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This is primarily an **advertising page** from Judge magazine, with several brief comic vignettes interspersed. The cartoons address **early 20th-century social anxieties about marriage and gender roles**: 1. **"Crimsonbeak" joke**: Satirizes men who regret marriage, implying matrimony is miserable. 2. **"Keeping His End Up"**: Two women discuss marital finances. One plans total control of her husband's salary; the other advocates letting him keep 75 cents weekly "so he can keep his own end up with the boys"—meaning maintain his social standing and independence. This reflects contemporary debates about women's financial power in marriage. 3. **Divorce/Drama Instructor joke**: A woman hired a dramatic instructor not for stage ambitions but to prepare for divorce court testimony—satirizing both divorce's prevalence and the performative aspect of legal proceedings. The remainder is **product advertising**: whiskey, patent medicines, railroad tourism, and Bugville Life (a children's comic). The ads emphasize purity, refinement, and health benefits typical of the era.

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Purity All that hands can do, or money buy, or age refine, lies in the Baltimore Rye It is the highest standard of The American Gentleman's Whiskey. It is particularly recommended to women because of its ageand ex- cellence. nd by jobbers, + Haltamere, Md. The WHITE ROCK hi has a smack of its own Mrs. Crimsonbeak—“ Do you believe every man considers the day he proposes marriage to a girl the happiest in his life 2” Mr. Crimsonbeak—"| don't believe all of them do; only those who never mar- ried."— Yonkers Statesman. “Tse that choice Bengal tigers have been marked down to one thousand dollars each.” «For goodness sake! don’t let my wife read that paragraph. Here's my knife. Cut it out. It those-tigers are on the bargain-counter she'd want at least two.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer. purity of | spirits and strength to the body—Abbott’s ees Angostura Bitters. Demettus Kakapoulous, Hunter The grocer’s errand boy, | “She has engaged a dramatic instruct- or, I believe ?” "Yes." * Does she intend to go on the stage?” “Oh, nd, She has merely sued her husband for divorce and is preparing for her appearance in court."—Chicago Post, Drives away care, lends busyancy to the Was bounced. He called a customer One of the hoi pollo. jcago Tribune. The Four-Track News for August is about as fine a bundle of high-grade and | broad-gauge delicatessen as any discrimi nating lotos-eater would care to: see. From cover to cover it is a feast prepared to fit and capture any palate. The table ts is a bill-of-fare that is more than inviting, and the entire banquet costs but twenty-five cents. All these dainties | and delicacies are warranted to cheer and to inspire, and guaranteed to digest and assimilate without generating gout or rheumatism. The chef that put it to- gether should be compelled to wear a crown of gold instead of the cap that is his accepted insignia of office. He is a| predigested peach of perfection, and the public would be willing to take the chances on the spoiling of the broth if it could only have a greater number of cooks like him. For further particulars apply to George H. Daniels, general pas- senger agent, grand central station, New York city. Uppa Ginni good spyglass ? What fur ?” Onizuppers— So's | could bring that brewery away over there close up to me.” —Chicago Tribune. * You wisht you had a ‘LOOK FOR THE NAME CARL H.SCHULTZ = 5 ARTIFICIAL VICHY ee eeat ELTERS and CLUB SODA Standard ‘The for 40 Years 0-444 tet AVY, Tel. 2429 Madiacn Illustrated by GUS DIRKS For Sale Everywhere 25 Cents Established 1823 WILSON WHISKEY. That’s All! WILSON DISTILLING CO., Baltimore, Ma. ~ KEEPING HIS END UP. Cone" When | get married | shall make my husband give me all hs salary, Vivian—"' I shan't. I shall allow him to retain seventy-five cents each week, so he can keep his own end up with the boys and not be a cheap old thing when he's cut. of State ~ A vivid little love story, beautifully illustrated ; told simply but with appealing interest. The story 1s contained in a 128-page book which describes some of the most delightful mountain and lal resorts in the East. Sent free on receipt of 5 cents in stamps to cover postage. Address, T. W. Lee, General Passenger Agent, Lackawanna Railroad, New York City. —— comicbooks.com