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This page contains a serialized story about children receiving money from a relative, alongside period advertisements. **The Main Story:** A narrative describes Harold recounting how an elderly relative gave him and his siblings half-crowns (British currency) with instructions to buy treats and keep it secret from their parents. The children are deeply moved, with one girl hoping he dies tonight so he'll "go straight to heaven." Edward, the practical child, proposes naming their pig after him. **The Satire:** The humor targets Victorian sentimentality and children's moral exaggeration. The children's overwrought emotional response to modest pocket money—and their twisted logic that the man deserves death as a heavenly reward—mocks both sentimental literature and childish reasoning. **Advertisements:** The page includes a Haynes automobile advertisement emphasizing 18 years of manufacturing reliability (since 1893), and a Heublein Club Cocktails ad promoting bottled cocktails as convenient alternatives to hand-made drinks. The page reflects early 1900s American magazine content: serialized fiction alongside consumer advertising targeting middle-class readers.

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Then Harold told his tale. “T took the old fellow to the station,” he said, “and as we went along I told hi all about the station master’s family, and how I had seen the porter kissing our housemaid, and what a nice fellow he was, with no airs, or affectation about him, and anything I thought would be of interest; but he didn’t seem pay much attention, but walked affing his cigar, and once 1 thought— Tm not certain, but I thought I heard him say: ‘ W thank God, that's over!’ When we got to the station he suddenly, and said ‘Hold on an Then he shoved these into my hand in a frightened and said, ‘Look here youngster! These are for you and the other kids. Buy what you like—make litle beasts of yourselves—only don’t tell the old people, mind! Now cut away home!’ So T cut.” A solemn hush fell on the assembly, broken first by small Charlotte. “I didn’t know,” she observed dreamily, “that there were such good men anywhere in the world. I hope he'll die to-night, for then he'll go straight to heaven!” But the repentant Sclina bewailed herself with tears and sobs, refusing to be com- forted, for that in her haste she had called this white-souled relative a beast “Til tell you what we'll do,” said Ed- ward, the master-mind, rising. he always did to the situation—" We'll christen the piebald pig after him—the Club Cocktails A BOTTLED DELIGHT Simply strain through cracked ce, and serve. original bottled cocktail. Accept no substitute. Mertin (gin bose) and Menkatton (whickey base) are the most pepular. Atall trod dealers, GF. HEUBLEIN & BRO. Sole Props. Hartford New York London Royal Gorge The Haynes Goes Everywhere ND the best part of it is that ever since 1893 the Haynes has been going everywhere that any A automobile could go. Eighteen years of the history of automobiling are built into the 1912 Haynes, This means a whole lot to you who are considering the buying of your first auto- mobile this year, or the buying of another car to take the place of the old one that is worn out or isn’t good enough. This elghteenth year of the Haynes car is a year of triumph for the pioneer American builder of automobiles. Last year automobile experts, and the public as a whole, declared the Haynes had reached the limit of quality pro- duction at a $2100 price. It was bard to ficure how any more automobile worth could be put into a car at the price ‘Complete regular equipment for all model fo permit installation of electri s lighting equipment at no: Haynes Automobile Company, Dept. €, Kokomo, Indiana of the splendid 1911 Haynes, but there és more in the 1912 Haynes, and the price remains $2100, The 1912 Haynes {s not radically different from its recent predecessors. It{s not radically better, but it docs represent more all-'round value than anybody has ever be.ore been able to put into a car selling at the Haynes price. ‘The 1912 Haynes is a bigger car—120-Inch wheel base; both in the tonneau and in front; it's a more powerful ca: a roomier car—wider rear seat and more depth 1@ 44x34 motor cives forty to forty-five horse power; it's a safer car—larger brakes give one square inch of braking surface to every thirteen pounds of car, and it is a snappier, more stylish car—the whole car is finished in black with seventeen hand-rubbed coats of paint, and the trimmings are black enamel and nickel. The 1912 Haynes is now ready for delivery. You can see the new model: agencies, or we will send you a catalogue and name of dealer nearest you. ‘Poe lin: plete, meetin: demand—5- Tourii every Spas fodel 21'Limousine, 40 one that hasn't got a name yet. And that'll show we are sorry for our mistake!” “I_I—christened that pig this morn- ing,” Harold guiltily confessed; “I christened it after the curate. I'm very sorry, but he came and bowled to mi last night, after you others had all been sent to bed early, and somehow I felt I had to do it!” “Oh, that docsn’t count,” said Edward hastily, “because we weren't all there. We'll take that christening off, and call senger Touring, 40 h. p.. $2100; 4-passenger, 4C Colonial Coupe, 4 $2450; 7-passenger Tor 50-60 h. p., 83000; Mo jaoh, Arts ~ Close-Couple, assenger C 1g,.50-60 bh. p., $3000; 4-0 9. $2750; Model’ Y Limousine, 50-CO h. p.. . iighest class.” All models are so designed as cost. Address NEW YORK, 1718 Brosdway it Uncle William. And you can save up the curate for the next litter.” And the motion being agreed to with- out a division, the House went into Committee of Supply. Sufficieat Proof Lasy: And you guarantee that the parrot talks quite a lot? Deater: Rather. His last mistress sold him because she couldn't get a word in edgeways.—Fliegende Blatter. comicbooks.com CHICAGO, 1702 Michigan Avenue