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This page presents early 20th-century American humor and advertising. The main poem, "The Boy from Town," contrasts rural and urban childhood cultures through a farm child's bemused observations of a city visitor named Cecil. The satire mocks urban boys as physically soft, over-dressed, and ignorant of farm life—unable to ride bareback, skin cats, shoot guns, or understand basic rural tasks like how roosters help lay eggs. The farm child considers Cecil's curled hair and collar-and-tie outfit laughably effeminate. The "Justice Up-to-Date" and "Vigorous Preacher" sections are brief satirical vignettes poking fun at legal proceedings and sermon-giving respectively. The page is dominated by advertisements for Milkweed Cream (complexion treatment), Club Cocktails, and Pears' Soap—typical early 1900s patent medicines and consumer goods marketed with exaggerated health claims.

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LIFE The Boy from Town Last night a boy came here from town To stay a week or so Because his maw is all run down And necds a rest, you } His name is Cecil, and he And he can’t skin the ca His maw she calls him “ Pet; I'd hate To have a name like that ‘Improves Bad | Complexions. | Preserves now eight, He wears a collar and a tic And can't hang by his toes; I guess that I would nearly dic If 1 had on his clo’s; He can't ride bareback, and to-day When we slid on the straw He ast if roosters help to lay | The eggs I pick fer maw. KW Bae. 3% A WORD IN SEASON For the Holidays MILK WEED CREAM Corrects all complexion faults, It bed Urrough the pores, toning the tissues. cleansing, clearing, soothing and sofzening both outerand inner q When our As though he thought h And he ain’t never shot a Or had a homemade kite; He never milked a cow and he ander hissed he run “d bite, skin. Prevents freckles, relieves the smart of sun- | burn, gives added charm to healthy summer tan. Can't eveb dive Ot awint Price, soc.; large size, $1.00, at druggists. A T'd hate to think that he was me sample mm el fe on aang I'm that I ain't him, It is well to remember . F. Iniram Company 4 A ast that in going from home, He thinks it’s lots of fun to pump changed conditions of ex- istence are temporarily | And see the water spurt, | But won't climb in the barn and jump, . | Hig clo's are afte nice and fine. xperienced, which often ates Justice Up-to-Date His hair's all over curls, act unpleasantly upon . Mactsteate: You are charged with His hands ain't half as big as mine, the skin. This may make burglary in the first degree. Are yo He ought to play with girls. eainy ee aot esr Cemeees EfS yeu mane 1 Play wil i a what would otherwise be Putsoxer: Guilty, your honor. A little while ago when we an enjoyable holiday an Macistrare: I sentence you 1o— Were foolin’ in the shed, uncomfortable one. Puisoxen: Hold on, your honor. It | He suddenly got mad at me Ye Beeause 1 bumped his head. reed, There’s lots of things that he can't do. —Coming Nation, : He thinks that sheep'l bite And he’s afraid of ganders, 100; all right. was reasonable burgl: Macistxate: Diseh The best safeguard against skin troubles of this kind is to wash theski ~ = But he can illustrates his own ents on a cer- new volume of essays by a story en | —S.E. Kiser, in Chicago Record-Herald. frequently and freely with ot | . ! * of, | Vigorous Preacher a 9 i A reviewer in the New York Nation ea rs that is worth putting into circulation. Three hearers, he says, of the admired Dr. X., were talking in the vestibule after the sermon. “We must admit,” remarked the first, “that the doctor dives deeper into his subject than any ” “Ves,” said the second, * And comes Soap which protects the skin by its soft, pleasant, emol- lient action, and at the same time ensures the fullest beauty of complex- ion of which the skin is capable; that is why it is called the Beauty Soap. 7. ~e ~~ other pr “and st : up drier,” 3 rd. -Western Christian Advocate. Up-to-Date “You're rather a young man to be left in charge of a drug shop,” said the I The Club brand repre- fussy fave you any ab sR sents the same high diplom standard in Cocktails “Why as the Hall mark in England and the The greatest skin specialists hat's just as good.”"—Sketeh UNA Sterling in America do in silver. our own that's Just as Boo’ and the most celebrated beau- ; ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES. ties of the last 100 years have Martl (gin bee) ond Man “F ” said the small boy, “ what : t 100 years v Yet | ‘At saved deter “A platitude, my son, 15 a. statement beautifying properties no «tal | G.F. HEUBLEIN & BRO, sis topy whose truth you are compelled to admit, soap has ever equalled Pears’ neat | | HARTFORD NEW Y¢ LONDON uttered by some one whom you do not y admire."—Washington Star. 5 ————_£__—__ comicbooks.com