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This page contains mostly **advertisements** mixed with two short humorous pieces typical of early 20th-century Life magazine. **"Curing a Critic"** satirizes a wealthy, hypercritical husband who constantly complains about his wife's cooking. His exasperated wife's solution: she labels every dish at dinner ("This is soup," "This is roast beef," etc.). The husband, thus mocked by the obvious labeling, stops criticizing. The joke targets upper-class pretension and the absurdity of perpetual fault-finding. **"How Bees Refuted the Scientists"** (incomplete on this page) discusses intelligence in animals—referencing an anecdote from *Harper's Magazine* about bees supposedly proving scientists wrong about animal reasoning ability. The bulk of the page features period **patent medicine advertising** (Pabst Extract tonic for recovery) and **travel promotions** (European tours, Mexico rail service), reflecting early 1900s publishing economics where advertisements subsidized content.

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It ‘will pourish your serves. enrich ‘your blood asd ievigorate your muscles. It gives sleep to the laleepless, reliew ia and jaranteed under the National Pure Food Law. U.S. Serial No. 1921. free on request. Pabst Extract Dept. 11 Milwaukee, Wis, THE COLLVER TOURS The Collver Mea is dislerent from all other jer Routes are fro! Kenerally Gkeo JAPAN ROUND-THE-WORLD EUROPE MOTORING TRIPS Ask for book of Tour that interests you, 370 Boviston Street Boston Mass EUROPE 30 TOURS $270 up North Cape, Round World, Japan, ete. FRANK C. CLARK 96 sroaoway N.Y. cITY | word or look to the labeled dishes. SHAVERS, WILLIAM! THE BRIDGE 18 CONE.” “WHY, SOIT IS. BUT IT’S OF NO CONSEQUENCE WITH. THESE | nup GuAxos.” Curing a Critic HE daughter ofa certain statesman has a hus- band who is disposed to be critical. Most of his friends are men of great wealth who live ex- tremely well, and association with them has made him somewhat hard to please in the matter of cooking. For some time the tendency has been growing on him. Scarcely a meal at his home table passed without criticism from him. “What is this meant for?” he would ask after tasting an entrée his wife had racked her brain to prepare. “What on earth is this?” he would say when dessert came on. “Ts this supposed to be salad?” he would in- quire sarcastically when the lettuce was served. The wife stood it as long as she could. One evening he came home in a particularly captious humor. His wife was dressed in her most be- coming gown and fairly bubbled over with wit. They went in to dinner. ‘The soup tureen was brought in. Tied to one handle was a card, and on that card the information ina big, round hand: “This is soup.” Roast beef followed with a placard announcing: “This is roast beef.” The potatoes were labeled. ‘The gravy-dish was placarded. The olives bore a card marked “Olives,” the salad bowl carried a tag marked “Salad,” and when the ice pudding came in a cardannouncing ‘Thi ice pudding” ith it. The wife talked of a thousand different things all through the meal, never once referring by Neither then nor thereafter did she say a word about them, and never since that evening has the captious husband ventured to inquire the name of anything set be- fore him.—Tit- Bits, How Bees Refuted the Scientists M’ RLINCK thinks it is man’s vanity which causes him to doubt the proofs of in- telligence in flowers and the lesser animal crea- tures. He relates in Harper's Mag March an incident to prove the intelligence of bees. Two English entomologists declared that they would admit the reasoning faculties of bees when it was proved that bees had ever “had the idea of substituting clay or mortar for wax and propolis.” Just at this time another naturalist, Andrew Kn ea cement of wax and tur- pentine, and with it coated the bark of trees. The bees at once used this new and unknown building material, which they found already prepared, and ceased gathering propolis altogether—thus prov- ing that they not only had a new idea but acted upon it 366 MEXICO ST. LOUIS SPECIAL A train which, in less than sixty hours, transports its guests to a realm of Latin skies and Latin passions, of romance and fantasy, of music and coquetry, of sun- shine and unceasing g cheer! Is there nothing about it all that appeals to you? Each Tuesday and Friday from St. Louis, south-bound, Through sleeper from Chigago each Monday and Thursday evening, via Wabash Railroad, to St. Louis. 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