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This page is primarily **advertising**, with some miscellaneous commentary and poetry mixed in. The "cartoon" element is minimal—the main satirical pieces are brief, quotation-style jokes scattered throughout: - A **poem about April courtship**, depicting a male bird singing to attract a female - Short quips mocking people's behavior (like women adjusting their glasses before phone calls, or a man nicknamed "the Sultan" for never paying debts) - Joke exchanges about money lost to speculation and drinking habits The advertisements dominate: Packer's Tar Soap, Evans' Ale, Williams' Shaving Stick, Prudential Insurance, Sohmer Pianos, and various liquor products. The "Club Cocktails" section advertises Heublein & Bro.'s cocktail mixers. There's no clear political satire here—rather, this appears to be a typical **Judge magazine page mixing light humor with period advertising**. The humor relies on gentle observation of everyday life (gender relations, business dealings) rather than pointed social critique.

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AN APRIL WOOING. A blithe little lover 1s singing out yonder ; He's singing to some one— A deaf or a dumb one, T opine, as 1 ponder Oer the thankless outpouring. . Of song that goes soaring, Seeking her whom no ear nor yet eye can dis- cover. Though he's but a wee thing His song waxes stronger Each minute, and madder And bolder and gladder, Till [ask how much longer He'll woo one who's heartless ; ‘Then—tike echo. so artless Itis—comes a note from shy little she-thing. While she coyly confides her Heart's secret, ‘mid flutters And twitters, to breezes ‘That wander—and eases Its ache as she utters Her echo-like answer To love's gay free lancer— He is singing his way to the hedgerow that hides her. —AMary Norton Bradford in Boston Globe, on almple diet.” said a grim, gray-beanted strictly temperate habits h id age estones of at least a hundred ‘They say that it’s out o' sight.” T never leave home for a lecture— Mollie got back last night.” —A tlanta Constitution. Dunnem—" That man Slowpay is the worst I've called twelve times this Lever tackled, week and never saw a cent of his money Il if that’s the case he must be ahard man.” Dunnem—" Hard! Whe, h neighbors have nick-named him the ‘ sultan."" Hand Leader, The best friend a traveling man can been tried ‘ake of the all-round have with him —one that ha and proved—is 4 and always reliable Packer’s Tar Soap. Being pure, it can be used freely with | ptic, it insures ‘ase; and for scalp and hair This valuable confidence, being anti against di nsing it has no equal rind” can be foand at druggist THE PACKER [IFG. Co. 81 FULTON ST., WHAT ARE THE “Club Cocktails?” Drinks that are famous the world over. Made from the Dest of liquors and used by thousands of men and women wn homes in place of tonics, whose composition 1s unknown, Ate they on your side- Would not such a drink red woman. who has shoj Riday 2” Would it mat be the drink to offer to the husband when he returns home after his day's busi- ess? Choice_of Manhattan, lartini, Tom or Holland Gin, Vermouth, York or Whisky. For sale by all Fancy Gro- cers and Deales G. F. HEUBLEIN & BRO. 29 Broadway, N.Y. Martford, Conn, € attalne! thie for my stomach’s sake, ayotd all The man behind the gun, dear knows, Has done enough of slaughter. The man with the hoe keeps up his pose ; But the man behind the garden-hose ‘Makes every one take water. —Philadelphia Record, McJigger—" You say he lost all the money he had. How?" 7aingumbeb—* By his spec- ulations.” Mfc Jigger ? Well, in the first place, how did he get any money to lose that way?” Thingumbob—"* By his peculations "— Philadelphia Press, The great spring tonic—DR SIEGERT'S Angostura Bitters. One teaspoonful before meals, Beware of poisonous domestic substi- tutes. It’s a funny thing how a woman will always fix her glasses on better just before she begins a talk over a telephone.—A woman can never resist a story where the girl wakes up in the night and finds a handsome man, escaping from justice. in her room.—When a woman calls on another woman and finds a man there and looks mad she had either got a secret to tell or else she likes the poor man.—No woman down in her heart believes that she isn’t really as good-looking as a photograph that she knows isa lot better-looking than she is,—A man is always afraid to try to get a girl to love him by acting nice to her mother for fear she will fall in love with him herself and act mean and jeal- ous to the poor girl.—Mew York Press. OOOOOO® 00000ooee Evans’ Ale Evans’ Ale is Satisfying is Appetizing | Just The Thing For An Outing Evans’ Ale is Healthful Evans’ Ale is Everywhere 1g 3 © o 3 -B THE “SOHMER” HEADS THE LIST OF THE HIGHEST GRADE PIANOS, SOHMER PIANOS Sohmer Building, 2g,ans" Bth Ave. cor, 22d St. York: 0000400000 900000000000000000: By their duds ye shall know them.—When ‘most men cast their bread upon the waters they have a large dip-net ready.—The woman who wishes she were a man has never found out that she is a woman.— The Criterion. “My dea "" said Mrs. Blanks to her hus- band, ** don't you think it would bea good i to get your life insured?” ‘No I don’t grufily repiied. “If I were to do that it would just be my fool luck to live forever.” ‘Oh, well,’ meekly answered Mrs, B., “then I wouldn't think of doing it."—Chicago News, young woman, with “much broken?" ** ed to See his’ face again, would leave me forever. far as to break our engagement.” ton Star. “So you quarreled with George,’ “Yes,” answered’ the other thos. ‘+ Is your engagement hy no, I told him I never want- and he said that he But we didn’t go so Washin- ive while you live,’ the epicure doth sa ‘and grasp the pleasure of the passing day.” To do it successfully take Abbott's, the Orig- inal Angostura Bitters. The Benefits of Life Insurance are well known and the need for it almost universally recognized. Nearly everyone believes in Life Insur- ance. however, to assure What you and your family need, protection, is not mere KNOWLEDGE, but the Actual Possession of a policy in The Prudential Amounts— $15 To $100,000 Write for particulars. Address Dept. R. THE PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA. JOHN F. DRYDEN, Pres. HOME OFFICE: Newark, N. J. Excited lady (at the telephone)—" Lwant my husband, please, at once.” Voice (from the exchange)—'* Number, please?” Excited lady (snappishly)*-Only the fourth, you impudent thing !"— 7% Manoger (of the ‘Haunted Cafion” dra- matic company, to hotel-clerk}—'* I will regis- ter fifty people, for the sake of appearances, although there are but ten in the company. I suppose you are familiar with that idea.” Clerd —"Oh, yes; I used to inspect gas-meters."— Baltimore American, NECESSITY. ‘SOLD EVERYWHERE 5} Packaces ony. 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