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This page is **primarily advertisements** with one brief satirical article. The main content includes: **"More Music in Sight"** — A short satire by Frances C. Stimson mocking the idea of applying "electricity to the vocal chords of dead animals" to produce sounds. The author humorously questions whether such technology could replicate animal noises, suggesting absurd applications like having jungle animals perform in concert or transplanting animal vocal chords to humans. It's gentle mockery of contemporary technological enthusiasm and pseudo-scientific proposals. The remainder consists of travel and hospitality ads: the "20th Century Limited" train, the Grand Hotel St. Moritz in Switzerland, Ernest tailoring services, and Hartshorn Rollers. No political figures or significant historical events are referenced—this is primarily commercial content with light humor.

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IF GOING ABROAD ASoRESST : y 185, rncsb. Regent Street The most EXCLUSIVE MODELS in London. FANCY TAILOR RDES, RECEPTION and EVENING FROCKS. MILLINERY, FURS More Music in Sight Sleeping-Car Accommodations Epitor oF Lire: Railroad and Pullman tickets can be secured at City And now a certain doctor tells us Ticket Office, 298 Washington St., "Phone 2140 that by applying electricity to the Fort Hill; 1216 Broadway, New York, vocal chords of dead animals they will produce the same sounds that they did in | ‘Phone 6310 Madison and 180 life. What do you think of that? Can I Cla rk St., Chicago, : we ever be sufficiently grateful? Speed |, ‘Phone 1664 the jungle-hunter on his way, and may Harrison. the guerdon he bears back to his love be the vocal chords of the Monarch of the Forest—with an attendant clectric bat- tery! Exit the mouse, while the hidden chords of defunct cats meouw forth into the night from each wired cellar and pantry. Why stop here? Since vocal chords are the order of the day for ex- perimentation, and grafting and trans- planting are hustling everything from tomatoes and marigolds to human legs and ears, why not transplant the liv- ing chords? How merrily we might ride behind the horse, singing “ Jingle bells, jingle bells,"" as he trots along. What was this we heard about uplift- ing the rural population? What more would they need when The milkmaid could milk a purring cow And the hens lay eggs with a loud bow- wow? limit that I ma; ive | i y not live to see these Alas for me that I am so near the age hopes materialize. From a Friend To rue Epitor or Lire: Sir:—I read in your paper the other | day, if I recollect you, that one of the reasons editors are unhappy is that those who dislike them say so in no uncertain | tones, while those who like them are | Frances C. Stimson. SWITZERLAND For Health and Pleasure. IT ST. MORITZ, Engadine, 6000 feet above Sea, With its World-Renowned Mineral Springs. | The exhilarating Alpine air, combined with » the sunshine and blue sky of ST. MORITZ, pro- , mote RENEWED HEALTH and VIGOUR. ‘GRAND HOTEL ST. MORITZ. The Hotel de Luxe of the Alps. Opened in 1905. Every modern improvement. 300 rooms. Private Suites, with Bath and Dressing Rooms. Thorough t secured by double passages. Grand Society Room, with most beautifal view on the Lake and Mountains. Most modern Sanitary and Ventilating arrangements. Vacuum Cleaner. Lifts to all Floors. DAILY CONCERTS BY THE MILAN ORCHESTRA. Tennis, Golf, Croquet, posting, on the Lake, Trout Fishing, Delightful Walks and Drives. Kimstrated Tarif from Tron and Country'* Travel Burean, A Avenue, N. ¥.3 from the Hotel Manager: or (on England) from COULD & PORTMANS, Lida G6 New Oxford Stove Condon, Fete hived silent. Permit me to alleviate your sor- rows by w ing that in my judgment Lire is the best thing published in America or elsewhere, as far as I am able to judge, though my linguistical limitations and a caution imbued by training at the bar enforce me to disclaim a definite | opinion as to Europe The directness with which you express your opinions, your absolute fearlessness | in doing so, your consummate and trenchant wit and, to my mind, your per- fection of judgment, are, I think, the saving condition of American journalism. With genuine admiration and entire | respect, I am, sir, Isaac B. Owens. New York, April 6, 1910. LIARTSHOpy ROLLERS comicbooks.com