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This page is primarily **advertisements and light satirical verse**, with no political cartoons. The main content includes: **Advertisements:** Milo Violets cigarettes (gold-tipped, 25¢), dandruff remedy, dog training book, silver fox raising scheme, and a book on treating nerves. **"A Child's Garden of Reverses"** — satirical poetry (credited C.R.S.) mocking wealth disparity. It inverts Robert Louis Stevenson's "A Child's Garden of Verses," replacing innocent childhood observations with cynical commentary: the speaker enjoys limousine rides while rain falls on "prunes of low degree," hides stock certificates in bed from creditors, and enjoys movies as reward for being "good." The satire targets class inequality and materialistic excess of the era. **"Mrs. Pep's Diary"** and **"Pastoral"** are light, humorous anecdotes about domestic life. The page reflects 1920s consumer culture and gentle social humor rather than pointed political satire.

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An Easy Way to Remove Dandruff If you want plenty of thick, beautiful. | glossy, silky hair, do by all means get rid of dandruff, for it will starve your hair and ruin it nu don’t The best way to get rid of dandruff is to dissolve it. To do this, just apply a little Liquid Arvon at night before retiring; use enough to moisten the scalp, and rub it in gently with the finger tips. By morning, most, if not all, of your dandruff will be gone, and three or four more applications should completely re- move every sign and trace of it. You will find, too, that all itching of the scalp will stop, and your hair will look and | feel a hundred times better. You can get Liquid Arvon at any drug store. A four- | ounce bottle is usually all that is needed. The R. L. Watkins Co., Cleveland, Ohio Free Dog Book by noted specialist. Tells how to FEED AND TRAIN your dog KEEP HIM VEALTRY an CURE DOG DISEASES How to put dog in condition, kill cure scratching, mange, dis- temper. Gives twenty-five famous Q-W Doc REMEDIES and 150 illustrations of dogs leads, training collars, harness, stripping combs, dog houses, etc. Mailed free. Q-W LABORATORIES Dept. 19 Bound Brook, New Jersey ~ NEW YORK Mrs. Pep’s Diary (Continued from page 10) also that flowers would keep much longer in the house if an aspirin tab- Iet were dropped in the water, but I know not, forasmuch as Lydia be- lieves a good deal which is told her which would not go before a jury....At cards all the evening, and I did make an error on a re- double grave enough to be grounds for a divorce, yet Sam said naught to me but words of reassurance, and I doubt whether there is another man in Gotham with the same nobility of soul Baird Leonard. Pastoral Yue farmer's pink-cheeked daugh- ter was coming up the lane. She was clad in a grimy pair of overalls, from the pockets of which bulged huge bunches of waste and sundry wrenches and pliers. In her hand was a dirty satchel rattling with an assortment of iron tools. “Where are you going, my pretty maid?” I asked. “I'm going a-milking, sir,” she said. “But why the tools?” “Trouble,” she said, “with that darned old milking machine again.” BIG MONEY IN RAISING SILVER Fox Webuyall youraise. Prostsy; to 300% have been made ing single year. Write for free infor. mation about this ‘wonderful money making business, Duffus Silver Fox Co, 21K W, joth St. New York A Child’s Garden of Reverses THE rain is raining all around, On prunes of low degree: But I am in my limousine, It never rains -on me ee * The world is so full of a number of reels, I hate to take time to go home to sy mea se * A birdie with a happy squirm Pounced upon a fuzzy worm, ying, as he cocked his bean, Try and get it. Mr. Shean!” * * * My bed is like a little boat; It holds our stock when agents park; Nurse wraps it in my sailor coat, And hides it there till dark. And sometimes things to bed I tak: As helpful children have to do: Perhaps a jug of Perhaps a flask or two. ather’s make, **# * The newest jazz I always know By listening on my radio; And every night when I've been goo: I get a movie after food. CRS. By Paul Von Boeckmann Scienti d neurologist, one of the world’s le: thorities on NERVES —a specialist who has diagnosed and cured thousands of cases of Nerves. One of the most interesting and enlightening books ever published on NERVES. Ex: plains in clear, simple language why nerves £ wrong, the one big cause of Nervous xhaustion, how to prevent and remedy it, It explains the structure and function of the nerves; shows how to calm, soothe and care for them. How to develop and control FpesertZ of strong nervous energy, how to levelop pep, courage and ambition—to enjoy shock-proof nerves. 96 pages of sound, helpful advice and information. Only 25¢ (stamps or coin) while the edition Jasts. Don’t delay. Send for it to-day. Write to PAUL VON BOECKMANN Studio 269, 110 W. 40th St., New York City comicbooks.com