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This page is primarily **advertising and editorial content** rather than political satire. The main elements include: **Advertisements:** - REO automobile ($1,250 touring car) - Theodore B. Starr (jeweler/silversmith services) - Jenner & Company (real estate) - Cleanair electric fan **Editorial Content:** The "Hindu Epigrams" section and "We Hope" column appear to be general-interest philosophical pieces about life wisdom and morality—not political commentary. The cartoon titled "What is the Matter, Child?" depicts a generic child and artist figure, illustrating a lighthearted joke about artistic creation. **Overall Assessment:** This is a typical early 20th-century Life magazine page mixing commercial advertisements with light humor and inspirational essays. There is no evident political satire or specific historical references requiring specialized knowledge to understand.

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THEODORE B. STARR Diamond Merchant, Jeweler and Silversmith Wedding Invitations en- graved in the most approved styles. Exclusive papers of Foreign importation for social corre- spondence. Monograms, crests and dies of unusual artistic merit. MADISON SQUARE New York From every point of view (Climbing, Speed, Endurance, Economy) REO is the practical car for practical men. It does what’s worth doing, at a price that’s worth paying. It runs with the swiftest; pulls with the strongest; is equal to every emergency, and is always “on the job.” Write for the catalogue which shows why the REO does as well in every-day use as it does in public competition, and why, if you say so, it will do as well for you. 2-passenger Runabout, $6: nger Runabout, $675 prices f. 0. nsing R. M. Owen G Co., Lansing, Mich. General Sales Agents Hindu Epigrams ME wakes when others sleep; Time no one ape; without rest and with even pace strides over all creatures. Man's life is measured by a hundred years; half of these are passed in sleep, half the remainder in childhood and old age, and what are left we fulfil +, separations, pain and servitude. How pleasure in a life that resembles the bubble on a wave? To love those who love you not, to shun those who love you, to make an enemy of the strong—that is to Not to begin an undertaking is the first sign of wisdom, and the second is to complete what has been begun. He who sits after eating gets a pain; he who sleeps after eating gets comfort; he who walks after cating gets health; he who runs after eating runs to his death. What a man desires and strives for, that he always obtains, unless in weariness he relaxes. For five years a man shall treat his son as a prince, for ten years as a slave; but when a son reaches his sixteenth year, then shall a man treat him as a friend. Under good fortune the heart of the great is as soft as a lotus bloom ; under ill fortune, as hard as the mountain rock. Everywhere good fortune attends the man whose heart is content: is not the-carth covered with leather for one whose foot is in a shoe?—Sunday Magazine. JENNER & COMPANY | Undivided Estates Exclusively 55 BROADWAY, _ NEW | Telephone 4304031 Kertor + + YORK Address * dewle \DIVIDED Es ATES E HOPE all our readers will read this from a Columbus (Ohio) pape Two horses stood yesterday, hitched near each other on Gay Street. One of them was patient, comfortable and in good temper, flies lighted upon his back occasionally, but he drove them away with a switch of his long The other horse was impa- tient, restless and in bad humor, He was stamping the ground and moving back and forth the vehicle to which he was hitched. Occasionally he would throw his head around angrily, and he had been champing his bit till his mouth was covered with foam. The flies alighted on him and stayed there. He could not dislodge them. He moved his tail, but it was only a stump. It had been docked, its useful- ness destroyed in order that some person’s foolish or cruel fancy might be pleased. ‘There was in the con- trast of those two horses a lesson that ought to have been sufficient to convince any person of the bar- barity of docking horses’ tails and leaving the ani- mals at the mercy of insects. Any person who saw and still could not understand should try the experi- ment of sitting out in a field with arms bound and all means for keeping flies away removed. Docking is a blight on our civilization. ‘The beauty and uscful- ness of the tail are destroyed, and the man who docs it or countenances it is marked as thoughtless or “WHAT 18 THE MATTER, CHILD?” brutal.—National Humane Educator. “NOTHING, MISTER. THE ARTIST JUST DREW ae sae way” HE, investigation seems to show that Mr. Harri- man did his stock-watering with a force-pump. —Philadelphia Inquirer. A COOL BREEZE OFF THE WATER. IN YOUR HOME OR OFFICE ) Shr our azcrae COL RANATR” ’ It moistens and purifies the air, removing all dust and impurities and gives a delicious coolness to the air in a room. IN A SICK ROOM i 3% 5s imperative, clears it of alt germs, prevents contagion and cools and soothes the patient. Installed like an electric fan, Inex- pensive, efficient. Write for particulars. JOHN W. FRIES, 47 LAFAYETTE STREET, NEW YORK a. comicbooks.com