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This page contains **advertisements and editorial commentary**, not political cartoons. The main content is a **B.V.D. underwear advertisement** promoting lightweight summer underwear as a solution to heat discomfort—marketed as "The Biggest Contribution To The Summer Comfort Of Man." The ad shows men in various states of undress to demonstrate the product's fit. The **editorial section critiques vivisection** (animal and human experimentation). The author attacks a Michigan doctor who drilled into mental patients' skulls searching for germs, condemning how medical researchers exploit vulnerable populations—the poor, mentally ill, and infants—rather than experimenting on themselves or each other. The sarcasm suggests contempt for unaccountable medical authority. A brief **humorous anecdote** ("The Voice of Ignorance") mocks a London girl's naïveté about tadpoles becoming butterflies—implying British ignorance of nature. The page also advertises **Evans' Ale and Stout**, **Dunlop Golf Balls**, and **surgical instruments**.

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DUNLOP GOLF BALLS ‘HESE famous balls, the great ‘Tiitosh frorltee art nowy Ge introduced inthe Unriwalied for Ay golf professionals The Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd. Birmingham, Eng. Surgical Research in Michigan The revelations of the Michigan doc- tor’s simster activities in the State Hos- pital are interesting for the hint they give of the growing audacity of the vivi- sector, and the sanction given him by organized medical interests. This ami- able gentleman bored holes in the skulls of six lunatics in a frenzied search for a germ—a bacillus—one of those micro- scopic trifles with curly tails, whose presence in the human body has given the medical profession such anguish and profit for the last decade or so. Whether he found it or not is problematic. He says he did. But, then, the doctors say so many things! At best the outcome would be merely one more “ infallible” serum to strut its little day in the medical papers on its way to the dump-heap, which is the final home of so many of its ilk. It is a pity that these daring knights of the scalpel always choose the weak to experiment upon. Animals, sick babies (much safer than animals, because they have no teeth), paupers, lunatics and criminals are the field in which they work with impunity, since none of the victims can tell tales out of school. We would think more kindly of them if they would choose something their own size —say, if they would vivisect each other. In fact, just at this moment, I can't think of anything that would be more beneficial to the community at large. But this would be too much to expect, for it is characteristic of the vivisector Summer Preparedness for Yacht, Cottage, Club and Camp Real Joy Makers 1786 Ei BE som, Bde, 1916 or Going, Wear B.V.D. For Coolness ANY a man, who used to dread Summer, now welcomes it, because of cool, comfortable B.V.D. It makes going-away enjoyable and staying- at-home endurable. It has been called “The Biggest Contribution To The Summer Comfort Of Man.” Loose fitting, light woven B.V.D. Underwear starts with the best possible fabrics (specially woven and tested), continues with the best possible workmanship (carefully inspected and re- inspected), and ends with com- pis comfort (fullness of cut, alance of drape, correctness of fit, durability in wash and wear). Te isn't B. Vv. D. Underwear If it hasn't This Red Voven Label (Trade Mart Reg, U, 8 Pat, Of, and Foreign Countrieid B.V.D. Closed Crotch B.V.D. Coat Cut Under- Union Suits (Pat. shirts and Knee Length U.S. A.) $1.00 and = Drawers, $0c. and upward the Suit. upward the Garment. The B.V.D. Company, New York. to hurt things that cannot hurt him in return, and the other vivisector might have a scalpel! Most of the literature of vivisection is hidden from the public. But once in a while some smart Aleck forgets himself and speaks out loud. It is a challenge to us—the laity—to rise in our sanity and turn over the stone of supreme The Voice of Ignorance A London girl visited the country on May Day. She came to a pond whose shallows were full of tadpoles—thousands thousands of little black tadpoles flopping and about in an inch of mud and water. “Oh,” she said, “look at the tadpoles! medical organization and let the sunlight in on the evil things that crawl beneath it. —The Philadelphia Record. And to think that some day every one of the horrid, wriggling things will be a beautiful butterfly !"—London Opinion.