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This page mixes advertisements with social commentary. The main editorial content is two poems and an article critiquing American law and society. **"Splendid Isolation"** (attributed to A.L. Salmon) satirizes smug contrarianism—the pleasure some take in disagreeing with everyone else and believing themselves uniquely right while "all the world is wrong." **"Laws and Laws and Laws"** offers sharper social criticism. It argues that laws, originally created by the intelligent to protect themselves from the unintelligent, now serve wealthy defendants. The article quotes R.S. Gray's observation that wealthy people can afford better lawyers, creating a two-tiered justice system where the poor cannot afford adequate legal representation. It concludes cynically that lawyers themselves benefit from legal complexity and won't reform the system. The **advertisements** (ELCO boats, Phoenix silk hose, Murray & Lanman Florida Water, patent services, "Reading Lady" perfume) represent typical early-20th-century magazine marketing, contrasting sharply with the page's critique of inequality.

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“Come Aboard! Vl take you for the most delightful ride you ever had.” Just as reliable on the water as the automobile is on land the ELCO Express is the most luxurious high-speed craft afloat. Seaworthy under all conditions of wind and weather: run it. Would you like to cruise for a couple of days. as suits your whim? The new ) Cruiser has all the comforts of g yacht, with sleeping quarters for cight, and a private stateroom. ELCO Expresses ELCO Cruisers ELCO Engines Address 175 Avenue A Bayonne, N. J. a V.Slerty and Zed Streets ferries, CRAR. of N. J to West mh Sireet. Telephone i “E TEE Splendid Isolation IS sweet to let each friend and neighbor see That we decline to follow where they run; ’Tis sweet to stand in a minority Of one. ‘Tis sweet to know that wisdom is our own, While others stumble with imperfect sight— That all the world is wrong and we alone Are right: To tell cach speaker we do not agree— To show where pedagogues and statesmen err; To point the microscopic spot where we Demur. It is agreeable never to agree— To sce a blot where others see the sun— To stand Of one. oof in a minority ALL. Salmon. Laws and Laws and Laws AWS were made by the most in- telligent in’ the community in order that they might be protected from the unintelligent. Thus the in- telligent got such a long start that the unintelligent have not yet heen able to PHOENLX SILK HOSE has won wide favor. not only throug its beauty of tex- ture and per = fect shapeliness, but because of its wonderful durability. Made of abso- lutely pure-dye thread silk WOMEN'S— 7S to $2 Pair MEN'S—50c to $1 Pair In distinctive 4-pair boxes At All Good Dealers Made in Americ PHOENIX KNITTING WORKS 234 Brosdway, Milwaol Doull always be proud of atch up with them, Among other things that laws do is to fix it so that when any case is brought into court, the man who has WANTED—AN IDEA! Shes ttice Protect your it ay bring you wealth, Write for “ New Se yecention ‘Haw to Get Vour Patent and Your Mo RAND rare, Heol, Mite, \ Wasblogton, BC the most money to spend can hire the 5 ablest lawyer. Therefore, money buys tates JL SSeS immunity from justice. Z It is thought that this condition may in time be remedied. Mr. R. S. Gray, in the Journal of the American Insti- tute of Criminal Law, declared : ‘A LATE: DEDUTANTE --- SOCIETY'S LEADER NOW! PARFUM Bath and Toilet always use the genuine “Suppose the weak has just as good a chance to draw from the box the ablest lawyer as the powerful, then there would not be one case go to trial where now ten are tried, there would not be one case tried CREATED A ACHIEVED Florida Water Imitations of this delicious where now hundreds are brought, ‘are namberless, bot it and for every case that is now bluffed never been equalled. out and that does not get into court REFRESHES ELIGHTS nor reach a settlement of any kind, w Peestes AAD et there would be a very strong proba- bility of a fair and amicable settle Always look for the Trede Mark, ment.” PREPARED ONLY BY LANMAN @ KEMP NEW YORK For sale by alt Druggtate f If it should seem singular that the whole body of lawyers does not imme- diately rise up and institute this re- form, it should be remembered that the more cases lawyers have the more money they can make, The more com- plicated the law is for everybody, the more moncy there is in it for lawyers meanan ute — $5.00 ajemaensae #250 Sample size gasited | for aix cents In stamps, Ask for our boo! Ith and