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This page contains **advertisements and literary content** rather than political cartoons, reflecting early 20th-century concerns: **Advertisements reveal contemporary anxieties:** - **Forhan's For the Gums** exploits medical fears about pyorrhea (gum disease), claiming it causes serious ailments—reflecting the era's tendency to exaggerate product benefits. - **Mary T. Goldman's Hair Color Restorer** targets vanity and age anxiety, promising natural-looking results. - **Bayer Aspirin** emphasizes the importance of buying the genuine branded product. **Literary content includes:** - A humorous first-person narrative about an airplane mishap, featuring a woman using a pink parasol as a parachute—satirizing both aviation's novelty and female frivolity. - A poem ("Vain Lady") about feminine vanity and mortality. - A brief satirical note on **Henry Ford**, suggesting his employment of blind workers implies society will eventually produce more blind people—dark commentary on industrial labor practices and social Darwinism. The page reflects 1910s-20s preoccupations: nascent aviation, gender roles, consumer anxiety, and industrial-age concerns.

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Science proves the danger | of bleeding gums MEBBICAL science proves that une gums cause serious ail- ments. People suffering from Pyorrhea (a disease of the gums) often suffer from other ills, such as. rheumatism, anaemia, nervous disorders or weake ened vital organs. These ils have in many cases to the Prontien germs witch besed ts pockets about the teeth. Four out of five people over forty have Pyorrhea. It begins with tender and bleeding gums. Then the gums recede, the teeth decay, loosen and fall out, or must be ex tracted to rid the system of the infecting Pyorrhea germs. Guard your healthand your teeth. Keep Pyorrhea away. Visit your dentist often for teeth and gum inspection, and make daily use of Forhan’s For the Gums. [ Forhan’s For the Gums will prevent Pyorrhea—or check its progress—if used consistently. Ordinary dentifricescannot this. Forhan’s will keep the [3 gums firm and healthy, the teeth white and clean. 35¢ and 60c tubes in U. S. and Canada. FOR THE GUMS ' LIFE - Engine Troubles in an Aeroplane (Continued from page 20) it started to chug-chug again. But it was really too far up to monkey with any suppositions, so I had to abandon this idea. I had brought along my pink para- sol because it matched so well, and I was afraid getting so near the sun might strain my eyes, if I didn’t have a shade, and besides it throws such a becoming light on my com- plexion. When I began to get hungry it occurred to me that I might use my parasol as a parachute and descend to earth. This was really a last re- sort, because I had no idea what town I might be over, and I did hate to think of landing in some place like Oconto, Wisconsin, and taking days to get home on the train, from there. I unstrapped myself and left the machine, climbing towards the top, hoping that I might be going up, in which case I could fix the ma- chinery nicely. But alas, we were right side up, and I began to go to- ~ ward the earth precipitously, drawn by gravity and held back only by the force of my pink silk parasol. I should judge that I had gone a couple of miles on my downward course when I passed the best-look- ing young aeroplaner I had ever seen. I was glad that the parasol shed such a becoming light on my complexion. I sent him pleading glances as I plunged past. He was a whiz at the wheel of Vain Lady Port, you write me fair who am fair to-day, And make me immortally fair to suit your whim; For your word, when the breath dies out, by a secret way Makes sport of Death, eluding him. forever Have pity, and write me wise, who am never wise! I would wear magnificence like a glittering dress. So clothed in the folds of your sweet unperishing lies, No later one shall discover my littleness. BULK, Procrustean Henry Forp does not hestitate to employ blind men. “There are more good jobs for. blind men,” he says, “than there are blind men.” Which means, we suppose, that more men will have to be blinded. Free—To Try Send for Trial Bottle Dont Be Gray When I can stop it ‘To let gray hair spoil your looks, by making you seem old, is so unnecessary when Mary T. Goldman's Hair Color Restorer will bring back the original color surely and safely. Very easily applied—you simply comb it through the hair. No greasy sediment to make your hair sticky or stringy, nothing to wash or rub off — just beautiful, ‘natural, becoming hair. My Restorer is a clear, colorless liquid, clean as water. No danger of streaking or discolora- tion, restored color is even and natural in all lights. Faded or discolored hair restored just as successfully and naturally as gray hair. ne Mail Semen: bared nd today for the special patented Free Trial pack which contalns'a. trial bottle‘of Mary Tr Goldman's Hale Color Restorer and full instructions for making the eonvine- Jpg test on one lock of hair. Indicate color of hair with X, int name and address plainly. If possible, enclose a lock of your hair in your Please print your name and address—=— Mary. Goldman, 48A Goldman Bldg., St. prea Minn. Aspirin Say “Bayer” and Insist! you see the name “Bayer” on or on tablets you are not get- ting the genuine Bayer product prescribed by physicians over twenty-two years and |p proved safe by millions for Headache Lumbago Rheumatism Pain, Pain Colds Accept “Bayer Tablets of only. Each unbroken packa| proper directions. | Hand twelve tablets cost few cents. Druggists also sell bottles of 24 and 100. Aspi is the trademark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticacidester of Salicylicacid. that machine of his. He sent the old air buggy tearing down through space after me, succeeded in getting under me, and held out his hand as I came past again. I caught his hand and he pulled me into the machine. When I told him what the trouble was he said, “You don’t have to get under an aeroplane to fix it.” Men are so smart. I was relieved to think we were going to rescue the aeroplane be- cause Dad would have been furious if I had shown up without it before I even got a chance to show Mildred Jones that it was better-looking than her old aeroplane. “Out of gasoline is all that is the matter with this baby,” said the young man. He attached the ma- chine to the back of his, and we flew over to Sioux City, Iowa, and stacked her up with gasoline. I flew back to New York slowly. The young aviator, who lives in New Orleans, is going to run in to see me to-night, and Mildred was wild with jealousy when she saw me, so the adventure wasn’t so bad. W. B. Rus: Did you ever use Cranium hair tonic? City. a ‘Tue Caney PrintINo Co., INo. New York BETHLEHEM Dus: Yes—it has an awful flavor! comicbooks.com /