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This page from *Life* magazine is primarily **advertising**, not satire or editorial cartooning. The content consists of four print advertisements and three short humorous anecdotes: **Upper left**: "Sanatogen" (a food tonic) advertisement with an art nouveau-style illustration promoting post-illness recovery. **Center**: Brief jokes, including one where a boy worries about visiting sick neighbors (implying contagion), and another where a woman challenges a lecturer's claim that women should marry by age twenty-two. **Lower left**: "Hunyadi Janos" natural laxative water advertisement with period illustration emphasizing complexion and digestion. **Right side**: "Remy Magneto" automotive ignition system, featuring a testimonial from racing driver Robert Burman about winning a 212-mile race. There is **no political satire or caricature** here—this represents typical early-20th-century magazine advertising mixed with light domestic humor aimed at the magazine's middle-class readership.

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After the siege of illness nature must do double work to build up the worn-out tissues. The process of repairing is often a slow and tedious one unless Nature is assisted in some way, That's when your physician will prescribe a tonic—ask hitn about Sanatogen THE FOOD STONIC togen contains just the proper elements sure. Without overwork f tof pure milk n dium > Phoaph: brain and nerve centres, are 80 prepared and combined that thi atogen nd reliable system builder known to mportant constit- medical science. WRITE FOR DR. C. W. SALEEBY'S BOOK HE WILL TO DO.” Get Sanatogen from your draggist—if not obtainable from him write THE BAUER CHEMICAL COMPANY 45 E. 17th STREET NEW YORK —Please send mea free copy of Dr. C. W. Saleeby's “The Will To bo.” Name. Address Druggist A correspondent in Adrian lightens our burden somewhat by contributing the fol- lowing: Cheer up! What if the day’s cold And you're feeling old And blue And disgusted, too We all do! Take a brace, Look trouble in the face gained by looking glum— Keep mum Put your woes on the shelf, Keep your troubles to yourself And—CHEER UP! —Detroit Free Press Asmeyitta, No Cir The foursease South. ‘Te Mavor, the English-like No Danger Much sobered by the importance of the news he had to communicate, youth- ful Thomas strode into the house and hlessly Mother, they door, and the | sick resort of the of Asheville. ave a new baby next ly over there is awful Mother, you ought to go right in mother. “1 ISt_aS soon said his day or two persisted nas, “1 think you is real sick, an thing to help. "Yes, dear,”” sa ht to goin ri maybe you can do some- the mother patiently, “but wait a day or so until she is just tle better.” much dissatisfied at her's apparent lack of neighborly interest, and then something seemed to dawn upon nim, for he blurted out: “Mother, you needn't be afraic ain't catchin Thomas seemed his "'—Cosmopolitan man and age of “Ir is the duty of every woman to be married at the twenty-two,” said the lecturer “ Well," said a woman of thirty, with some asperity, “ you needn't tell me that Talk to the man."'—Philadelphia Ledger GREAT REAR SPRING WATER “Hts parity has tf IN THE MORNING ON ARISING TAKE % GLASS OF himmadl dees THE BEST NATURAL LAXATIVE WATER A beautiful woman must have a clear complexion. digestion and active liver are essential. Perfect The greatest aid is HUNYADI JANOS, the Nature! Aperient Water. Gentle Pleasant and effective. Tones up the whole system. Try it. Burman ia Buick Car Winning 212-Mile Race at Lowell, Mass. MAGNETO “The Greatest Made” Lowell, Sept. 6, 1909 Remy Electric Company, Anderson, Indiana, Gentlemen — I won the 212-mile race at Lowell today with a REMY Magneto, and as usual did not know what a moment's ignition trouble was, Besides winning the race I also covered the fastest lap of the day, doing the ten and six-tenths miles in ten minutes and twelve seconds, | conclusively proving thatthe REMY Mag- neto is the greatest magneto made, at high |as well as low speed. I cheerfully rec- |ommend REMY Magnetos to all drivers of automobiles. Yours respectfully, (Signed) ROBERT BURMAN. Over 100,000 Remy Magnetos Sold for 1910 Not a quantity user who helped make our immense 1909 season but that has adopted the REMY for 1910. Besides, many manufacturers have jadopted the REMY for 1910 who formerly used other magnetos. | Our factory is the largest and best | equipped plant in the world devoted exclusivelyto magneto manufacturing. |REMY ELECTRIC CO. Dept. 19. ANDERSON, INDIANA Branch Distributing Offices: CHICAGO 1400-1402 Michigan Avenue NEW YORK Autombile Bidg., 64th and Broadway DETROIT 471 Woodward Avenue KANSAS CITY, MO. 406 E. 15th Street SAN FRANCISCO comicbooks.com