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This page contains two unrelated elements: **Left side:** "Life's Suffragette Contest" continues a satirical poem mocking women's suffrage. The verses ridicule suffragettes as unsuitable wives, suggesting they're too aggressive and unfeminine for marriage. It represents anti-suffrage sentiment common in the 1910s, presenting women's political activism as incompatible with traditional domestic roles. **Right side:** A full-page advertisement for Stewart Straight Rye whiskey featuring five men in formal attire around a table. The ad appeals to wealthy, discriminating male consumers at exclusive clubs, emphasizing the whiskey's purity and eight-year aging. The juxtaposition is striking: anti-woman satire paired with luxury marketing to affluent men—reflecting the era's gender divisions and target demographics of premium products.

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ORIENT -EUROPE TOUR, 5 Toor to alt pars of Eu ORIENTAL, iy Fist Claas Wiesrated programe tre ee DE POTTER TOURS (#221) Sew Life’s Suffragette Contest (Continued from page 1092) A wife's to soothe the bairnies sma’ Whene'er they fret: uld she sing Bal-al-loo and a’ ?— \ Suffragette! A wife against hard luck is like An amulet. ve, But no such superstitions strike A Suffragette! bove! A wife’s a woman, formed to please; But ’tis a debt Paid to the Public Ear, if she’s A Suffragette. Jessie Anderson Chase. XVIII When is a suffragette not a suffra- gette?, Answer: When she ‘3 sarried toa real man. Therefore, in -eply to your asking for the best reasons why aman should not marry a suffragette, I would suggest that, since “ Votes for Women” are one of the signs of prog- ress, insurgency and rapid advance in all lines of thought and action, no real man should wish to inter- fere with the march of progress to the extent of marrying a suffragette, articularly if she be a militant suf- fragette, and taking her off from the firing line. In like manner, a man who [FATOFF IS SELLING FROM SEA TO SEA, AND BEYOND THE SEA. We never hada SOaN salesman sell a jar! Jt = sells itself! ‘THE UNFAILING FLESH REDUCING TREATMENT FOR MEN and WOMEN No Qils. No. Exercise. No Odor. No Dieting. No Greate. No Medicine. Apleasant EXTERNAL obesity treat ment for men and women. a tested, TRIED corpulency reducer that s given 0. Dy newlife to THOUSANDS the world over You can treat yourself ot home you MAY use it in hot bath if you wish “STENART STRAIGHT RYE EIGHT YEARS OLD EN of fine discrimination drink Stewart Straight Rye at their clubs. They keep Stewart Straight Rye in their homes. Stewart Rye is an absolutely pure whiskey. At every stage of preparation, the foremost fermen- tation chemist in America analyzes and passes on Stewart Rye. It is aged in wood eight years. It is bottied at the distillery. It is smooth, mellow, palatable. It is served in all prominent clubs and sold by the most progressive dealers everywhere. If you are so located that there is any difficulty in buying through a local dealer, write us. We will see to it that you are promptly supplies. STEWART DISTILLING CO. a consolidation of CARSTAIRS. McCALL & CO. AND CARSTAIRS BROS. NEW YORK BALTIMORE ids, Lux Seen FOR MEN: FATOFF isa remark 1 Fancy | able reducer of the wast line and L Cribs 3 | almost infallibly reduces that annoy ow Beds, ing hump at back ot neck . nd Iroa. Literature mailed free. in plain sealed made to wrapper, will CONVINCE. Appotn individ. by phone oF stic of FATOFF for Double Chin—a chin reducing wonder Special See $130 "Full Size Jar, $2. FATOFF is sold at all Riker's and all Hegeman’s drug ores and leading druggists everywhere, of Dept. “A” M.S. BORDEN CO. ® 48858 57: (For Years at 52 East 4th Se.) is a “mere man” and not a real man (for your question applies to “any” man) should even more carefully re- frain from committing matrimony with Wiatry ‘a:sullrage lies dependica ihe a suffragette, for he will be unable to sid on the suffragett remove her from the smoke of battle The average 1 hinks he will not and will inevitably sink to the humil- fake a salt ot the average man w iating level of being merely Mrs, Suf- Because he beleves womar #8 super- e's husband, a despised an“ man, but a suffragette only halt am broken creature, hardly a mere man Becaus suffragette upsets all his But. & Wort: traditions—and traditions are as the A. H. Jennings. (Concluded on page 109s) 1093