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This page from Life magazine (a satirical publication) contains three humorous stories and several advertisements, typical of early 20th-century American humor. **"Stayed Home Next Night"** satirizes a man who, after receiving some unspecified "dose" in Mexico City, abandons his formerly respectable lifestyle. He transforms from a model citizen praised in women's magazines into a carouser staying out until 3 a.m. The joke hinges on his wife's calm response when he rushes home worried—she's merely mourning "her late husband," implying his behavioral death. **"Discovered"** mocks changing marital standards. A woman praised as "pretty and sweet" but "accomplishless" is revealed to actually be valuable because she's a "regular kitchen mechanic" who handles all domestic work—satirizing how women's worth was measured solely by domestic utility. **"Mr. D. Piazzek"** humorously describes a man blaming cosmic bad luck, particularly at golf, claiming he can only succeed when no one watches. It's absurdist humor about superstition and self-sabotage. The advertisements (Boss crackers, Cook's champagne, Stall's Books about sexual education) are period-typical but unrelated to the satirical content.

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sane Home Next Night. course, it would probably not suit every occasion, but the peculiar dose which was inistered to a Mexico City man the other n leading a dis- | . and the men at the club who ys liked him because he was such a are mourning Uhe loss of their best , while the steward is sadly wonder- he will do for entries now that the | s off his list The man, d well liked, managed to evade he who won him ‘Tt came about this way. good fellow women until steered the wy widow ronths. For a time he was one of the model en of the city, and all the young married omen held him up as a Ladies’ Home Journal mple of manhood, but later he began staying ut after 10 o'clock and finally beca nd hardened to feminine scoldings and plead- ngs that he had ome in time for was hands against down in me so bold cen known to barely get eakfast The other morning at 3 o'clock he turned the corner leading to his home cea light in the window be Thinking that his or that something else as terrible might have happened, he yuickened his step and burst into the door to tind his wife sitting in the parlor dressed in lack What's the matter, dear?” ut of breath. “Oh, nothing.” mourning for ral. sick, equally he murmured, all he late was the calm reply husband.” “Dm just Mexican Discovered. S, she is pretty and sweet, she has no accomplishments.” No; she can neither play the piano, sing, nor lance Great Scott! “Oh, loes all the cooking Holy ! ke Houston Post How does she pass her tim jar kitchen mecha: nd housework Introduce she’s a re t home.” quick!" me, D. PIAZZEK, the grain man, R. M of the opinion that the fates have tor him, and are working twenty-five hours out is firmly it in of the twenty-four lim: “It's he friends the other day no use,” sadly protested to some I can’t lift the hoodoo ake my golf playing, for instance, Nine times nt of ten 1 miss the ball when driving off from the first tee out at the Elm Ridge Club, And every one of those nine times I look around und find the veranda lined with people, all pos- sessed of large eyes that look like porcelain plaques on a plate fail. The tenth time, how- ever, T hit the ball, I knock it toa speck. Then I turn proudly around, my chest swelling with pride. And there’s not a single soul on the veranda. Everybody has just gone in."—Kan- sas City Independent. at although | three | and was surprised ; she | in an endeavor to humiliate RECORD RYE WHISKEY ‘You get fifty dollars in shining gold pieces metiiel but can be for lubricating cleaning, polishing, preventing rust, or any other purpose not in-, cluded in the “3-in-One” oil book- let. Send to-day for booklet and, VYeood sample of oil—nocost—G. W., ity, All dealers 7 sell “3-in-One” —two sizes, Stall’s Books All people, sooner or later in life, are bound to know the truth about theme selves and the sexes, It is human nature. The greatest duty of parents is to under- stand these Vitally important truths themselves, and to make their children understand them—in the right way. To tell these truths in an Sntelligent and suraight- forward manner, Stall's Books have been written. The 8 Books in this series are: Men | Four Books to Women Mary Woot Allen, By Sylvanus Stall, D. D, AEA UTY—that's about all that makes forcign cham- pagnes cost double the price of COOR’S Ghampagne Ship freight cuts some figure, but it is mostly duty. It's your duty to prove the superiority of the American product. Four Books to ‘What a Young Boy Ought to Know What a Young Man Ought to Know What a Young Hus- band Ought to Know ‘What a Man of 45 | Ought to Know What a Young Gil Ought to Know ‘What a Young Woman Ought to Know What a Young Wife Ought to Know What a Woman of 45 Ought to Know Send for fece table of contents. VIR PUBLISHING CO. °* fiiisuaye ya * $1 per copy, post free. comicbooks.com