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**Advertisements:** The page is primarily advertising, not satire. The Thermos carafe ad promotes the product as an essential household item for preserving food and beverages safely—emphasizing that it prevents bacterial growth in milk, a significant health concern in the pre-refrigeration era. The "Ideal Servant" framing reflects early 20th-century marketing that positioned consumer goods as modern household solutions. **Literary Review:** The "Rhymed Reviews" section offers a comic verse summary of John Fox Jr.'s novel *The Heart of the Hills*, satirizing the book's plot and Fox's reputation as Kentucky's literary chronicler. The reviewer mocks the predictable romantic drama and mountain-versus-aristocracy tensions that apparently made it a bestseller. **Other Ads:** Schlichten-Ramie Company advertises pure ramie fiber underwear as hygienic and cooling; Martell's Brandy emphasizes quality control and aging processes. The page reflects 1910s consumer culture and literary tastes.

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GEE The Ideal Servant In the Home A Thermos Carafe at $3.50 Thermos hes won is way to a place in the bed chamber and dining room of ‘very care. fully regulated home. It is no lor ‘an item of equipment only foc the lover ef out-of-doors, but ks place it the household is established. Mother knows that it keeps Baby's milk free from germ-laden, deadly fis: keeps it 10 cold that baciena cannot ‘develop, tnd so clean and fresh that baby is never subject to the danger of infection fom lukewarm," dis- case-brecding milk. Father knows that THERMOS keeps ape’ fice oF the ‘sip of contig beverage FaL asd ewect cod’ cold-—as bong ese wants it kept cold. Children know that there's lots of fun in THERMOS—bally hot tea and cole and cold lemonades and punches The whole family votes for THERMOS. If the name Thermos is not stamped on the bottom it is a counterfeit. Ask your dealer for a new catalogue. THERMOS-ON-THAMES AT NORWICH, CONN. New York San Francisco Toronto ASH HE POPS OUT AND Rhymed Reviews The Heart of the Hills (By John Fox, Jr. Chas. Scribner's Sons.) ENTUCKY’S chiefest orthodox Apologist and celebrator, I've heard it said, is Mr Fox, The Present Narrative’s narrator. A specialist in Mountain Feuds And barefoot mountain lads and lassies, Who also in his scope includes The Cultured Blue-Grass Upper Classes. Young Jason was a mountain bo} His little mountain sweetheart, Mavis, Was lovely as the Bane of Troy In fact, a mountain rara avis. Besides their looks, this pair had brains; And hence, in brief it may be stated, They both descended to the plains Where loth were tamed and edu- cated, And Mavis fell in love with Gray A Blue Grass youth of high position, While Jason owned the witching sway Of Marjorie, a fair patrician. Events that make Kentucky life So vivid, pleasureful"and thrilting Ensued—as bits of private strife, Tobacco wars, the Goebel killing— ZAIL reasons why the book appears Upon the list of Six Best Sellers) Which help to prove that Mountaineers Are quite distinct. from Lowland Dwellers. The Original Ramie Fibre is guaranteed absolutely pure (1oo per cent.) Ramie ated with cotton, or other inferior Reg. U.S. Pat O8, ed States Government Report No. 7 of the Department of Agriculture, Fibre Investiga nounces Ramie the most wonderful and valuab all fibres. It is endorsed by the highest medical authorities of the world for its hygienic properties, and as a perfect material for Heaith Underwear. The Schlichten Ramie summer-weight garments are a luxury for hot weather, the deliciously cool, having the hig! evaporating rs of all known textile substances. For sale by leading dealers everyw If your deater cannot supply you, we can direct you to one who can. Write us for booklet and samples. SCHLICHTEN-RAMIE COMPANY 357 Fourth Ave., N.Y. MARTELL’S BRANDY Five Points Worth Remembering: That only the finest Charente wine enters MARTELL’S distilleries. That it is there distilled with utmost care by MARTELL & CO. themselves. This en- sures its extraordinary quality. ‘That there are tens of thousands of puncheons developing and matur- ing in MARTELL’S stores, That consequently MARTELL & CO. never have to bottle a Brandy until it is perfectly fit and ready for the mark it is to carry. That to call a Brandy better than MARTELL’S is an empty boast-—to beat MARTELL’S for Quality a frank impos- sibility. Sole Agents holas & Co. New York Then Mavis learned that Caste, below The line of Dixon and of Mason Forbade a match with Gray, and so She wed the likewise-tutored Jason. The book, while scarce the author's best, Is readable and sometimes char:ning, And hints, in places, what a pest Tobacco-growing is to farming Tobacco culture Mr. Fox Reveals as such a curse-provoking Employ, that when I'm through this box Of weeds, I guess I'l! give up smok- ing. Arthur Guiterman. terri the whis when as know acros the imag and are | comicbooks.com