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This page from *Judge* magazine contains several short humorous anecdotes and advertisements typical of early 1900s American satire. **The cartoons/jokes satirize:** - **Female vanity**: A widow celebrates her family monument's prominence, wanting her name visible in society columns even in death. - **Marriage dynamics**: Jokes about wives' expectations and husbands' domestic forgetfulness, with the punchline that early romantic gestures ("a kiss") devolved into reminders about muddy shoes. - **Women's rights hypocrisy**: A woman advocate monopolizes multiple seats on public transportation while claiming equality—mocking inconsistency in women's liberation arguments. - **Wartime complaints**: Someone complains a war drags on while ignoring weeds in their own yard—trivializing impatience with the (likely Spanish-American) war effort. The central illustration shows caricatured "clam-diggers" at their annual meeting—likely working-class humor, though the specific reference is unclear today. **Advertisements** promote bicycles, tailoring services, champagne, and a portrait of Commodore Schley (Spanish-American War naval officer), reflecting contemporary commercial interests.

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In a Class Alone. Chainless Bicycle, Ta rensing qualities are perfect, Mrs. Gaswell contemplated with pride the family monument that had been erected in the cemetery. It overtopped all others by many feet, and contained in deeply.graven leters the name of every member of the Gaswell family, with blank space for future mortuary statistics. “Thank goodness!" she exclaimed, ‘there's one column the society editors can't keep my name out of."—Chicago Tribune. + Did you ever,” asked the young husband, “have your wife look you in the eye when you came home and ask you if you had not forgot. ten something?” ‘Many a time, me boy,” answered the old married man. ‘She does yet. In the early days it used to mean a kiss; now it is usually a reference to wiping my shoes." —Cincinnati Enquirer. Yeast—"* When a woman sings I take notice she wants a piano, a fiddle, or something of the kind to accompany her." Crimsonbeas— “Why, certainly.” Yeast —"* Wel bird doesn't need anything to accompany it.” Crim. sonbeak—* Oh, yes, it does.” Yeast—"* What?’ Crimsonbeak —""A' bottle." — Yonkers States- man. Character sketches made by ‘* Zim" of well-known members of the amalgamated order of clam-iggers when that important body held their annual meeting for the preservation of clam-shells at Jayville-by- the-sea, Uncle Sam's hat was never waved above | an American product of which more Americans are proud than in this picture. “Great West ern” Champagne has no equal. Pleasant Valley Wine Co., RI KULL & C HIGH-CLASS +s TAILORS. Clothes don’t make the man, but right-fitting ones help mightily. WE STAKE OUR REPUTATION ON EVERY SUIT. 18 East 20th Street, NY, New York. “It is infamous the way this war drags | along.” ‘ Henry, the war will be over before you get those weeds out of the pavement in the back yard,"—Chicago Record. She—"* Who is that woman?” He—"* She's a woman’s-rights advocate. She monopolized two seats in the smokers’ bench on the summer. car I rode on to-day, although there were sit empty benches ahead.""— Philadelphia Record. We don’t see why church-mice should be so poor: they don’t have to help pay the minister's salary.— West Union (owa) Gazette. C¢e A SPLENDID PORTRAIT OF On the Deck of the “Brooklyn.” Size 14x22. Printed on heavy plate paper, suitable for framing. Send 10 CENTS in coin or stamps to ; | LESLIE’S WEEKLY, 310 Fifth Avenue, N. Y. City. Correct Solution of “Judge’s” Puzzle Contest No. (4. 1 Violet, 21 Cook, 2 Hollyhock, 22 Friendly, 3 Bluebell, 23 Sandwich, 4 Pink, 24 New Guinea, 5 Sunflower, 25 Fanning, 6 Snowdrop, 26 Formosa, 7 Tulip, 27 New Zealand, 8 Rose, 28 Society, 9 Daisy, 29 Philippines, 10 Buttercup, 30 Borneo, 11 Grand Army of the Republic, 12 Elks, 31 Dogwood, 32 Chestnut, 13 Improved Order of Red Men, 33 Beech, 14 Odd Fellows, 34 Fir, 15 Knights of Pythias, 35 Spruce, 16 Free Masons, 36 Walnut, 17 Royal Arcanum, 37 Ash, 18 Order United American Me- 38 Hemlock, chanics, 39 Ebony, 19 Foresters of America, 40 Cypress. 20 American Legion of Honor, The names of the prize-winners will appear in next week’s JupcE.. = Schley ed TOI HE ICAO Best Line to Chicago and the West-THE NEW YORK CENTRAL. comicbooks.com