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This page is **primarily advertising** for White Motor Trucks, with minimal satirical content. The large advertisement features a photograph of a truck on a country estate, promoting White Trucks to wealthy landowners. The text emphasizes their reliability and ease of operation for rural transportation needs. The only satirical poem on the page is "Carnival" by Compton Mackenzie—a romantic narrative about a young woman ("baby") who falls for a critic named Maurice, then a Cornish farmer. It satirizes melodramatic love stories and female vulnerability, mocking both the heroine's naive romanticism and fortune-seeking behavior. The final verse by Arthur Guiterman mocks art critics and suggests marrying practical farmers instead. The "Sexology" book advertisement at bottom left is standard educational marketing for the era. The page reflects 1920s class anxieties and gender attitudes rather than political satire.

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I ae | recial Offer d find yilar $1.13, 1.26). for ci) lo ed a ig RIDGEFIELD, CONN. 250 acres in Ridgefield, Conn., on high round, magnificent tract of diversified land, ill and dale, meadow and forest. An unusual opportun'ty for a man of means to create a wonderful country place, or suitable for subdivision into acreage plots. Easly developed. Extensive frontage on main road. In the neighbor- hood of large estates. Address ADAMS & KEELER, Lies Conn. RACES EG Rhymed Review BOTT TRETE Carnival (By Compton Mackensie. & Company) D. Appleton A baby, reared in London's whirl, ‘Mid fogs that chill the gay romancer, Grew up to fame as Jenny Pearl, A graceful, tip-toe ballet-dancer She fell in love with one Maurice, A critic chap; he wooed her nightly, But felt her hold upon him cease And dropped her, awful impolitely. That one lost love should be her last She vowed; averse to vain regretting, She tried the life that’s known as “ fast,” She tried a little Suffragetting. And then,—oh, unpropitious fate For any lively footlight charmer !— She took a grim, ascetic mate, A crazy, prayerful Cornish farmer. Upon the Cornish coast forlorn She dwelt with alien faces round her; Yet, when her little boy was born She dreamed a ray of joy had found her. For baby fingers soft and small Can soothe all woe, the novels tell us; But when a friend dropped in to call Jane's husband grew absurdly jealous. And next, to blast her hope of peace, Who else should seek her, uninvited, But he, her traitor-love, Maurice, Presuming that she'd be delighted. A Ragey Marriage Depends largely on a know!- edge of the ‘whole truth about self and sex and their relation to life and health, This knowledge does not come intellizently of itself, nor correctly from ordinary, every-day sources, SEXOLOGY (Iltustrated) by William H. Walling, AM. Sholoentse way, kena ete 4f.D., imparts in a clear, we, ie tmpart to Her D ion fee volume, Illustrated, $2, postpaid, eople's Opilons sad Table of Content "Onn Puritan Pub. Co., 776 Perry Bldg., Phila., Pa. PROPONENT ae ENEYS AAR & (MAC MAA ERE he supremacy of WHITE MOTOR ‘TRUCKS is evidenced in still anoth- er phase of motor transportation by their use on the country estates of twenty nine of the nalon’s most discriminating million- aires. GI Where competent nw and expert to choose ‘TRUCKS as the EG most dependable to meet ithe coneliionasy $0 of country transportation. The simple power plant and control. well balanced chassis and cinvelile construction, make WHITE TRUCKS so free from trouble and easy to operate. that they are the only complete answer to the hauling problems of country estates. |f The White Company - Cleveland. | But Jenny scoffed, “ How like you men! Don't talk to me of sweet forgiving ! O, Ballet-dancers, airy band, freer You'll win a lady's love and then Run off and spoil her joy in living? Attend our Author, analytic: TYPOOR APICALLY Crean Don't marry Cornish Farmers, and \ PIECE OF METAL FURNITURE AND AN Don't ever stoop to kiss a Critic! INFERIOR Arthur Guiterman, “You're selfish, crucl, weak and blind; Away, away, you silly rotter!”” And when she thus had freed her mind Her crazy husband up and shot her! 1505 comicbooks.com