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This page is primarily **advertising and poetry**, not political cartoons. The left side features a **Thermos bottle advertisement** emphasizing its practical uses—keeping liquids hot or cold, preventing bacterial contamination, and being "a Welcome Friend to Young and Old." The center contains a **rhymed poem titled "Laddie"** by Gene Stratton-Porter about a rural Indiana family. It tells of young Laddie winning an English bride despite his father's atheism and pride, culminating in Laddie marrying the lady's sister Shelley. The poem celebrates wholesome farm life and family reconciliation. The right side displays **Hamburg-American shipping line advertisements** for luxury cruises to the Orient, West Indies, Panama Canal, and Mediterranean—typical early-20th-century leisure travel promotions. There is **no political satire or social commentary** on this page.

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$3.50 N_ planning your Christmas list, let Turasos solve your problem of selection. Every member of the family. will appre- ciate Turamos—a lasting, sensible and. permanent , gift. The gift de lure is a handsome Tuewsos Carafe at $3.50 and $5.00, not only useful in countless s,’but an adornment to the side- oard, cellarette or bedside. table. Tiersos keeps liquids piping hot 24 hours—ice cold 72 hours. At home, afield, or when traveling, Titruos is not only a nderful conveni- ence, but a positive safe- guard against contamina- tion of liquids and re- sulting disease. A Welcome Friend to ‘Young and Old Mother appreciates Tieewos because it keeps baby’s milk so ccld that bacteria cannot develop, and so clean that baby is never subjected to the danger of infection from luke-warm disease- breeding Father is delighted at the way Teawos keeps his cooling beverage icy cold as long as he desires. Grandma's comfort is Bottles assured when Turasos Pints. Keeps her tea hot until F155 she is ready for it. : A glass filler, now seven times heavier at the base, and a shock absorber be: tween glass filler and metal base, make the new Trexwos "Bottle almost unbreakable. f the name Turasos is not stamped on the bottom, it is a counterfeit. Ask your dealer TODAY. if Ke “cannot supply you, we will send any piece Gisect on receiptot charges American Thermos Bottle Company Norwich, Conn. Toronto, Can. LAN LIFE (abeatiital | Rhymed Reviews Laddie (By Gene Stratton-Porter. Doubleday, Page & Co.) I Indiana,—for whose charms Her children show a proper bias-— The Stantons tilled their fertile farms, Prolific, prosperous and pious. Young Laddie was the Stantons’ pride; His crowding virtues half repel us; And how he won his English bride His Little Sister tries to tell us. 'Twas Pamela who had a twist On Laddie’s heart; the maiden’s sire Was—ssh!—an Awful Atheist! Who said his name was “Mr, Pryor”. He sternly shut himself within The handsome country-house he stayed at, For fierce he was and proud as sin And strangely hated being prayed at. Because he thought that Bob, his son, Had thieved his gold, he moped and brooded ; But Robert hadn't ever done The deed to which I've just alluded. How bravely Laddie urged his suit I'd like to tell at length, but daren’t. He gained the lady’s love; to boot, He hypnotized her crazy parent. Then Robert, whom his angry dad Had wildly sworn to pound to jelly, Turned up, and proved he wasn’t bad, And married Laddie’s sister, Shelley. With talk of farm and wood and vale And chickens, daisies, geese and clover, The story drags an inky trail Six hundred pages long and over. The Stantons all are good and kind And joyful, too, and hearty feeders; And scattered here and there we find Quotations from McGuffey’s Read- ers, I love the little birds that sing, I love the little lambs that frolic; And still, you know, there’s such a thing As being somewhat too bucolic. Arthur Guiterman, CRUISES Orient—India by S._S. Cleveland, (17,000 tons) from New York January 15th, 1914. “Through the Mednerrancen, Suez Canal Red Sea and Indian “Ocean, to Bombay and Colombo. Side trips through India, Holy Land and Egypt. ‘Stopping at points in Europe, Asia and Africa. Duration 93 days. Cost $700 up. Including shore excursions and necemary expenses, Excellent accommodations available at special rates for pamage to Madeira, and Egypt. West Indies— Panama Canal by S. S. Amerika, (22,500 tons), and Victoria Luise, (17,000 tons), during fanuary, February, “March and’ Apri uration 16 to 29 days. Cost $145 —$175 up. Also four 15-day cruises from New Orleans, during Jan Fe rusty and March, "by SS- Fuerst Bi marck and Kronprinzessin Cecilie. $125 ‘and up, including Boat trip on the ~ Atlas Service ‘Weekly sailings to Cuba, Jamaica and the Panama Canal, Hayti, Colombia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, by new fast Twin-Screw Steamers. Mediterranean Service by Steamships Cincinnati and Cleve- land. Portsof call: Madeira, Gibraltar, Naples and Genoa, Nile Service by superb steamers of the Hamburg and Anglo-American Nile Company 1915— Around the World, Through Panama Canal From New York, January 31, 1915, by S.S. Cleveland, (17,000 tons). Dura- tion 135 days. Rates $900 up, including shore trips and necessary expenses. Write tor information, stating cruise Cdices in principal cities HAMBURG- AMERICAN LINE 41-45 Broadway, New York PHILADELPHIA BOSTON PITTSBURGH CHICAGO MINNEAPOLIS ST. LOUIS