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This page is primarily **advertising and light humor**, with no political cartoons requiring historical explanation. The advertisements include: - **Kodak Film** (top left): Standard product promotion emphasizing reliability - **Thomas Cook & Son** (top right): Travel agency advertising European tours, notably including the **Coronation of King George V**, dating this issue to 1911 - **Whitman's Chocolates** (center-right): Candy company advertisement The humor pieces are gentle social satire: - "Couldn't Serve Mamma, Too" mocks wealthy families' hypocrisy—a Sunday school lesson about rejecting worldly luxury is undercut when a privileged girl serves both God *and* her mother (implying materialism) - "A Domestic Serial" jokes about magazine wear; servants are interchangeable but magazines endure - Brief quips about whiskey recipes and American millionaires **No political commentary or caricatures** appear on this page. It's representative of Life's lighter, commercial content rather than its satirical journalism.

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ONIIOAD Non The success of your pictures depends, more than upon anything else, upon your film. Be sure when you load your Kodak that it is with Kodak Film, the Dependable FILM EASTMAN KODAK CO., ROCHESTER, N. Y., The Kodak City, A Recipe for Toddy A little sugar to make it sweet, A little lemon to make it sour, A little water to make it wea And lots of whiskey to give it power. —Anonymous. Caron Bitters—One (1) Pony Glass before meals. Best and Appetizer. No home without it. Oct. C, Blache & Co., 78 Broad $ . Gen'l Distrs, A Domestic Serial Mrs. Littterows: This magazine looks rather the worse for wear. Mus. Neartown: Yes, it’s the one [ sometimes lend to the servant on Sun- days. Mus, Litttetown: Doesn't she get tired of always reading the same one? Mrs, Nearrowx: Oh, no. You see, it's the same book, but it's always a different servant.—Suburban Life. Mostly Common Lord Mount Aunurn: Are aires common in the States? Mr. Beacon Hitt: Yes—most of Harvard Lampoon. million- EUROPE 08 and Summer Tours to all parts of Eur : jumper Tours de Lure and Long and Shore Vac atlon tineraries include London durin: the Coronation of King George ¥ Tours to North Cay Summer Tours to Send tor Program Ke Inclusive Fares, $150 to $1270 THOS. COOK & SON SEW YORK { 205 Broads 264 Fifth Avenve NEW YORK | 555 Fith Avenue, 649 Madison Avense FHItapEtrnta, 11 South Bros SAM FRANCISCO, MONTREAL, 530 St. Catherine St... 140 OFFICES ABROAD Established 1841 Cook's Travellers” Cheq wes Are Good All Over the World Russia, ete, riental Lands Couldn't Serve Mamma, Too The weekly lesson in Sunday-school dealt with the corrupting influence of luxury and worldliness, and the golden text was a well-known sentence that the superintendent wished all the children to remember. It sounded like an easy text to learn, and the superintendent, mount- ing the platform for a final review of the lesson, when the school assembled for closing exercises, was sure of a pleasant response from his pupils. “Who,” he began, “can repeat the golden text?” A score of hands were raised, and the superintendent chose a little girl with blue eyes, a well-bred, well-behaved lit- tle girl from a well-to-do and “ particu lar" family, to repeat the text for him. “Well, Dorothy,” he said, “ you may tell it to us. Stand up so we can all hear you.” Dorothy stood up, in the prettiness of her best dress and the daintiness of her hair ribbons. “You cannot,” she said, distinct “you cannot serve God and mamma —St. Paul Dispatch. “T sever worry or hurry. department of the Government service are you in?”—Buffolo Express ‘OU may have leamed the inner fections at home, or at your friend's in Boston, or visiting your cousin in Pensacola. Wherever you are, wherever you may travel, you will find the green Whitman signs and a Whitman agency— usually the leading drug store. There you can buy 9, ss of Whitman’s con- Fussy Package For Fastidious Folks Chocolates with hard centers and nut centers, and all the other Whitman ties, only one step a wat from the makers. Each fOW ‘supplied direct, service is as “care full must be absolutely as Whitman's candies. fect of it must not be ald to you. Should any Whitman package age for any reason prove disappointing, the Whitman INN NY BS 'Necaits Cheecare agent is authorized to replace it or refund your money. Should a zoe f fail to find the Whitman hg Busey, Package ot 31.00: .00 seen Hon ‘ Chocolate Covered Marase! agent we will send, ‘White jows oF a package. Mint Marsh ea at. ‘Write for booklet “Suggestions"* describing the Whitman Service and Specialties, STEPHEN F. WHITMAN & SON, Inc. Established 1842. Philadelphia, U. S. A. Makers of Whitman's Instantaneeus Chocolate. (A sample mailed for ten cents) comicbooks.com