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This is primarily an **advertising page** with one humorous anecdote. The main content includes: **The Child's Composition**: A charming piece where a six-year-old from Maine lists his mother's capabilities in simple, misspelled language ("woke" for "work," "iern" for "iron"). The humor derives from the child's innocent, literal catalog of domestic tasks—what mothers *can* do versus what they *cannot* (notably, she "isant crazy" and cannot "slide down hill"). This gentle satire of childhood observation was typical of Life's sentimental humor. **"Changed His Mind"**: An incomplete anecdote about a ragged tramp visiting a doctor's house, mistaking the doctor's masculine-looking wife for the doctor himself. The joke setup plays on gender assumptions. The page is otherwise filled with period advertisements for Cailler's Swiss chocolate, Jaeger woolens, Pennsylvania Railroad clergy passes, Knox hats, and a "Gem Safety Razor Set"—typical early-1900s consumer goods marketing. No significant political content is present.

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“SESE: GENUINE swiss MILK CHOCOLATE isa product of the Gruyere Valley in Switzerland, that is bringing America to a fuller realization of the value ot good milk chocolate, both as a food and as a confection. Chocolate is second to no edible substance in point of nutritive properties, and CAILLER’s CiHocoLaTE only wants comparison with the ordinary kinds to demonstrate its unrivaled supe- riority as a delicacy that is pure, rich and pala- table. It enjoys a growing use as an agreeable substi- tute for a hasty lunch, and never fails to win children from the unwholesome ordinary forms of confectionery. Send us your address and we'll mail you FREE ON REQUEST a sample big enough to convince you that Cailler's is really the feast we say it is, We'll also send a sample of the drinking chocolate, which is equally nich in cream and is superior to any cocoa or chocolate you have ever tried. Address Dept. D J. H. FREYMANN General Agent for the United States $61 Broadway NEW YORK Pennsylvania Railroad Company Will Issue Clerical Orders for 1905. Pursuant to its usual custom, the Pennsyl- vania Railroad Company will’ issue clerical orders for the year 1905 to ordained clergymen having regular charge as settled pastors of churches located on or near its lines. Clergy- men desiring such orders should make individ- ual application for same on blanks furnished by the Company and which can now be obtained from the Ticket Agents. Applications should oesent to the General Office of the Company as soon as possible, in no case later than December 15, so that orders may be mailed by December 3, to all clergymen entitled to receive them. “Rapid changes of temperature, es pecially with increased humidity and raw winds, are always dangerous, To overcome them: man conterves the heat of his body with woolen underclothea.”” —New York Herald Editorial, Now Jaeger Woolens are admittedly class by themeclves. With this troly Sani- tary Underwear to your skin soa will heve the beet protection porsible against any and all changes of weather. You will also enjoy cof bodily comfort and vigor unknown before. Booklets and Samples Free, Dr. Jaeger’s S, W. S. Co.'s Own Stores: 306 Fifth Ave. New York : 157 Broadway. Brooklyn Fulton 8t. Boston : 230-232 Boylston St. Phila. : 1510 Chestnut St. Chicago: 82 State St. Agents in Att Principat Cities. ] ] A Child’s Discriminating Tribute to His Mother. a district school, in a little town in Maine, the teacher asked recently for a composi- | tion from her six-year-old children on the | theme of “Mother.” This was the effort of one little boy: MOTHER, My mother can wash. My mother is good. I help her wipe the dishes. My mother can iern. My mother can wash her hands. My mother can wash my hands, My mother can go to bangor. My mother can go to oltown. My mother can go to boastn. My mother isant crazy. My mother can eat supper. My mother can eat bred. My mother can woke. My mother cant run. My mother cant slide down hill. My mother cant do trick My mother cant bild a house. My mother cant sit in the rode My mother cant wock in the cartrack, My mother cant sit in a mudpuddel. My mother cant wock a rulear. (?) My mother cant make wood. “My mother cant stand on her head.—Boston Transcript. Changed His Mind. A TRAMP, dirty and ragged to the last de- gree, called at a house on the door of |which was a doctor's sign, A large, rather jmasculine-looking woman opened the door. “*Scuse me, lady,” said the tramp, “but I jist called to ask if the Doctor had any old clothes he'd let me have. You see, I'm kind 0’ | bad off fer all kind 0° clothes, an’ I'd be much obleeged fer anything the Doctor could let} |me have, an’ I ain't pertickler as to the fit.” | ‘The woman smiled and made reply: “Tam the Doctor “Sufferin’ Moses!” ejaculated the tramp, as he made a beeline for the gate-—December | Lippincott’s. | | Patronize American industries. Wear a KNOX HAT the creation par excellence of the nation. —s a) Lad er SAFETY *©GEM ” Razor SET WITH SEVEN FINE ENGLISH $9.00 RAZOR STEEL BLADES The most useful and acceptable gift for every man who ehaves, A complete razor set ip a dainty, genuine morocco leather case, epeing hd, eatln lined, ec Gem" is universally recognized a8 the greatest shaving device ever invented. Above set sent, ALL CHARCES PREPAID, to any address on receipt of the price, $9.00. Remit by check, money onder or rigistered mall, Write us to-day. GEM CUTLERY CO. Dept. 12, 34 Reade St., New York 2 doors East of Broadway, 1 block from City Hall Square Agencies in all the principal cities in the world Broadway & 29th 8t, Mata Toes. & Sat, WEBER MUSIC HAL WEBER & ZIEGFELD (ity HIGGLEDY-PIGGLEDY “Tam < JohnMackintosh' i it Copyright, 1904, John Mackintesh, New York. Mackintosh's Toffee the Pare and Delicious OLD ENGLISH CANDY The enormous sales of my Toffee in this country and in England ithe home of Mackintost's T-fleo) have {a ~_ It is absolutely pare dy ever made for pie package; oF 8.00 for'& eid. Family 7 Jour denier fret! OT Oh for @ eld. JOEY MACKINTOSH, Dept, 106, 78 Haden 8, ¥. T. comicbooks.com