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This page contains **three distinct sections**: advertisements, literary excerpts, and two brief humorous anecdotes. The main satirical content appears in the short jokes: **"The Race"** mocks Irish domestic workers, featuring a cook and mistress with exaggerated dialect ("tavin' yez, mum"), playing on period stereotypes about Irish immigrant servants. **"The Mongoose Story"** presents a tall tale about a man claiming his brother became alcoholic after witnessing snakes and mongooses—a joke format common to early 20th-century humor magazines, relying on absurdist escalation for comedic effect. The predominant content is **advertising**: Club Cocktails, the Duntley Pneumatic Cleaner (a vacuum), and Monolite cigarettes. The Duntley ad notably plays on *gender anxiety*, shaming housewives who clean only seasonally, positioning the machine as liberating domestic labor—a selling point reflecting emerging consumer appliance marketing to women.

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Mortifying Confession thoroughly only once of twice a year? t \ woman who says, “Thank heaven, I'm through with my_ Spring housecleaning,” makes a mortifying confession, m ‘She admits that for twelve monthe she allowed h a house to grow dirtier, month by month, until it FROM OLD became just twelve tmen as dirty as it should be. hem Your Common %: What excuse can she offer? Why does she clean house Sense will tell you that a mixed - by - guess- work drink can never be as good asa CLUB COCK- TAIL, mixed -to- measure, ‘Try this out—just once. Say “CLUB COCK- TAILS” to your deal- er. Your sense of taste will then prove your common sense. CLUB COCKTAILS The Everlasting No. THOMAS CARLYLE (Best Things from Best Authors) 1 lived in a continual, indefinite, pin- ing fear, tremulous, pusillanimous, ap- prehensive of I know not what; it seemed as if all things in Heaven and earth were but boundless jaws of a devouring monster, wherein I, palpi- tating, waited to be devoured. All at once there rose a thought in me, and I asked myself, “ What art thou afraid of? Wherefore like a coward doest thou ever hiss and whim- The confusion—the misery—the worry it causes—when don the old-fashioned way—is her only ex- cuse. The Duntley Pneumatic Cleaner transforms the cleaning of the home from an infinite burden into a com- parative pastime—into an — actual pleasure. Instead of an upheaval of furniture, taking up carpets, ete., the Duntley Cleaner, an’ easy, simple, daily renovation, gives you per- petual freedom from ‘dust, grime and disease germa—without disturbing furniture or furnishings, are the fussless kind, al- per and go cowering and trembling? Try It—At My Expense ways ready for use. Just “Despicable biped! what is the t w so well that the Duntley Cleaner will free you it ‘ whi aes be- forever from the housecleaning bugbear, that I am will- fore thee? Death? Well, Death! and own home—ro matter where you live. | cree : 1 to ship the Duntley Pneumatic Cleani th loren Mathai Centoles say the pangs of Tophet, too, and all Ee a earn pats owe that the devil and man may, will or prove to you Why it has won Grand Prizes here and base) are the most popu: lar. Atall good dealers G. F. HEUBLEIN & BRO. Hartford New York Londen The Race Cook: I'll be tavin’ yez, mum, Misteess: Very well, Bridget. Keep to the right. Incoming cooks keep to can do against thee! “Hast thou not a heart? canst thou not suffer whatso it be? and as a child of freedom trample it under thy feet? Let it come then, I will meet and defy ae And as I so thought there rushed like a stream of fire over my whole soul, and I shook base fear away from me forever. Gold Medals abroad. T will even rent you a Duntley Cleaner by the month, until you con= vince yourself that it is cheap- er to have it than to be withont it—and then when you decide to buy. I will apply all the rent you have paid on the regular purchase. price— $35 to $r2s. ‘And when T am willing to take all the risk, won't you give me the opportunity to prove these statements—by filling out and mailing me the coupon below—to-day—now A Business of Your Own ink the left.—Harper's Bazar, } Sas strong, of an _unlnown There is such an immense demand ia strength, a spirit almost of a god. for prearaatie cleaning that any bon: bit The Mongoose Story ver from that time the temper of my est, ‘energetic worker can earn. big 7. money daily doing commercial clean- “Do you remember the old story of the misery was changed, not fear or whin- ing—and at the same time buil om: man who walked along the street one day ing sorrow was in it, but indignation Be oes cee bretiaele basin carrying a basket on his arm? A friend and grim-eyed defiance. font, aysromprofit plan offers you three separate ways 1's? Bd to Birys “What to tm the basket, Thus had the everlasting “No” cial cleaning—by renting Duntley Cleaners-—and by selk ae: Tommy A mongoose,” said Tommy. pealed authoritatively through all the ing then to, those who wish to buy after you have ‘You sce, my brother has been drinking hard, and lately he has been bothered by rats and pink mice and spotted snakes and other venomous creations. Now a Mongoose just cats those things alive, see? So I'm taking this mongoose to him to kill those rats and snakes.’ ‘ But, Tommy,’ said the friend, ‘don't you know those are imaginary snakes?" ‘That's all right,’ said Tommy. ‘This n imaginary mongoose.’ ""—Chicago Daily Socialist. recesses of my being, and my Me stood in native God-created majesty, and thereupon I began to be a man. ‘Woman! In response to the toast, “ The Pil- grim Mothers,” Rufus H. Choate paid women an equivocal though sentiment- al tribute in the following words: (Continued on page 258) LA ESS2\SNOREOH Home Cleaning Co. GENERAL HOUSECLEANING ae Gratile, Mesh, Kov.22, 1909. In the past £0 aye my Dantiey 8 people for ecm I have worked, Youre respectfully, Gbuee od Hancock, 1 T have started scores of men in the commercial cleaning business— like Mr. Hancock—and f will do ex- actly for you what I have done for them, if you will simply fill out and . mail ‘me the coupon below. Don't hesitate—do it Flight now. 25¢ Self-Lighting Monolite 15e + =CIGARETTES ‘They strike and light on the box, | In sunshine, wind or storm. aa The invention of the age—that’s taking smokers by storm—is our cigarette without a match. A distinct innovation that makes an epoch in the history ot tobacco. | The Cigarette is made only of imported selected Turkish tobacco—care- fully blended under our personal supervision to produce a mellow flavor and ; fragrant aroma. | Made by expert workmen in clean. sanitary workrooms. Name . Ideal for Motoring, Riding, Skating, Sleighing, Walking, etc. The self-lighting disc is guaranteed absolutely harmless and tasteless. Address Atall SMOKE SHOPS or sent le fon receipt of price. ounty: . ATCH WITHOUT A MATCH AUTOLITE MANUFACTURING CO. Newark, N. J. J. W. DUNTLEY, Pres., 430 Harvester Bldg., Chicago Cut on This Line and Mail Coupon at Once..++++ Duntley Manufacturing Co., 430 Harvester Bldg. Chicage Send me booklet of Duntley Pneumatic Cleaners for seeseeeshousehold or. commercial use, and your book on scientific housecleaning. Mark X before the use in which you are interested. comicbooks.com