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# Analysis This page contains a serialized short story, "The Winning of Muriel" by William Sanford, rather than political cartoons. The narrative spans Chapters One through Four and describes a romantic encounter between two young people—Jimmy and Muriel—on a beach at midsummer. The right column features a section titled "Culture" by W.M. Adkins, offering light satirical commentary on social pretensions. It mocks people who claim to join Shakespeare clubs ("Go up a cog") while admitting they won't actually attend, and includes humorous anecdotes about dining and golf etiquette. The large central illustration shows sequential drawings of what appears to be gardening instruction—specifically "How to plant a verbena seed six-and-one-half times its depth"—likely satirizing overly detailed instructional diagrams. This is primarily entertainment and lifestyle content rather than political satire.

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The Winning of Muriel birth Tam twenty-eight years old!" 7 4 Slowly she turned to her little writi (A Complete Norel) desk, and seating herself she penned a by William Sanford little note. Cuarrer ONE Cuarter Taree ik was a beautiful night in midsummer. iumy received the note with wildly beating heart. Hastily he — threw aside the envelope and read: “Where have you been—I have missed you so. What have I done that you should treat ine this way!” The moon rose in silvery. splendor over a great and silent sea. Muriel and Jimmy sat on the golden sands. It was a lovers’ night—such a night as causes men to propose to their adored ones and Jimmy had just proposed and been thrown down. He was very, very sad. The next morning he went away. He had lost out because Muriel had seen a Dick on every wave and had let them ride. Cuapter Four s fast as fastest train could take him, 2% Jimmy came back, and Muriel led him out to the golden sands of the great (gd. and beautiful sea. se eee /\\3 The girl was wondrously it eyes were cast downward. Shi lief. He: Cuarter Two P was a week later and Muriel stood in her pretty little boudoir gazing dry- eyed at an announcement in the morning paper. Dick was engaged. He was engaged to a girl she just hated (merely, respond. Tn fact Muriel bored him, but of course, because the girl was engaged to being a gentleman he was too polite to ing with her handk Absent-minded man who was told to put out the cat and feed the baby. Jimmy put out his t, brown hand and it closed over Muriel’s little white one. She did not draw her hand away. His mind in a mad whirl of joy Jimmy: put out his arm—and drew her to his heart Dick). Muriel had had an awful crush say so. : d ; | on Dick for a long, long time. She had For a moment Muriel gazed at her _ And after it was all settled he suid, invited him to dances, parties, dinners; white, distressed face reflected back at "like, perplexed: “But when did in fact she had invited him to everything her from the little French mirror, and ®t first begin to care for me, dearest’ Muriel looked out on the t and : she could. She had looked at him with then she turned slowly to a calendar on that soft look in her eyes and had then the wall. A little frightened look over- had spread her not over pretty features. “The nineteenth,” she whispered. “My Dick on all wonderful sea. ‘There was wave, but. she forever. “Why, you. silly boy said, “I loved you all the time!” Bewitched by her wondrous confession he laid his lips to her hair. “My wonder- ful, wonderful girl!” he whispered. “Hook, bait and. sinker!” remarked the moon, and retired behind a cloud. eve! glanced down and waited. But she just waited, that was all. Dick did not se Culture by Wm, S. Adkins [ Ss TM join a Shakespeare club, Go up a cog. T'll cease tot And put on dog. low-brow dub espeare club improves one so. s Pll mend. It will be classy, even though s IT don’t attend. gas “You are nice enough to eat.” h Funny world! fr We say that of the butterfly, but we 5 never it of the grub. Mi Ethel—Coming home in Tom's car a Sunday evening, we made over fifty miles an hour “ Clara—What did you quarrel about, dear? th rey Hubby— ! T sliced into the roug! to r nd flushed a partridge! of fasn’t that remarkable? th Wife—Why-er—I_ don’t know any- of thing about golf, . ac wl wi “What thin soup.” commented th I head of the cooking class. “Is this the ve best you girls ean dc And then, receiving no answer, sh« in How to plant a verbena seed six-and-one-half times its depth. added: “Use your noodles.” ha