course of three lessons. Brow- beating and looking through a person are matters of only one lesson each. ‘Of course we havea department devoted exclusively to the needs of lovers. It is in charge of the Professor of Winks. We can give to the bashful lover eyes that speak volumes with entire certainty and quick results. The sheep-eyes that we teach are absolutely irresistible. Besides the soulful eye, the dreamy eye, the love-light eye and the eye with a far-away look, we can teach you how to make hundreds of other eyes that the aver- age lover knows nothing about. A postcard will bring full details. Mr. Browning’s Little Gun By W Nesom ME BROWNING had a notion, which, Shaped itself into a tidy little gun, when it got in motic r, but so rapid on the tr tinguish forty shots from one ke a rifle, only bit That you can’t di It is of a simple species; built in half a dozen pieces, It's a cinch to integrate or take apart; But it bas a snap in action which engenders satisfaction In the up-and-at-'em Yankee gunner's heart Mr. Bro "s little pretty isn’t built to stra That is ninety: miles away our sha But at half a kilometer this diminutive repeater * that’s worthy of the name spare Is a “supergun dub can operate it, any child manipulate it, \s he'd engineer the nozzle of a hose, in a ruction is to spray condensed destruction— by now, What Every German Knows. kee’s job is killing, much like Barkis, he is willing, ¢ demands the proper tools; sts on crowning the inventive Mr. Brightest Ballistician of the School. Wherefore Browning As the comicbooks.com