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This page contains brief satirical commentary and humor pieces typical of *Judge* magazine's format. The main cartoon titled "NOT SO BAD" depicts a domestic scene where a woman (Mrs. Kelly) comments that her husband came home "sober," while Mrs. Rooney counters he was "comparatively so" and "admitted that he was drunk." The joke plays on the low bar for male behavior—admitting drunkenness is treated as a modest improvement. The text pieces above satirize contemporary figures and issues: references to presidential possibilities, a "blue-grass Kentuckian," a four-hundred-pound bear, the Kaiser, and the Reliance (likely a ship). The humor relies on wordplay and social observation rather than identifying specific current events, making full context difficult without additional historical research.

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