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This page contains no political cartoons. Instead, it features: **Left column**: A conventional poem titled "Pleasures and Palaces" about a woman named Marie Rose who rejected domestic life to travel Europe. Below is a **Calox Tooth Powder advertisement** comparing the product's cleansing properties to antiseptic peroxide. **Right column**: An extended **advertisement for Bell Telephone System** that uses an extended metaphor comparing a tree's interconnected root-branch system to telephone infrastructure. The ad emphasizes how each component depends on others for the system's overall functionality. **Bottom right**: A small cartoon captioned "Baseball Term: 'Safe on His Bass'" showing what appears to be a figure in water—likely a pun on baseball terminology. This is primarily an advertising page with minimal satirical content.

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Rhymed Reviews Pleasures and Palaces hy Juliet Wilbor Tompkins. Double- day, Page & Co.) Ske couldn't cook, nor darn the hose, Nor sweep a room, nor plump a pillow, loved,—this idle Marie Rose,— To sail across the raging billow. To dance through London, Pursuing Pleasure, houscless, The place denominated “ home,” Did not appear within her atlas, Paris, Rome, flatless. She saw no fun in baking pies; She knew a settled life would bore her; But Cousin Sara, kind and wise, Secured a small apartment for her. And left her there, marooned, without A single chop or maid to broil it, To make the little gad-about Prepare a meal herself or spoil it. Sojourning just across the h By will of Cupid, arch desi A fine, upstanding Western miner. And when a maiden cuts her thumb Such ills assail the rash beginner), should a young man do but come To soothe the wound and cook her dinner? And should he leave right after that, Or stay to gossip in the gloaming, About his mine in Lariat Among the hills of—say, Wyoming? Alas, the best of friends must part ! But Ward had made a Decp Impres- sion; Mine SALUTED Tooth Powder-+Peroxide= Calox Calox when moist forms peroxide. Therefore no need to use both powder and mouth wash as Calox serves both purposes. It cleans and polishes the teeth while the per- oxide formed destroys decay germs and takes the place of an antiseptic mouth wash. Sample and Booklet - Sree on request All Druggists, 25c. Ask for the N Calox Tooth Brush, 35¢ McKESSON & ROBBINS 1 One Policy NOBLE tree thrives because the leaves, twigs, branches, trunk and roots are all working together, each doing its part so that all may live. Neither the roots nor the branches can live without the other, and if the trunk is girdled so that the sap cannot flow, the whole tree dies. The existence of the tree depends not only on the activity of all the parts, but upon their being always connected to- gether in the “tree system.” This is true also of that wonderful combination of wires, switchboards, telephones, employes and subscribers which helps make up: what is called the Bell Telephone System. It is more than the vast machinery of communication, covering the country from ocean to ocean. Every pat is alive, and each gives additional useful- ness to every other part. The value of telephone service de- | pends not only on the number of tele- phones, but upon their being always connected together, as in the Bell System. AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH ComPANy, AND ASSOCIATED One System To learn the Culinary Art Became the maiden’s One Obsession. And soon she went out Galen's wa A kitchen queen so very clever That Galen simply made her stay To cook his ham-and-cggs forever. So, restless maids with naught to do, Perpend the and heed them: Before you catch your miners, you Must learn the proper way to feed them. lessons here Arthur Guiterman, 1245, | COMPANIES } f Universal Service BASEBALL TERM “SAFE ON MIS BASS” comicbooks.com