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This page consists primarily of **advertisements and brief humorous anecdotes** rather than political cartoons. The main content includes: **"The Proposal"** — A comedic short story about an awkward young man who proposes to his girlfriend at a gravestone, asking if she'd like to be buried with his name on the stone. It's dark humor about romantic nervousness. **Other brief jokes** satirize social conventions: a porter's dialect humor about the Gulf of Mexico, exchanges about proposing, and domestic life observations (a housekeeper finding old slippers). **Advertisements dominate** — products like "Mum" deodorant, Dioxogen mouthwash, Bacardi rum, Egyptian Deities cigarettes, and a "Sexology" book emphasize consumer goods and changing social attitudes about hygiene and "modern" knowledge. The page reflects early 20th-century American humor: gentle, domestic comedy; class-based dialect jokes; and emerging consumer culture aimed at middle-class readers concerned with social propriety and personal grooming.

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OLISH ORARIES ox The Proposal He was a morbid youth and a nervous lover. Often had he wished to tell the maiden how he longed to make her all his own. Again and again had his nerve failed him. But to-night there was a “do-or-die” look in his eye. They started for their usual walk, and rested awhile upon his favorite seat— a gravestone in the village churchyard. A happy inspiration seized him. “ Mari he said in trembling accents— Maria! When you dic—how should you like to be buried here with my name on the stone over you? "—London Opinion. RACARDI Makes Tho Perfect Cocktail, Rickey or Highball, ‘Try “ Brevity is the soul of wit,” observed the sage. “ Maybe,” replied the fool, “ but I never feel very witty when I am short.” —Mikwaukee Sentinel. neutralizes perspiration odors pnd other body odors; keeps body nd clothing sweet from bath to bath. ‘A comfort to women specially. - 25e—sold by 9 out of 10 drug- and department-stores. |‘ MUM” MFG CO 1106 Chestnut St Philadelphia XO When Alton Michael Packward asked the porter of the Great Southern at Gulf- port, Miss.: “Is that the Gulf of Mex- ico?” the porter replied: “Only a po'shun of it, sah."—Lyceum Magazine. Tom: When you proposed to her I suppose she said, “ This is so sudden!" Dick: No; she was honest and said, “This suspense has been terrible.” —Boston Transcript en is perhaps the best mouth wash that can be used. _As harmless as water it cleans and purifies the mouth as nothing else; a good dentifrice, too. A clean mouth is one of the best foaintem INODOROUS AN HARMLESS. protections against epidemic colds. The Oakland Chemical Co. 10 Astor Place, N. Y. Makers of the Lrghest Grade Torkssh | cond Epjnon CGagarettes in the Werld ——— SEXOLOGY clear wholesome o AU in one votame, Mhestrated. $2.00 pestpaid Write lor “Other People’s Opiaions"” and Talie of Contents PURITAN PUB. CO., 797 PERRY BLDG.. PHI ‘Sheald Hare. Koowledce a Mother Sbeald kpart to Her Medical Knowledze a Wide Sboold ave. No Fussy Housekeeper “Ah see yo’ is housecleanin’,” said Mrs. Snow White. “Yes,” replied Mrs, Marsh Green, “dey is nothin’ lak’ movin’ things ‘round once in awhile. Why, I des come ercross a pair ob slippers under de bed dat Ah hadn't seen foh five yeahs.” —Dallas News. The exquisite wines of Bordeaux, Clarets, Sauternes, shipped by Messrs. BARTON & GUESTIER, St Julien, Pontét Canét, Chateau Mar ux, Chateat “Leoville-Barton, Sauternes, Haut Sauternes, Chateau La. Tour’ Blanch Yquem (and many other brands), are the principal distributors in every the United States, and at principal hotels, restaurants and clubs. The brand “B. & G.” means warranted quality. “T nearp Mr. Subburbs speaking most beautifully of his wife to another lady on the train just now. Rather unusual in a man these days.” “Not under the circumstances. That was a new cook he was escorting out.” —Louisville Courier-Journal. ‘Wine Jelly when flavored with Abbott's Bitters is made more delightful and healthful Sample of bitters by mail, Beta in stamps. C. W. Abbott & Co., Baltimore, Md. comicbooks.com