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This is primarily an advertising and book review page from *Life* magazine. The main content centers on promoting "Set in Silver" by C.N. and A.M. Williamson—a motor-car romance novel set in England featuring a character named Audrie Brendon. The advertisement promises readers an entertaining tale of love and adventure set against early 1900s English motoring. The sidebar humor pieces are unrelated anecdotes: one mocks a woman compulsively stealing souvenirs (even a Chinese ambassador's pigtail), another plays on misheard classical music titles. A tooth powder ad and motor graphite lubricant ad occupy space. The page reflects early-20th-century magazine culture: automobiles were still novel luxuries, novels about motoring adventures were fashionable entertainment, and *Life* mixed satirical humor with commercial advertisements. No specific political content appears.

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bos! lal Bis ee Remember. Whether naturally perfect or not, your teeth require daily care, and will well repay the regular use of Calvert's h Powder. v4 Booklet from Park & York. Manchester. England. 2 West The Limit Among the habits which have grown apace among Americans of recent years has been that of souvenir-hunting. Souvenir spoons, ki forks, plates, photographs, postal-cards, what-not hk multitude. The thing seemed to have been car- ried a little too far when somebody at a recep- tion to Mr. Wu, the Chinese Ambassador, some years ago tried to snip off a piece of that eminent humorist’s pigtail with a pair of pocket-scissors ; but even that was surpassed by a certain Chicago woman of great personal attractiveness, who seems to have reached the ultimate. A stranger speaking of her to another woman, and not being familiar with certain facts in the and family history of the lady to whom she was talk- | ing, observed that she had heard that she was a confirmed Souvenir Hunter. “Not really a kleptomaniac, you know, id she “Oh, no, not at all,’" was the reply.“ She is just the ultra of Souvenir Hunting. I happen to know her, too. You see, some years ago she paid a week-end visit at our country place, and when it was over. “You missed your silverware?" “No, indeed,” was the answer. band !"—Lippincott’s “My hus- What's in a Name? One of the anecdotes which Andrew Carnegie is fond of telling concerns a crabbed bachelor and an aged spinster, who one day found them- selves ata concert. The selections were appar. ently entirely unfamiliar to the gentleman, but when Mendelssohn’s “ Wedding March" was be- gun he pricked up his ears. “That sounds fa- miliar,"” he exclaimed. “I'm not very strong on these classical pieces, but that’s very good. What is it?’” The spinster cast down her eyes. “That,” she told him, demurely, “is the ‘Maiden’s Prayer.’ "—Cleveland Leader. Plenty of Precedent “Will that young man ever go home?” de- manded the irritated head of the house. “I guess so, father,’ replied the mater familias, “ He always has.""—IWashington Herald. ‘¢ been a perfect passion with the | ‘There's nothing less apparent and nothing more important about an auto than its lubri- cation. pe lubrication is expensive. xon'’s Ticonderoge Flake M@TOR Graphite Stands for readiness, reliability and long life in a motor. You will at once see the com- mon sense of it when you get our booklet on lubrication. Write to Department A. JOSEPH DIXON CRUCIBLE CO. Jersey City, N. J. “The Lightning Conductor” sprightly Miss Audrie Brendon ? need is lecting NEW STORIES “* Marriage 2 [a Mod:"’ By Mrs. Humphry Ward. Fixed price, $1.20. in “Merry England” Don’t you want to take a motor trip through the highways and byways of England, speeding along beside the charming and a copy of All you Set in Silver By C. N. and A. M. WILLIAMSON The first hundred thousand is for the motor enthusiasts, who must have it; but anybody who likes a bright, cheerful, entertaining tale, of the happy issue of a tangled love affair, will make no mistake in se- this romance. Illustrated in color, $1.50 ‘Michael Thwaites’s Wife’ By Miriam Michelson. (Author of “In the Bishop's Carriage. $1.50, “Roads of Destiny.’* short stories.) By O. Henry. $1.50. us notin, (A new ys volume of this inimitable writer's ") igs Is Pigs”) By Ellis Parker Butler. “Letters of a Japanese Schos boy.’” (Jap philosophy things American.) By Wallace Irwin, $1.50. commun (B) mm @ reser “esckicl.”” (A DOouBLEDAY PAGE & Co. New Yor. with a large imagination.) By Lucy Pratt, $1.00. Almost Post Prandial Of curious prayers a writer says: “I & heard a layman utter this petition duri prayer: ‘O Lord, be Thou with us in ovr sittings and our downrisings ’—a variant of text in the Psalms, ‘Thou knowest 1 sitting and mince uprising.’ A minister sionally introduced a Latin sentence into Prayer, and forthwith proceeded to translate Another minister in his early days experie# considerable difficulty with the long prayer fore the sermon. In nonconformist churches usually occupies a quarter of an hour, but before this period had been reached be wound up. On one occasion, while in this lemma, he startled his hearers with the ¥° ‘And now, O Lord, I will relate unto Tb little anecdote! *’—Mirror. comicbooks.com