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This page from *Life* magazine contains primarily **advertisements and humorous epigrams** rather than political cartoons. The left column features satirical one-liners mocking social conventions—politeness, gender relations, fashion (the "hair equally divided" joke about being "level headed"), and masculinity (men wearing canes). One anecdote, "A Pessimist," jokes about two tramps debating which end of a dog's tail to trust. The main image shows a historical coach scene, accompanying an advertisement for **Rauch & Lang electric carriages**, emphasizing exclusivity and "social prestige" for the wealthy elite. Below are ads for **Gold Armor Whiskey** (sold by mail from Kentucky) and **V.O.S. whiskey** pitched as superior to club liquor. The final section, "A Modern Solomon," recounts a magistrate's folk-tale test: he gives two boys twine, claiming "the thief's string will grow." One cuts his short, exposing himself—an ironic twist on the biblical Solomon's wisdom. The page reflects early 20th-century class anxieties, luxury consumption, and genteel humor rather than political satire.

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Epigrams You can't limit politeness by tying it down to the truth After all, many a gentleman is a man in disguise. The art of silence and the art of helplessness are two essentials in a woman's flirting equipment It is joy to feel the liberty of cher- ishing one’s superstitions. ‘A pudgy man dreads getting shaped like an orange in a stocking. ‘An active man who lacks perception grows to be merely a forceful nega- tive. How little the iron-bound individ- ualism of the former generation blends into the epicureanism of the present! An inspiring wife is the hub to the wheel of her husband's ambitions. Having your hair equally divided is ne sign of being level headed. The old motto was ove the new one is “ Love is in- means sacrific spiration Inanity is gence perverted Aman who can wear a cane and yet seem none the less manly is almost a often adequate intelli- paradox these days If friendship is love wanting his wings, then what a lot of unsoaring restlessness there is in the world! A Pessimist “Why don't you go tramp of the other, as they stood before “Dat dog’s all right. Don’t gin” his tail?” id the second tramp, and 1 don't which end to believe.” —Our Dumb Animals. asked one the gate see him wa lad EFowling, too, manufacture. Our constant unimportant, must be given to_merit consideration. The Rauch & Lang Car being a coach builder's masterpiece dis- tinguishes it from the ordinary “factory” electric. Rauch & Lang Electrics cannot be built in a hurr: —those of exclusive taste have ways taken our limited produc- tion, which has stamped it the “Car of Social Prestige.” Our latest models are too dis tinctively superior to appeal to any but those who wall always buy the best. Any Rauch & Lang agent will gladly demonstrate. SOCIETY'S PREFERENCE MEANS MORE THAN STYLE The preference of Society for a certain make of piano, carriage, automobile, etc., is founded on quality—absolute intrinsic worth in association with the vehicle demands of Society for over sixty years has taught us that details, usually passed as the utmost of painstaking skill and effort THE RAUCH & LANG CARRIACE COMPANY 2307 West Twenty-fifth Street COACH BUILDERS => —) When you want a whiskey that is a little bet- terthan you can get at your club, I have it for you. V. O. S. GOLD ARMOR WHISKEY _ A blend of straight Bourbons, one selected for &s aroma, another for its body and a third for its tavor, and all taken from my own family’s collec- ton of rare old Bourbons—so harmonized as to Produce that exquisite bouquet, the eternal quest the connoisseur. Undoubtedly an ideal in whiskey, but if you don't find it so you can have Your money returne: Id only by mail, 4 quarts $6. Send check ruse your business stationery. Express prepaid. RANDOLPH ROSE, Exclusively fine old whiskies. ‘ck Street, Newport, Kentucky. A Modern Solomon All the Solomons He was a m. to dealing with negro boys Two boys were brought up for steal- ing. Evidently one was guilty, but it was. hard to tell which on The magistrate placed them in. sepa- rate cells, gave cach one a leather string. of equal length. “Now, boys, the string in the hands of the thief will grow,” he said are not dead. sistrate who was used In two hours the boys were brought out One showed his string; it had not Leen The his string touched other had cut two inches off of The judge said: “1 got yo: And he had. —Haltimore ANAXIMANDER was once laughed at by When told of it, he said, “ We must sing better some little boys for his singing on account of these small boys.” THE WILLIAMS PRINTING COMPANY. NEW comicbooks.com