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Life — August 24, 1911 — page 35: Life, 1911-08-24

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This page contains primarily **advertising and light verse**, not political cartoons. The main content is a romantic poem titled "If You Want a Kiss, Why, Take It"—a lighthearted piece encouraging male suitors not to hesitate in pursuing women's affection. It uses Victorian-era romantic language and includes literary epigraphs about female coquetry from authors like Irving, Byron, and Scott. The small anecdote "His Supreme Effort" describes **Thaddeus Stevens** (a real 19th-century Congressman) getting into a heated confrontation with the House Speaker, rolling up documents and turning his back—a comic account of parliamentary indignation. The page is otherwise dominated by **product advertisements**: Philip Morris tobacco, Londonderry mineral water, Seager electric lighting systems, and farm machinery. There is no identifiable political satire or social commentary beyond the typical period advertising tone.

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LIFE: When you pay less for tobacco you get less. Philip Morris English Mixture aod Cut Plug (, Costs $2.00 the pound in 2Se, $0e and $1.00 tins, Do you smoke quantity or quality? . With eualicy there no de: If your dealer does not stock these to- baccos send ue id address with 25¢ for trial 2 oz. tia of either brand. Philip Morris & Co.,Ltd. 402 W. Broadway “A country coquette, beset with a labyrinth of whims and caprices.” —Irving, “ Sketch-Book.” “The coquette is blind; she does not sce her wrinkles.”—Victor Hugo. fake no repulse, whatever she doth ‘one,’ she doth not mean —Shakespeare, “The smile that blest one lover's heart Has broken many more!" —Thomas Hood. aid of Athens, ere we part, Give, O, give me back my heart! Or, since that has left my breast, Keep it now and take the rest!” . —Byron. “He thought and wondered at the way an which women play with men, and coax them and win them and drop th —Thackeray, “ Pendennis.” “Oh woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made.” —Seott, “ Marmion” ure water is better than medicine If You Want a Kiss, Why, Take It There’s a jolly Saxon proverb That is pretty much lke this- That a man is half in heaven If he has a woman's kiss There 1s danger in delaying, For the sweetness may forsake it; So 1 tell you, bashful lover, !f you want a hiss, why, take it, Never let another fellow cal a march on you in this; Never let a laughing Sce you spoiling for a There's a royal way to k And the jolly ones who make it Have a motto that is winning If Any fool may face a cannon, Anybody wear a crown, But a ma ust win a woman If he'd have her for his own Would you have the golden apple, You must find the tree and shake it; If the thing is worth the havi And you want a kiss, why, take it Who would burn upon a desert With a forest smiling by? Who would change his sunny For a bleak and wintry sky Oh, I tell you there is magic, And you cannot, cannot bre For the sweetest part of loving Is to want a kiss, and take it Anonymous His Supreme Effort Thaddeus Stevens and all m the House tell one ecdote of an oc- currence in which Mr. Stevens and the cr of the House got into a sharp ending in Stevens savagely rolling e documents on which he had been addressing the chair, and turning his back to the Speaker in the most impolite way while passing furiously up the aisle toward the cloak-room “Is the gentleman trying to show his contempt for the Speaker?” shouted that dignitary. “No,” thundered back Stevens, turn ing around and facing the wiclder of the gavel; “Tam trying to conee: : Nature’s remedy is pure, sparkling water. 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This outfit is so simple and so absolutely certain in its operation we will ship it On Trial for Thirty Days—Free Complete with the exception of wi tures and lamps (which can be obtain mn any electric supply house or we will furnish if desired), with full instructions for installing and so simple that almost anyone can do the little necessary work. If it does not fulfill all ‘our claimsand to your entire satisfaction by the end of thirty days, you can return the outfit at our expense. Write for our free bootlet, which explains t system fully, and illustrate. its many uses Give us a 2 quirements and a rough plan of your and we will submit our proposition without obligating you in any way. Seager Engine Works 1114 Walaat St., Lansing, Mich. 1040 Far: St, Omaha 2103 Central St, Kansas City” 65L Beverly St., Boston 108 N. Los Angeles St., Los Angeles Makers of water systems; and gasoline engines from 13 to 100 h. p Probably Not It was at a suffragette meetin; pitebed voice that comes from the very haunts of Nature. A water that springs brilliantly clear from rock-ribbed nills, With portion to his physi 2 fine cleansing quality that frees the system of Impurities. Delightful as a table water, Bayttabie. appetiz~ ing. Anda royal blender. Sparkling (cliervescen) in three table sizes. Still (plain) in half gallon bottles, If you are 20 sitaated that you have difficalty in obtaining Londonderry P ; locally, write to us and we will see that you are supplied at once. replied the woman; “ wouldn't LONDONDERRY LITHIA SPRING WATER CO., Nashua, N. H. —Harper’s Magazine cal make-up, “wouldn't you like io be a man?” comicbooks.com