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This page contains primarily **advertising and literary review**, not political satire. The main content is a rhymed review of Jack London's *The Mutiny of the Elsinore* by Arthur Guiterman, summarizing the novel's plot: a narrator sailing with Captain West around Cape Horn experiences mutiny, murder, and chaos aboard ship, ultimately marrying the Captain's daughter in Valparaiso. The tone is lighthearted, treating serious events (murder, mutiny, sulfuric acid attacks) as adventure-story entertainment. The page's advertisements are unrelated: Rubberset Safety Toothbrushes (warning against loose bristles causing choking) and Pears' Soap (promoting natural skin beauty). A brief publisher-author exchange jokes about adding sex to books for sales. No political figures or satire are present. This represents typical early 20th-century magazine content mixing literary criticism with consumer advertising.

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gjblble Je 2 This Should Never Happen to You Atooth brush bristle in the throat is unpleasant, to say the least. More—it is dangerous! Liable to cause severe choking or coughing fits which might re- sult seriously. RUBBERSET SafetyToothB. hes Loose tooth brush bristles can be avoided easily., When you buy a tooth brush, al- ways insist on the RUBBERSET, the Safety tooth brush. A RUBBERSET tooth brush cannot shed a single bris- tle. ‘The bristles are held in hard, vulcanized rub- ber—you cannot force them loose These brushes come in all shapes to suit all requirements. he price is 25¢ for 3-row style, and 35c¢ for 4-row style. It costs no more to be on the safe side—use a RUBBERSET Safety Tooth Brush. RUBBERSET COMPANY B. & GM. 7. 005 Prope Newark, N. J. The arrow points to ene of the many in- brush — sec- tions showing how cach bristle is gripped iu hard, vulcanized rubber and cannot come out, , 1 Proft Sharing Coupons packed with every RSET BRUSH. Good for valuable preminme, Rhymed Reviews The Mutiny of the Elsinore (By Jack London. The Macmillan Co.) BECAUSE I feel a strange unrest T've booked to sail the wild, wet water Around the Horn with Captain West Who has the nerve to take his daughter! Our gallant vessel ploughs the blue; (I write these notes when not too hazy.) Our Mates are stern; our Motley Crew Are cranky, criminal or crazy. (My name is Pathurst; people say My books have quite a reputation. The Captain's daughter, by the way, Has earned my grudging approba tion.) The Captain’s dead. Our grim First Mate Is bound to kill that scamp, the Second. The Crew has mutinied. It's great! ‘This trip is better than I'd reckoned. We've killed five Caitiffs, maybe more; And one our Chinee Cook so placid Has drenched with H2 SOs, Which means, you know, sulphuric acid. My men and I control the poop; (Both Mates have gone to feed the fishes.) The Mutineers begin to droop, While we ure eating fancy dishes. They've come to terms, the Wicked Band, Because Starvation’s pangs assail them! They'll hoist the sails, I'll steer to land, And then, you bet your life, 1 jail them! I've turned the trick! With canvas spread We've made the port of Valparaiso Miss Margaret West and I are wed, And on the whole I guess we'll stay so. Arthur Guiterman 'HE PUBLISHER: You couldn't put a little more sex into this hook of yours, could you, Mr. Rel- eroff? Recerrore (the popular author): Oh, certainly, if you wish it. But believe me, sir, there is no money in sex just now A Suggestion Worth Acting Upon At the start of life, Nature endows most people with a beautiful skin— fair, soft and pinky-white—lovely both to touch and to look upon. And what is commonly done with this great boon? Often, by one neglect or another, the skin is allowed to de- teriorate and lose its freshness; and then to make matters worse, recourse is had to cosmetics and other unnat- ural “aids to beauty.” But the truth is, nothing is of any use except what is in strict accord with Nature's own beautifying process—the BEST THING OF ALL being Pears’ Soap which is pure in e particle, and of such dainty emollience as makes it Matchless for the Complexion Natere’s Beautitying Process—For ing the skin in @ condition of nataral beauty from infancy to old { ‘age—always wash with Pears. $ RRR: