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This page contains **book reviews, advertisements, and a satirical short story** rather than political cartoons. The main satirical content is "Life in the Suburbs," a comedic dialogue about social anxiety. Parsival, an anxious middle-class man, learns his employer Mulligan—a self-made businessman of humble origins—is moving next door and expects social integration into the couple's elite bridge club. The satire mocks **class snobbery and social climbing**: Parsival's wife considers Mulligan "coarse" and "impossible" despite his success, yet they're blackmailed by economic dependence into sponsoring him. The joke reveals the fragility and hypocrisy of social hierarchies—Parsival cannot escape his boss even by losing his job, since Mulligan will remain a neighbor. The advertisements (Nujol laxative, Fownes gloves, Standard Oil) are typical period marketing using dubious health claims and status appeals.

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with the mature intellectual powers of a genius and enabled (by his infantile lack of prejudice and preconception) to use them with ruthless honesty. It is a long time since the dry bones of a philosophi- cal allegory have been so successfully covered with fictional flesh and blood. RANK SWINNERTON (the author of “On the Staircase” and “The Happy Family”) is one of those con- scientions but mistaken users of lan- guage who imagine that words, instead of being pointed prods to the reader's imagination, are material substitutes for its employment, His new novel, “ The Chaste Wife” (Doran, $1.50), is an able study of the effects of well-meant se- cretiveness on the relations of two excel- lent people. But its over-generous ex- planations and characterizations are as stiff as an inexperienced cook’s rice pud- ding. J.B. Kerfoot. IVES there a man with soul so dead” that he hasn't felt it his patriotic duty as an American citizen to tell his newsdealer in advance that he wants a copy of Lire every Tuesday morning? The Athlete’s First Principle Js To Keep His System Clean He doesn't allow food to ferment in his intestines. He doesn't give his body chance to absorb poisons. He knows—and your doctor will tell you—that anything from a headache to the most serious illness may result from such absorption. Nujol removes poisons from the system, and gives the tissues of the hody a chance to build up and resist disease. i it-torming, di ly pure and harmie specially fine for young mother: the child. sold only in pint bottles, bearing Nujol trade- Company (New Jersey) has used its reputation is behind the product. Nujol is absolutely distinctive and individual. not gripe, relieves straining, does not weaken nor upset the stomach, is id is delightful to take, not absorbed into the system, and therefore in no way k, neverin bulk. world-wide resource ja producing Nojol, and There is no other product on the market like it. ‘ Write today to Dept. 15 on coupon and margin below for instructive booklet on Nujol and its uses. STANDARD Bayonne OIL New Jersey) COMPANY New Jersey Please send me booklet on the, treatment of constipation White your name and address Name. —..... Address. Plainly bel Cit State. Fownes gloves in a dealer’s glove department indi- cate high quality in his other departments. Make thetest yourself... You'll find the Fownes sign a sure sign of good merchandise, wherever that’s all you need to know about a GLOVE. Life in the Suburbs HE worst has happened!” Parsival sank down in his chair. He was plainly cowed. “What has happened?” exclaimed his wife. “Mulligan is coming to live next fulligan! The head of your firm?” “Yes.” “Not the man you work for?” “The same. He just married a young wife, and he wants to get into society.” “But, my dear, he’s impossible. A clever business man, but coarse. Why, he sprang from nothin; “T know it. He's lighting on us. He expects me to introduce him around—in Tact, said as much, Wants to become a member of our bridge club, Says he never played, but is willing to learn s is awful, Suppose we don’t? “TM lose my job. He intimated as anuch.” “Anything but that. We can live on my income—at a pinch. Besides, you could get something else.” Parsival groaned. “What good will that do?” he s “Tell still be living next door, won't A LEADING CLUB WOMAN comicbooks.com —e * 1A 3 of FS OO