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This page is primarily **advertising with minimal editorial content**. The main illustrated advertisement is for O'Sullivan's Rubber Heels, featuring a large detailed drawing of a shoe heel with the product label visible. The ad's satire targets the physical toll of modern urban life: it humorously argues that hard leather heels damage feet and leg muscles, causing pain and fatigue. The solution—O'Sullivan's rubber heels—promises "the light, elastic step of youth" by cushioning impact. The accompanying crowd illustration of well-dressed young people walking reinforces this lifestyle appeal. The page also contains smaller ads for Peter's candy, Linden Hall Seminary, and Hartshodan shade rollers. A brief editorial piece discusses island ownership. This appears to be a standard early-20th-century magazine page mixing commerce with light content.

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~ Peter’s Progress into the hearts of discrim- inating candy eaters is due to its wonderful flavor. Peter’s owes this flavor to the process of combining milk and chocolate, invent- ed by Mr. D. Peter of Vevey, Switzerland. Peter’s is as wholesome as it is delicious. Peter’s comes in several varieties: Peter's Milk Chocolate Peter's Milk Chocolate Croquettes Peter's Almond Milk Chocolate Peter's Milk Chocolate with Roasted Hazel- Peg) Pe A nutscalled** Thimbles” Gam SLY Peter's Bon-Bons Wanted: An Island If some wealthy and philanthropic owner of an island would like a deserv- ing family to occupy his island this sum- mer while he goes to Europe, let him kindly communicate with the writer of this department, who knows the very par- ties for the place. The island need not be a large one, but there should be shade trees, a cool and refreshing spring of water and a bunga- lew or a shack of some sort, with a boat or two, a sand beach for bathing, a kitchen garden, good fishing near and a post-office handy. A herd of deer, a rus- tic bridge or two and a naphtha launch would add to the charm of the place, but these things are not at all necessary, for our friends’ wants are simple and their wishes few. Linden Hall Seminary FOR GIRLS LITITZ, LANCASTER CO., PA. Organized 1746. Reorganized 1794. For the purpose of developing home loving and home making young women. For particulars write Rev. CHAS. D. KREIDER Step of Youth Allhealthy young peo- ple walk with a buoyant and springy step. That is because they walk Nature’s own way. They have not worn hard leather heels long enough to destroy the natural resil- iency and elasticity of their feet. Every step you take with hard leather heels sends a jolt through the spine and the nerv- ous system, When you consider that you bring the weight of your body down on the hard pavement every time you step — and that means several thousand times a day—you can realize what injury this con- stant pounding causes to the delicate ma- chinery of your body. That is why most grown people are both- ered with some kind of foottrouble. Their leg muscles lack tone; their feet hurt; they have aching pains in the legs and back; and they tire easily after a short walk. Put a cushion of new live rubber under your heels and O’Sullivanize Your Walk Go to the nearest shoemaker, pay him fifty cents and have O’Sullivan’s Heels of New Live Rubber attached to your shoes. Then get out and walk. You will feel as if you were walking on air. You will be surprised at the ease and Smoothness of your walk. Its the light, elastic step of youth, ‘You will find that you can walk much farther without fatigue, and that walking has become a pleasure instead of a conscious, tiring effort. O’SULLIVAN RUBBER CO, Nothing spoils a European tour more than worrying about an island left un- guarded on the other side of the Atlan- tic. So many things can happen to an island in the absence of its owner. Island owners desiring to carry about through the Old World the restful feeling that their islands are in perfectly safe and worthy hands should write before hot weather.—Newark News. Where Jones Went A series of revival services were being held in a Western city, and placards giving notice of the services were posted in conspicuous places. One day the following notice was posted: “Hell, Its Location and Absolute Certainty. Thomas Jones, baritone soloist, will sing “Tell Mother I'll Be There.’” —Lippincott’s, comicbooks.com