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The page's main cartoon—"The Drill Sergeant"—depicts a military instructor boasting about new rifle ammunition's penetrating power through twenty inches of solid wood while addressing soldiers he dismissively calls "blockheads." This satirizes military culture: the sergeant's pride in destructive capability contrasts absurdly with his contempt for the men he commands, suggesting the dehumanizing nature of military hierarchy and the gap between officer confidence and enlisted personnel intelligence. The accompanying article "Cui Bono?" (Latin: "Who benefits?") extends this critique through a parable: an English boy raised by South Sea cannibals inherits wealth but must endure "civilization"—forced to learn the tango, watch indecent plays, and associate with hypocrites. The satire mocks modern society itself, implying that "civilization" offers no genuine improvement over primitive life and may actually be morally inferior, a critique of early 20th-century Western pretensions to superiority.

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The Drill Sergeant: THE BULLET OF OUR NEW RIFLES WILL GO THROUGH TWENTY INCHES OF SOLID WOOD. REMEM- BER THAT, YOU BLOCKHEADS! MNeture ano Att United Ik efor grew, like flowers, they could not be tnuber pisses ose savany Bonbons Chocolates It is not just purity that gives <&q4e their rare deliounness, Its the geaie of the maken, coe. summated by forty years of experience and ex- periment, and the incredible care taken in every Process that have made and Kept fhe the masterpieces of taste in candy, <&-4 Bonbons and Chocolates and many otter see thing om ee ar eld by fp ale agents (leading druggists everywhere) in Uni States and Canada. If there should be no sales agent near you, please write us, , 64 Irving Place, New York fae“ FRANK DeK. HUYLER, Pres. Ask for <&ght Cocoa and <Sxho Baking Chocolate at your grocer’s “*The Perfume of Old- Fashioned’ Gardens and Tender Memorizs'* |e de Rigaud is the exquisite, memory - haunting fragrance of fresh- cut lilacs, heavy with the odorous dew of a May morning. There's no truer-to- Nature fragrance in all the world. (From the laboratories of V. Rigaud, makers of the famous Mary Gar- den Perfume.) Lilas de Rigaud Extract comes in slender aristocratic bottles of graceful outline. The same delicious lilac fragrance is to be had in | Cold Cream, Toilet Water, Talcum Pow- der, Face Powder, Sachet Powder, Bath Salt and Soap. For sale at all high class Toilet Goods Departments. Send 15 cents in stamps to Riker-Hege- wen 246 Wee Foot Ss New Yat pre or Extract as prefered. “ Prunella” SHALL drink starlight for one night, One perfect night of bliss, and dream In sleeping gardens of delight, Where moonshine falls and_ lilies gleam ; Where the red rose tells passion’s birth, And love is mystical and high, Enfolding all the sombre earth, Ilumining the farthest sky. Oh, lyric voice that sobs and sings Life's fullest rapture and regret, You bid me leave the lesser things— I hear you—and forget! Leolyn Louise Everett. ANY years ago a mother and her baby landed with a party of mis- sionaries on one of the South Sea islands. They were attacked by can- nibals and the mother was killed. The baby was taken by the cannibals and brought up among them. He is now liv- ing with them, and, although of English birth, is not able to speak the language, and, of course, cannot read or write. The other day a relative of this boy died in England and left two hundred thousand pounds, or about a million dollars, The boy inherits one-half of this sum, He will be taken back to civilization, The question naturally arises, what good will it do? The life of a savage is not a successful basis for the proper enjoyment of the highest civilization known. This youth, in order to take his place in society, will first have to be subjected to our modern school sys- tem. He will have to learn how to dance the tango, to witness indecent dramatic performances, to enjoy super- ficial and meretricious literature and to be at home in the company of hypo- crites, Is it worth while for him, in the cir- cumstances, to come back? ON EVERY PIECE A Table Necessity No dinner or luncheon table is reper eet without a pair of ware you bay. It means ay, wittcat high pri. Pafthle Gtase and How's Uss It,” showing everything for |) the table to Hielsey’s @ Glass ware, A. H. HEISEY & CO, Dept. 62 Newark, O. comicbooks.com