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This page is primarily **advertising and reader letters**, not political satire. The main content includes: **Reader Letters**: Two letters debate American identity and immigrant assimilation. "A Submerged Yankee" responds defensively to an earlier letter from "An Emerged American" about the Rosenheimer verdict (a legal case). The Yankee letter contains **antisemitic undertones**, referencing "fellows who end their names with 'heim'" (implying German-Jewish immigrants) and invoking Shylock from *The Merchant of Venice*—a classic antisemitic trope. This reflects early 1900s nativist anxieties about immigration and cultural assimilation. **Advertisements**: The page features product ads for Salto-Nuts, Domes of Silence (furniture glides), nurse uniforms, and a premium picture ("Dear or Dearest?") available only to Life subscribers. No cartoon or satire appears on this page. The "satire" lies in the letters themselves—reflecting genuine contemporary prejudices rather than mocking them.

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PRE? “<aerresenmieesstse SALTO-NUTS| « belf — the k yourself, and get this treat, $1 26 POUND DOOKLET, “HATCH AN APPETITE,” Describes in full. Write for it. Broadway at 30th St, N. ¥. City The Invisible Caster From Our Readers (Continued from page 232) and subsequent events convinced me that I lacked the persistence of the truly great. But, as I said before, fashion prohibits the indulgence pub- licly, and the majority of women are almos' badly hampered in private. Wishing you good luck and much merriment during the coming year (a subscription to Lire was among my Christmas presents), Very truly yours, Hattie Lee MAcALIsTER. Crayton, Ga., December 29, 1910. A Retort To re Epitor or Lire “An emerged American,” with noth- ing “apocryphal” about his ancestors (they are as obvious, alas! as is every- thing about his race), advises me to “stop whining” about the Rosenheimer verdict, “ remain sober,” and “to com- pete with the fellows who end their names with ‘heim.’” This astounding advice would sober the most abandoned Christian—no, thanks, It is true I don’t fancy being run over by his fellow “ American,” who, I know, fared better in the New York courts than did Shylock in the Venetian, but honesta mors tuopi vitd potior, Who could or would compete with the euphonious “heims,” when Without Wheels | | AKE your furniture glide, keep it gliding always. Highly hardened, highly polished, nickeled domes of steel “Domes of Silence” glide over carpets, rugs, floors, a lifetime. Same degree of hard- ness all through—no rough surface to catch, tear or scratch. Invisible. Slip easily over the edge of a rug. A few hammer taps adjust, and they stay where put, practically indestructible. There are “Domes of Silence” to fit all furniture. Five sizes, largest one inch—all 15c, set of 4. Rigid foreign and American patents cover “Domes of Silence.” Your dealer has or can get the genuine for you. Send I5c. for trial set. Mention your dealer's name so that your inevitable repeat orders may be quickly and satisfactorily filled. Dealers: Demonstration sells. No one ignores "Domes of Silence” after having seen them. Display matter free. Write for samples land prices. 4 DOMES OF SILENCE, Ltd. Henry W. Peabody & Company American Agents 30 State St., New York Nurses Outfitting Association say Ww: “3 th St. ork ae aoe Hows Neat Fitth Avenve CORRECT For Maids For House and Street cane’. It Cannot Be Bought Coorrtets. 191 —— R" OR “DEAREST"? (Color) Subscription $5 LIFE’S Premium Picture, ‘*SDEAR’ OR ‘DEAREST’?”’ will not be sold, and can be promies only by subscribing to LIFE To Secure the Picture printed in proof form, ready for framing, send us $5 for a year's subscription to LIFE, and the picture will be sent free. LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 17 West 31st Street, New York. Canadian $5.52 Foreign $6.04 aware that the necessary methods in dealing with them are those that they employ? The only country suc- cessfully using others is Russia, whence your correspondent probably “emerged” when he became an “ American.” He may feel competent to advise me (he is not of a diffident race), but I must decline his principles in exchange for my country, and remind him that, as before, I sign myself, not as an “American,” that much abused and lightly taken name, but A Susmercep YANKEE. December 31, 1010. Pneumonia, “ Rabies,” or Drug- Poisoning > To tue Epitor oF Lire: ~ A’ citizen of Nashua, N H., was re- cently taken sick with pneumonia and died of the disease. But because in his delirium he acted somewhat strangely, just as not infrequently hap- pens in pneumonia and typhoid fever. ’as is well known to all physicians of much experience in hospital practice, and because the learned doctors were informed of a history of dog bite three years ago, it was agreed to call the disease hydrophobia. Poor Richards was therefore “given opiates, and,” says the account, “he was kept under the influence of drugs until his death"! (Concluded on page 234) Artistic Perfumer. Caron=Paris His Latest Novelty, **MIMOS°’ Extract. Sold by the Best Stores. comicbooks.com