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This page contains primarily **advertisements** (Maillard Easter confections, Cascade Pure Whisky) and a **"Literary Notes" column** discussing contemporary authors. The literary section gossips about several writers: Hobbleton Hobhouse (a short story writer), Vaseline Von Virtue (whose book "Sex, As I See It" was deemed scandalous enough to involve police), Mrs. Tillie Von Slusher (an 18-year-old writing about her marriages), Bilingsgate Bunkerton (who writes methodically), and Miss Violet Mushandler (a poet whose work circulates in "afternoon dances"). The tone is satirical—mocking these authors' pretensions, work habits, and subject matter. The illustration shows three people in conversation, labeled "Golf Term Playing Two," though its connection to the text is unclear.

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EASTER TS dainty and artistic creations of MAILLARD have an exclusive- ness which makes them pre-eminently acceptable as EASTER gifts. Embroidered Silk Eggs. Handpainted Porcelain Egg Cups. Handpai ted Satin Eggs. sonable flowers. Silk and Satin boxes, painted and embroidered. Novelties in Porcelain, Saxe, Sevre, Daum, etc. FIFTH AVENUE AT 35th STREET EASTER CAKES CHOCOLATES BON-BONS =: ICE CREAMS FRENCH PASTRIES Afternoon Tea in the Luncheon Restaurant, three to six NEW YORK ASCADE PURE WHISKY MELLOW AS MOONLIGHT GOLF TERM PLAYING TWO Literary Notes OBBLETON HOBHOUSE, acknowledged by his pub- lisher and himself to be the greatest short story writer in this country, gave a dinner, to himsdf last even- ing. No one was present but Mr. Hobhouse, as no one is capable of such a high appreciation of his own exalted position as himself. Miss Vaseline Von Virtue’s new book entitled, “Sex, As I See It,” came off the press yesterday afternoon at four o'clock. Eighty book reviewers were present and upon their pronouncing the book not quite as indecent a3 anything they had ever read before, the publisher hastily summoned his partners for counsel and it was decided to call in the police department. The book was thereupon suppressed, and the season’s sales began. Miss Von Vir- tue, in speaking of it, said modestly, “I'm sorry I did not do worse. It certainly isn’t because I don't know it all.” Mrs, Tillie Von Slusher, whose new problem book en- titled “Husbands I Have Broke,” will be published in Chicago, Pittsburgh, St. Louis and Jersey City early next week, is only eighteen years of age, but she has been mar- ried seven and a half times. “I felt,” said Mrs. Von Slusher, “that it would be extremely dishonest for me to write a book unless I knew my subject, so I have been gathering local color among my various husbands all these twenty or thirty months,” Mrs. Von Slusher, as she spoke, wore sky-blue-green carnations which she sniffed occasionally, (Seattle papers please copy.) Billingsgate Bunkerton who writes his books to order, in a consultation with his publishers has just completed another “ best seller,” which it is anticipated will be the best one yet, eight hundred thousand copies being the first edition. Mr. Bunkerton eats soup with a soup spoon, He wears tweeds in the morning and never writes after four o'clock in the afternoon. He has his hair cut the first Tuesday in every month by appointment. Miss Violet Mushandler, whose poems have been one of the features of the Belt Line Pegasus Syndicate, which circulates in all the afternoon dances all over the country, has just returned from abroad on the Lunatic. During the voyage over she read several of her poems, and a num- ber of the passengers jumped overboard in order to cool off afterwards. The best English critic says that Miss Mushandler, for poetic fervor, for passionate, pulsating, rhythmic undertones, has no equal in the known world. Miss Mushandler carried her own dog. big ical luxe tuft tilte Pass is or |B comicbooks.com