Judge, 1903-01-17 · page 12 of 16
Judge — January 17, 1903 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **nostalgic poetry and advertising** rather than political satire. **"The Clipper Sled"** is a sentimental poem idealizing childhood winter sledding—a common Judge theme lamenting lost innocence and simpler times. It romanticizes the speed and freedom of sledding down hills like Jenkinson Hill, comparing the thrill to modern flying machines. The **cartoon at bottom right** shows urban humor: a rural father and son visiting New York City. The son identifies the Flatiron Building (the famous triangular skyscraper completed 1902), but the father misunderstands it as a factory for actual flat-irons, reflecting the contrast between sophisticated city dwellers and naive country visitors—a recurring early-1900s American joke. The rest of the page is **advertisements** for cigars, automobiles, whiskey, carpets, playing cards, and patent medicines—typical Judge magazine filler. No significant political content is evident here.
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40 Sizes, 100. to 50e. each. A-BANTAELLA & CO., Makers, TAMPA, Fla. ‘Mold by First Class Dealers Everywhere. Prove this standard Runabout to be the best thing on wheels. Operated by a single lever from the seat andalways under instant control. Write for iltustrated book to Dept. 12. OCDS MOTOR WORKS, Detroit, Mich. ! THE CLIPPER SLED. | Oh, for the winters that used to be! ‘The winters that only a boy may see | Rich with the snowflakes’ rush and | swirl, Keen as a diamond, pure as a pearl; Brimming with healthful, rollicking fun, | Sweet with their rest when the play | was done; | With kingly’ revels each day decreed, And a clipper sled for the royal steed. A wonderful steed was this, in truth, Fit for the galloping pulse ‘of youth: Little and pointed, squat and low—| But, bless my heart! how that sled could oO! pBlinning its owner toud acclaim, emming his deeds with joy and fame; Never an arrow swifter sped Than on to its goal the clipper sled |The, Jenkinson hill stretched smooth and free ; | Un-those glorious winters that used to way polished and steep and ‘bit with turbulent, rapt delight, Ringing with laughter, jest and’ shout, Gay with frolicking romp and rout, Where many a courser bold was led, But fleetest of all was the clipper sled y’ touching the path beneath, Scarce admitting of breath to breathe: Dashing along, with leap and swerve, Over the crossing, round the curv Talk of your flying-machines! Instead, Give me the swoop of the clipper sled entury, Health means strength. Abbott's, the Orig- inal Angostura Bitters, means health, At druggists’ and grocers “What lovely lace-curtains you had a week ago, Mrs. Binks “Weren't ‘they beautie “But, you haven't them now.” No. “Didn't they please you?” : did.” I bought them on a val, you know, And now that sted the windows, it make little difference whether we ‘have tains or not, so I've sent them back Newark News. EASY MONEY 225-33 Feapo! Address Chas. Johnson, P.O.B. 897, Chicago a qecmser OPIUNE SESE O®., Dept.' Lebanon, Ohio. HENRY LINDENMEYR & SONS PAPER WAREHOUSE ‘Noa, 22,24, and a6 Wleecker Street Branch Warehouse, 30 Heekman Street, New York ALL KINDS OF PATER MADE TO ORDER There is surely a reward hereafter for the man who lives up to his wife's ‘ex- pectations of him.—Philadelphia Record. RUPTURE cine No operation, pata, danger or detention trom work. No Fetara ot rapcure of farther ase for trunaes) Fadteal older youn rea Seal ericonepounothingts ty thle tamougmethe. iwerite today. Dr. Ba eo BLANK BOOKS “umf FINDLER @ WIBEL, 115 Nassau Street, New York. Jondonderry LITHIA WATER Beguiles the tedium of a long jour- ney Lente it refreshes ses invigor- ates, besides preventing the system fon “becomitg ‘deranged by the irregular habits that result from mach traveling. LONDONDERRY is sold on all buffet and dining cars the same as at your hotel or club. Carpets and Rugs. Large Private Lines from the best producers of Scotch, English, French, German Carpets. Oriental Rugs. ‘An Unsurpassed Stock of Antique and Modem Indian, Turkish and Persian Rugs. Mounted Skins for floor furnishing in great variety. Established (823. WILSON WHISKEY. That's All! ‘THE WILSON DISTILLING CO.. Baltimore, Md. nt ull Tn | TO Witt Wettel i} 1 \ 1 ' 7 SEEING THE METROPOLIS. ‘Srernen Ruratsorn—" Father, that tall structure is the famous ‘ flat-iron” buildi Hiram Ruratsorn —"* Gee whillikers! 1 s'pose thet’s where they make the flat-irons fer the hull world."* Revadoooy L gt te. NEW YORK. poor cards when you can buy Bicycle Playing Cards They wear well. Sold by dealers Popular price. 29 backs. Back shownis"Wheel.”? Orderby name. The U. S. Playing Card Co. Cincinnati, U. S. A ‘We will send 128-page Condensed Hoy'e for 10c. stamps, if addressed to Dept. 25 comicbooks.com