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This page is primarily **advertising with some literary content**, not political satire. The dominant feature is a **Crossett Shoe advertisement** showcasing a men's loafer, emphasizing quality materials, custom styling, and comfort—typical early 20th-century shoe marketing. Below are travel advertisements for the **Panama Pacific Line** promoting luxury steamship service to California via the Panama Canal, then a recently completed modern marvel (opened 1914). The literary content includes: - **"From a Ringside Seat"**: A poem satirizing the contemporary intellectual trend of **Behaviorism**—the psychological school claiming humans are merely machines without consciousness or aspiration. The poem mocks this reductive philosophy as overly deterministic. - **"Mrs. Pep's Diary"**: A humorous domestic column recounting trivial household matters and social observations, common in magazines of this era. No political cartoons appear. The page reflects early 1920s consumer culture and contemporary intellectual debates about human nature.

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30 $10.00's WORTH of shoe in looks, leather, and < manship. Finest GRADE of Imported and Domestic Calfskins and Cordovans, best of soles,“solid leather” shoes throughout. CUSTOM STYLING — distinc- tive Hand-Craft touches in youthful and conservative models. Shoe MAKES LIFE'S WALK EASY SATISFACTION — shoes pre- moulded to fit all of the foot at the first step. Snug to ‘the instep, snug to the ankles — shapely all over. and SHOEMAKING! Special right and left” patterns on fected lasts — stainless calf linings, smooth, heavy insoles —and expert workmanship. ASK YOUR SHOEMAN for Crossett Shoes, of write to us for nearest dealer's address. Lewis A. Crossett Co., North Abington, Mass. Also Many Styles «99 HAVANA and the PANAMA CANAL PANAMA PACIFIC LINE Largest, fastest ships in the service —Manchuria, Mongolia, Finland. Regularsemi- ‘monthly sailings: New York, Havana, Panama Canal, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco. The palatial NEW S.S. CALIFORNIA Largest steamer ever built under the American flag. Sailing westbound Jan. 28, Mar. 10, Apr. 21; eastbound Feb. 18 and regularly thereafter. Ask about special round trips—One Way Water, One Way Rail. Or, check your tip auto as bageane and make the roun One Way Water, One Way Motor. for illustrated booklets, No. 1 Y.C., our offices elsewhere ized $.'S. or R. R. agents. Panama facifie fine INTERNATIONAL MERCANTILE MARINE COM of author From a Ringside Seat Wues he both de- stroyed, Not many years ag: And prophets such as Sigmund Freud Had analyzed the anthropoid And snared the libido, laymen in contentment lay, and hell were ven We And sai That's settled, anywa: But brief was our serene repose, Ill-fated w ur star, For right beneath the Freudian’s nose New schools of modern thought To tell us what we are, And out of the nr ting schism Emerged what's AFOSe Hed behaviorism, Behaviorism proves that men And women, kings and que From birth to thr Whate'er their Are nothing but machines, And function Sans aspiration or compunction. ra core ye has been, ancestry automatically With this And argun Among. philosophers, Are calm about it And wateh the No use We're me thinkers di nt runs high while we can be rathers fly join the clatter subject for us nothing but mat Tur autobiography of an opera star running serially in 4 zin . My and 4 Mr. Clark.” To might have added, “I think.” Philadelphia Inquirer. third hy which she was | Mrs. Pep’s Diary (Continued from page 21) herself, and she replied straightway, “Whitewashed walls, no curtains and an iron bed,” so what I have heard about the children of cobblers may be true. To the concert hall this night to hear Povla Frijsh sing, which she does with great skill and beauty, and if there be a more b tiful song ever wrote than Grieg's jin Traum,” I cannot, at this writ- ing, recall having heard it. November Lay late, pondering a Roth scheme for antiquing some velvet, my hus- band, poor wretch, having told me that he will manage it nicely for me if I do but provide him with a pair of sandpaper trousers, and did I but know whether or not Aunt Carolin: is going to give me a cheque r Christmas, [should not be put to such ways and means, but since did send me the new En- cyclopedia Britannica last year, my hopes in her direction are not what they have been in the past, but even so she is a better prospect than Aunt Libby, who, in spite of extra divi- dends that would ¢: a flutter even in Morgan and Co., sent me a trick brocade hidden compart- ment of which was a card reading, “Merry Christmas to Mrs. Penfield from Jim and Emily Worthington.” To luncheon at an inn with Lacey Short, cating two rolls, like a fool, but I cannot resist them when they devious us purse, in are covered with poppy sceds, and am careful to consume only the crusts, and Lacey did tell me that she had been leading the existence of Job for the last few weeks and that we should need red lights and sneaky music properly to offset a recital of it, and I could well believe it after hearing only a few of her misadven- tures, which put her in a class with Macbeth when it came to having supped full with horrors, nor did she once suggest, whilst touching lightly on situations of underlying tragedy that she could not have survived had it not been for her sense of humor, a restraint for which there should be some sort of medal Baird Leonard. Inspiration Lingers Tr isn’t in any of the records that a great masterpiece ted in the presen f the who plunked himself down beside the writer's desk and remarked, “Don’t let_ me in- terrupt you—go right along with your work."—Detroit News. ya order it, n't come when y nes come what is Weekly Paper —Humorist (London). “The coal ¢ and when it ¢ ‘Slate comicbooks.com