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This page presents "Life's Infallible Fortune Teller," a satirical feature matching birthdates (September 15-21) with predictions about future spouses. Each date pairs a woman's portrait with a man's, accompanied by humorous predictions about their compatibility and roles. The satire mocks period gender stereotypes: women are predicted to become decorators, homemakers, and mothers, while men become "fashionable portrait painters," "divorce lawyers," and "musicians." The feature ridicules both fortune-telling pseudoscience and rigid Victorian gender expectations. The left page contains "Oyster Bay" poetry (with Kipling attribution), likely satirizing political figures associated with that location, though specific identities are unclear from the text alone.

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a y | | | | i | 1} daa i anki Oyster Bay (With apologies to Rudyard Kipling) BY the Mighty’s old pagoda, sittin’ somewhere near the sea, There's a mighty thinker thinkin’, an’ T know he thinks 0” me; For there’s hot air in the headlines, and some one seems to say: Come you out, you Tittle statesmen: come you out to Oyster Ba: Come you out to Oyster Bay, Where the politicians pray: Can't you ’ear their ’carts a thumpin’ from The Bridge to Oyster Bay? On the road to Oyster Ba; *Untin’ 'armony they sa And the dawn comes up like thunder; such a ¢ at Oyster Bay! N I'm sick 0? nuttin’ doin’ and 0” walkin’ pavin’ stones, An’ the blasted air 0’ Broadway feeds the fever in my bones; hough 1 talks with mollycoddles; though I talks to beat the band ; An’ they talks a lot 0° politics, wot do they understand? in Ananias Band— Wot do they understand? ca keener, cleancr leader in tha old happy tand! On the road to Oyster Bay— r Ship me somewhere east o” Bi where the best is like the worst, Where there's politicians plenty you can raise and quench a thirst ; But the mighty Colonel's callin’, “next “that I would be— - old pagoda, lookin’ lazy Ou the road to Oyster Bay, Whe So ¢ the politicians pray ne tho sce the mighty master Often “ pray the other way’! On the road to Oyster Bay From dawn to dawn 0° day ny His voice comes up like thunder: that 's the Pride of Oyster Be Robert Wallace, OU cannot make a straight st..es- man out of a crooked politic “EPPuE * Life’s Infallible Fortune Teller If you were born on “G8 Your future wile of the WLC. T.UL Ace cording to her, everything you en- joy will be wicked, astic memt 8 Your future wile will be short and stout and wear high heels, but expert the architecture of buckwheat cakes. Sept. 15 Sept. 16 Sept. 17 ‘Your future husband 4 > will bea fashionable portrait painter and your jealousy will drive away many’ of his customers. If you were born ca ‘Your future husband 4 #~ will crochet beauti- fully and you will be the head of the household. Your future husband 4 0 will be an inveterat punster and his quaintances will want him con in an instit the feeble If you were born on “Gin Your future wife will be a prominent clubwoman and you will develop into an excellent house- keeper. didn’t last forever. Sept. 18 If you were born on “WA Your future wile will! k she is a 8 decorator and will carry out her ideas on her own face, You will seldom kiss her, Sept. ‘Your future husband # 4 will be a divorce lawyer with a large practice and you will find him a most entertaining dinner companion, ‘Your future husband & II be fond of play- ing poker wi knowing th you will live If you were born on “G2 Your future wile will have a sunny disposition passion for bi You will become a : bankrupt in the ¥ fifth year of your married life. ad a Your future wife will be fond of cats and in self-defence you will become a manufacturer of violin strings. ? hats, Sept. will be music 20 Sept. 21 If you were born on 4 “GM Your future wife will be won after a 4 long courtship. You v will be sorry ii ‘Your future husband #2 and flirtatious, but kind to your mother, If you were born on Your future busb=d 42> will be fond of rid- ing but not n of a horseman. You should take a course in first aid and trained nursing. ot 427 | | comicbooks co)