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This page features a humorous poem mocking anxious doomsdayers who obsess over distant, catastrophic scenarios: the sun's heat dying out in ten million years, Earth falling into the sun, gravity failing, overpopulation causing air shortages, climate change, and crop failures. The satire targets Victorian-era pessimists and scientific alarmists who became paralyzed by theoretical future disasters beyond human control or immediate concern. The repetitive refrain "And he worried about it" emphasizes the absurdity—the protagonist frets uselessly over cosmic events occurring millions of years hence that no individual action can prevent. This reflects late-19th-century anxieties about scientific predictions and determinism, gently ridiculing those who lost sleep over inevitable, distant doom rather than addressing present-day concerns. The page surrounds this with period advertisements, typical of Judge's format.
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It is manufactured in {iro sties “BOUQUET EXTRAS, packed 25 and so ina box, and BOUQUET LONDRES, packed 100 in a box.” If you de- fire a fragrant and delicious smoke, equal to many IMPORTED gocent cigars, the BOUQUET will surely please you, and the ame of UPMANN, which every cigar bear, should be a sufi- cent guarantee of its high standard quality to satisfy the most fastidious consumer, NEW YORK CENTRAL | AND HUDSON RIVER R. R. from "which | | HE WORRIED ABOUT IT. “The sun's heat will give out in ten’ million years more,” And he worried about it; It will sure give out then, if it doesn’t before," ‘And he worried about it. It would surely give out, so the scientists said In all scientifical books that he read, And the whole mighty universe then’ would be dead, And he worried about it, And some day the earth will fall into the sun, ‘And he worried about it; ‘+ Just as sure and as straight as if shot from a gun,” And he worried about it ; “ When strong gravitation unbuckles her straps Jost peture, be sald, “what fearful coll {t will come in a few million ages, perhaps,” ‘And he worried about it. “The earth will become much too small forthe race,” And he worried about it ; “When we'll pay thirty dollars an inch for air space, And he worried about it’; “The earth will be crowded so much, without doubt, ‘That there'll be no room for one’s tongue to stick out, And no room for one’s thoughts to wander about,” And he worried about it. “The gulf stream’ will curve and New England’ grow torrider (Aad he worried about it) ‘Than was ever the climate of southernmost Florida,” And he worried about it. “The ice-crop will be knocked into small smithereens, And crocodiles block up our mowing-machines,, And we'll lose our fine crops of potatoes and beans,” ‘And he worried about it. “* And in less than ten thousand years, there’s no doubt,” ‘And he worried about “Our supply of lumber and coal will give out,” And he worried about it; lust then the ice age will-return cold and raw, Frozen men will stand stiff with arms outstretched in awe As if vainly beseeching a general thaw,” ‘And he worried about it, His wife took in washing (a dollar a day), He dida't worry about it : His daughter sewed shirts the rude grocer to pay, He didn't worry about it : While his wife beat her tireless rub-a-dub-dub On the wash-board drum in her old wooden tub He sat by the stove and he just let her rub, He didn’t worry about it, S. 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