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Life — July 11, 1912 — page 40: Life, 1912-07-11

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This page is primarily **advertising with one serialized story segment**. The main comic/cartoon element is a small illustration titled "Burglar: ALL RIGHT—I'M AT YOUR SERVICE," showing a homeowner summoning a burglar as if he were a servant. It's a visual pun on the phrase's double meaning—dark humor about crime. The substantial text content is "Politics in Peerville," a serialized short story (continued from page 1410) depicting a romantic/political dispute between Timothy Allen and Miss Phoebe Pinkton. Allen argues that her willingness to negotiate with him proves she loves him, despite her political disagreement. She orders him out. The story appears to satirize earnest political reformers and their personal contradictions. The page otherwise consists of period advertisements for Woodbury's Facial Soap and other products, typical of Life's revenue model at this era.

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It makes your skin active, so that it can withstand trying conditions, Keeps it in perfect health, Woodbury’s Facial Soap For sale by dealers ereryichere For 4c. we will send a sample cake. For 10c, sam- ples of Woodbury's Facial Soap, Facial Cream and Powder. For 60. a copy of the Woodbury Book and samples of the Woodbury preparations, Write today to The Andrew Jergens Co., 2605 Spring Grove Ate., Cincinnati, O. “ARAL MY MAN, oT want you!” Burglar: ALL RiGHT—1'M AT YOUR SERVICE. Politics in Peerville (Continued from page 1410) can talk till the crack of doom about your slow, business compromising way of improving things, but you know that the only way to fight wrong is to fight it. We reformers may make blunders, but in the end we lift the standard higher. You could come over to my side without the slightest sacrifice of principle, but you won't do it just because, being a man, your vanity can't stand the shock.” Timothy Allen got up. He thrust his hands in his pockets and walked up and down, His nervousness all disappeared. His political training made him calm and self-possessed in the face of a er “Phoebe,” he said,“ I'm awful sorry. It breaks my heart. I can't do it. But I've found out one thin “What's that?” “That you really love me.” It was her turn to get up now. “What do you mean?” she exclaimed. “It's perfectly simple when you come to think about it. If you didn’t love me any, why then you would be doing to me precisely what you have accused me of doing—making a compromise. You are doing nothing else but trying to make a bargain, aren't you? I grant that you are doing it because you think the cause you represent is a good one. But that doesn't alter the case. I believe no rum is the best thing. I'd like to see it, But in the long run I can accomplish the re- sult better by compromise. That's why I'm on the other side. This proposition of yours is, therefore, a virtual admission that Iam right. You are using my own methods. That is to say, it would be if you were that kind. But I don’t believe you are. There is, consequently, only one other reason. You must love me—a little—or you wouldn't have made me that proposition.” “But I don’t! “You must admit that it is one thing or the other. Your logical mind — Blushing furiously, with cyes blazini Miss Phoebe Pinkton pointed _ per- emptorily to the door. “Go—at once!" she cried. “Leave me!" And Timothy Allen, realizing that for the moment, at least, he was face to face with the inevitable, walked out. Slamming the door behind him, the new Mayor sank back in her chair in deep thought. How dared any man under- stand her so well? It was about an even thing between her feminine instincts and her judicial training. It was a long struggle, but at last it was over. “Tl show him,” she muttered, “that it isn't so.” She rang the bell. Her private seere- tary ente: l. “Miss Strong, call up the News. 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