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This page is primarily **advertising and light social content** rather than political satire. The main elements include: 1. **"An Alphabet of Girls"** — a humorous poem by Carolyn Wells offering playful character sketches of women (Patty is "catty," Queenie is a "greenie," etc.). This is gentle social comedy about female stereotypes. 2. **"At the Ball"** and **"Evans's Depilatory"** — advertisements dressed as editorial content, common in early 20th-century magazines. The depilatory ad promises smooth skin removal without risk of hair regrowth. 3. **"If You Lived As The Cave Man Lived"** — a Standard Oil Company advertisement using a caveman illustration to pitch their constipation remedy (Nujol), claiming modern digestive problems require modern solutions. 4. **Church News** — a brief social item about housing conditions in New York City. The page reflects **period attitudes toward women, beauty standards, and patent medicine marketing**.

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CPR E An Alphabet of Girls Ry Carolyn Wells P is for popular Patty. R is for rapturous Rhoda, Her lady friends say she is catty. Who never was in a Pagoda, At the Ball The full charm of the Decolleté cos- tume 1s attained when the under- to remove hair permanently, $0¢ for outfit, includ- ing mizing dish, spoon ry A 4 arm is perfectly smooth. If that’s true or not In fact, it is said ; + ’ . I really don't wot, She's been many years flead, aa Evans’s Depilatory But I do wot that P stands for Patty. But R is still standing for Rhoda. is the (sure, sale Way {0 is for queer little Queenie. G is for Suftragette Satie, acquire this on . is oF I'm told she’s a regular greeny. Who acts unbecoming a lady. pow sets app! fed now an It’s funny how this I freely admit Bk ete chenatie haicwithe Seems to rouse prejudice, I don't like it a bit, B® from objectionable hair with: But it's quite true that Q is for Though I'm sure $ stands firmly for ' A out the slightest risk. There Queenie, Sadie. | 4 is no safe way ” ~~ A and powder. Money beck if you want it. At nd depart- res. of send ve S d dealer's name and address. George B Evans 1108 Chestout St Philadelphia Pa Makers of “*Mum'* BELL-ANS Absolutely Removes Indigestion. One package proves it. 25c at all druggists. | Church News | | SOCIAL survey made on behalf of Trinity Church, New York | City, has discovered that within a | stone’s throw of the church are slums where several families sleep in the same room. Out of 1,308 females, 348 per cent. are illiterate, and, speaking generally, the condition “beggars de- If You Lived As The Cave Man Lived Your health would take care of itself 'HE cave man ate coarse food and lived a strenuous life in the open. His digestive apparatus was suited to that kind of an existence. You inherit from the cave man the same internal mechanism, but youeat different food and youlead adifferent kind ofa life. Hence the almost universil prevalence of constipation and its constant menace to health, Your problem is to adjust that “cave man™ internal mechanism of yours to the sedentary life and concentrated food of civilized man, NUJOL accomplishes this adjustment by preventing the scription.” Now that Trinity, which is one of the oldest churches in America, has a | arr bowel contents from becoming hard, thus making natural move- made this discovery, we wonder how ments sy. It doesn't upset the ordinary processes of digestion poe , aie . and sn't form a habit. many more centuries will elapse be: NUJOL is sold in pint bottles only, at all drug stores, Refuse fore it does anything about it? substitutes—look for the na JOLon the bottle and package, Dept. 15.1 STANDARD OIL COMPANY “ = a ; (New Jersey) How long did your last cook stay Bayonne Now Jersey with you? “Oh, about five hours.” a1 “How did that happen “The afternoon train back to town has been discontinued.” —Birmingham Age-Herald. Tue girl of the period looks like Aph- rodite when she wears an evening gown, nat and like a plover when she has on her ree walking costume. Send for booklet, "THE RATIONAL TREATMENT OF CONSTIPATION.” Write your name —Louisville Courier-Journal, and address plainly on the margin below comicbooks.com