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This page is primarily **advertising and light humor content**, not political satire. The main elements: **Advertisements** dominate: French Ivory cigarette cases, grape juice, a hotel (The Manor in Asheville), Masonic books, Resinol skin ointment, and a stammering cure. **Humorous content** includes: - **"Lone Dog"** — a poem celebrating an independent, wild dog that refuses domestication; appears to be sentimental rather than satirical. - **"Four Rules"** — advice on complimenting women (be intellectual with pretty women, frivolous with intellectual ones, etc.); gentle social commentary on courtship conventions. - **Letter from a Kansas subscriber** — comic complaint about receiving too many newspapers while praising the one he wants to cancel; plays on rural dialect ("papper"). - **Brief jokes** about a man named Blinks and a couple's disagreement about measuring seconds. There is **no significant political cartoon or satire** on this page. It represents typical early 20th-century magazine filler mixing modest advertising, light verse, and gentle humor.

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F CRAM, Be among the first to own Fifi, the fastidious: FRENCH IVORY CIGARETTE CASE Its glistening surface set off with flowers or butterflies in gilt or with any initial or monogram, Springs open at your thumb’s command, offering a cigarette most invitingly. Choice of flower or butterfly patterns, or in case, with an initial, $1, eat ye choice with monogram, $1.! Let your order come quickly INLAID CO., Manufacturers 1060 Broad St. Providence, R. 1. Send for a Keg of pure, Unadulterated, Undoctored Grape Juice ‘The pure juice of the grape just as it comes from the press. Send us $37.50 today for a 15-gallon keg and we will deliver it to you by express prepaid. Money refunded promptly | if not entirely satisfied References: Dun or Bradstreet, Write for prices on half-barrel or barrel lots, Address, Brocton Fruit Prod- ucts Co., 11 Main St, Brocton, N. Y. he anor Albemarle Park Asheville, N.C. More in Sorrow The editor of the Barber County (Kan.) Index recently received the following letter from a subscriber: Pleas stop the papper. It is a good papper. I like it and so does the old woman and the kids. We don’t like no other papper so good as the Index, but we are taking a lot of them that ain't no worse thin the Index. We'll stop some of them maybe and then take the Index, We don’t know what we would do with- out the Index. It’s a good papper. Please stop the papper. What kind of a feliow is Blinks? Well, he is one of those fellows who always grab the stool when there is a piano to be moved—Oregon Lemon Punch. | Lone Dog I'm a lean dog, a keen dog, a wild dog, and lone; | I'm a rough dog, a tough dog, hunting on | my own; I'm a bad dog, a mad dog, teasing silly sheep; I love to sit and- bay the moon, to keep fat souls from sleep. I'll never be a lap dog, licking dirty feet, A sleek dog, a meek dog, cringing for my meat, Not for me the fireside, the well-filled plate, But shut door, and sharp stone, and cuff, and kick, and hate. Not for me the other dogs, running by my side, is what you want for your skin trouble Some have run a short while, but none of | | —Resinol to stop the itching and burn- them would bide. ing—Resinol to heal the eruption. | Scratching makes it worse, besides ake 4 being embarrassing and dangerous, : trail, the best, . but the smooth gentle ingredients of Wide wind, and wild stars, and the hunger RESINOL OINTMENT often over- of the quest! come the trouble promptly, even ifitis —Irene R. Mel.cod, in “ An Anthology of severe and song earablished. Bathing Recent Poetry” (Dodd-Mead). the affected part first with RESINOL 7 ¢ ns SOAP hastens the beneficial results, Resinol products at all druggists, Four Rules p si Oh, mine is still the lone trail, the hard As for women, well, it is safer to avoid = the obvious in compliments. At least that pm Send for a Complete is the opinion’ of one clever woman. Four Catalogue of rules she formulated are quoted here for what they may seem to be worth MASONIC BOOKS Be intellectual with pretty women. | Oy; Jeweiry and Goods Be frivolous with the intellectual, P/O REDDING & CO. Be serious with young girls. Publishers and Manufacturers Be saucy with elderly ladies. Y Dept. L, 200 Fifth A; New York —Cleveland Press. —s ay ae a | “ 66 Tego O au|STAMMERING He: May I hold your hand for a second? Suz: How will you know when the fs Guise and Gire second is up? 4 You can be quickly cured. Send 10 cents for 283 He: Oh, I'll need a second hand for that. Gioan bound took og Stasmering and 8 —Brown Jug (Brown University). tottering for 20 }cary BENJAMIN ae. tay Ne Me Ste Laughter, The Purely Human Attribute That Other Creatures Lack. Read ye and be sure of something worth laughing at, the bright- est joke, the newest quip, and in the line of progress upward. Try it yourself for a year, or, Obey That Impulse, and for a trial trip avail yourself of our Special Offer Enclosed find One Dollar (Canadian $1.20, Foreign $1.40). Send Live for twelve issues to Open only to new subscribers; no subscriptions renewed at this rate. LIFE, 17 West 31st Street, New York. One Year $5 Canadian $5.80 Foreign $6.60 7 comicbooks.com