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This page is primarily **advertising**, typical of early-20th-century magazines. The content includes: **Main Advertisements:** - **Allen's Foot-Ease**: An antiseptic powder for foot problems, promising relief from corns, bunions, and perspiration - **Hi-Flyer**: A toy novelty flying machine from 1910—a miniature aircraft that "flies 600 feet" - **Mennen's Borated Talcum Powder**: Toilet powder for skin care - **Man-a-cea Water**: A patent medicine **Editorial Content:** A column titled "The Literary Zoo" discusses a train-wreck poem, featuring dialogue about Italian sonnets and their structure. Another section, "Liszt, by Way of Banting," profiles art critic James Huneker's winter travels and his pedometer measurements of gallery visits. **Historical Context:** The advertisements reflect 1910 consumer culture—patent medicines and novelty toys were heavily marketed in magazines. "Banting" (mentioned regarding Huneker) refers to dieting, named after William Banting, a 19th-century dieting advocate. The page shows no political satire; it's a standard magazine issue mixing literary discussion with commercial promotions.

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ETFE: COMING SOON— A Perfect Figure ; without drugs or dieting can only The Daily use of be obtained by eet Write fer Booklet *L" The Antiseptic Powder for Tired, Tender, Aching feet, Shaken|| DISSOLVENE MFG. COMPANY, into the Shoes. It freshens the feet and instantly relieves 18 West 34th Se. Tel. Ne weariness and Perspiring or inflamed feet. Takes the sting |} (er Curt” ‘ out of Corns and Bunions, prevents friction and saves ten|f °°" tis. Mithe Sar"prce eo nmecas ot times its cost by keeping your stockings from wearing out. Over thirty thousand testimonials. |= workn Liszt, by Way of Banting Genuine bas signatu¥¢ on each package. A slight change of occupation Sold everywhere, 25c. Sample FREE. Address rest to James Huneker. Through LL S. OLMSTED, Le Roy, N. Y. the winter he has pursued art for SESESE Sa ee artist's sake—overtaking it, as a nj : zoe perfect. Out-door feveation Shake Allen's Foot-Ease in| yet seldom running it down. At your Shoes and go out to Spin your end of the season his pedometer shy “ HL-FLYER” that his promenades around 2 tween the galleries alone represez The Toy Novelty of 1910, greater mileage than the peripate A miniature Flying Machine, a new invention. Flies 600 feet, | ever:putite their credit, He has wit 2% City Blocks. Fly it once and you want to keep atit. A| a greater distance than Weston, ¥ Keal Joy for Young and Old. A new excuse for Open Air Life. ing 437 exhibitions and recording Ladies love to fly them. Sold at all Toy, Drug and Department | pressions of 5,718 pictures. Laid ¢ En Stores, soc. Ask to-day. | BUFFALO PITTS CO., Dept. H, Baffalo, N. Y., Sole Manufacturers. theme by side, these canvases would Even Forepaugh and Sells with tents foc in tim time. Put in a pile, they would red killed r z — almost to Michelangelo. Neverthe Jess ab The Literary Fess 3 Mr. Huneker has taken on weight MM ist of « ; ‘ order to train down he means to ill trip to (Continued from page 41) Marienbad, where he will amuse ports in Canada. The train stops there for Js “ self by finishing his life of Franz La lunch on the way to Lake Simcoe, The hh Mr. Huneker, who passed through poem is evidently an allusion to a ter- . Independents’ exhibition with rible railway wreck that occurred some % q trifling damage to his emotions years ago. I remember the circum- not fully recovered from the sp stances very well. And as Mr. Robin- ’ , ’ display of the Academy, but it is son intimates, the engineer was respon- 3 lieved that Marienbad will prove sible.” J effectual tonic. We turned away, more perplexed Powoenp . than ever, and, as luck had it, encoun- Mr. Whitman Works and Play tered the staff poet—a man versed in y Having achieved, in “ Predestin the verse of every age and clime. what promises to be a “best sellq “What do you make of it?” ~~] (though some of our reliable “It’s a sonnet,” he exclaimed con- be insist that it $s really worth reading fidently. “All sonnets of the Italian = — Stephen French Whitman has *gose form consist of an octette and a sex- * the Wh Soothes Europe, accompanied by his mother, tette. In the octette the soloist plays travel for a year whither inclinas a kind of prelude. Then comes 2 ares deodorizes perspiration. =e leads him. A methodical and card pause. In the sextette he Puts, you rand tet sec he qabrate (Continued on page 43) rn ie ee sane je box fo wise. The sonnet is a very old form, GERHARD MENNEN CO: Venti NS. — but it languished in the United States The Pioneer Makers of Talcum Powder until the magazine editor discovered its utility as a filler. Since the time “Yes,” we interupted him. “But _ 3 Try One More Good Dinner you have turned on the wrong tap. | make it Biss eee Who or what was Annandale, andgwhy MAN-A-CEA WAT E R did he or it go out, and what OF it? 3 ’ sipped while taking food, and between meals, dn short iwiat; doce it meat: Drink Evans A should distress appear, as an aid in Mean?” echoed the staff poet con- promoting good digestion. : temptuously, “A sonnet means what- nded and sold by—NEW YORK. Park & Tilford—Acker, 7 ” ayaa and b 4 Ringe PHILADEL ME ever you are able to see in it—neither Ks ere C y BERtGte tahun Seamed Cok eemeasias | "Ag cy we are ail asking: “Wh < i haus fet O' Bren & Cony eich C. Jes wend Soy eee eo ae sh Grocer c ie 7 i Nicholvon Grocer IN od" pestle was Annandale when the light went ATLA 4 WASHINGTON, Thompscer™ r isan 4.05 ANGE HS. He Jevne & Co, out? Take tt with you wherever you go- drink tt wherever Send for Bool i Im splits if desired. Leading dealers. MAN-A-CEA WATER CO., 13 Stone St., New York. We are in the dark. = W. T. L. C.HLEVANS&80N8%0 = aa comicbooks.com