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This Life magazine page is primarily **advertising**, not satire or political commentary. The content includes: 1. **Egyptian Delites cigarettes** ad (left): A straightforward product advertisement highlighting tobacco quality and availability. 2. **Nobby Tread tire** ad (center/right): The main feature promoting a new non-skid automobile tire. The text emphasizes practical benefits—traction, durability, and skid prevention—rather than making satirical points. The accompanying illustrations show the tire's tread pattern and racing cars. 3. **Allen's Foot-Ease** ad (bottom left): Another product advertisement for a foot powder. 4. **"The Seashore Idol"** (bottom right): A brief humorous piece about hotel advertising, appearing to be light satirical commentary on hospitality marketing rather than political satire. The page reflects early 20th-century consumer culture and automobiles, with no apparent political messaging.

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Egyptian Deities The‘ Utmost in Ggarettes (Tobacco from th e oid World — Sh of the New Worl ‘The utmost everywhere. ‘Cork Tips.or Plarn Mosquitoes, Ahoy ! AVING tried the device which is described as follows by Dr. L. O Howard, chief of the Bureau of Ento- mology, we can heartily recommend it to nur friends as being effective: It cor of a tin cup or tin-can cover nailed to end of ah stick in such a way that a. spo { kerosene can b laced in th may then, by up to the ‘et after covered over in this way the osquito will attempt to fly and be caught in the kerosene. By this method perhaps the majority of the mosquitoes in a given bedroom—certainly all of those rest- ng—can be caught before one goes to bed. Allowing for 600 mosquitoes on the ceiling, and half a minute to cach mos- quito, you can easily get to bed after 300 minutes work; and 300 minutes is only five hours. Hindu Manners I our complacency over our commer- cial progress, we are often too likely to forget that Americans, take them as a whole, probably have the worst man- ners in the world. Mr. Harold Bigbic ‘ALLENS: FOOT-EASE Shake Into Your Shoes Allen's Foot Ease, the antiseptic powder for the feet. It reliew penta awollen, smarting, nervous fect, and instantly takes: the ating out of c bupions. It’: cel easy. Tee for Ingrowing nails, ewe tired, aching feet." We have over 30,000 testimonials. THY 1T TO-DAY. everywhere Sie. Do not accept any aub- stitute, Sent by mail for 25c. in stamps. FRE TRIAL PACKAGE sent by mail, Address, The ambition of every tiremaker in the world is to some day make a non- skid tire as good, and as popular as the famous NOBBY TREAD eaghteen months ago, Nobby Treads were first p! then they rik coun- try, reple ery form of non-skid tire or w device on cars in every possible service. Skidding F. otection—T hese big, thick, diagonaily-placed knobs grip the slippe nad or pavement at every ngle and they do tt even on @ wet J pavement, They reach down deep into muddy or sandy roads, and give you absolute traction—something you would never expect a plain tread to do. Wearins Quality—In decided contrast to the ordinary “non-skid” tire these tough rub'er knobs expose so large a surface to the wear and tear of the road that it takes thousands of miles to wear thers smooth. When they. finally wear vown, yu still have left the full life os ay tread. For safety’s sake—for economy's sake equip your car with ‘“‘Nobbies” For sale wherever UnitedStates Tires Continental Hartford G&J Morgan & Wright are sold, United States Tire Company Broadway of 58th Street We Seca Sen presents the opposite picture in an ac count in the London Chronicle of the manners of native Hindus: north or south, east or west, jay to Madras, ever one in city or vill and from ‘Tuticorin to Si have 1 detected the very sn of vulgarity either in manners or in dr ‘That dreadful and aggressive vulgarity which everywhere distresses the traveler in, England is nowhere to be discovered things as the brutality of a mot the snobbishness and arroga plutocracy, the hprsenlav a university students, the shout edities of “fashion: to India. Yon The Seashore Idol “Why, Ethel, did you notice that scasice hotel advertises to furnish young men escorts? “Tknow the kind. They are such silly rl feels like a chaperon every time she walks out with them.” —Philadelphia Inquirer. sissies that a ~