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This page contains primarily **advertising and editorial content**, not political satire. The main featured article, "Domestic Uplift Is Still Far Off," discusses employment relations—specifically contrasting how American businesses cultivate employee loyalty through recreation and camaraderie (baseball clubs, bonuses) versus the neglected domestic servant workforce. The author argues servants lack incentive for improvement since their employment offers no financial advancement or sense of progress. The illustrated story "Love on the Mexican Border" appears to be a melodramatic narrative (likely adapted from O. Henry) about a woman romantically involved with both an American and a Mexican man, hinting at tragic consequences. The page also includes advertisements: Babson Statistical Organization (investment guidance) and book club offers for O. Henry and Kipling collections. There is **no political cartoon** on this page—the illustrations accompany narrative stories rather than offering satirical commentary.

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a senanersiaa veoh ates ads Chart revised to date, Babson Service is a Guide to Wise Investment It shows the ever-changing trend of trade, wages and money rates. ‘Will give you intelligent, reliable and usable market information upon which to base your pi Eliminate worry. Cease depend- ing on rumors or luck. Work in accordance with a definite policy based on fundamental statistics. For particulare—which will be sent gratis—address Dept L-39 of the Babson Statistical Organization Statistical Block, Wellesicy Hills, Mass. ‘Largest Statistical Organization of its Character in U. 8, LTE not only for the printers, but for other commercial enterprises. What a pity! Every community should have its cooks’ tennis club, its kitchen oratorio society, its laundresses’ debating guild. Every country club should give the freedom of its links to domestics for one day in the week. While you are giving your orders for the day, to be able to discuss with your cook the niceties of an iron or brassie shot would be a great domestic help, At first there would naturally be a feeling of embarrassment, due to the artificial conditions prevailing. But when these were removed, we should almost any of us be able to go away from our homes for a few days, leav- ing them in charge of the domestics with a feeling of grateful conscious- ness that during our absence nothing more reprehensible would take place than a debate on the chemistry of foods, or a refined tango, Domestic Uplift Is Still Far Off EW ideas usually develop in this country in proportional response to their economic value. That is the reason why, at a recent meeting of United Typothetz, the importance of “cultivating the good will of em- ployees” was shown. One printer de- clared that “an employee is a man and not a machine”, Baseball, clubs, bonus systems and an equality of comrade- ship all tend to promote loyalty and the highest efficiency. This helps the busi- ness to make more money. Business, after a long period of darkness, is be- ginning to see this. But how different is the domestic problem of employment. There is no profit in servants. One possibly may save more than another, but, aside from this, their employment is a mat- ter of grim necessity, and not, like a business, to further a project which has for its end a financial goal. At the end of any given period of em- ployment a servant is no better off than when he or she started. Admit- ting domestic employment to be an art, there are few who can derive in- spiration from the pursuit of it for its own sake. Thus domestic servants, as a rule, lack the enthusiasm, the sense of progression, the feeling’ of exaltation which one feels in being a factor in promoting a common cause. This is the reason why we feel, just at present, more or less despondent about the probability of households becoming more efficient through this new social idea which is doing so much, LOVE on the Mexican Border Sweetly she smiled into the eyes of both, kisses she took from both—the ruddy American and the dark-skinned Mexican. And in the strong arms of the man from the North, was it any wonder that for the moment she forgot that Pedro would soon be there? Her punishment? Men of the North laugh coldly and pass on, but the Southern brother below the Rio Grande loves, as he hates, with a singleness that knows no mercy. On this erring woman, going so gayly to her fate, O. 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