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This page contains a **book review in verse** rather than a political cartoon. Don Marquis's *Danny's Own Story* is reviewed in rhymed couplets by Arthur Guiterman, mocking the sentimental orphan-to-adventure narrative typical of early 20th-century popular fiction. The reviewer satirizes the melodramatic plot—abandoned baby, rough upbringing, traveling with a medicine man, picaresque adventures—as overwrought sentimentality. The humor lies in Guiterman's deliberately crude doggerel verse and his closing self-aware joke: the book is illustrated by Mister Kemble, but Guiterman admits he himself "ain't no Huckleberry Finn" in appearance, making the comparison ridiculous. He defensively urges readers to enjoy the story anyway. The surrounding ads (Harris Oils, Skyler's Chocolates, Hoskins Stationery) are typical Life magazine commercial content from this era.

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Rhymed Reviews Checolate Nougatine Danny’s Own Story (By Don Marquis, Doubleday, Page & Company.) < Some stranger kind-of let me drop— Chocoiste Because I wasn't wanted, maybe— ‘Ciseiaks Biden Refur a country blacksmith-shop, halved A poor, deserted, infant baby. So Hank, the blacksmith, brung me up, Till I was getting on to twenty; He didn't learn me more’n a pup, But whaled me purty good and plenty. ‘Long came a traveling doctor man, Whose whiskers flowed like old Ni- seay, Chocolate And off with him I took and ran, ‘he Covered Caramel— A-selling Siwash Injun Sagraw. % memes: Chocolate Covered Through heaps of towns we tramps and : >= Rocolate Rovere drives, | 7 ' Dispensing that there liquid magic, And i bit f people’s lives, oe ee . te ceseal ane: oes teal agiel HEN every individual piece of ~4* candy ti eat if must conform to the highest standard of b, yes, we seen an awful lot, | And suffered, was mostly lucky. it . Bd *; bd 1 saved a feller that was shot |] quality, it is self-evident that every box of 4, Nigherriiog: ‘somewherea| Bear: “Kens | containing forty or more varieties, would be poorly aed a syeduet described if called anything save ‘‘best.’’ ies smh poison s “ " There are 54 -44# stores in the United States 3 cote - =a J, and Canada, and over 4000 4% agents—the best druggists in their respective communities. To get the name of the nearest 4" agent or store ° : A Lubricants of highest quality. We use Write for Bb N Pennsylvania ree We Paya pre- 1 mium tosecure the best, Harmful soot- by depost-forming ingredients are ctimin- NOH | v6 nteresting Booklet ated to the greatest possible extent— your cost for lubricants and repairs are which tells the remarkable story of 4, gives * reduced. HARRIS OILS give greatest a list of many of the popular %4¢ confections, mileage and do away with lubrication tronbles, ? and tells the public how quality and purity If your dealer docs not sell Harris Olls, are assured in all “49 products. send S80 cents (1 gal.) or 83.75 GS gals) and we will ship same prepaid. A. W. HARRIS OIL COMPANY 326 South Water St., PROVIDENCE, R. I. 143 So. Wabash Ave., CHICAGO, ILL. tg 64 IRVING PLACE NEW YORK CITY Doe Hartley oncet went up and flew. With picters drawed by Mister They almost lynched us down in Kemble. Georgia. Don't let them Critics take you in; Yet after loafing ‘round the earth— ‘Cause, while I cut a decent figger, And that’s a gosh-darned pleasant I ain't no Huckleberry Finn— habit— Huck Finns some fifty sizes bigger. I learnt the Secret of my Birth! = —— But how? Aw, shucks; I musn’ blab Jest read my tale fur what it is, QENGRAVED CARDS OF YOUR NAME $1.25 it; Please, Mister Ultimate Consumer; reine Fou em Wem Monty BEYCNOR You'll find it goes with quite a whiz, ane ETA TIONS UTON EE Fur, since I've found by hook and crook And that it’s bright with chunks of STATIONERS OSKINS: PHILA. My long-lost mother all a-tremble, humor. $26 CHESTNUT STREET They've went and put me in a book, Arthur Guiterman. 537