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This page is primarily **advertisements interspersed with advice column content**, not political satire. The ads include: - **Studebaker Bros.** (horse-drawn business vehicles) - **Yankee Cork Puller** (a mechanical device to prevent hand injury) - **Dewar's Scotch Whisky** (featuring a yachting scene) - **Old Crow Rye Whiskey** The editorial content is "Our Advice Column" by "T.W.," offering conventional domestic and social guidance: managing household budgets, treating hired help fairly, parenting advice, and discretion when gossiping with women. The poem "Life's Road" appears decorative rather than satirical. **This is a typical early-20th-century Life magazine page: commercial, moralistic, and aimed at middle-class readers.** There is no discernible political cartoon or sharp satire present.

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BUSINESS VEHICLES forall purposes carried in stock or built to order HE Merchant's delivery wagon is his traveling advertisement—it should create a favorable impression. The same style and thorough workmanship which make Studebaker carriages famous are seen in every part of our business vehicles. We build all types, from lightest delivery wagon to heaviest truck, Kansas a cae together with special harness and accessories. Pouttaxp, 0 Ready for instant delivery, and can be seen at any Studebaker repository. Pactery and Rrecotive Ofces SOUTH BEND, IND, STUDEBAKER BROS. MFG. CO. Doa't wait until your wif ie of servats Cut Their Hands BUY A p and down motion of the handle draws th Kand automatically diecharges it. | astens to rldehoard, du not get lost, all per upright Ask the hardivare dealer, or sent direct, express pre- pald, on receipt of price. Nickel Plated, - $1.25 Silver = 3.80 cerfully refunded if not Booker ron AskINe After 20 days" trial money ¢ “HERE'S TO A QUICK RUN” It's a wise steward that fills his lockers with a goodly supply of Dewar’s Scotch (“The Whisky of Distinction’) The number of empty Dewar's Scotch Whisky bottles washed up on the beaches show that the average yachtsman knows a good thing and uses it. A YACHTING POSTER “Here's to a quick Glawup) isan ortcteal Derewith. Printed in f or outadvert .,and sent to any address on receipt of 10 cents Inlver, Suitable for framing In clut-bouse or hove. FREDERICK GLASSUP Sole Agent for John Dewar & Sons, Ltd. 126 Bleecker Street, New York | turn deal with the poor and needy. Life’s Road. TH the moonbeams silver y found existence sweet, MeLandburgh Wilson, Our Advice Column. TO A PHILANTIROPIST. |G alaeniees SR that a penny given away is a penny ertised. Write a book at least every year. This sit help to keep your name before the public. Do not forget that a consecrated income is better than a depleted principal. Try and keep up the price of the commod- ity that you have made your wealth in, and if possible increase it. You cannot afford to lose your self-respect. Be careful not to give direct to the poor and needy, but only to those who in their The mid- dleman must live. TO ONE WHO HAS JUST BECOME A FATHER, ‘| RY and treat the trained nurse as though you considered yourself her equal, even though you know this isn’t so. Do not open up a separate bottle with every friend you meet, but get as many of them as possible together first. This is more | economical, and you will need all the spare cash you can get later on. When you break the news to those of the | gentler sex you happen to meet, exaggerate its importance as much as possible. To the men, on the contrary, pass it off as of no consequence. Otherwise you may hear of it from your wife very unpleasantly. Listen to all the advice that is given to you and promise to follow it. Do not offer to hold the baby under any circumstances, Your subsequent liberty de- pends upon this. Admit that you see in the baby resem- blances to yourself, your wife, uncle, aunts and grandparents, or any other members of the family mentioned. Above all things, do not have an exag- gerated idea of your own importance. Now that the baby is here, you are of no conse- quence at all, and the sooner you know this, | the better. 2. ~ CRIBBLES, the poet, now has twice the number of readers he had before.” “So? Whom did he marry?” H. B. KIRK & CO., BOTTLERS, NEW YORK, comicbooks.com