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This page contains **book and product advertising with one significant literary review in verse** (not a political cartoon). The "Rhymed Review" critiques Robert Herrick's novel *Clark's Field*. The satirical poem traces Adell Clark's journey from poverty to wealth when her family's ancestral land finally sells. She marries Archie Davis, who squanders her fortune on drinking and gambling in California. A working-class mason saves Adell from a fire Archie causes, but lawyers deny him any claim to her estate despite her moral debt to him. The satire targets **wealth inequality and legal injustice**: Adell rewards the mason by hiring him to help her spend inherited money extracted from her poor tenants—hardly romance or genuine realism. The cartoonist (likely F.S. King, credited on the illustration) ridicules how the wealthy solve moral problems with token gestures while systemic exploitation continues. The page is otherwise dominated by period advertisements: Dr. Jeanne Walter's "reducing" rubber garments (for weight loss), and the Sturtevant gasoline-electric generating sets for estates and factories.

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Rhymed Reviews Clark’s Field (By Robert Herrick. Houghton, Mif- flin Co.) NCESTRAL CLARKS had cleared the Field; Their sons were never moneymakers, But while they reaped a meagre yield A city crept around their acres. They would have turned those acres bare To cash, whereof their need was vital, But could not find one Missing Heir, So couldn't give a Perfect Title. But when the Law dissolved the spell And sold the Field in spite of hitches, The Last-of-all-the-Clarks, Adell, Was raised from Poverty to Riches. She went to school and then to France And = married Archie.—This, of course, is A Novel, not a Crude Romance, And Weddings always mean Di- vorces. For Archie Davis brought her back To California paradises ; And spent her means, and took, alack! To gambling, drink and other vices. Adell one morning chanced to mark A Mason laying stone and mortar; He proved to be a Missing Clark Who wasn’t hardly worth a quarter. THE COMFORTABLE LIFE for men and women alike means living free from the annoy- ance and unsightliness of disagreeable, unhealthful fat. Re- ducing your fat means not only better bealth, but vastly improved appearance as well. You can rid yourself of super- fluous fat easily, hygienically, safely, with Dr. Jeanne Walter’s Femeus Mediated ‘Rubber Garments By inducing pers- piration these gar- ments cause the tale and speedy re- ihe entire body Or aay part, They are en: dorsed by leading physi- cians. BUST REDUCER, $5 eo aserased Mate of Dr. Walter's famous Aexh-redocing rabiber with cou: Mi tack ‘The reducing qualities of this gannent are remarkable, at the Sime tine it gives added com: fort and style. Neck and Chin Reducers, $3 Chin Reducers only, $2 Wrinkle Eradicator or Frown Band, $2. Alo Union Seles, Stockings, Jackets, etc.. for the porpose of reducing the fev onywhere desired. Invaluable to Unote saflering from rheumatian. Netter Cc Webhiag “Slip-Ons” $3 op, Rabber Cas Webbing “SSp-Drens” $6 op Write at ence for tether yarinsars NEW YORK Dr. JEANNE WALTER, Dept. U, 45 West 34th St, Inventor ant Patentee On the country estate and farm they furnish current for lighting and power machinery. On the yacht for searchlights, lighting, ventilating fans and wireless. In the garage for charging storage batteries and for power. In the factory for power and lighting. wee. GASOLINE—ELECTRIC Generating Sets USING GASOLENE, KERO- SENE OR GAS AS FUEL For the Country Estate, the Farm, the Yacht, the Garage and the Factory. They are complete self contained units of four or six cylinder type. Operate quietly without vibration, are easy to install and require no special foundation. So simple in construction that any one familiar with automobile motors may operate them and keep them in repair. PAT. OFF.) Built in three sizes: 5, 10 and 15 K.W. capacity and all standard voltages. Ask for Bulletin 20530 B. F. STURTEVANT COMPANY, Hyde Park, Boston, Mass. and all principal cities of the world. When drunken Husband Archie set Adell's abode aflame, like Nero, This gallant Mason didn’t let His chance escape, but proved a Hero, “One-half the Clark Estate I owe,” Adell declared, “to Tom the Ma- son!” But all the lawyers answered, “ No, He has no claim to build a case on.” And so Adell has drafted Tom To help her spend the Tainted Mil- lions On those her wealth is taken from— Her tenants, poor, oppressed civil- ians. Belike she'll marry Thomas when They've settled Minor Circumstances, If this is Realism, then I wish you'd tell me what Romance is. —Arthur Guiterman. A. nosritat, surgeon was imparting some clinical instruction to half a dozen students who accompanied him on his rounds. Pausing at the bedside of a doubtful case, he said: Now, gentle- men, do you think this is or is not a case for operation?" One by one the students made their diagnosis, and all of them came to the conclusion that it was not, wrong,” said the wielder of the “and I shall operate to-morro you won't!" exclaimed the pat he rose from his bed. “Six to one is a good majority. Give me my clothes.” —Argonaut. “WHAT'S THE MATTER, CHILD?” “TM AFRAID I'LL GRow UP AN’ BE ER BEARDED LApY!” No other exclusive perfume introduced to American society in recent years has met with such instant approbation. At Leading Perfumers Send for Small Sample Bottle, 25¢ HOUBIGANT PARK & TILFORD, Agents, NEW YORK UELQUES FLEURS If shoes are lost or come off easily your shoeing bills are needlessly increased. It costs no more to have your shoer use “ CAPEWELL” was The best nail in the world at a fair price, not the cheapest regard- less of quality. Specify for “The Capeweil™ nails always “it pays. by the Cheek cart on the beveled face of the beat, comicbooks.com