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This is primarily **an advertising page** with minimal satirical content. The page features: **Main Advertisements:** - Redfern Whalebone Corsets (prominent center illustration of fashionable woman) - Jaeger Underwear (satirizes health fads—the overheard conversation jokes that proper underwear eliminates need for overcoats) - Lewis & Conger House Furnishings - Hunyadi Janos mineral water (bilousness remedy) **Satirical Content:** The "Enormous Waiting List" column ridicules **New Thought/occult pseudoscience** popular in the era—specifically "vibration therapy," where people supposedly achieved higher consciousness through mental vibration and "concentration." The satire mocks both practitioners and credulous believers seeking mystical enlightenment through dubious mental exercises. The "What Else Could He Do?" anecdote gently ribald humor targeting **Andrew Carnegie**, the industrialist philanthropist, regarding pie consumption versus charitable giving. Overall, this reflects early-1900s consumer culture and satirizes contemporary wellness fads and spiritualism movements.

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“DRIES For BILIOUSNESS Try Hunyadi Janos NATURAL APERIENT WATER. Avoid Substitutes Enormous Waiting List (Continued from page 722) vibratory power neces: to be on the iT with her. Tel! me what to The Standard of * . | Corset Fashion wohave already vibrated her. Not 'The Foundation of oa Perfect-Fitting Gown an uncommon error, either, as those Boned with purest’ selected Arctic Whalebone only a man and not capable of the who suddenly enter on the joy of the higher plane often think that no others are capable of it. Of course, no one who is on the lower plane can have even the faint- est adumbration of what the higher joy is; but we earnestly assure our friend that it is possible for him, and will come in time. There are three states: first, the physical stage, which he is in at present, not being in harmony, or conscious of his subliminal self. Second, the noumenal, or half stage, in which the psychical and the phy- sical beings have not yet become harmonized; we often see people in this stage—they are uncertain of themselves, constantly trying new experiments (the faddists are all in this stage); Third, the period of the higher joy, in which the whole being is harmonized. Our friend needs patience and Security Rubber Button Hose Supporters Attached to all Redfern Whalebone Corsets Sold at all High-Class Shops $3.00 to $15.00 per pair rner Brothers Company, New York, Clears, San Francisco concentration. Above all, do not ask your wife to help you. She is Overheard in the cars: “T have not worn an overcoat in eleven years.” s Lev that?” a “Well, if you've got the rigkt urderwear, that’s encugh.”” It turned out that the speaker wore Jaeger Underwear. That's as it should be. More warmth in a suit of * Jaeger” than in two suits of any other brand. Recommended by Physicians Everywhere. Dr. Jacger’s S. W. S. Co.'s Own Stores New York: 396 Fifth Ave. ; 22 Maiden Lane, ei Reston : 228 Hoyiston St. Chkeagos @2 Sate St, alt Principat Cities, working from another centre of Your vibrations would only Think constantly of Gee. Ime. Mit., and you will become gradu- ally conscious of your subliminal self, In the meantime, try and vi- brate five mental dollars at once. It will help greatly. This department, it should be remembered, is only for all friends in the half world, who have not yet entered into the higher joy. Many of you are even now mental sub- scribers without being physically conscious of it. : We cannot undertake to send out any more sample mental copies; our force is too busy recording vibra- tions. Our premium for advertising re- mains the same—one hundred dol- lars a line for all mental advertisers who are already in, and a premium of ten dollars a line for the waiting list. In vibrating, concentrate on Gee. Ime. Mit., and always enclosemental postage; we cannot afford to en- croach on our mental surplus. iN What Else Could He Do? At breakfast, recently, Andrew Car- regic indulged in a piece of pie. A diet reformer present remonstrated, “Why, Mr. Carnegie,’ he said, “do you cat pie?” “Of course,"’ replied the noted phi- lanthropist benignly, “what do you do with it? "Success. - Furnish” the Kitchen [EWIS® @oNGER House Furnishing Warerooms 5 Established 1835 Cooking Utensils of every kind, Tin, Copper, Aluminum, Nickel and Guaranteed Enameled Steel. Cutlery, Moulds, Earthenware, China and Glass, Kitchen and Laundry Furniture, &c., &c. Correspondence Invited NEW YORK MANAGER OF FIRST-CLASS CLUB in Middle West wishes a change, Sard ih resent club. "Adkress ’ MANAGER” Cagotinns: | 130 & 132 West 42d Street, 723 comicbooks.com