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This page contains satirical anecdotes and advertisements from an early 20th-century American magazine. The main content includes: **Humor Section ("Our Foolish Contemporaries"):** Three brief jokes mocking human pretension—a bandsman boasting about musical skill, a fishing story about catching whales on the Grand Banks (absurd exaggeration), and a broker foolishly buying foreign art during wartime when replacement parts are unavailable. **"No Importations Allowed":** A diplomat's anecdote about a banker criticizing a broker for purchasing foreign cars during WWI—satirizing Americans' sudden patriotic objection to foreign goods, reversing earlier enthusiasm. **Advertisements:** For Wilson whiskey (emphasizing "moderate" consumption—likely ironic given Prohibition debates of the era), Egyptian Deities cigarettes, private schools, and Harper's Magazine's educational directory. The page reflects pre-WWI or wartime American attitudes: economic nationalism, class consciousness (private schools), and gentle mockery of social pretension and patriotic hypocrisy.

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He was a member of a regimental band, and he did not forget to brag akout it. “Why, man, we can play the most in- tricate airs at sight,” he was saying. “Indeed!” said the unbelieving lis: tener. “TI should like to hear you play the airs the drum-major puts on.” —Tit-Bits. Bitters with your (rape Fralt makes nple of bitters by mall 23 cts, in jaltimore, Mul. Tue late Justice Brewer was with a party of New York friends on a fishing trip in the Adirondacks, and around the campfire one evening the talk naturaily ran on big fish. When it came his turn the jurist began, uncertain as to how he was going to come out: “We were fishing one time on the Grand Banks for—er—for—" “Whales,” somebody suggested. ,; “we were baiting with whales."—Argonaut. GREAT BEAT SPRING WATER SO cents the case of 6 glass stoppered bottles CAMPRED CLOUD Scr. Young Boys. All Sports, Exception. al Ad niages. Counselor every hist Loys insures safet Marting ‘Yale; Hart Taker Deve b Meixell, h, Fiarvirds Cobby Yate: Powel. Yh bart, ard others, Doctor, trained Story-tellers round Camp-6re. tera Original for- ‘Aivtude 1859 Fe EGYPTIAN DEITIES | “The Utmost in Plan End: No Importations Allowed The German ambassador, Count von Bernstorff, said at a luncheon at Jacob H. Schiff's cottage at Seabright: “To Dlame Germany for tl war shows an ignorance of welt politi as excessive as the broker’s ignorance of art. A banker said to a broker: ‘I want you to come and spend the week-end with me in the country, 1 want to show you a Murillo, a Bouguereau, and a Tintoretto that I bought last week.’ ‘Why, man, what a fool. you are,’ said the broker, ‘to buy foreign cars in war time! Don't you know you'll never be able to get new parts? ""—Argonaut. It is the liberal minded man of moderate habit to whom this country owes its greatest debt. And so it is the moderate man whom we are proudest to have as a customer for a remarkably mild and mellow Whiskey— Wilson— Real Wilson— That’s All! The Whiskey for which we invented the Non-Refillable Bottle. FREE CLUB RECIPES—Free booklet of famous club recipes for mixed drinks, Address Wilson, 13 East 31st Street, N.Y. That's All! The Proper Private School for your children is perhaps the most important choice you have to make. You need the best guide in existence and that undoubtedly you will find every month in the Educational Directory of Harper’s Magazine for it is in Harper's Magazine that you find the announcements of more private and preparatory schools and colleges than in any other publica- tion—the widest, the best, and the most dependable selection. Would ron not like to have your own ~ child go to school with children whose parents read Harper's) Magazine? Hopeless “You say you have no references as a cook, How is that?” “Well, you see, mum, I've always stayed in wan place until the people died."—Boston Transcript, COOLING SUMMER DEVER. Teeardl Rickey Cocktail iiighbail ““Dantixe, I think of you every mo- ment in the day “Law sakes, Tom, give some attention to your work or you'll get fired.” —Raltimor,