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This page contains satirical commentary on an educated young woman's intellectual pretensions. The essay "Thoughts of a Modern Young Woman" mocks a type of person—likely from the Jazz Age era—who adopts fashionable progressive causes (socialism, penology, phrenology) without genuine understanding. The humor lies in her conflating distinct concepts (sociology vs. socialism vs. anarchism), abandoning serious study for "culinary science," and fundamentally misunderstanding subjects she claims to study. Her friend's anecdote about studying phrenology while thinking it was penology exemplifies the satire's point: superficial engagement with intellectual trends. The page also contains period advertisements (Hamilton Watch, Hampshire Paper Company, and acting school), typical of Life magazine's format. The satire targets upper-class dilettantism and the fashionable adoption of radical ideas without substantive commitment—a common critique of 1920s intellectualism.

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,) Vf Samples of modern letterheads on Old Hampshire Bond will besent free if you write on your present letterhead. If you care to include 1oc in your Thoughts of a Modern Young Woman Just because I take a serious interest in sociology, some of my friends call me a Socialist. I don't think that’s at all fair, do you? Not that I'm against Socialism. Some of the best people are for it now. I think it's wonderfully interesting, don't you? But there’s as much difference between sociology and Socialism as there is be- tween So¢ialism and anarchy, although you can't expect trivial minds to grasp it. I met a man at dinner the other night who said he was an anarchist, but I don’t think he was. I think he was fool- ing, for he was quite properly dressed and his table manners were really good. I think he was only a Socialist. Though, of course, he may have been a philosophical anarchist. Some of the philosophical anarchists are quite different. I suppose it's their philosophy that makes them different. I took philosophy in school, but gave it up after a while and took up culinary science instead. Philosophy and science of any sort are so broadening, don't you think? Discipline, after all, is the main thing— I mean, you know, not what we know, but what we become. That is what I always say to myself— “Will this help me to become?” The funniest thing happened to a friend of mine! She joined a group of serious thinkers who were taking up penology. After she had gone to a dozen mectings or so she said to me one day, quite sadly: “TI haven't learned a thing about nice people's heads; nothing except the heads of criminals! I'm going to drop it!” You know she had thought all the time ia ‘ Engincet ELLIS FORD. of the “Chicago acd Denver Limited," ‘bas timed bis rans perfectly for years with & Hazilioa Watch, PLOTS Wetton Piece PLAYS | You can write them, Manufacturers now paying $25 to $100 for each plot. We teach you how to write and sell them. No pre- | vious experience necessary. Write now for free details, ferent. ANSOCIATED MOTION FICTERE SCHOOLS. 6741 Sberidan Koad, Chlraze | Tt filestrates and dese ** Burlington Route, Hamilton models and is a book well wor if you are thin ne watch, Familton Watch “*The Railroad Timeheeper cf America’’ Hamilton accuracy wins your approval and admiration because of its per fection. It means that the Hamilton Watch in your pocket always tells time faithfully. Proof of this lies in the fact that Over one-half (56%) of the railroad men on American railroads where Official Time Inspection is maintained carry Hamilton Watches. Hamilton Watches are made in correct sizes for men and women and sold by jewelers everywhere. Movements only are $12.25 and upward. Complete watches, certain sizes, are $38.50 to $150.00. Ask your jeweler about them; also about fitting your present watch case with a Hamilton movement. HAMILTON WATCH COMPANY Dept. K, Lancaster she was studying phrenology instead of penology, and they're really quite dif- Though, of course, the bumps on the SS4SK YOUR PRINTER WHAT CLASS OF FIRMS Soin ihe tngy nts tet Sy specify Old Hampshire Bond for letterheads and bus- + iness forms. He will name for you firms that overlook no element however small that will add to their pres- f\ poo tige and reputation for high standards. A man must | ATA be proud of his business before he feels any incentive Have you thought much on the cosmic consciousness? Of course, it’s not a thing you can take up superficially. But it's wonderful if you are willing to give your time to it quite sincerely. Sincerity is, after all, the great thing Sometimes, I think, in our hurried mod- I've had the peachiest ideal I'm thinking of starting a salon! —Don Marquis in N. Y. Evening Sun. to put his letters on such paperas Old Hampshire Bond. | crn life, we forget that. letter we will send youa liberal sample of our Semi-Business Stationery. HAMPSHIRE PAPER COMPANY, Sourn Haptey Fatis, Mass. The only paper makers in the world making bond paper exclusively. BOOKWORM HAS JUST BEEN THROUGH A SEX_NOVEL