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This page is primarily **advertising**, with a serialized story excerpt as filler content. The main narrative (OCR'd text) appears to be a fairy-tale allegory about "Master Eros" (the god of love) and "Madame Eugenics." The story satirizes early 20th-century obsessions with eugenics—the pseudoscientific movement promoting "genetic improvement." The tale mocks how Eros defeats eugenic ideology by shooting the woman through the heart with an arrow, causing her to marry and produce offspring anyway, thwarting eugenic goals. The punch line: despite eugenic ideals, love and procreation continue uncontrolled. **Advertisements include:** - **Pebeco Toothpaste** (dental hygiene) - **Evans' Ale and Stout** (beverages) - **Quelques Fleurs Houbigant** (French perfume, marketed as "poetic") - **Coeur de Jeannette** (perfume) - **Park & Tilford** (retailers) - **George Barrie & Sons** (book publishers) The perfume ads emphasize European sophistication and exclusivity—appealing to aspirational American consumers of the 1920s era.

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“ESP ¢ a a. es Use Pebeco and keep your teeth for life— TOOTH PASTE —___———_}, saves and cleans the teeth, because it overcomes the cause of It neutralizes the acids formed in almost 95% of all decay. ; “pei everyone's fermentit nants Sin them op harlow thet hey cael intact this Send for FREE 10-day Trial Tube and Acid Test Papers IF YOU REALLY WISH TO HAVE YOUR FRIENDS RECOGNIZE YOU and the psychologists were so busy talking to each other that they did not notice anyone, and the policemen were collecting their weekly stipend from the gambling houses that Madame Eugenics did not know anything about, and all the other people were gesticulating and talking to them- selves. Master Eros waited, I say, till this happened, then he hid himself in the tall grass until Madame Eugenics came out.” “Why, did he expect to kill her?” said Bright Eyes. “Did he have a tomahawk or a gun?” “Dear me, no! But he had a set of bows and arrows; and by and by she came out with her head up in the air and her corkscrew curls waving in the wind and a great big philosophical book under her arm. And Master Eros got out his arrow and strung it in his bow, and just as*she got op- posite to him he up and——” “He didn’t miss her, did he?” “You bet he didn’t miss her. He shot her right square through the heart.” “And did she die?” Mr. Oracle could not help but smile at this innocent sally. “No,” he re- plied, “she did not die, but she went off and got married and she took the whole crowd with her and left Master Eros just as he had always lived be- fore—in full possession of everything on the premises.” Bright Eyes was silent for a moment. “And was she happy ever afterwards?” she said at last. “Oh, sure!” said Mr. Oracle. “She has been collecting her alimony regu- alarly ever since.” Te doc B o prem odors Houbigant, Paris — When You Want a Good STOUT do likewise Restaurants, Cafes, Dealers |C. H. EVANS & SONS, Hudson, N. Y. Exquisitely illustrated, unabridged transla- Bl tions, best European authors, and historical and ‘artistic works st moderate prices; con- venient terms. Established 1873, our books ff of international reputation, have won man; The 1y8 of publishers.”*— Ns ‘eritable editions de luxe.”* Catalogue and illus trated pamphlets sent on receipt of request. GEORGE BARRIE & SONS 1313 Walout St., Philadelphia, Pa. $3.50. | \Sample. Bottle: mailed for 20c QUELQUES FIEURS HOUBIGANT Idealized asa ry tea dealin the mind of the world’s pier. Creator. of most exquisite \ Perfume Poem QUELQUES FLEURS \% was at last realized in a perfume masterpiece of rarest achievement. Immediate was its acceptance by the society of Paris, so that it was said of it, that it “captivated Paris in a da: Equally enthusiastic is its reception by the social capital of America-—New York. The imaginative appeal of Quelques ~ Jeurs cannot be expressed in yords. It must be used—be reamed over! A poetic perfume _ fancy fully realized! $6.75 Bottle Small Sample Bottle mailed for 25¢ ceur de eannette m= WeaRy OF” TEAnNErTeD Teigning exquisite favorite, is the most inexpensive of supremely beautiful perfumes. 2-0z. Bottle, 1-0z, Bottle, $2.00. At all leading dealers PARK & TILFORD, Paradise A musician once wrote that to hear Strauss's “Elektra” or his “ Domestic Symphony "always made him think of the old Scotch piper who said: “Ah, there's ane nicht I sall ne'er forget. There were nineteen pipers beside mysel’ a’ in a wee bit parlor, a’ playin’ different tunes. 1 iust thocht I was in heaven!” —Argonaut. “Taste is the literary conscience of the soul."—Joubert, comicbooks.com