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This page is primarily **advertising**, not satire or political commentary. The dominant feature is a **Maxwell automobile advertisement** featuring a 20 HP touring car ($1,450). The ad emphasizes the car's reliability and performance through racing victories and testimonials from everyday drivers. Below that is a **Subrrig cigar advertisement** for "Villa Bella" Havana cigars, emphasizing individual quality and rich aroma. There's also a **Club Cocktail advertisement** showing a man enjoying drinks, promoting bottled cocktails as convenient. The right column contains **"Myself and Me,"** a lighthearted verse about self-companionship, and short humor pieces like **"Justice Deaf as Well as Blind"** (an anecdote about a confused judge) and **"Cupid Versus Sport"** (commentary on weddings versus hunting season). This is a typical Life magazine page mixing advertisements with light satirical content.

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Myself and Me HIS item of verse is floating around, credited to the Express Gazette, but of what city, or the name of the uncrowned laureate, son of man knoweth not to this day. The name of the in spired writer should be written in letters of gold high up in the Hall of Fame: I'm the best pal that I ever had, I like to be with me; Tike to sit and tell myself Things confidentiaily. Whether you consider price or whether you don’t, Maxwell automobiles command your attention by reason of performance. In all the important public con- te&s of 1906, wherever a Maxwell entered, there was a Maxwell triumph. ‘The winning of the Deming Trophy int the Glidden Tour, the award of highea honors in the El Pismo Endurance Contest, the perfect scores in the Chicago Relia- bility Run, and the wonderful performance inthe famous 3000-mile Non-Stop Run all point to something far above the average in motor-car conftruction. But of more importance than these well-known public viGories is the great chorus of satisfaction : , that arises all over the country from the thousands 20 H. P. TOURING CAR of “average, everyday motorists” who have - $1430 bought Maxwells and have found automobile contentment. The Maxwell Doctrine upon which the construction of every Maxwell car is based is the keystone of Maxwell success, The fact that the Maxwell stood second in number of cars sold in America during 1906 is enough in itself to make it worth your while to get acquainted with this Maxwell “doctrine. The MAXWELL Catalogue is more than a book of ications. It is a complete treatise on the com- PB jive merits of the various systems of automo- bile construction. Sent free if you write Dept. 23 Maxwell-Briscoe Motor Company 7 Gar Manufacturers’ A Toften sit and ask me If shouldn't or I should, And T find that n Is always pretty good. I never got acquainted with Myself till here of late, * And I find myself a bully chum, I treat me simply great. Ttalk with me and walk with m= And show me right and wrong. T never knew how well myself And me could get along. I never try to cheat me, I'm as truthful as can be; No matter what may come or go, I'm on the square with me. It's great to know yourself and have A pal that’s all your own; To be such company for yourself You're never left alone. You'll try to dodge the masses, And you'll find a crowd's a joke, If you only treat yourself as well As you treat other folk. Members American Beech Street, Tarrytown, N. Y. Main Plant: Tarrytown, N.Y. Factories: Chicago, Il, Pawtucket, RL. Dealers in all targe cities. I've made a study of myself, Compared with me the lot, And I've finally concluded I’m the best friend that I’ve got. Just get together with yourself And trust yourself with you, And you'll be surprised how well yourself Will like you if you do. —The Publisher and Retailer. Justice Deaf as Well as Blind MEMBER of the Philadelphia bar tells of a queer old character in Altoona who for QURBRUG 204 3 a long time was the judge of a police court in that town. On one occasion during a session of his court there was such an amount of conversation and laughter in the court-room that his Honor became very angry and confused. Suddenly, in great wrath, he shouted: “Silence here! We have decided above 2 dozen cases this morning and I haven’t heard a word of one of them!”—Harper’s Weekly. Cupid Versus Sport (BROADWAY NY. Exciusive Importer of “Villa Bella” “Havana Cigars” The best beginning to Christmas merriment and the most delightful drink in the world. To be prized for their uniform delicacy in flavor, for their rare smooth- ness—of perfectly blended old liquors, aged in wood Diaz Hermanos & Co. Havana, Cuba We esha INDIVIDUALITY ¢f Materia INDIVIDUALITY of Worxmansuip INDIVIDUALITY of Each Cicar Being like its mate | PERFECT in Flavor— RICH in Aroma Yet — MILD and SWEET to exquisite mellowness. No chance-proportioned, uo- blended cocktail can possibly be so good. CLUB COCKTAILS are measure-mixed to absolute uni- formity. Seven kinds—all delightful—of good grocers everywhere G. F. HEUBLEIN & BRO., Sole Props, Hartford LTHOUGH weddings are many at this season of the year, engagements are few. The masculine mind is too much taken up with sport, and the delights of a “warm corner,” when the long-tailed birds are sailing overhead in large numbers, or the pleasurable: excitement of cub- hunting, which is only a promise of greater joy to come, occupy it to the exclusion of all softer emotions.—The Crown. Scuace € 12 to 16 Jo Speed 104 W. 3 Ccomicbooks.com