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This page contains primarily **advertisements and charitable notices** rather than political satire or comics. The main content includes: 1. **Pears' Soap Advertisement**: A full-page ad featuring a woman's portrait in an ornate frame, promoting the soap as "Matchless for the Complexion"—a genuine historical product claim from the era. 2. **"Handy Handbook for Auto Owners"**: A humorous Q&A piece satirizing automobile repair manuals by offering absurdly unhelpful advice (e.g., "Do not attempt to touch the crankshaft"). The joke mocks both overly cautious instruction manuals and car owners' actual mechanical ignorance. 3. **"Water Lilies"**: A sentimental poem about time and longing. 4. **Life's Fresh Air Fund**: A charitable notice listing donors who contributed to sending poor city children to the countryside—a genuine philanthropic initiative Life magazine sponsored. The page reflects early 20th-century American consumer culture, automotive anxiety, and progressive-era charitable work rather than political commentary.

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—— Fore over ten Weherations the evely: women who have used Pears’ Soap have been convincing evidence that it is “Matchless for the Complexion’ “Good morning! Have you used Pears’ Soap?” Handy Handbook for Auto Owners LMOST every car owner wants to know how to fix the car himself. This is particularly true of the man who owns his own garage. After carefully reading all the books on “How to Repair the Car, and Handy Auto Answers for the Anxious,” I have boiled all the in- formation they contain into a few simple questions and answers, which I hereby present to my fellow mo- torists free of charge: Q. How is the distributor ad- justed? A. Under no conditions touch the distributor. Have it adjusted by a reliable garage man. Q. What is the proper way to adjust a brake band? A. A loose brake bana may cause a serious accident. Q. What is a crankshaft? A. Do not attempt to touch the crankshaft. It is a job only for an experienced mechanic. Q. If the car emits blue smoke, what is the trouble? A. Do not attempt to remedy this trouble. Take the car to a garage. Q. How may a dirty spark plug be cleaned? A. Don’t do it. At the first sign of trouble it is cheaper to have the car thoroughly overhauled. Q. Where is the spark lever? A. The sparking system is a very complicated apparatus. “ave it fixed by an expert. Bol. Water Lilies HE hours are water lilies That stir but never go, Touched by the urge of waters That-sway them to and fro— While I am waiting, dearest, The hours linger: so! The hours are water lilies In bloom when you are near. They drop their pearly petals In waters cool and clear— So swiftly gone a beauty Unutterably dear! G. W. D. LIFE’S Fresh Air Fund Lire’s Fresu Arr Funp has been in opera. tion for the past thirty-five years. time “it has ‘expended $20,652.78 and he given a fortnight in the country to 42, poor city children. Contributions, which are acknowle Lire about three weeks after their should be made payable to Lire’s Frrs Funp, and sent to 598 Madison A: on Previously acknowledged Charles H. Lesh, N. Y. C Richard C. Lesh, N.Y. City Mrs. C. A. Johnscn, McKeesport, Pa. V. G., South Orange, N. J. “In memory of a loved bo Albert Gallatin, N. Y. City...... E. H. L, Ann Arbor, Mich....... 10.00 A. Teitlebaum, Memphis, Tenn.... 5.00 Fred G. Ferry, Pittsfield, Mass 10.00 Miss A. M. Becker, Seneca Falls NiYocs 3.00 Miss Emily Mosser Tompkins, Al lentown, Pa. ... , ; 3.00 Robert W. Parsons, Kennebunk, Me 10.00 S. M. Osgood, Medford, Mass.... 10.00 Miss Lucy N. Robinson, Middle- town, C : . + 10.00 Harriet Conkling 10.00 “C. L. P,, age 11 months” 10.00 | M. Elizabeth Hodgson, Fairlee, Vt. 10.00 E. R. Wilson, M.D., Katonah, N. Y. 10.00 Dorothy Bowne Smith, Charleston, W. Va. .. Mrs. Frank V Park, N. J.. F. S. Cameron, Philadelphia...... Harriet Mead Child, Greenwich, . Thacher, Edgewater + 20.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 y. Mesereau, Portland, Ore... 10.00 Thomas Lauritzen, Fergus Falls, Minn. x 2.00 Ralph W. Hals Farms, Mich. Andrew Ward Hals: Fi » Mich. Grace W. Me. Bartlett, Water- Boston, Mass. Mary Root _ Middletown, nith, Si . Piek, Buffalo, Dorothy Anne & Evelyn Thomson, Grand Rapids, Mich. J. P. Hall, N. Y. City Mrs, F. L. Phomesens 2 Bellows Falls Misitret K. Williams, Charleston, Ss. . . AreYou Interested in Theosophy? Theosophy explains all the problems of life, Send for free booklets on Rein- carnation Life’s inequalities, how to. harmonize them with a Plan of Infinite Justice. __ The reason for the birth of genius and idiot, saint and criminal is a_ problem which worries every just thinking man. All the world is interested—must be. Theosophy holds the explanation. Write Dept. J, Propaganda Dept., ‘Theosophical Society, 826 Oakdale Ave., Chicago, Ill. ‘RORLSRere comicbooks.com