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This page is primarily **advertising and serialized fiction**, not political satire. The main content includes: 1. **"Quaint Cape Cod" travel promotion** — a free illustrated book advertisement 2. **Serialized humorous stories** — including "Growing Up to His Name" (an anecdote attributed to Harvard President Eliot about being mistaken for someone else) and "A String to It" (a brief joke about losing a hat in Chicago wind) 3. **Gillette Safety Razor advertisement** — the dominant feature, promoting the new "Pocket Edition" razor as a portable grooming necessity for men 4. **Travel insurance ad** — for automobile liability coverage in France The Gillette ad uses the common early-20th-century marketing strategy of positioning a product as essential to masculine identity and modern convenience. There is **no political cartoon or satire visible** on this page — it represents typical Life magazine content mixing light humor, serialized fiction, and commercial advertising.

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g. but t had door- 10 the rected ot yet ke it paper, others ought indow amma made Quaint Cape Cod” Send for this Book Cape Cod’s the place where you would enjoy eself this summer. We've a beautifully illustrated book that tells wat the summer pleasures that await you on je Cod—the yachting, the bathing, the fishing J the social lif Before you decide where to go this summer, 2d for “Quaint Cape Cod." t's Free, Write A. B. Smith, C Room 185, New Haven, Conn. ew York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. (Continued from page 828) And the firemen said, “ We are sorry, but the femen have not yet returned with it. They are witing for change in the department store in stich they bought it.’” So Maude and her mamma walked down the cnt stairs, which fortunately had not yet been atacked by the flames, and soon reached the arden. On the way, Maude’s mamma said, “How long has this been going on, my child?” “Oh, mamma,” said Little Maude, “it must lave begun when you started to read the last Do you wish to chide me for not tell dy, “for I see you have poise. Come, we will frish the story in the garden and then if I can jet some charcoal that is not too damp, we will sake coffee for these brave fellows. How fortu- te, my child, that the house is insured.""— (herles Battle Loomis, in Success. Growing Up to His Name “There is a certain story,"’ said President Biot, of Harvard, at a Harvard dinner in Balti- sere, “that is always told by some speaker at cery dinner I attend, and if you will pardon me I take this opportunity to tell it right, so all have an equal chance at it hereafter. When I was twenty years old and a tutor in matics and a special student in chemistry Harvard I was a proctor in one of the halls. Ose night I heard a disturbance and hurried down to see what was happening. There were no lights in those days, and as I moved about song the disturbers I heard them say: ‘Look txt, or old Eliot will catch us.’ “Now, not long ago, when I was well past wrenty, I was going from Cambridge to Boston fee night about eleven o'clock, and I met a party tstudents returning from Boston to Cambridge. recognized me and asked among them- wives: ‘Where the devil is Charlie going at this tine, do you suppose?’ ''—Saturday Post. A String to It “I was walking along State street, Chicago (the windy city), when a sudden gust relieved me {my straw hat. I turned, gave chase, and after run at full speed pounced upon it. At Tourists While traveling in France INSURE YOURSELF AGAINST LIABILITY FOR DAMAGES Caused by Your Automobile. Nrbaine et Ia Seine 39 Rue Le Peletier, Paris | Tor particulars: L. G. Lawnenr, 437 Fifth Ave., N.Y. Gillette Pocket Edition The Little Friend to all Mankind UY a Gillette Safety Razor— New Pocket Edition and put it on your dressing table. Some morning you'll get up and shave with it—then the GILLETTE will be as much of a hobby with you as it is with thou- sands of men the world over. Have you never thought of owning a GILLETTE? Have you never wished for one—say on a Sunday morning— or in a hundred emergencies when you knew you were not shaved, but ought to be ? There certainly can be no question in your mind of what the Naw York, Timer Bld. Chicage, Stk Exchange Bldg. Landon 17 Helborn Viaduct, E. Co Factorie: GILLETTE SALES CO. 528 Kimball Building, Boston GILLETTE will do. You can’t doubt that you shall be abl shave yourself with the GILL It is not something you have to learn—you just do it! It’s about the handsomest and cleverest little device you ever saw, pocket-case is made in gold, silver, or gun metal. Plain polished or richly engraved. Handleand blade box each triple silver-plated or 14 K. gold-plated—and the blades are fine. Prices, $5 to $7.50, on sale everywhere. You should know GILLETTE Shaving Brush—a new brush of GILLETTE quality—bristles grip- ped in hard rubber: and GILLETTE Shaving Stick—a shaving soap worthy of the GILLETTE Safety Razor. Canadian 3S. Al Boston, Montreal, London, Berlin, Paris “worroxs! THERE'S A suIciDE!"* #29 almost breathless) took it from me and th me kindly. ‘But it’s my hat,’ said I said he, ‘yours is hanging down your back on a string.’ "’—London Globe. The Lesson In a certain Sunday school a teacher told her pupils the tragic story of Samson and Delilah. Then she turned to a little “What do you learn, Joe, the Samson story?’ It don't never pay,” piped Joe, “to have a woman cut a feller’s hair.""—Harper’s Weekly. she said, “from Tne man who looks pleasant at dinner is— masculine, but the one who beams at breakfast is—happy. —Lippincott’s. comicbooks.com