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This page contains three humorous anecdotes mocking children's misunderstandings of Bible stories and historical facts. **"Great Names Confused"** satirizes a child named Raphael who confuses the Queen of Sheba's arrival at Solomon's court—she rode a *camel*, not a *cannon*. The joke plays on his innocent mishearing of similar-sounding words. A second story mocks a Philadelphia schoolboy who doesn't know his own birthday because he has a stepmother, implying family dysfunction. **William Allen White's anecdote** describes a struggling frontier newspaper editor in 1880s Dodge City announcing the paper won't print for three weeks because the editor is jailed for unpaid taxes—but calculates the state feeding him will cost more than the $10 owed, so he'll profit $20. The page is mostly **period advertisements** (cocktails, foot powder, phonographs, whiskey) typical of early 20th-century magazines. The humor reflects contemporary attitudes toward education, family, and frontier hardship.

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son of riti- ices and ge- the for nds ine cen fol- om JHE preliminary zest to a viva- cious dinner is supplied by CLUB COCKTAILS. No made- by-guesswork cocktail can be as satisfactory. The flavor, taste, and strength of CLUB COCKTAILS are unequalled. Choice liquors, delicately blended and aged to a mellow body, make CLUB brand peculiarly fit for home dinners. Just strain through cracked ice and serve. CLUB is the cocktail for the knowing ones. Seven kinds — Manhattan, Martini, etc. G. F. HEUBLEIN & BRO., Sole Proprietors Hartford New York London [eee as ALLENS FOOT-EASE Shake Into Your Shoes Allen's Foot=Ease, a powder for: the Feet.” Tt cures, painful” 6 ioe, , hessoantect, and Instantly takes the sting out of corns and buowons, Ita the greatent comfort discovery of the nage. Allen's Foot= Ease makes tight-fitting or new shoes feel easy, Itisa certain cure for ingr * , calloas and hot. by all Dra tore, Do nat accept any substi> tute. Beat by mail ler Be. jn etamps. FREE Zit PACKAGE sont MOTHER GRAYS § . Dita Ptr . tned, ir wee ties Trial Package FR. Foot-Ease.” AILLEN S. OLMSTED, Lc Roy, N.Y. Cared to STAY CURED, No Medicines needed Pana se Baa Great Names Confused. ITTLE Raphael was always interesting, | but not always in the expected way. He was telling his mother about his first day at Sunday-school, and about his teacher, “She said,” pursued Raphael, “’at the Queen of Sheba came to see the King. She was widing on a cannon.” “A cannon!” his mother exclaimed. “Are you sure she didn’t say a camel?” Raphael meditated. “Plaps she did say it was a camel,” mitted gravely. “And what was the King’s name—the King whom she came to visit?” Raphael thought intently, reluctant to make another mistake. “T don't ” he said, slowly, “but I fink, I fink it was Sullivan.”—Harper’s Magazine, he ad- STRAPPING lad of twelve was regis- tered in one of the public schools of Philadelphia. He readily gave the several facts called for, but he did not know whether his birthday fell on the tenth of November or of December. The principal was surprised at this display of ignorance on the part of so old a child, and he asked how it came to pass that he hadn’t learned the date of his birth. “I wasn’t born,” said the boy, “I had a stepmother.”— Lippincott’s Magazine. ILLIAM ALLEN WHITE tells a story illustrative of the tribulations of an edi- tor of a paper in the West in the old days, Away back in the early eighties a notice ap- peared in a journal published at Dodge City which ran as follows: “In view of the fact that we cannot pay the road tax of $10 assessed against us this year, we have been sentenced to a certain period of confinement by the judicial authori- ties of this State. Consequently, there will be no issue of this paper for the next three weeks ; to board us, we figure that we shall come out some $20 ahead.”—Harper’s Weekly. Ask Fer Garrick Club Rye Whiskey ALFRED E. NORRIS & CO., PHILA. Ae All Geed Places but as the State will of course have} What Would Make You Want A Phonograph? Did you ever hear a charming alr youcould not recall! Did the band or orebestra ever play astriking march or beautiful harmoay you wished you could remember t Don’t give up. Own an Eptsox Pnoxoonarn. You can have « Record of the lost music, and play it over and over until you have mastered both music and words, The fleeting pleasure is made permanent. An Eison Putoxoonari and Eptsox Goto Moctpsp Reconos give this music with all the naturalness and pleasing quality of the original. It isa treat that asks only trial. Here aro the % Episox Goup Moctorp Reconps for March. Edison Dealers throughout the country have them. Whatever your taste you will find some pleasing selections. Mate o choice, go to an Edison Dealer and ask bim to play them for you on an Episox Pnosoorarn. If you cannot reach a dealer, fll in the coupon below the list and mail to us, checking the catalogue you want. If you have an old Phonograph not in use, send us tts number. We havea special proporition for you. 1.C. 8. Language Courses Taught by Ertsoy Proxoararn, NATIONAL PHONDCEARA CO., Orange, N. J. New York. New Records for MARCH $28 A Sprig o Sbillalan Edlson Concert Rand 892 On Promise Me, Tencr S. rein Gillette 4839 Never, Comic Son Come ‘Tal phony Orebestra, Collie warian ac Donotl * palison Milttary” Bam ie Song ing Star, Tannhauser, S941 Hana Krauamieyer and ils Dog 4945 Tetl Me With Your Eyes 8946 Ye Anctenta March 807 Tommy (Tell Me True), 30 Harlan & Stanle; $948 Mr Caroling Lay, Sentinrmal Song «ies Ada Jonch 9 Mlidred. Berle bert. Benzler a Harey spthion 1951 Tennessee Binet rele Biz Toone bark Man Coniing With’ inunie Metter Edison Sulltary Baha co., Phenegraph Catalogue No. 17 Lakeside Ave.,” Catalogue of Edison Records Orange, Sample Copy of Phosogram Name. Street and No. City comicbooks.com