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This page contains primarily **advertisements and light humor pieces** rather than political satire. The main content includes: **"Poor Maud" poem**: A morality tale about Maud Muller wearing a scandalous "harem skirt" to a matinee. Her fiancé breaks their engagement upon seeing her in this revealing garment, leading to her regret. The moral warns that girls who wear such daring fashions risk losing respectable suitors. This reflects early 1900s anxieties about women's changing fashion and sexuality. **Humor snippets**: Brief jokes about mistaken identity (a cook), financial naiveté, and baby care—typical period comedy with no deep satire. **Advertisements**: McCray Refrigerators (emphasizing "dry cold"), French sardines, Cascade Whisky, and auto horns dominate the page. The "harem skirt" reference indicates this is from the era when orientalist fashion influenced Western women's clothing, causing moral panic among conservatives. Otherwise, the page is largely commercial, with gentle domestic humor reflecting early-20th-century attitudes toward women and propriety.

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The Ice Shows How the Cold Air Circulates Moist Cold and Dry Cold are, from the standpoint of perfect refrigeration, almost as widely dissimilar as are zero and summer-heat; because moisture is a deteriorant and a medium of interchange for the flavors or aromas of everything it envelops. Dry Cold is nature’s most perfect preservative. It keeps perishable things pure, sweet and wholesome for an indefinite time, maintains their natural condition and confines within them every particle of their natural flavor. McCray Refrigerators exclude the heat, confine the cold and keep it dry, clear and free from moisture. The outside heat-excluding case is separated from the inside cold-confining case by a wall that is not affected by either heat or cold—one reason why McCray Refrigerators are used in the better class of residences, clubs, hotels, and by the United States Government. Write for the p: No. A. H. Builtstos * ibe Restdeares, 4 72 tor Florists, No. 67 for Grocers, No, $9 tor Meat Markets, McCray Refrigerator Company 286 Lake Street Kendallville, Ind. Display Rooms and Agencies in all Principal Cities terested t FRENCH SARDINE GREETS YOU Perfect Fish in Finest Olive Oil RENE BEZIERS & CO., Packers New York, Sole Agents, Maud Muller on a winter's day Left home to attend the matiné The latest harem skirt she wore, And people “rubbered” by the score. The Judge whom she was scon to wed Caught sight of her and shook his head. “Tf Tam any judge,” said he, “Maud Muller's not t! wife for me.” He wrote her, breaking off the match— He whom she thought so good a catch And now she sighs in lonely pain, A Cook in Need Huspaxo: Did the cook you hired stow: up? Wire: No, Wasn't it fortunate? Another one rang our bell by mistake looking for Mrs. Gillet next door, and I've kept her instead.—Harper’s Bazar. plete without it, Sample on receint of 2$ cent £. C -Bliche & Co..78 Broad St., N- ¥., Gen'l Distrs. No Frenzied Financier “Do you assimilate your food, aunty 2" “No, I doesn’t, sah. I buys it open an’ honest, sah."—Baltimore American. A Stretch of Imagination Tie Moriter: Whatever is the mat- ter with baby? Nurse: Dunno, ma’am. 1 was only tryin’ to make ‘im smile with the glove stretchers.—Sketch. YOU CAN SEE THEY'RE FINNISH The Question Deemer: Did you ever think what you would do if you had Rockefeller's income? Muctey: Yes; and I've often won- dered what he'd do if he had mine — Catholic Standard and Times. Caron Bitters—Best Tonic and ‘Appetizer, No bome com- The rich, smooth mellowne:s of a Cascade Highball is but an one Ape convincing proof of the superiority of Cascade Whisky. Original bottling has old gold label. GEO. A. DICKEL & CO. Distillers Nashville, Tenn, 208 Two Auto Horns In One Two Positive Signals—Low or Loud—With One Push-Button Adds beauty to the car—always effective—never offensive—instant in operation—works all the time—operated wholly with the thumb of the}f free hand—changes from low to high pitch with] the same operation—starts and stops instantly. Shipped complete with all parts, screws, clamps, tape, etc., ready to install. SO SIMPLE IN EVERY WAY YOU CAN INSTALL IT YOURSELF Write to-day for Our Introductory Offer ° RST. «| The Dean Electric Company fynta, onto “Tl never wear that skirt again.” Morat. Girls who have beaux, such garments doff, Or sce the harem scare ‘em off. —G. H. Win Boston Transcript, comicbooks.com