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This page contains mostly **advertisements** (Dunlop golf balls, W.L. Douglas shoes) and lighter content rather than political satire. The main satirical piece is "Mysteries of a Boston Mind," which mocks a Boston *Transcript* critic (W.H.D.) who defended John Singer Sargent's portrait of President Wilson by claiming critics were unfair partly because Sargent had lived in Boston for years. The joke: **a person's residence has nothing to do with the artistic merit of their work**—yet this Boston reviewer somehow thought it relevant. This satirizes parochial Boston intellectualism and circular reasoning. The page also includes "The Peasant Maid," a sentimental poem about a French peasant girl praying to Joan of Arc, and a brief joke about Robinson Crusoe reading *Life* magazine on a deserted island. The overall tone is light humor and whimsy rather than sharp political commentary.

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