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This page contains several satirical pieces mocking social pretension and moral hypocrisy: **"According to Mother Goose"** adapts nursery rhymes to critique insurance fraud. A crooked man rationalizes theft as "life insurance," while Tom the pig-stealer wishes he'd stolen more valuable goods to justify his sentence. The satire targets dishonest policyholders. **"Force of Habit"** jokes about two country ladies visiting New York who mistake a taxi driver for a tour guide, revealing urban gullibility. **"The Darwin Theory"** ridicules missionary work, showing Miss Mahony's depressing photos of Liberia (with enslaved people) being used unconvincingly to prove evolutionary theory. **"A Dramatic Critic"** mocks theater critics, praising a man who fell asleep and thus avoided a bad play—suggesting silence is the best criticism. The page reflects early 20th-century American attitudes toward insurance fraud, tourists, colonial Africa, and theatrical pretension.

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ACCORDING TO MOTHER GOOSE said the young man, Old Mother Hubb: Went to the cupboard to ask a policeman ¢ told them, and then remark To get her poor dog a bone the to the fact that she had just on her policy while the Little Jack Horner Hungrily longin at inasmuch as he h He reali however, t no family connection MeCurdys his case ta poor boy am It” There was a crooked Who went a crooked And he fo stil a crooked he sa > himself: “Reing crooked T ought thus fe insurance president ar ave a chance to pick up something worth Tom, Tom, the Stole a pig and ut, being arrest sently, he eried: oes! If I'd stole about a hi m the policy-hole I done.’ —Chicago Record-Herald. merely scold me for wh: Ax out-of-town newspaper reports the following adventure of two middle-aged ladies who recently visited New York. Vi at Fifty-n heard of the sight-seeing trips the from the country h Street and Fifth Avenue, and having take visitors on axh the park, they acec red “Well, Lire is published every Thursday. $5.00 a y Post foreig al Union, $1.04 a ye irrent 10 cents. Bi: -¢ months fre Bens, Live is by all Newsdealers in Great B Company, 1 Chancery Lane, London, F WILSON That's All! C., England, Acests. FORCE OF HABIT kle.—ilarper's Weekly, will cost you ten cents sav A apiece." They paid him, and on the way out stopped conte e path to the nearest & Miss Agnes was visiting Phi that she THE DARWIN THEORY. Mahony, a missionary alelphia with two African slave ¢: beria 1 bought for $15 apiece. Miss Mahony's pictures of Liberia were somb; They were pictures of savage physic patients with pieces of broken glass, of d gh rice to sup He en way, I suppose that a few me n's health deserip shet:b set, bade cold te go below and ter taking biscuit. tea shoulders with aff The sout There was no answer. formation the his pl jot went u ptain ace beside the phia Bulletin, Will Winch, the the: dramatic critics, therefor attempt to review a play, Times. hution will be returned untess accompanied by THE LAND OF THE PHAROS) pain owned re sat drowsing in a corner. The pil “But the pilot was persistent. He continu We'll be over the bar, sir, What a quict chap your father is.’ “The best dramatic criticism I ever heard, by a man who was in his ¢ . to get hilarious before 1 not at all. The piece refer to was an English comedy. Y: nS op ting py if their wives provided them wi life on, of a climate so humi. is" residence there impaired the wh She relieved the gloom of her narrative wit on of a pilot. This man was a character ck like those whom W. w. ‘obs describe his sea stories. “The pil 1 Miss Mahony, “was once bringing a ship northward, The cap toward s help himself to a glass the pilot proceeded a large monkey, “*\ gusty day, sir, and the monkey shrugge: le gruffness, went on: light is away on the port bow now, an ho: “Failing to get a reply even to this pleasant deck again and, tak the bridge, A DRAMATIC CRITIC. young gentleman in an a bile coat about to climb + (arriving home late after a busy day, and ad- lish idea of what is entertaining often differs wisely into a |: motor-car standing at the entrance. They his wifes; MADAM, TAKE MY SHEAT, PLEASE, I'M from the American. play was dragging awfully essed their desire to make the trip through the CUSMTOMED TO SHTAND.—Sketch, The curtain had been up nearly half an hour, T guess proceeded to climb into the machine. The __ and nothing had happened to check the yawns n looked somewh surprised, but politely were seen on faces in the audience. At this po: ned his passengers into the car, got in himself and yez know who that was who had yez his auto- our slightly intoxicated friend straightened ap an easy pace up the East Drive. After an mobile yawned, looked at his watch, and din a voice hour's tour of the park under the guidance of the ac The ladies did not know, heard through the theatre and on the stag >. wl motorist, the two ladies re sted to be “That was young Mr. Vanderbilt,” he said with what time docs this show begin?’ "—Kanses ( amped and ad- rations in Lire ave copyrighted, and are not to be reproduced. ers of any chance of address, is now exemplified in America by the manufacture in this country of the world-famous NESTOR (Nestor Gianaclis, Cairo and Boston ) CIGARETTES x=... Their true Oriental delicacy that it is impossible to imitate, makes them the favorite of connois- seurs, The made-in-America price places them within the reach of all. We strongly recom- mend buying in tins of 50 and 100. 25° Sold by all Clubs, Hotels and Prominent Dealers NESTOR CIANACLIS CO., BOSTON, MASS. “Defender of the Rails—The New York Central.”—Utica Herald. know the Eng. Rewer