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This page is primarily **advertising with interspersed humor pieces**, typical of early 20th-century Life magazine. **The advertisements** promote Winchester ammunition, Evans Ale, and Regno cigars—products marketed to middle and upper-class men. **The humor pieces** include: 1. **"To Be Quite Frank"**—A versified moral lecture (adapted from Horace) chiding a married woman named Chloris for behaving too wildly at social events instead of focusing on motherhood and propriety. The satire mocks sanctimonious Victorian moralizing about women's conduct. 2. **"His Weakest Point"**—An anecdote about evangelist Sam P. Jones, appearing at Chautauqua lecture circuits. When a manager compliments Jones only for his looks, Jones deadpans a comeback, deflating the manager's shallow observation. 3. **"Why She Sang the Hymns"**—A domestic humor piece where a bishop assumes a woman singing hymns at dawn reflects deep piety, only to learn she uses the hymn's verses as a timer for boiling eggs—deflating sentimental assumptions about religiosity. All three pieces use ironic deflation of pretense as their comedic strategy.

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gilt) el eal oie Rifle, Revolver and Pistol Cartridges in all calibers are as near per- fect as experience and brains coupled with modern and scientific methods of manu- facture can make them. Al- ways shoot Winchester make of cartridges and insure against the annoyancescaused by unreliable ammunition. Winchester Rife and Winchester Cartrhages are made for each other. NEW HAVEN, CONN. DON’T na. FORGET “"* Doubles the pleasures of an outing fur a day or ason ee All dealers and summer resorts To Be Quite Frank “Uxor pauperis Ibyci. . Horsce: Ode 15. Book 10. ‘OUR conduct, naughty Chloris, is Not just exactly Horace’s Ideal of a lady At the shady ‘Time of life: You musto’t throw your soul away On foolishness, like Pholoe— Her days are folly-laden— She's a maiden, You're a wife Your daughter, with propriety, May look for male society Do one thing and another In which mother Shouldn't mix; But revets Bacchanalian Are—or should be—quite alien To you. a married person, Something worse’a Forty-six Yes, Chloris, you cut up too much, You sove the dance and Your years are quickly flitting To your knitting, Right-about! Forget the incidental things ‘That keep you from parental things— The World, the Flesh, the Devil, Oa the level. Cut ‘em out! too much, A ppleton's Magatine. Delightful and successful vacations planned with aid of A Summer Paradise." 300 page illustrated guide to cool northern reworts. Send 5 cts, postage to A.A. Heard, G.P.A., Albany NY. His Weakest Point UT around the circuit of the Chautauquas, which are now in full blast in these United States, and especially in the middle West, they are telling, lovingly and tenderly, funny stories of the lamented Sam P. Jones. Perhaps Jones filled more Chautauqua dates than any other man on earth, He was always a drawing card, a Chautauqua staple, and only those who best knew the man saw through the superficial and mob-catching roughness into the teal goodness within. At Maysville, Mo.. last summer, the manager of the Chautauqua, after Jones’s farewell making to the audience a fe in the course of which he said “The only particular in wl Mr. Jones's superior is in looks Jones arose from his chair, walked deliberately around in front of the man, looked at him searchingly a moment and then drawled gently, in plain hearing of the audience “Wry, bud, that’s yo’ weakest p'int.” To say that brought down the house is to put it mildly.—Chicago Daily News. Why She Sang the Hymns WELL-KNOWN bishop relates that while on a recent visit to the South he was in a small country town, where, owing to the scarcity of servants, most of the ladies preferred to do their own work. He was awakened quite carly by the tones of a soprano voice singing “Nearer, My God, to Thee.” As the bishop lay in bed he meditated upon the piety which his hostess must possess which enabled her to go about her task early in the morning singing such a noble hymn. At breakfast he spoke to her about it, and told her how pleased he was. “Oh, law,” she replied, “that’s the hymn I boil the eggs by; three verses for soft and five for hard.”” acetious remarks, Tam in any wise _|—The St. Joseph News Press. GENUINE HAVANA CIGARS The cigar I manufacture is named * REGNO,” a strictly LONG FILLER cigar made tirely BY HAND, and contains absolutely nothing but PURE NATURALLY CURED TOBACCO. The filler is GENUINE HAVANA (not American or Key West Havana—nor Havana seed), but HAVANA that was grown and cured on the Island of CUBA, and the wrapper is GENU POR combination par excellence. CIGARS are really TO ORDER, because T make only cnough each day to fill my orders, thus insuring you cigars in the most perfect condition. I manufacture these cigars in a town where expenses are much lower than in a large city Tam sa because I want p than a big profit oa a single on I make the Uecause itis them and they smoke equally as well, if not better, than a fancy shaj arsa plain straight shape pensive to so make Tam selling my REGNO CIGARS direct {rom the factory to the smoker—no itto be paid. They are 50 CIGARS for $2.00. arges and I positively not as repre jund your money. In ordering st de desited—Light, Dark, of Medium JOSEPH H. RUGG Successor to Chas, Rugg & Soo 49 Market St. Blairwvle, Pa. 1 Star and Shape ESTABLISHED 1843 THE LABEL THAT MEANS SOMETHING WORTH LOOKING FOR WHEN YOU WANT Real Scotch Whiskey comicbooks.com