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This is primarily an **advertising page** from Life magazine, not a cartoon or satirical content page. The top section contains a brief literary commentary about minor poets attending a housewarming—mentioning T.A. Daly, Bert Lester Taylor, and William Allen White (editor of the Emporia Gazette). The piece gently mocks their "breakfast-food verses" and poetic contributions in a lighthearted, gossipy manner typical of Life's social commentary. The bulk of the page is **commercial advertising**: Milo Egyptian Cigarettes, Crouch & Fitzgerald luggage, and prominently, Scribner's Magazine's travel guide to London. The Scribner's ad targets American travelers planning summer trips abroad, offering a free guidebook and promising introductions to London shops, hotels, and theaters through their "International Travel & Shopping Bureau." **No significant political satire or caricature appears here.** This is a lifestyle/advertising page aimed at affluent American readers of the era who traveled internationally.

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minor poets pray to—held a house- warming. T. A. Daly, Philadelphia's Petrarch, immediately put the pot on te boil, with a resultant flavor of maca- ronic verse which Market Street pro- nounced to be “just the cheese.” Bert Lester Taylor, justly celebrated for his breakfast-food verses in the Chicago effect with the art that conceals the art of rhyming at easy intervals. Rudnyansky, the Hungarian Heine of Hester Street, contributed a lovely lyric in goulash medley. Even W. J. Lampton was prompted to write poetry, but was induced to write a letter to the Sun instead, Egyptian Cigarette of Quality AROMATIC DELICACY MILDNESS PURITY 2 At your clab or dealer’s THE SURBRUG CO., Makers, New York. Kikeiary Zao. A Purist on the Warpath Once more—yet assuredly not for the last time and often a liam Allen White. In his Emporia Gazette—emporium and epitome of all things indigenous to Letters and the Long Grass—he lately harped this hy Once more— y, have you seen by th carl, ght The backbone of winter that hung in the well?” Everywhere it set the muses in a flutter. Minerva—or whoever it is the oe Crouch & | nee Fitzgerald 154 Fifth Avenue NW, Cor, 00h St. 177 Broadway 723 Sixth Avenue, N. Y. Above Cortlandt Below Fory-secood Trunks, Bags and Cases Mr. White, of course, might easily have rested on his laurels for a while (Continued on page 1077) Tribune, contributed a crazy-quilt in cunningly assorted quatrains, Mc- Landburgh Wilson did a drop-stitch STA AS ae Hoes pe IF YOU ARE GOING ABROAD THIS SUMMER—GOING TO LONDON you should have in your hands, before sailing, a copy of Scribner’s Magazine Guide toLondon’s best Hotels, Shops, Theatres,Restaurants, and other placesof interest. This Guide is mailed free. It has been specially prepared for us and we want every reader of Scribner’s Magazine, who is going abroad, to have a copy. The Guide contains just the most helpful and useful information. It is small, handy, invaluable. In twelve “‘ Walks,” you are taken about London by one who knows London, knows what Americans want most to know. Write for the Guide now, addressing Scribner’s International Travel & Shopping Bureau, 153 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Your attention is also called to the special service rendered Americans in London by this Scribner Bureau. If you will communicate with our London Office on your arrival in England, most desirable information and introduc tions to the best shops, hotels and travel offices, will be cheerfully given. A partial list of these establishments is as follows: —H. P. Truefitt, Ltd., American Shaving Parlor, 20 Burlington Arcad nabie Attire, Oxford Street and Regent Street ; Robinson & Cleaver, J. . Trunks, Leather Goods, 179 Regent Street ; White Ali .. Decor: 3 Sporting Equipment, 166 Denmark Street, Bristol ; American University ts Chandos Street, Charing Cross; Mrs. Ritchie, regent Street, gilt & wa urniture, turner Lord & Reg tive Art, 15 Geor Piccadilly ; ‘Jona farvere Club of London, 68 Pall Millinery, 293 Regent Street 73 Oxford Street; Hatch M. ‘niture, 20 Moses Sire $ xion Specialties, B24 Grafton Street, M: ‘Steamers, Northumberland Avenue; hackeray Hotel, Great Russell Street’; PARIS ¢—Hotel de Lille et 4'Albion, Rue St. Honore. MEW YORK :—Grcat Eastern Railway of England, New York Address, 362R Broadway. SCRIBNER'S INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL AND SHOPPING BUREAU Cane SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE NEW YORK, 163-167 FIFTH AVENUE TEMPLE HOUSE, TEMPLE AVENUE, LONDON Mall; i tstace Males, Resta comicbooks.com