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This page is primarily **advertising and light humor**, not political satire. The content includes: **Main Advertisement**: Grand Hotel St. Moritz in Switzerland dominates the upper left, promoting Alpine health benefits and luxury amenities. **Cartoons/Humor Pieces**: - "Our Foolish Contemporary — Not Catching": A brief joke about a real estate agent's evasive answer regarding contagious illness in rental rooms. - "Holding Man(s)": A cartoon of a soldier at what appears to be a detention pen. **Short Stories/Jokes**: Several anecdotes, including one about a New York boy showing a visiting friend Broadway landmarks, and a teacher's sarcastic exchange with an ignorant student about George Washington (the boy deduces Washington was a soldier because he's pictured standing in a boat—a joke about poor historical reasoning). **Advertisements**: Philip Morris cigarettes and White Rock table water dominate the lower half. The humor is gentle and domestic rather than politically pointed—typical of *Life* magazine's lighter content mixed with advertising.

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SWITZERLAND 3 ToS At Le For Health and Pleasure. e 2 ae A story is repeated by Marcel Prévost VISIT 2 * an of Francois Coppée, the gifted writer A : whose inimitable volume of stories, en- ST. MORITZ, Engadine, es titled simply Ten Tales, is perhaps the 6000 feet above Sea, ‘ =" G one Americans know best. M. Prévost With its World-Renowned Mineral Springs. f A - ci - says: “If I had the honor of being pro- The exhilarating Alpine air, combined with i fessor of French to young American the sunshine and blue sky of ST. MORITZ, pro- girls, I would begin with the following mote RENEWED HEALTH and VIGOUR. : truthful anecdote: A compatriot of theirs, speaking to Francois Coppée, : sieur?’ And Coppée answered, modestly, *Non, Madame. I am_ still learning ST. Moritz. \ if ee es Asuavittr, N. Cr | The four-season resort of the _ The Hotel de Luxe of the Alps. : South. ik Manon, the English-iike ton of “Asheville, Opened in 1905. Every modern improvement. 300 rooms. ts ay ‘i Private Suites with Bath and Dressing Rooms. Thorough troatta A New York boy brought home with quiet secured by double passages. Grand Society Room, to September him from college a friend who had not with most beautiful view on the Lake and Mountains. Most visited the metropolis for ten years. modern Sanitary and Ventilating arrangements. Vacuum Cleaner. Lifts to all Floors. After a day of sightseeing the two were DAILY CONCERTS BY THE MILAN ORCHESTRA. walking down Broadway near Twelfth Tennis, Golf, Croquet, Baiting on the Lake, Trout Fishing, Delightful Walks and Drives. street. “Oh, Jack,”* said the guide, sud- b rites remains denly, “you remember’ Grace Church, COUka SSR FMANS, Lee SS “Onsord Street, London. Rawr er Cin ingen) fs don’t you “Let's see," replied the other with signs of interest, “what company was she in? '—Argonaut. In a Pinch, use ALL! FOOT EASE. That Would Be Something ; si : Bexnaa: You women want the bal- Not Catching | i lot. What would you do with it if you A lady etkd at a real estat hi £ had it? to engage a store for a rumm c Mas. Bentam: We'd change fashions The agent in ehlange told her he could once in a while; we wouldn't go on not give her a positive answer, as there voting for Bryan forever. —/udge. was sickness in the rooms over th fter leaving, it occurred to her that , ‘ a 5 A Plausible Deduction illness might be scarlet fever or some- thing contagious. Going back, she put A Baltimore school teacher had en- the question, “Is it a contagious dis ; ORIGINAL LONDON countered such a degree of ignorance on : 3 the part of one of her boys in relation 2 S came quickly, “No, it's a j ( A aret tes to the recorded acts of the Father of his ncott” | Country that she grew sarcastic, with a result which Shipping Illustrated records. day, today and al- “T wonder,”’ she began, “if you could Yesterday, today tell me whether George Washington was ways, anywhere, every- a sailor or a soldier?” J whcre the proper 1 “He was a soldier, anywhere on time yet.""—Houston Post : 4 thing to smoke. / Is it the latest thing in cars?" “I guess so; it has never gotten me “How do you know?" the teacher CAMBRIDGE 95, ei Camrose 25C stallceged, “ Because I saw a picture of him cross- ing the Delaware. Any sailor would a Cookana Pilla Ties know enough not to stand up in the “The Little Brown Box'” While Rock. nowsne wanes “The World’s Best Table Water’’ GREAT BEAR SPRING WATER “Its purity bas made it famous” comicbooks.com