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This page satirizes early 20th-century self-help culture and class hypocrisy through two pieces: **"7 Causes of Old Age"** is a health-advice advertisement promoting dubious wellness remedies (avoiding "devitalized foods," proper exercise ratios, sexual interest). It's typical period pseudoscience marketed as scientific rejuvenation. **"The Tourist (A Study in Evolution)"** is the main satire. It traces "Bad Sam Slithers" from poor vagrant (arrested and jailed) to wealthy heir who inherits a plutocrat's fortune. Suddenly respectable, he now recklessly drives a luxury car, endangering pedestrians—who now *cheer* him instead of arresting him. The poem mocks how society treats the identical behavior (recklessness, disregard for others) as criminal when poor, but charming or acceptable when wealthy. It's social commentary on class-based justice and the arbitrary standards applied to rich versus poor. The accompanying illustration shows a portly man in a car globe, emphasizing the satirical "tourist" as nouveau-riche leisure embodiment.

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7Causesot ra e 7 Pp . De Old Age essimism. Due to restraints, ““dont’s.” ‘or aremedy : Consider the unlimited sources of nature. Adopt Golden Rules of Cooperation. open spaces and fresh air to remove pessimism. Blood Pressure Biood Elements Deficient. Due to eating “ashes"'; i. e., devitalized foods, Avoid pastries, cured meats, etc. Take fresh + foods by preference. Blood Quantity Inadequate. Take vital or raw juices from growing fruits and vegetables to make sufficient new blood each day for new life, ideas, for thorough circulation and nutrition to extremities, elligent use of grav- rest and proper cir . Many folks declare new use of this principle s them one hour each ntof sleep and helps reru- blood pressure, and yet « them nothing in time or| eye 7 Lack of Fresh Air. Arrange for a constant fresh draught of air over your nostrils. S Suushine and Heat Deficient. Lack of Suitable Sex Interest. Lack of Appropriate Exercise. When muscle food sufficient, exercise depletes ; when it is sufficient, reise constructa, This is easily proved, A pupil wrote: “Aftermy long illness, at my age, 82, to sble todo my own housework agaia is remarkable.’ nysician, age 81, wrote: “Can now use my arm ich was partially ucational booklet 10 cents. Over 6,000 pupils. BRINKLER SCHOOL OF EATING pt. 37K, 131 W. 72nd St., New York Success on Monthly Payments Syivester had just finished the twentieth volume of the Success Sim- plified Series and was now a superman. He was superior to fear, worry, bad memory and indecision. He closed the book with a bang, snapped off the light with a contemptuous sneer and got into bed. An hour later he wakened from a dream in which he had been standing at the head of a directors’ table while Charles M. Schwab, Andrew W. Mel- lon and J. P. Morgan hung, white- faced, upon his words. In his dream, Mr. Schwab had just asked Sylvester whether he had turned the gas off un- der the morning cereal as his wife had asked him to do before going to bed. Awake, Sylvester could not remem ber. Frightened, he lay there and wor- ried, trying to recall. He with indecision. Final an hour's sleep, he tip-toed down to the kitchen to see. Then, back in bed, he worried about his until dawn. The next day Sylvester made the last payment on the Success Simplified books and signed up for that famous set, “The Big Things of Life; How to Get Them,” in sixteen volumes. McC. H. Safe Milk For Infants, Children, Invalids, Nursing Mothers Avoid Imitations was sick ter losing worry — ask torHorlick’s \ The ORIGINAL \s Malted Milk LIFE The Tourist (A Study in Evolution) Bap Sam Slithers was a hobo, slow; Wearily, cheerily, traveled on his fcet; Slept where he happened when the sun hung low; Ate when he happened upon anything to eat. Up rose the populace, worried by the fact; Passed, for protection, a legislative act; Sent a rural constable to catch him in his sleep. As a bad dead-beat— For he traveled on his feet— A flagrant vagrant (anything but fra- grant) ; Cast him in the calaboose to work him for his keep. A predatory plutocrat at last cashed in, Had to leave his plunder when he slipped across the bar— Bad Sam Slithers was his next of kin, Took to the highway in a big black car, Grabbed at the steering-wheel—stepped on the gas. Up jumped the populace and hopped to let him pass As he drove, like a devil on a mad bull's back, Scattering humanity— Calling forth profanity— Cheering, jeering, everything but steer- ing, Bumping into vehicles he met along the track. Out through worm fled, Eating by the wayside, camping as he went, Scattering his rubbish all around where he fed, Breaking through the fences for a place to pitch his tent, Driving on the wrong side, speeding like the dickens, Tearing by the barn-yard, killing pigs and chickens, Doing depredation for its own sweet sake, the country the wild Cutting pasture wirt Starting forest fires, Scooting, hooting, casually looting, Leaving devastation and destruction in his wake. Legion is his name: let him park on your lawn, Help himself to this or that according to his need, Wake you up at any time between the dusk and dawn, Slash and burn your trees, sack your garden for his feed, Never mind the damage so he has a pleasant time, Sienderness will make you more attractive~ Areyou worried because you areoverweight? Afraid you are losing your charm, your youthful figure? Stout women are at a disadvantage. Pretty clothes no longer fit them, their movements are awkward, their attractiveness deserts them. Friends are sympathetic. But many of these friends have a secret method of keeping slender! They use Mar- mola Tablets (thousands of men and women cach year regain slender figures this way). These tablets will make you slender again, t00. Try them. No exercises or diets—just a pleasant, healthful way of becoming slender. All drug stores have them — one dollar a box. Or they will be sent in plain wrap- er, postpaid, by the Marmola Co., 1843 eral Motors Bldg., Detroit, Mich, MARMOLA Prescription Tablets Nhe Pleasant Day toSeduce Don't mistake his playfulness with property for crime; Show him every courtesy, encourage him to camp, For he rolls on wheels And he naturally feels tameless, shameless, eminently blameless Spirit that distinguishes a Tourist from a Tramp. E. D. The In Lisbon, Portugal, twenty-nine re- jected lovers killed the objects of their affections. In America they get even by saying: “Oh, she’s a nice girl.” YES, MISS—THESE ARE THE LARGEST SHOES ON THE INSIDE AND THE SMALL- EST ON THE OUTSIDE WE HAVE IN STOCK.” comicbooks.com