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This *Life* magazine page contains several short humorous anecdotes satirizing American social and professional life: 1. **"Proud Editor Rebuked"**: A disgruntled newspaper reader complains (in deliberately misspelled dialect) that the local *Clipper* newspaper ignores ordinary people while favoring prominent citizens. The satire mocks small-town journalism's bias and the reader's semi-literate grammar. 2. **"Full of Experience"**: A man applying for a nursery job admits his "grafting" experience comes from being a county commissioner who awarded bridge contracts—satirizing political corruption and patronage in infrastructure projects. 3. **The main cartoon** shows a newsboy taking an extraordinarily long time making change from a five-dollar bill, with the caption "BLESS MY SOUL, WHAT A LONG TIME THAT NEWSBOY IS TAKING TO GET CHANGE FOR MY FIVE DOLLAR BILL." This appears to mock either incompetent service or monetary inflation making basic transactions slower. The remaining anecdotes mock medical ignorance, evolution skepticism, and tourism.

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FCAT 15%, AV. Nyllvy? s Proud Editor Rebuked The following letter, with no signa- ture attached, was the Clipper hox this morning, The writer is evident- ly laboring under the impression that he has been discriminated against in the Clipper’s columns. We offer this party our sincerest apology and assure him that the omission of news items is not intentional and that we will publish any dal news fit, provided it is sent in to the office, as the Clipper has ter ctiter: I want to noe why hit is that you use so infernal much parshality in your little ole paper. Me an’ my folks have bin visitin half dusin time lately an you never sed one word about hit. You run after the big bugs an let the little one goc. I have bin thinkin of sub- scribin fer the Clipper but I wont do hit now. You no ho this is. “Oxe Wio Has Brex Roxcen.” —Hennessy (Okla.) Clipper. Full of Experience Here is a story that the movement for good bridges has revived: A man applied for a job in a nursery. “Do you know anything about grafting?" he was asked. Well, I'll admit that I know somethin} about it,” said he. “I was county ¢ missioner the year we let so many con- tracts for bridges. “BLESS MY SOUL. WHAT A LONG TIME —Kansas City Journal. TMAT NEWSROY IS TAKING 70 GET CHANGE FOR MY PIVE DOLLAR BILL.” fe United & 4 British Chancery Laae. Landon. F.C. onal poitaze to foreign coun: ne Postal Union. $1.0 b 21 Bride La Getting It All The doctor told him he needed carbo- a | hydrates, protcids and, above all, som thing nitrogenous. The doctor men- tioned a long list of foods for him to cat. He staggered out and wabbled into a Penn Avenue restaurant. Belo “ How about beefsteak?" he asked the oe waiter. “Is that nitrogenous?” its The waiter didn't know. far mo “Are fried potatoes rich in carbo- eater hydrates or not?” Yac The waiter couldn't say. “Well, I'll fix it,” declared the poor elle man in despair. “ Bring me a large plate 1 of hash."—Pittsburgh Post. sii Not Sure ba A little boy who was very much puzzled over the theory of evolution questioned his mother thus “Mamma, am I descended from a monkey “T don't know,” the mother replied. “T never knew any your father’s it i atti people."—The Gate The of s ing] vot : lyze grown weary of distributing tips, “so afc far as financial prosperity is concerne ic 1 should say the discovery of America and was the making of this town.” fashington Herald. “Wutat do you consider the most in portant event in the history of Paris?” “Well,” replied the tourist, who had gre: decorations don’t: make aid Uncle Eben. “A gold alarm clock wouldn't make it cheerful to git up dan one dat plated."—Washington Star. England, AGENTS. Brentanos’s. 37 Ave. de Opera, Paris: also at Ssatoadt Veet St. E. C., London; 148 Rue du Faubourg. St. Denis, Paris; 1. V8 a year: to Canada, s 10 cents. Mack nombers, after three months from lodena, Milan; Mayence. Germany. date of publication. 25 cents. fnwues prior ost of print tiem teill be returned waters accompanied by ramped and addressed emvelspe. Lave duet mit held inelp ihe lan er memoreturn of unsslicited cenributions Lape is for eale by Britain, The International News Company, Ureams Bui rations in LAPE: ave capprighted. For Reprint Rightsim Groat Britain apple te Lave 1H sribers of amy change ef adn The Protection of Your Luggage in the frozen north, in th: sunny south, the orient or occident, means the fullest enjoyment of your trip. You can accomplish this by providing yourself with one of our Tourist Policies—a necessity to every traveler, “It coste but a few cents a day and may save you hundreds of dolla: If you will advise us in advance of the date of your departure upon any trip. we will send you gratis our attractive and useful bon voyage book entitled “Things to “WHEN TRAVELING Remember While Traveling.” YOUR BAGGAE Insurance Company of North America Walnut and Third Streets, Philadelphia Founded 1792 Capital $4,000,000 Surplus to Policy Holders over $8,000,099 araige viiticn ') None can resist the delightful sparkle and ') zest and richness of Sheboygan Ginger Ale —Made good by finest Jamaica ginger and purest rut favors Made Best by an Mineral Wier ead dacorcadbeakital tessens. Ser bay lee atl, ab ‘clubs, cafes. For ike, next time Chief of comicbooks.com