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Life — September 2, 1909 — page 39: Life, 1909-09-02

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This page contains **poetry and satirical prose** rather than traditional political cartoons, plus period advertising. The left column features a **humorous poem about poverty and wealth**: a poor person ironically notes that poets claim poverty brings happiness, yet he experiences only discomfort—his tailor demands cash, his landlady dunns him for rent. The satire mocks romantic notions that poverty is spiritually superior; the speaker would prefer actual money. Below, an anecdote titled "His Party" satirizes **a stern, judgmental matron** encountered by a newspaper reporter seeking interviews. When asked her politics, she refuses, declaring "I'm not a beggar." The humor lies in her defensive pride despite her apparent hardship. Another brief story mocks a **temperance activist** ("Mr. Moody") who distributes anti-drinking tracts to an elderly newspaper reader. When Moody asks if he's "reformed," the man irritably responds he's never been a drunkard—satirizing preachy, sanctimonious reformers who assume moral failure. The right side is dominated by a **Pabst Extract advertisement** targeting convalescents, claiming the tonic aids recovery and digestion. The overall theme: satirizing poverty myths, moral pretension, and self-righteousness among the period's reformist classes.

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$ $ § He has full a million dollars ‘And I haven't got a cent, But according to the poets Wealth means absence of content; So I just ought to be happy aught my spirits dash, ctry’s no comfort Tailor asks for cash Landlady is dunning for her room rent i her hash! poet's words are truthful, ¢ thing to be poor, lls of wealth I'm thinking anage to endure; versity has uses s possibly no doubt, hose uses I've no use for ‘And would rather do without, And have my dear belongings otherwhere than the spout! worshiper of Mammon don't want to possess wealth of all the Indies— get along with less; se to stint and wonder c next Dill’s to be met tly thing, by thunder! : certainly don’t get © a fellow’s mind, and never has as ost delet reading, Encourage Listless Convalescence sasting of The: della On To Rapid Recovery ones who have them not! ly sit and flout them Have you ever been through a real serious siege of sickness? How well you pay your bills when due, remember when the danger point was passed and the cheerful possibility of find it vastly better getting better began to be realized. Then commenced a long and tedious task appier for you of coaxing and coddling the enfeebled organs of the body back to natural honestly go hustle and gather in a health, vigor and strength. At this vital stage, when exhausted nature is seek- ing to regain her own, you will find orf Francis,in Pearson's Magazine. His Pay Pabst Extract ron of the most determined character . ntered by a young woman reporter on The’ B paper, who was sent out to interview RSE Tonic to their politics. May I see It combines the nutritive properties of an ideal liquid food and the restorative ked of a stern-looking woman qualities of a perfect tonic. Blending in correct proportions the nutritive and di- J the door at one house. “No, you gestive elements of pure, rich barley malt with the quieting and tonic effects of ered the matron decisively. “ But the choicest hops, it offers a nourishment in predigested form. Being y * plead- i easily assimilated, it rapidly builds tissue, muscle and sinew. By man drew up her tall figure. fin, strengthening the vitality, it creates a desire for more solid food and fur- 00d look at me,’’ she said, “I'm nishes the power for digestion, after which the road to recovery is short. © belongs to Argonaut. Physicians of repute everywhere are constantly vouching for the ing “Me. Mooaye the revive merits of Pabst Extract, “Best” Tonic, by recommending it y morning Mr. Moody, the reviy: to strengthen the weak ‘and build up the overworked; to relieve Chicago drug store distributing insomnia id conquer dyspepsia; to help the anaemic and © back of the store sat an elderly the nervous; to assist nursing mothers and invigorate old age. wished citizen reading a morning S @ Order a Dozen from Your Local Druggist Today—Insist Upon It Being Pabst Mr. Moody approached this gentle- A Library Silp, good for Books and wagasiocs, le packed with each betile, fn threw one of the temperance tracts . upon the paper before him. The old gentleman Booklet and Picture “Baby's First Adventure’ sent free on request. the tract, and then, looking be- ‘ steMloody! asked: Are you wcres PABST EXTRACT CO. DEPT. 12 MILWAUKEE, WIS. formed drunkard? “No, sir, I am not!" cried “ Father,’ observed the merchant that after- Moody, drawing back, indignantly. “ Then why noon, while his mother was taking her accus- in h—— don’t you reform?" quietly asked the tomed nap, “in our churches the congregation old gentleman.—Argonaut. does very little singing; it is left entirely to the The Lesser of Two Evils oe Best now, my boy,” said the old gentleman, as On the first Sunday of their vi: in Chicago he lovingly placed a hand on his son's shoulder, the successful merchant escorted” his parents “that it was very arrassing to you me morn. to a fashionable church, Some of the s ing, but if I hadn't sung as loudly I did the were familiar, and in their rendition the visiti: people would have heard your mother.’’—Youth’s pair contributed heavily, with the credit for vol- Companion. ume in favor of the father. Although not always in correct time, and some- “Dieo in Poverty ! "* cried the philosopher, times in discord, yet the joy of the good couple scornfully. “Died in poverty, did he, an’ you leaped forth in joyous praise, and they did not ‘expect_me to sympathize? Gorstrooth, what is see the glowering looks of nearby worshippers there in dying in poverty. I've got to live in it.’” or the flushed face of their devoted son. —The Sporting Times, @ is the Sensation of the Hour Scod Thirty Cents in stamps. for 11x14 vbotogravure or make it Fitty Cents and we de an assortment of Spinks Chalk and Self Sticker Cue Tips postpaid, ‘Quickstick" for cue tips sticks anything—bot sloc~in tubes—twenty-five cents, ‘Ask for Booklet—shows Miss Cue at Billiards—NO CHARGE William A, Spinks & Company %62 Erie Street Chicago ‘Menntectarers Splaks Billiard Chath asd “The oaty manatactarers of eu tipe In Amerten.” 000000000008 | comicbooks.com