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This page combines **advertisements with humorous anecdotes** rather than political cartoons. **The advertisements** promote: - Gillette Safety Razors (emphasizing convenience and quality) - Pères Chartreux liqueur (a French after-dinner drink) - Nestor Cigarettes (25¢ per package) **The humorous stories** include social commentary: 1. **"Man and Wife"**: A husband ignores his wife being hit by snowballs while protecting himself—satirizing marital indifference and male selfishness. 2. **"The Frenchman's Bill"**: A French hotel guest is shocked by an inflated Edinburgh bill, confusing the high cost with theft—poking fun at both French naiveté and Scottish hospitality pricing. 3. **"His Opinion"**: A drunk man asks Hezekiah Butterworth for money, expecting moral counsel. When offered salvation, the drunk cynically replies they'll "never live to see it"—darkly satirizing how charity often masks hopelessness rather than solving problems. These vignettes reflect early-20th-century American attitudes toward marriage, class, and social responsibility.

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Man and Wife. Nothing to Adjust, Nothing fe to Learn, Simply Shave HE snow was falling. The day was still VeREADY The Highest Grade and gray and cold. Dr. Parkhurst, shak- AAs KEEN > After-Dinner Liqueur ing the white flakes from his shoulders, said: “LT have just witnessed an instructive hap- Se pening—a happening that might teach us why | some marriages do not succeed TEMPER @ safety razor 2 “A man and his wife were walking down a that is not only a | back street. The man had his hands in his safety but a razor J) ; pockets. The woman carried a basket filled with cabbage and beets. “A group of boys danced like imps on a cor- ner. They had snowballs their hands. As soon as the married couple had passed them, p, they let drive. 1 ole Ee “But only the woman was struck. She | two heavy blows about the head and E snowball, somehow, missed the man. re | ety y “He looked at his wife as she brushed the srnorPing snow out of her cars and hair, and then he 7 i shook his fist at the boys and shouted: one Bases ‘a Se et om rascals, that you didn’t hit me.’ "—Philadel- phia Bulletin. 12 ataogs, Tae eee aacctektl aaioorl A FRENCHMAN who is staying at a hotel Give FROM 20 i; : | CEMPORTABLE SHAVES. in Edinburgh, asked at the cashier's Tipton pated pet th 2 aden dieade for MESH, dnd was astonished t© fod Te [in Velvet-lined © - it so large. 10 EXTRA OLADES 60 CENTS He felt that he had been plundered, but he LIQUEUR paid the bill and asked to sce the proprictor. The landlord came down in response to the sutlery and Beever _GREEN AND YELLOW— “Ah, let_me embrace you. Let me kees us for our special trial offer. : you!” Gillette Sales Company, Koown as: Chartreuse “But why do you want to embrace me, sit? Times Building, ? ee . I don’t understand.” “Ah, saire, but look at this bill.” “Your bill? Yes, but what of it “Vot of it? y, it means zat T. stall nevaire, nevaire see 3 again, saire”— swers (London) New York City. His Opinion. EZEKIAH B ERWORTH_ was one IDENTICALLY THE SAME _ day meditatively strolling through Bos- ton Common, when an old acquaintance ap- as you have always known them. Made from the same tobacco, in or, by the same world-famous expert, Mr. Nestor pr ‘ d Glanaclis, "No wonder ' The intoxicated man's hard luck story found quick response in the sympathetic nature of Mr. Butterworth, and the desired “loan” was forthcoming. As the man was about to hasten away with the coin Mr. Butterworth, hand (Nestor Gianaclis, Cairo and Boston) on his old friend’s shoulder 2 gz him TTES Pee squarely in the eyes, said: “Patrick, T hope are extensively used by men of discriminating Cc money, and quit your drinking Remember, tastes, who also appreciate the saving to them in a: 5 . Patrick, there is a hereafter, . ne and c% Whereupon the other man, returning the solemn gaze of the old writer, said: “Tha- Sold by all Clubs, Hotels and Prominent Dealers that’s right, He-He-Hezekiah, but I d-don’t believe we'll cither one cr live to see it.” NESTOR CIANACLIS CO., BOSTON, MASS. | oston Herald Bone sven ilve’ to S664 proached him with steps unsteady from drink 100. Wes a woman shops, it is sometimes to try to forget her poverty—New Or- leans Picayune. comicbooks.com