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This page is primarily **advertising and contest announcements** rather than satirical content. The main feature is **Life's Short Story Contest**, offering $1,000, $500, and $250 prizes for stories under 1,500 words (with an unusual payment structure: authors earn 10 cents per word *not* written). The contest invites writers to test the practical limits of short-story brevity. The page also contains period product advertisements: **Listerine** mouthwash (marketed as both dental care and general antiseptic), **Harper's Magazine** (promoting its educational directory for private schools—with class implications about which children attend "proper" schools), and **Fownes Gloves** ("The Beau Brummel" brand). A **Figure Mold Garment** advertisement promotes a corset-like undergarment for men to maintain posture and appearance, endorsed by physicians. There is **no political cartoon or satirical content** visible on this page. It represents typical early-20th-century magazine advertising and editorial contests.

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Listerine 18 a superior dentifrice, because it is liquid. A liquid can Protect those surfaces of the teeth which the brush cannot cleanse. A tooth which Is decayed on f rear surface is Just as unsound a which is decayed on its front surf Sound Teeth Promote Better Health Brush your teeth with LISTERINE (The Safe Antisept! —then use diluted Listerine cy rinse your | mouth and spaces between your teeth, Listerine,the liquidantiseptic, is a household necessity. It should be employed to prevent infection ofcuts and wounds; its use after shaving $s beneficial and agreeable. Avoid substitutes; refuse Im- {tations in ordinary medicine bottles, Demand the genuine Listerine in original package— round bottle—brown wrapper. SOLD EVERYWHERE Four Sizes: 1Se, 25¢, 50e, $1.00 Made and Owned in America Lambert Pharmacal Co. St. Louis, Missouri Toronto, Canada SES rE 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 C) Harper’s Magazine for itis 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 you not Uke to have your orn chtld go to school with children whose parents read Harper's Magazine? WANTED (Compctent and reliable young frat or lady to take agency for leading brand of cle- arettes, This isan opportunity to establish regular and increasing income with very little effort. Address with references, BO. BOX 372, Madison Sauare. New Vork City. LIFE Life’s Short Story Contest First Prize $1000 Second Prize 500 Third Prize 250 (OW short can a short story be and still be a short story? Lire would like to know. So would every writer, and, therefore, all writers are invited to join with Lire in making a practical test, Lire invites contributions of original short stories. For the best ones re- ceived before noon of October 4, 1915, it will award three prizes—$1,000, $300 and $250. CONDITIONS No story must exceed fifteen hundred words in length, There is no restriction placed upon the kind of story to be submitted. It may be humorous or tragic; but jokes, anecdotes, epigrams or verses do not come within the scope of the contest. All manuscripts which are accepted for publication in Lire will be paid for at the rate of ten cents a word for every word under fifteen hundred words which the author does not write, To illustrate: if the accepted story is one hundred words in length, then the author will receive $140, or ten cents a word for the fourteen hundred words which he did not write. For what he does write he reccives no pay. If, on the other hand, the accepted story is fourteen hundred and ninety-nine words in length, the author will receive ten cents, This story, however, will stand an equal chance of winning the prize with one which is very much shorter (say, one. hundred words), as each story will be judged strictly on its merits as a story. The stories will be published in Lire as soon as possible after they are ac- cepted, and will be paid for on accept ance upon the basis which has just been defined. When they have all been pub- lished, then the final awarding of the $1,750. in prizes will be made in the following manner: The Editors of Lire will first select, OWNE LOVES “Te’s q te8888 that’s all you need to know aboutaGlove.” “Highty—tighty!—One of those sweeping, egotistical, advertising slogans,” you say. But isn’t it some- thing more? How many things that are bought and sold have given satisfaction for over one and a third centuries? Fownes Gloves have. ss°* * Fownes ese’ £28 848 BA88 Be Seek eeeee 4 aeRRH° v5 Pe 6 “The Beau Brummel” Men Who Gare fer Appearance Should Wear THE MAGIC FIGURE MOLD To preserve a good form or remedy a faulty one. By wearing this open mesh elastic garment, a smart, well set-up figure is instantly obtained, THE BEAU BRUMMEL FOR M THE BEAUTY MOLD FOR WOMEN Will line up and fos an already good form. and thighs, and on the inner os well a3 outer side of legs, without one moment's delay, diet, or discomfort of any kind. AN ABSOLUTELY NEW METHOD Reduction is not obtained by Sweating The gumenss case no heat, are scentfeally comet, cry weight, relieve strain, im Cxpresion, stimulate cc tion, benefit health, ind eye the figure. ties, and remain in pl ENDORSED BY TRY SICHANS AND SURGEONS "Write for lanrated bocklet with fll description. POSITIVELY THE ONLY FIGURE MOLD IN EXISTENCE Foreign and domestic patents granted and pending. FIGURE: MOLD GARMENT COMPANY | D E. Broad St. Columb