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This page is primarily **advertising and literary content**, not political satire. The main feature, "The Literary Zoo," discusses famous authors' handwriting styles—Charlotte Brontë's delicate script, Thackeray's neat penmanship, Napoleon's illegible scrawl, Dickens's messy blue-ink revisions. It's a straightforward literary curiosity piece with no satirical intent. A secondary article compares **Mrs. Eddy** (founder of Christian Science) and **Mark Twain**, noting Twain's book "Christian Science" humorously summarizes Eddy as her followers see her—perfectly patient, sinless, divinely inspired. The irony appears gentle rather than cutting. The rest comprises advertisements: Coupon Bond stationery, Evans' Ale ("nourishes and exalts"), Hiawatha Spring Water, Meux's Stout, and Dysart Hotel. These ads use typical early-20th-century marketing appeals about quality and respectability. **No significant political cartoon or satire appears on this page.**

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It's Easy to Pick Out the Best Looking Letter from the Morning Mail— That letter, like a well-dressed sales- man, will receive: first attention. What does your letter look like ? Are you sure that your letters will appeal to your correspondent as among the most dignified, exclusive and impressive he is receiving in his morning mail ? If you want to get the advantage of this favorable impression: you want to get on the right side of your corre- spondents—give dignity to your house Use the De Luxe Business Paper COUPON BOND GOVPON BOND tsthe best bond paves manufactured. The materials used, the method ‘of manufacture, and the knowing Row that has come to the largest paper manufacturers in America through years of experience insure to COUPON BOND a De Luxe Quality and Appearance that no other bond papers possess. Yer, COUPON BOND exclusive as ic is, costs po more than ordinary Bond Paper. It pays to use COUPON BOND. You can distinguish it by the water-mark COUPON BONN. Look for this water- mark the next time you order business letter heads, envelopes, check-books, price-lists, cir- culars, ete, It pays. Write us on your business letter head— nd 10c. stamps—for complete sam- SQUPOM BOND" — white the name—of a local printer or stationer who can supply it AMERICAN WRITING PAPER CO. The Largest Manufacturers o) Fine Commercial Paper in the World Holyoke, Mass. Liquors excite —frequently irritate the nerves. Evans’ Ale nourishes and exalts. It’s up to you to make a selection. Gheliceraryfooy Handwriting of Authors HARLOTTE BRONTE’S §handwri- ting seemed to have been traced with a needle, and the penmanship of Bryant was aggressive, well formed and decidedly pleasing to the eye. ‘Thackeray’s writing was marvelously neat and precise. Long- fellow wrote a bold,open backhand, which delighted the printers. Joaquin Miller ites such a bad hand that he often be- comes puzzled over his own work. The handwriting of Captain Marryat was so microscopic that when he rested from his labors he was obliged to mark the place where he left off by sticking a pin in the paper. Napoleon’s handwriting was worse than illegible. It issaid that hisletters from Germany to the Empress Josephine were at first taken for rough mapsof the seat of war. Much of Carlyle’stemperament may be read inhishandwriting. He wrotea patient, crab- bed, oddly emphasized hand. The chirog- raphy of Walter Scott, Leigh Hunt, Moore and Gray was easy to read, and ran smooth- ly. It was not expressive of any especial in- dividuality, however. ‘The writingof Dick- ens was minute, and the author’s habit of writing with blue ink upon blue paper, with frequent erasures and interlineations, made his copy a burden to his publishers. By- ron’s writing was a mere scrawl. His ad- ditions in his proofs often exceeded in volume the original copy.— Dundee Ad- vertiser. Mrs. Eddy and Mark Twain ELDOM hasa book attracted such pro- found and instant attention as has Mark Twain’s “Christian Science”; and one of its most interesting feature: his succinct summarizing of Mrs. Eddy’s char- acter and power. He gives a charming picture of Mrs. Eddy as she appears to her followers: atient, gentle, loving, compassionate, noble-hearted, unselfish, sinless, widely cultured, splendidly equipped mentally, a profound thinker, an able writer, a divine personage, an inspired messenger whose acts are dictated from the Throne and whose every utterance is the Voice of God. “She has delivered to them a religion which has revolutionized their lives, ban- ished the gloom that shadowed them and filled them and flooded them with sunshine and gladness and peace; a relig has no hell; a religion whose heaven is not put off to another time, with a break and a gulf between, but begins here and now, and melts into eternity, as day melt into the dreams of sleep. He sums up her personal power in the following words: She is “The Massachusetts Metaphysical Col- lege; “Pastor Emeritus; “President; “Board of Directors; 304 The Aristocrat of the Table Nature's most gracious gift to man is pure spring water—clear, cool, spark- ling, refreshing—and the most enjoy- able of all table waters is death Spring Water —in every drop a sparkle, and in every sparkle pure delight! Holds World Highest Awards The booklet, “It's What's In- ives many. recipes for fat‘tott driaks: Seat free ‘the asking Hiawatha Spring Co. - Luss s/f Pare GHPANY. Original London Sy TOUT Invalids’ lives are brightened, suffering lessened, and strength renewed by drinking “Meux’s” Stout. LUYTIES BROTHERS, Agents, N. Y. | Bpsart Hotel | Henrietta Street, Cavendish Hq. | London, 2. The Fashionable Small Hotel comicbooks.com