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This page is primarily **advertising and humor columns**, not political satire in the traditional sense. The main content includes: 1. **"Feltoid Casters and Tips"** — A furniture hardware ad promising floor protection. 2. **"The Song of Obligations"** — A satirical civics essay listing citizens' duties, from attending state hearings to writing congressmen to doing Christmas shopping early (so shopgirls can vacation). It's gentle social satire about civic responsibility and consideration for others. 3. **"Sexology" advertisement** — A book promoting sex education as necessary knowledge for healthy marriage, unusual for the era. 4. **Humorous anecdotes** — Brief jokes about a deceased miser and prison reform. 5. **"A Little Iceberg/Hunter Whiskey"** — An ad using an iceberg metaphor to suggest keeping cool with alcohol. The page reflects early 20th-century concerns: civic duty, emerging openness about sex education, and consumer culture. The humor is gentle and moralistic rather than sharply political.

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‘FELTOID CASTERS and TIPS” GUARANTEE FLOOR PROTECTION You can avoid making digs and dents on your hardwood floors and lavoid the destruction of your expensive rugs by equipping your furniture with “Feltoid” Casters and Tips. "You may move your furniture about as freely as you wish to without injury to the most highly polished surface if equipped with Feltoid Casters and Tips. [(*Feltoids have the silken tread” and are scratch-proof, mar-proof, and noise-proof. Insist on “ Feltoids"’ when buying new furniture. Yourdealer sells them. They are superior to the ordinary iron, brass, wood, leather or rubber-caster wheels. BURNS & BASSICK COMPANY A Happy Marriage Depends largely ona know!- edge of the whole truth abont self and sex and thelr Teiation to life and health, This knowledge does not come intelligently of itself nor correctly from ordinary every-lay sources. SEXOLOGY (Ulustrateay by William H. Walling, A.M. AID. imparts in a clear, wholesome way in one volume : ig Man Should Have. The Song of Obliga- tions O the citizen’s obligations. The obligation of every American citizen to see that every other American citizen does his duty, and to be quick k about it. Medical Knowledge a Wife Shou ay The janitor’s duties, the Board of Health's volume. Illustrated, $2, postpaid. duties, the milkman’s duties, resting Wane ter.” ines Pevpie's Coisiens)” bs 7 Consents, upon each one of us individually ample, in his own ward, and sane Fourth of Jul obligation resting upon every citizen to write to his Congressman. obligation to speak to one who may think he 1s living a life, and who yet has never written to his Congressman, obligation to attend hearings at the State House. obligation 10 protest against the habit of employees at the State House of professing ignorance of the location of the comm © room where the hearings are to be held; also to pro- test against the habit of postponing the hearings after one has at great personal inconvenicnce come to the \ State House in order to protest. duty of doing your Christmas shop- ping early enough in July to allow the shopgirls to enjoy their summer vacation duty of knowing what you are talk- ing about, and of talking about all the things you ought to know about, obligation of feeling that it is a joy and a privilege to live in a country where cternal vigilance is the price of liberty, and where even if you have the price you don’t get all the liberty you pay for. August Atlantic. In a Pinch, usc ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE, He’s Numerous A newspaper, in speaking of a de ceased citizen, said: “We knew him as old Ten Per Cent—the more he had the less he spent—the more he got the less he lent—he's dead—we don't know where he went; but if his soul to heaven is sent—he'll own the harp and charge em rent."—St. Louis Mirror. “Prison reform is gaining ground I hear one of our penal institutions is going to have gradu- ating exercises this year,” —Washington Herald, EAT REAR SPRING WATER * urity has made It famous” with the accumulated weight every cubic foot of vitiated air, D@QQDQOODODOOODSDQODOCEDDODOODO DOSS A LITTLE ICEBERG floating round in the liquid depths of a High Ball made of HUNTER WHISKEY strongly suggests how to keep cool in hot weather. multiplied by the number of ba in every cubic centimeter of milk. The motorman’s duties, and the duty of every spry citizen not to allow self to be run over by the motorman. The obligation of teachers in the public schools to supply their pupils with all the aptitudes and graces formerly supposed to be the result of heredity and environment The duty of each teacher to consult daily a card catalogue of duties, beginnin: with Apperception and Adenoids and going on to Vaccination, Ventilation, and the various vicarious variations on the three R's. The obligation resting upon the well-1o~ do citizen not to leave for his coun- try place, but to remain in the cit: in order to give the force of his ex- Caron Bittere—Best Tonic and Appetizer, No home com- plete withoutit. Sample on receipt of 25 cents. Oct. C. Blache & Co., 78 Broad St.,N. Y., Gen'l Distra, 320 Sold at all frsticlass cafes and, by jobbers, WM. LANAHAN & SON, Baltimore, Md. DDDDODODOGODOSCDBOGDOCOOWDOS FOHDHSHTODOOOODEOEDHDOOO) DOOBDOQODQOOOGOOGDOODOQOGOOOOG a ©OODOODOOOOOT comicbooks.co sign dro} “v