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This Life magazine page combines product advertising with political commentary. **Main Advertisement**: The large "Weed Chains" ad promotes tire chains as essential safety devices for automobiles navigating dangerous roads. The dramatic illustration shows a car on a precipitous mountain road, emphasizing the anxiety drivers faced before modern safety equipment. **Political Satire**: The "Ancient Stand-Patters" piece mocks conservatives who resist progress. It catalogs historical figures and groups who opposed change—from those who rejected Noah to those who opposed abolition, the Panama Canal, and labor-saving inventions. The piece equates "stand-patters" (conservatives) with historical obstructionists, sarcastically suggesting they've always been on the wrong side of progress. It ends by urging readers to abandon such reactionary positions. **Context**: This reflects early 20th-century Progressive Era debates about modernization, technological advancement, and social reform—presenting resistance to change as foolish and morally wrong.

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y the f 4) y The Greatest ofall Safety Devices Impossible toobtainadequate brake control without them, An absolute necessity on both rear tires and to doubly guard yourself against accidents and to make steering comfortable and easy put themon thefront tires Cannot injure tires because “they creep.” Easily put on without the use of a jack or other tool, ip your car with Weed Chains today and insist tor your own protection that others do the same, For sale by all dealers Weed Chain Tire Grip Co. 28 Moore Street : New York Swift and an Attorney An attorney, in Dean Swift's company, gave himself great liberties of conversa- tion with him. At length this impudent limb of the law asked the dean: “ Suppos- ing, doctor, that the parsons and the devil should litigate a cause, which party do you think would gain it?” . “The devil, no doubt,” replied the dean, “as he would have all the lawyers on his side.” WEED CHAINS Give Confidence NARROW road, a precipitous descent, a sharp turn Surely enough to instil fear into the mind of any automobile driver, but if your car is equipped with Weed Chains you are absolutely sure of sufficient traction, per- fect brake control and the elimination of every and a dangerous railroad crossing. possibi ity of skidding. Are you still taking your life in your hands by refusing to take the necessary precaution to prevent skidding? Are you still unwisely depend- ing on rubber alone for your own safety, the safety of the occupants of your car and other road users? Appreciates the Clothes “Ts your wife a baseball devotee?” “Yes. She doesn't follow the fine points of the game, but she gets very indignant if the visiting club has finer uniforms than ours."—Washington Star Capital Distressep Motnen: Baby has swallowed my latchkey. Apsent-Minpep Fatiter: Never mind, dear; use mine !—London Opinion. 1368 John! John! Ancient Stand-patters You're still a stand-patter, are you? Rather proud of it, too? Perhaps you don't know the company you are in as shown by the record of the stand-patters, beginning back a few thousand years. Well, here it is Who would not hearken to preacher of righteousness, drowned in the flood? The stand-pat- ters, Who refused to let the children of Isracl go up out of the land of Egypt? ‘The stand-patters. Who had Daniel cast into the lions’ den? The stand-patters. Who rejected the teachings of Jesus when “the common people heard him gladly"? The stand-patters. Who compelled Galileo to recant his declaration that the earth revolved? The stand-patters. Who put Columbus in prison after he had discovered a new world? The stand-patters. Who, after the globe had been circum- navigated, still insisted that it was flat? The stand-patters. Who believed it was right to hang persons for witchcraft? The stand- patters. Who decried the introduction of the sewing machine, the cotton gin, the sclf- binder and other labor-saving inven tions? The stand-patters. Who, North as well as South, opposed the abolition of slavery? The stand- patters. Who opposed the building of the Pan- ama Canal? The stand-patters. Who have continually fought all legis- lation in the interest of the people? The stand-patters. Who have always believed that a pub- lic trust’ meant private graft? The stand-patters. Are you still a stand-patter? If you are, it is time for you to heed the in- junction, “Come out from among them, and be ye separate."—Cleveland Press, LA STUDY AT HOME BECOME AN LL.B. resident law ed saents, Gent toicy tor Dates recial courses for Buslares Men aod Ba OLLEGE OF LAW, 1156 Eiteworth Bidg.,Chicago, Ill. RUSSIAN WOLFHOUNDS for the auking. Mins ASOL, K FROM PARIS M*'E. BINNER ANNOUD THE o* SUPER-FIGURE TED BY THE BINNER CORSET at 45th St., New York comicbootiee us { ? thr an rick ina alos ist the the bui