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This page primarily contains **advertisements and humorous anecdotes** rather than political cartoons. The main content includes: 1. **"Our Foolish Contemporaries"** — A satirical section featuring brief, comedic stories about foolish behavior, including an anecdote about an Irishman's generosity to a disabled Englishman (likely playing on Irish-English stereotypes common to the era). 2. **Blue-Jay Corn Plasters advertisement** — A product ad warning against dangerous home remedies for corns, promoting the company's solution instead. 3. **Hunter Whiskey advertisement** — Emphasizing purity and quality. 4. **Humorous short pieces** ("The Ready Retort," "Frank If Not Honest") — Brief jokes playing on class dynamics (servants, mistresses, race relations with a Black worker) typical of early 20th-century American magazine humor. The page reflects period attitudes toward race, class, and gender through its advertising and jokes, offering modern readers insight into what was considered acceptable entertainment at the time.

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e With Don’t pare them. That just removes the top layer. It leaves the main patt to grow. Aslip of the blade may meaninfection. Sometimes a dangerous infection. This form of home surgery should be ended * forever, A few years agoa chem- ist invented the B&B wax —the heart of the Blue-jay plaster. OLD PROVERB ONE LOVE DRIVES OUT ANOTHER OUR_ FOOL! CONTEMPO ARIES Why He Was Generous An Englishman who had lost both arms and both legs was obliged to solicit aims. As he sat on his street corner one day an Irishman passed by and dropped Don’t Doctor Corns Ain the picture fs the soft B & B wax. It loosens the corn. B protects the corn, stopping the pain at once. C wraps around the toe. D 1s rubber adhesive to fasten the plaster on. Blue-jay Corn Plasters Sold by Druggists—15c and 25c per package Sample Mailed Free. Bauer & Black, Chicago and New York, Makers of B & B Handy Package Absorbent Cotton, ete. Steel Now you simply apply this plaster. It is done in a jiffy. The pain instantly stops, and the corn is forgotten. This wonderful wax gently loosens the corn. In two days the whole corn, root and branch, comes out. No soreness, no dis- comfort. Please don’t doubt it. Fifty million corns have been removed in this way. Millions of people know it. Just try it yourself, and never again will you let corns cause you pain. It fs narrowed to be comfortable. Also Blue-jay Bunion Plasters (159) fifty cents into his hat. Almost im- mediately the Irishman returned and gave him fifty cents more. “You are a good man,” said a kind- looking old lady, “to give that unfortu- nate man so much.” “ Faith, I'd give him more if I could,” said the Irishman, “for he's the only Englishman I have iver seen thrimmed '—Kansas City Star. A Happy Marriage Depends largely on a knowl edge of the whole truth about self and sex and their relation to life and health, This knowledge does not come intelligently of Itself, nor correctly from ordinary, every-day sources, SEXOLOGY (MMustrated) by William 1. Walling, A.M, Bf.D.. wholesome way in one volume mbnsperee tpisiicests In a Pinch, use ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE “Resestnen, my son, that beauty is only skin deep,” warned the Sage. “That's deep enough for me,” replied the young man. to 1118 S01 Tiuaband ‘Should rns a Should Mave, ‘inte Have, jedze it Sedieat IRuowledge % owledze a ¥. Knowledge a ¥ owledze n Mo Rnowleage Sicdlcal Knowledge a Wile Showa hae “I'm no cannibal.” —Cincinnati Enquirer, 'o Her Daug! Allin one volume, Illustrated, $2, postpaid. "8 Opinions "and Table of Contents » Pa, Sliced Oranges wit tizing and healthful C.W. Abbott & Co, BEAR THIS FACT IN MIND THE SOFT, MELLOW DELICIOUSNESS OF HUNTER WHISKEY WILL ONLY BE FOUND IN AN ABSOLUTELY PURE, WELL MADE AND MATURED WHISKEY 4 by Jobers, all Erstclase cafes N, Balthoore, Sid, ANAHAN & The Ready Retort Mrs. Winfall, a society woman, always allowed the housekeeper to hire her servants. One morning, however, the mistress wished to interview the cook, who had been engaged only the day before. “What is your name?” inquired the lady. | “Mrs. McCarty,” replied the cook. “Do you expect to be called Mrs. Me- Carty?” “Oh, no, ma'am, not if you have an alarm clock."—Harper’s Magazine. fAT BE. 50 cents per ease Frank If Not Honest Senator John Sharp Williams, of Mis- sissippi, had occasion to hire a colored man to work arot his house. There were several applicants, but the waiting list had finally been reduced to one man, The Senator cross-questioned the man carefully. After he had gone into his antecedents and all that he aske “Are you honest? “ Hones’? Sho’ I is. I’s bin arrested foh stealin’ three times an’ let off ebery time.”"—Saturday Evening Post. R SPRING WATER of 6 glass stoppered bottles Ir was in one of those thriving Texas cities. where railroads abound that a tired and weary traveler accosted a policeman and asked the way to the Y. M. C. A. The copper was puzzled. He took off his hat and scratched his head. Finally he burst out, “ Stranger, you've got me. I know where the Frisco is and the M., K. & T., but that Y. M. C. A. is | a new one on me.”—Everybody's. ‘The Ideal Bitters. have the best? They cost_no more. CARONT—the only genuine. Why not Once tried always used. Oct. C. Blache & Co., 78 Broad St. New York, Gen'l Distrs. fac hig we the cal lit jol T/ AS stam year Add comicbookea