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This page is primarily **advertising and humor content** rather than political satire. The main elements include: **"Too Pointed" story**: A humorous anecdote about Graham Saunders avoiding his squire's family visits, then complaining when the squire invites him during bean-cooking time—illustrating the folly of ungrateful complaints. **"She Held Her Own" cartoon**: Depicts a woman confidently handling reins while a man tumbles from a carriage, satirizing gender roles by showing a woman's competence. **"Each man to his taste"**: A brief joke about livery standards by Rogers, Peet & Co., a clothing company. The page also contains **product advertisements** for investment securities, camera lenses, optical equipment, and reproductions of classical art prints—typical of Life's era as a general-interest illustrated magazine mixing humor with commercial content.

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Redmond sco. Transact a general foreign and domestic banking business and allow interest on deposits subject to cheque. Dividends and interest collected and remitted. HIGH GRADE INVESTMENT SECURITIES Conservative investments will, upon request, be suggested for any purpose or amount, netting from 3!¢ to above 5. Members of the New York Stock Ex- changeand execute orders on commission LETTERS OF CREDIT for travelers issued, and bills of ex- change drawn on all parts of the world, $07 Chestnut St. Philadelphia 4! Wall St., New York ‘A DELICIOUS MOMENT FOR THE HUNTER. ESPECIALLY IF HE KNOWS HIS SHELLS ARE LOADED WITH DU PONT SMOKELESS. E. I. Du Pont Company Wilmington, Delaware Too Pointed. HEN asked Graham Saunders why he did not go to visit the squire’s any more, he hesitated for a moment he ventured to put his reason into somebody 1 not one that’s looking for slights,” he wled at last, “and T never paid much atten n when they spoke about folks that generally at meal-times, nor any of their remarks Nor I never applied any rd to not waiting for ying your welcome to my- self. 1 considered such talk wasn’t worth no- ticing. But when squire come out to me at about four thutty one afternoon, when I could smell baked beans cooking as easy as I’m sitting came invitations or outst SHE HELD HER OWN COUNSEL, and said he'd count it a favor if Md note down where the glass stood on our north porch at six o'clock that night and at eight in the morning, twelve thutty at noon and six P. M for the next know at the postoffice so’s he could compare it with theirs—I called it pretty considerable like a hint for a man that claims to have good man- ners, given to one t got a sensitive streak, nugh T try to keep it ont o” sight."—Youth's Companion EN and here, men only are responsible for proverbs, By far the greater number of proverbs relating to women are calumnies, gross perversions of fact neither appropriate nor self-entailed, but due to the malice, stu- pidity and inaccuracy of—those who made them.—The London Gentlewoman. HAVE A CAMERA that doesn’t take fine pictures—you haven't the right lens, It's all in the lens. ‘The better the lens, the finer the pictures Pertect pictures can only be taken with a GOERZ LENS the best made. Made in many styles poses and cameras. Our SYNTOR Lens ‘price $21.15 and upwards) is the lens for small kodaks ang hand cameras, A perfect Lens. a popular price, Write for our Lens Book B-6—it will tell you ali for many ps Gonz OPTICAL Wonks 2B Cniow Syaare Heyworth Taliding fonts Loxpox St, Perensse Panis “Each man to his taste” applies in livery only so far as his taste conforms to certain recognized standards. We've seen liveries that would more correctly be called “ fancy dress.” We are livery law abiders. ROGERS, PEET & CO., 258—842—1260 Broadway, (3 Stores) NEW YORK, also, F. M. ATWOOD, CHICAGO. L Long recognized as the) Dest'of pictures: choice as gifts to friends and for the adornment of one’s own walls. im ELINU VEDDER says id they aro’ all that an at- Bal tist could ask in the re. Pfodsetion of hiswork Fitty centa to $20.00. At fl art stores, or sent. on ull ILL: subsequent purchase of the Prints themselves. (List of our new subjects ‘alone sent upon receipt of six cents in stam $sion, Copyrights i oy CURTIS & CAMERON 22 PIERCE BLOG Opp. Pub. Library BOSTON comicbooks.com