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The page contains several satirical pieces. The main cartoon, titled "A Winner," depicts two women discussing a male "candidate for matrimony." One woman asks if he "looks like a 'winner,'" and the other responds that yes, he's a "'machine candidate'—he owns an auto." The satire mocks the early 20th-century marriage market, where automobile ownership became a status symbol and qualification for matrimony. The term "machine candidate" puns on political terminology while suggesting that a man's wealth (specifically, car ownership) matters more than personal character when evaluating marriage prospects. The accompanying text discusses Theodore Roosevelt's political activities and popularity, praising his steady character and political engagement. However, the cartoon's focus is purely on the materialism of marriage-minded women seeking wealthy suitors.

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Sdge PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT THE JUDGE BUILDING, 110 VIVTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. Wesrexn Apverrisinc Orrice—828 Mar- guctte Building, Chicago, 1, Eastern Apvaerisin Orrica—z7 Schoo! ‘Sireet, Betton, Mass. Terms to Subscribers. UNITEO STATES AND CANADA IN ADVANCE. Ove copy, one year, or szmumbers- = Qee copy six months or sSeumbers = = One copy, for thirteen weeks se Including the Cusestwas Juoct. FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS—To all foreign countries in the postal union, $6.0 a year. EUROPEAN SAtxs-acmners—/nternational news company, Bream’ building, Chancery lane, ‘Saarbach's news exchange, Mainz, The contents of JUDGE are protected by copyright in both the United States and Great Britain. Intriagement of this copyright will be pro! rously prosecuted. jelope with all manuscripts, be guaranteed. Art Department should have the sender's folt stetch. The accompanying joke or its individual picture, and NOT upon a separate slip of paper. Inclosure of stamps to the full amouat of postage is also required, fo lasure sate and prompt return of material not accepted. ‘otherwise return of the latter when fousd DRAWINGS and all cor OW the blush-rose is red and The violet ’s blue, And the peach-crop prediction Is just about due. . THE TIME spent in reading the average up-to-date novel is not the kind of time that is money for the person who does the reading. ANEW VARIATION of a threadbare saying pops into the Delaware of our fancy, and we exclaim, perhaps pessimistically, “ Never can your peaches before they are blossoms.”” see THE FRANKFURTER SAUSAGE, having thrown off the shackles of hibernation and come forth to dally with the Arcadian zephyr, will shortly be folded within the draperies of the tapering, varnished roll and perform its mighty mission on the baseball bleacheries. SS Ty Mit enue DISTANCE is very apt to lend a unique enchantment to the hind, side, or any other view of a poor but honest relation. DEWEY is a magle word, which the people always like to see in print and hear in song. They go crazy with joy when they hear it shouted, as it is greater than all the college-yells in the country condensed into one. In the great and breezy vocabulary of the American eagle, Dewey is one of the favorite as well as one of the latest words. When the eagle spreads himself and screams as if he would split the welkin Dewey is one of the chief words in the said scream. For the eagle has a unique power of ap- preciation, as well as a good memory, and he remembers the ship-shape manner in which this great sea-dog caused the world to realize that after the battle of Manila bay Spain had practically a shipless navy. The ad- miral is and always will be a picturesque figure in American history, as well as one of the greatest sea-fighters of all time. He has excited the envy of all other seamen, without reference to nationality; and so great and far- reaching has his fame become that it is not unlikely that he will shortly open a night-school for the benefit of the various crowned heads that think they know how to fight on the tempestuous seas. They would then have an opportunity of learning how little they actually know concerning naval tactics, as well as how much they may learn from the hero who in the hearts of his countrymen is the Mr. Dooley of the rolling deep. HILE MR. ROOSEVELT is a stationary success, he is anything but stationary in his movements. At present he is swinging round the country at a great rate, but his anchor-rope is hitched to the white-house, so that the more he swings the closer he draws to this historic mansion. The sarcastic people who say that he is at the end of his tether forget that he is only at one end of it and that the white-house is at the other, and also that the tether is made of popularity warranted not to break or become moth-eaten. It is a lasso that an appreciative fate has thrown about Mr. Roosevelt, that it may have him where he is, which is also where he be- longs. He is rolling around at the liveliest possible rate, and, unlike the proverbial rolling stone, he gathers the moss of votes wherever he rolls. His speeches are clean and to the point, and give the thousands of people who hear him a clear idea of just where and on what he stands. He stands solid and firm on all such questions as sound money, clean politics, and trusts. In fact, he is sure-footed in the matter of lighting on all the ques- tions of vital interest to the country at large. He owns a gun that is always loaded for all kinds of political game, of which he will soon have a fine collection. The whole will certainly be topped by the Democratic scalp which will: flap on the pole of his wigwam at the tail-end of next year, for Mr. Roosevelt is swinging toward: the white-house, and every time he whirls around the circle he is just so much nearer this coveted domicile. A WINNER. Erne * They say he is a candidate for matrimony. Does he look like ‘a winner’ ?"” Eprrn—"* Oh, yes; he is a ‘machine candidate '—he owns an auto." comicbooks.com