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This page contains two unrelated items: a satirical column and advertisements. **"The Literary Zoo" column** mocks Theodore Roosevelt's diplomatic visit to Copenhagen. The satire criticizes Roosevelt for visiting Kronborg Castle (Hamlet's setting) while consorting with a Catholic minister—a sensitive issue for Protestant America. The column's humor peaks in reporting that Danish porcelain makers gifted Roosevelt an elephant sculpture, which Roosevelt complained wasn't authentically African. The title "Is It Psycho-Elephantasiasis?" suggests Roosevelt is obsessed with elephants, playing on his famous big-game hunting. The satire implies Roosevelt is culturally obtuse, nitpicking a diplomatic gift rather than graciously accepting it—typical of Life magazine's irreverent treatment of public figures. **The advertisements** promote bathroom fixtures (Che Brasscrafter brand) and Bridgeport Fasteners, typical early 20th-century consumer goods advertising. These hold no satirical content.

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CLUB LINEN PLAYING CARDS of tack. hematiched linen, pat Brown, Green. 25 cents per pack 7 here or seat postpand on receipt ol strated catalog of Bridge arcewaries treo. Atsress Dept be fictifte & Cou Row Tarts 144 Pentl Sty, 8 Leadon, FC Is It Psycho-Elephantasiasis ? Disquieting news comes to us from Helsingfors, via automobile to Co- penhagen and thence by special cable to New York. We do not allude to the alarming circumstance that Colonel Roosevelt has been consorting at the Danish court with the Roman Catholic Minister Egan, author of “The Ghost in Hamlet,” in which is propounded (pp. 11-44) the damnable Romish doc- What Does Your Bathroom Lack ? Does it contain substantial necessities as shown in the margin, or ix the towel bar rickety, the tum- bler and tooth brush holder (if there are ‘any) bent and brassy, the soap dish of common mudware, and the shelves stained and ablding places for germs? Do the supposed conveniences, which you have, hurt your pride? If they do, this is all wrong, because a substantial, bealthy, handsome bathroom isn’t costly and It pays in time ‘saved, satisfaction and beauty. GhesBuisiciah Bathroom Necessities Make People Provd of Their Bathroom They have honestly won the largest sale in the world because they are made to “serve your chil- dren’s children.” ‘The Brass (and there's’ plenty of it) fs the best the world produces. The designs are very practical and s y. Each article carries our Guarantee Tag, which insures you the best that money can buy, plus satisfaction, To impress our trade mark on your memory, we should like to give you a good tooth brush holder to trine that the Ghost appeared from hold five brushes. It Js penises 604 valuable, and D, 7 ently = the only cost to you #8 tu ask us for it and send us Purgatory ‘and was consequently a your deater'a name. Our Book, Successful Sugges- Catholic. That, indeed, would be quite tions seep Your Bathroom,’ ee we it. * Aas god ‘i et’ sekeep ei ave it. enough to make a literary Methodist’s ffer Is lleaited, writ Fito °° ave S this blood boil; one can fancy the ensuing offer Is Ilmited, write NOW to controversy had not the Colonel, with TRADE MARK his customary tact, called at Kronborg Castle (the scene of “ Hamlet”) with- a J. P. Eustis Mfg.Co., ™™ out any help from the Egan Baedeker. “The Colonel,” says the cable, “ merely looked around from the quadrangle and then hurried to the qua Let us trust that this incident is closed. We almost venture to believe that private interpretations—whether of the Bible or Shakespeare—can dis- turb no staunch American Protestant, whether he takes the Ghost seriously or shares the conventional view of the Rialto. But it is not this that most disturbs us—disturbs and yet clates. Peruse, an’ it please you, this paragraph hot from Copenhagen: The directors of the royal porcelain. fac tory presented to Col. Reosevelt three huge, magnificent plaques representing a rhinoc: eros, a lion and an elephant, each of which had ‘been especially designed. © The Colonel immediately remarked that the elephant was not one of the African species, but was paci- fied by the explanation of the artist that he had no model of an African elephant and bad to use an Asiatic one. Pacified, yet looking the gift elephant in the mouth. Has the Colonel, in his worthy ambition to emulate the Kaiser Bridgeport Fasteners Hold with a grip that never can slip till you lift the little lever and release them. These and other handy toilet articles—key chains and pencil holders, etc. Il haberdashers and stationers. If your dealer don’t kee v3 them, booklet and ickel-platedWatchGuard mailed for 1oc. ;Gold-platedWatchGuard mailed for 25c. _ EUGENE H. FERREE, 47 Market Street, LOCKPORT, N. Y. alae Saws We shall presently assemble the symp- UARD es NE (Continued on page 980) WATCH J as an art-critic, fallen a victim to that Mine YELLOLELOCLILELLILIOL IAL Coy asa curious malady, psycho-elephantasiasis? C LE AAAAL EL IAA comicbooks.com