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This page features a satirical story titled "Willie's Warning," presented as an example of poor-quality content fed to American children. The narrative describes young Willie overhearing adults discuss a neighbor's son, Harold, who has apparently acquired cigarettes—presented as a moral catastrophe worthy of death. The satire works by having Mrs. Hamilton declare it would be "better if he had died" than become a cigarette smoker. This grotesquely overwrought response to minor misbehavior exemplifies what *Life* magazine considered absurd, fear-mongering moral instruction in contemporary boys' magazines. The piece critiques how children's publications of the era used extreme moralizing and melodrama to discourage vice, treating minor transgressions as life-ruining sins. By presenting this earnest warning about cigarettes as obviously ridiculous, *Life* mocks both the sensationalism of youth publications and adult anxieties about corrupting influences on children.

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olt sil XUM and it fastens firmly around the toe. time, you forget all about it. Bauer & Black, Chicago and New York Willie’s Warning The quests were gathered around the Banquet Table. They lit their cigars and cigarettes. Dr. R. also lit a cixar- ete. “And now let me read something, he said. “It is a gem. It is from the n M.D.—a lady M.D, Her name © Baierle. Her name should becon The title of this gem js ‘Willie's. Warning,’ and is clipped from the Boy Mag It was sent to pen of is Nina us by Dr. Morehouse of East Orange, N. J. It will show on what splendid in- tellectual pabulum our future citizens are being fed. But let us not waste time.” And here is what Dr, R. read to us: Mother! Leok quick bounding the kitchen ‘awfal is happening over White's. Two men who look like drove up ina carriage and went in they came out they had Harold wit) and, oh, mother! he looked dread! could hardly get him tried to hel led face, she boy! Poor ned “Poor ‘old to the. hospi. tal? y ~ “Mamie told me yesterday that he was ve “Worse than that, dear. It would be much better if he had died and were being taken to the cemetery.” replied Mrs. Hamilton. Then, without looking at Willie, she said ly in a very grave tone, * up. stairs to my room and bring that package of End Corns in Two Days. Stop the Pain Instantly You can do that always with a Blue-jay plaster. is done by 15,000 people every day. No pain, no inconvenience, no soreness, no pos- ble harm. ‘The plaster is applied in five seconds, In two days the corn comes out. In the mean- There is nothing else like it. | Nothing else commands one-fif- tieth so large a sale. For com- fort's sake, please try it. Note the Picture A 4s the harmless red B & B wax that | removes the corn. B Is soft felt to protect the corn and | keep the wax from spreading. i G 1s the toe band, narrowed to be com | fortable. | D fs rubber adhesive. 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You will | hand corner of the top cigarettes that I fou: night while mendin find it in the right no! mother,” sobb 31 will Smoke aga ‘Then followed fession of the sinful steps taken t prayer for forgiveness and and a pledge to his m for the ‘oday Willie Hamilton is a leader his associates. He has kept his underwent a remarkable red, then to white ag get them. why did I. ever ng to smokes moaned. He was just learn of his playmates smoked an until he began. He school money to purch had made him sick himself ever since. Mrs, Hamilton had noticed how pale he had been, how little he ate and his fr absence from the house, but had sus; nothing until she id the cigarettes _ the night befor had meant to | 1 Your Isn't it beautiful? And the author of it is an M.D.! Such ake us sometimes ts of and Guide. this package. d he had felt’ unlike things fearful of th woman suffrage —The Cr resu df The boy hide them, but forgot them and left the é ing, she carnest’ for wisdom to w how to help He was a long time in returning, he did, it was not her frank, su lad, but a guilty. le, sneaking boy, | who handed her the packa Willie, look at th cially ful, bi rold’s being 1: y are not tak and when ny-faced a “Whitire,"” famous water | pj paint that preserves and beau- | ff tifies auto tires. Renews the old, brightens the new. French’s London White e e Whitire (Trade Marky adds life and durability to tires. The rage abroad. Makes your car s \o | g look spic and span, | ; Quickly and easily appli | . . ally and up all his away life, away from | the t cht, beautify was grad youngest “for hieh and the nw, poor boy, hi His bright mind ant prospects are ruined by smol the Can, sufficient for five months, $1.00, 1 Triad c harmless looking cigarettes.” | Silence reigned for some time. had If in his ac | ff Samuel H. French & Co. ont . With his hea¢ hla, U.S. A. hh his hb Philadelphia, U, S. in his lap. while her white fini strayed tenderly through his tangled curls — s 8 comicbooks.com