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This is primarily an **advertising and miscellaneous content page** from Life magazine, not a political cartoon page. The main content includes: **News Anecdotes**: Brief humorous stories—a policeman saving a dog from apparent heatstroke at Coney Island, and a society girl's return from a European tour focused on fashion and flirtation rather than culture. **Advertisements**: A liquor ad for Hunter Whiskey promoting "high balls" (whiskey cocktails) as refreshing, and a Pennsylvania Railroad bulletin advertising a 20-day luxury tour to Yellowstone Park and the Canadian Rockies. **Social Satire**: The "Betty" story gently mocks wealthy American tourists abroad—the implication being that young women traveling to Europe were more interested in romance, fashion, and male attention than genuine cultural education, despite claims otherwise. The overall tone reflects early 20th-century upper-class American life: travel, alcohol consumption, and gentle mockery of social pretension.

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ANOTHER CASE OF HYDROPHOBIA AVERTED Policeman Hannon of the Coney Island Station sipped a mad dog scare in the bud yesterday, and by tte application of a little common sense saved not aly the crowd on the beach off Seaside Park, but the dog itself from anything worse than an uncom- fortable fifteen minutes. The dog was a brindle bull telonging to Mrs. Garrett Smith of 474 Quincy street, Brookl)n, and wheh it began to act queerly on the teach s scare seemed imminent. Hanson saw the dog and got to it just about the time that the animal collapsed. He picked it up in his arvis and started on the run for the Coney Isk Station, Hest prostration. Nothing worse," was his diag- en Mrs. nith begged to be told the trouble r pet. In (he station Hannon carried the dog into Capt Kelley's room, and Lieut. Nedwell turned on the cold n the captain’s bathtub, When the tub was y dropped the dog into it. In a few minutes it regained its senses, and in fifteen minutes it was all right again—New York Times. WHAT BETTY LEARNED ABROAD Betty's back from Europe. Such a gorgeous trip! Highly educational—even on the ship. What did Betty learn? Oh, my! Everything on arth ne ought to know—and have you seen the gown re got from Worth? Paris? Just delightful! Betty “did " it well. What she saw! Well, lots of things, Betty wouldn't tell, The Louvre, of course, the Eiffel, and the Bois and all of that— And, oh, the sweetest vision of a pink and purple | hat! A bat—one can't describe it—with the true Parisian flare. And icathers a la—something—falling sidewise on the hair. | Lond ply charming! So historic, don't you | know— The Tower and the palaces, the churches and the ~ Row.” Betty saw them all, she thinks—they come to her | flashes: And sll of them—the men, I mean—wore funny axed_ mustaches And high silk hats; but oh, my dear, they're clever as can be, And soy the most delightful things across a cup of a age? Really perfect! A little rough per: °p fn the ship was rolling on our chaperon tock aps, were so many things to learn—of masts and s and plugs, fh delightful men to tuck you in your steam Frags; »u felt the wabble of the boat a little, too, ren't ship doctors charming in those uniforms | f blue? back from Europe! Frazzled to a thread! Ket once more into a comfortable bed. 8? Alas, what father said! But why his vain vexation? had her trip abroad—and such an education! —The Sun. THE UMIT Ige-playing set at an Eastern university, who turned night into day, used to appear at < chapel with remarkable regularity, and were out as an example by the authorities. An n was made in the time, chapel not beginning ntil thirty minutes later, and the dean was astound: €d to sce that none of these men, so regular before, 83s present. He sent for them and asked the reaso- “Well, sir,” said one, “it's like this: when chapel as at half past seven we could just manage it, but TWIRL THE ICE Do you know that a HIGH BALL made of HUNTER WHISKE as smooth to the taste as the finest ice UuimoreR) cream, and just as cool and refreshing, aoc while at the same time strengthening. bs lananansS® Sold at all first-class cafes and by jobbers. rattles WM. LANAHAN & SON, Baltimore, Md. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD Bulletin. TOUR TO YELLOWSTONE PARK AND THE CANADIAN ROCKIES. In the heart of the Rocky Mountains, lies one of nature’s richest treasures— the Yellowstone National Park. It is America’s greatest show.ground. To visit this Park is to see nature in a variety of rare and majestic moods. Mammoth hot springs, with multicolored terraces, cliffs of glass, beautiful lakes, mighty falls, glorious canyons, and geysers of all descriptions, are seen in this wonder- ful region. On August 24 a personally-conducted tour through the Yellowstone Park to Portland and Seattle, returning through the magnificent Canadian Rocky Mountains, will leave the East by special train over the Pennsylvania Railroad. Five and one-half days will be spent in the Park, one day in Portland, one day in Vancouver, one day at Field, B. C., one day at Laggan, Alba., one day at Banff, and stops will be made at many other points of interest. The tour will cover a period of twenty-two days. As an educational trip for both teacher and scholar, this tour is especially attractive, as it covers a section of America steeped in latter-day history, rich in scenery, and replete with the marvelous manifestations of nature. The rates, which will cover all necessary expenses, will be $246 from New York, $243.20 from Philadelphia, $241.20 from Washington and Baltimore, $230.80 from Pittsburgh, and proportionate from other points. Preliminary leaflets may be obtained of Agents, and detailed itineraries will be ready shortly. Persons desiring to utilize this exceptional opportunity to visit the Park of the Nation should apply for Pullman space early, as the party will be limited. Apply to local Ticket Agent or address Geo. W. Boyd, General we can't keep awake till eight o’clock."—Harper's Weekly . Passenger Agent, Broad Street Station, Philadelphia. THE WILLIAMS PRINTING COMPANY, comicbooks.com