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This page is primarily **advertising and humor columns**, not political satire. The main advertisement is for **Dentyne chewing gum**, featuring a man with an exaggerated smile. The ad's pitch—that salesmen win orders through cheerful smiles and white teeth—reflects early 20th-century business culture emphasizing personal charm and appearance as sales tools. The page includes several humor pieces: "The Downtrodden Housewife" (satirizing women's domestic drudgery), "The Truth" (a New Yorker anecdote about a man bragging about a valuable property's history, which the newcomer dismisses), and "After-Dinner Chat" (excerpting P.G. Wodehouse, poking fun at a drunk businessman confusing a guest's name). There's also a **Mothersill's Remedy advertisement** for seasickness prevention. These pieces mock everyday frustrations—housework, city social hierarchies, drunken obliviousness—typical of Life's satirical humor. No specific political figures or events are referenced.

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32 Chéw ENTYNE _and smile/ The men who land the big orders are famous for their cheery smiles. There’s nothing like a smile to win your way into the hearts of men, Teeth play a big part. They must be clean and pearly white. Dentyne is a delicious gum that makes smiles more attractive. It keeps teeth snowy white. The Downtrodden House wife Livrin Eoxa: What is leisure, Mam- ma? Masta: It's the spare time that a woman has in which she can do some other kind of work, my dear, Christian Register. A SICKNESS —in the roughest wat. alling nausea is un: Mothersill’s prevents Travel on your journeys by Sea, Auto, Car or Air. 1 7%. & $1.$0 at Drug Stores or direct The Mothersill Remedy Co., Ltd. The Truth Ma. A. De Pisa, the outfitter, who has bought the barren corner at Fifty second Street and Fifth Avenue, where ence stood, wrapped in Vanderbilt tra- Henry A. was surveying his newly acquired ditions, the resi of reverie one recent ur mood, said the man, “I recollect when this property was a farm, Why, eighbor,” I buried a dog here once, in those days, ead in the paper that it was almost five million dollars.” * said the new owner, with a The stranger was obviously hurt “But what Mm telling you,” he said, “is the truth —New Yorker, “Wiry not dance on your way to Bos- ton?” asks a steamship company, Well, why not? But a person intere making the most of his tin fer to read on the way to E St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Morning (Continued from page 9) You know, when people start a lot of stories about my kissing a horse, ws if To must have been tight or something. The Drunken Poet: or, Through the Gutter with the Girl Milne. And [ didn’t even have a cocktail. 1 couldn't: drink their old cocktails. Let them keep their old cocktails. Let th them to the Department and Structures. Why isn’t it the Department of Plant and Structure, then? Why don’t they make up their minds, one way or the other? Trying to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds, that’s what they're trying to do. That's what makes me_ sick. That's enough to take the heart out of anybody. What's the use of try- ing, when there are things like that going on right in this city? I'd be a fool if I ever got out of this bed. Department of Plant and Struc- tures! I wish I'd died in the night. it sounds 1 give Plant After-Dinner Chat Notinxe spoils a téte-a-téte chat be- tween two newly made friends more than a disposition towards reticence on the part of the senior of the pair; and fortunate therefore that, by the time he found himself seated opposite his study, the heady influ- Grey and the rather gen- potations in which he had in- brought Sigsbee H. Waddington to quite a rea- dulged during dinner had sonably communicative mood, He had d the stage where men talk dis- ingly about their wives. He rapped rge on the knee, informed him three s that he liked his face, and 1 tow do you m Jdington, puzzled. My name is Finch.” What of it?” “You called me Winch.” “Why “I think you was) my Finch?” asked Mr. “What wa “Winch.” yu said just now it was Finch.” “Yes, it is.” T was saying Mr. m tapped him on the knee “Young man,” he said, “pull yourself together. If your name is Finch why pretend that it is Winch? [don’t like this shiftiness. It does not come well from a Westerner... If your name is Pinch admit it like a man.” = “The Small Bachelor,” by P- G. Wodehouse (Doran). The People’s Theatre Tie outstanding lesson of the theatre ticket revelations in New York is that the ideal theatre auditorium should con- sist of only th sixteen aisles.— first twelve rows and ec York Times. comicbooks.com