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This is primarily an **advertising and humor page** from Judge magazine, with several unrelated satirical pieces and commercial ads. The main content includes: **"The Idle Hour" section** (top right): A poem lamenting hands that "daily travel round the clock"—likely satirizing the relentless pace of modern labor or factory work, contrasting with romantic ideals. **"Busy Doctor" joke**: Satirizes physicians who overlook practical solutions, featuring a doctor who resists patient advice until switching doctors rather than changing his brandy habit—mocking professional stubbornness. **Brief satirical pieces**: Including jabs at political corruption (Senator Sorghum bribing with positions), marriage dynamics, and social pretension (the broken engagement over "self-improvement"). **Colonial/missionary satire** (upper left): Critiques Christian missionary work, suggesting hypocrisy in demanding non-Christians disarm while Christian soldiers keep weapons. The page is dominated by **period advertisements** for Packer's Tar Soap, Bicycle Cards, Egyptian cigarettes, and other products—standard for Judge's era.

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Those hands, how I detest them, Although’ I never pressed them In my own. No rival rings adorn them, ‘And yet my cause to mourn them Clear is shown. Nay, think me not disloyal Unto my lady royal— Feel no shock For the hands at which I cavil Are the ones that daily travel Round the clock. New York Sun. Gutenberg had just invented the art of printing “ What a boon you have conferred on humanity !" exclaimed his admirers. “Yes,” he replied modestly. “1 think so too. A fellow will now have a paper to read, so he needn't give up his seat on the cai Realizing how posterity would bless his name he was indeed content. Vew York Sun, You look better, feel better, are better, when your run-down system is invigorated with Ab- teit’s, the Original Angostura Bitters. At druggists’. He off She—" Yes. He told her he thought she should stop reading novels and read something more substantial—something that would improve her. He— Well?” She—" Well, the idea of a man intimat- ing to his fiancée that she could be im- proved in any way Press. So the engagement is broken * Some people,” sai kind of unlucky in gittin’ de kind dat is always wantin’ favors instid o' de kin’ dat is always tryin’ to do favors."— Washington Star. When your barber talks “Shampoo ” specify Packers Tar Soap Pure as the Pines Antiseptic—Invigorating The Standard for the Hair ‘The Packer Mig. Co., New York ED. PIXAC D'S “POSCARINA” PERYUXE Presented in an origi- nal Baccarat cut-glass bottle. The quality je the price. SOLD EVERYWHERE. Ipe.bottle $143. 292. bottle BOF noe We bade’ the heathen lay down their arms. “ But,” they protested, affecting a spe- cious look of anxiety, «can Christianity be embraced without arms 2” We deigned nothing in reply. It would ill beseem soldiers of the cross to bandy words.— Detroit Free Press. Servant— De doctor said J. mustn't give you no more brandy, sah.” or—* Why, brandy is my favorite “I know dat, sah. doctor said you must change off.” Major—* Oh, well, then we'll make a But de To what, sah 2?” To another doctor.” sas City Journal. * You don’t mean to say that you would give a man money for his influence 2" “Not if | could help it,” answered Senator Sorghum. “ Of course it would be cheaper to give him a position. But the trouble is there aren't enough offices to go ‘round."— Washington Star, Borem— Hello, old man; what you goin’ to do?” Glumm— Nothing." Borem—* How about a walk? it would do us both good.” Glumm —*So do 1. Good-bye."— Philadelphia Public Ledger. T think BUSY DOCTOR SOMETIMES OVERLOOKS-A POINT. The physician is such a busy man that he sometimes overlooks a valuable point to which his attention may be called by } an intelligent patient who is a thinker. * About a year ago my attention was calied to Grape-Nuts by one of my pa- tients,” says a physician of Cincinnati. “At the time my own health was bad and I was pretty well run down, but I saw in a minute that the theories behind Grape-Nuts were perfect and if the food was all that was claimed for it, it was a perfect food, so I commenced to use Grape-Nuts with warm milk twice a day and in a short time began to improve in every way, and Lam now much stronger, feel fifty per cent. better and weigh more than I ever did in my life. “T know that all of this good is due to Grape-Nuts and I am firmly convinced that the claims made for the food are true [ have recommended and still | recommend the food to a great many of my patients with splendid results, and in some’ cases the improvement of patients on this fine food has been wonderful. “Asa brain and nerve food, in fact, as -|a general food, Grape-Nuts stands alone.” | Name given by \Creek, Mich. Postum Co., Battle the famous little book, **The Road to Wellville.” \You are \sure to get what you want when you order Evans’ Ale Ale Sellers Reverywhere Look: in each package for a copy of |de Coursey.” will suggest the azoma and the luxury of the idle East if you're a smoker of Esyptian DEITIES. No better Turkish cigarette can be made. Look for the signature of S. ANARGYROS “Necessity,” remarked the man with the chronic quotation habit. “is mother of invention.” * There's where you've got a flat wheel,” | along about that time playfully asked, The whale had swallowed Jonah two the |days before and appeared to be uneasy Observing which, a dolphin that happened said the contrary person. “Invention is the parent of necessity.” gested securities ? “How do you figure that out ?” “No,” irritably responded the whale. “Well, take the telephone, for example. |" My trouble, I presume, would come un- There was no necessity for it until ater de the head of undigested prophets."— “What is the matter, neighbor—undi- it was invented."— Chicago News. Chicago Tribune, the Best. Bicycle Cards. Used in every civilized country of the world, They wear well. Sold by dealers, The U. S. Playing Card Co, Cincinnat!, U.S.A. Hoyle for 10c.a2mr128 meee For Duplicate Whist—bes of card gar ea ‘use Paine’s Trays. Lessons free. Write ua. So you have quit smoking cigarettes ?” Yes,” answered the sad-looking man ; “forever and evei “ Did you find they were undermining your health 2” “Wife object ?” No.” Mrs, MeCall— And what did you say your eldest boy's fall name is?” Mrs. de Coursey—“ Michael Brannigan Mrs. MeCall— Well—er—that's rath- er odd.” Mrs. de Coursey—" Yes; but, you see, when he was born we were living in a flat, and we didn’t want to move out. Mr.| Michael Brannigan was the janitor.”"— Philadelphia Press, The ° Egyptian Cigarette [o_o Quality “What cured you of the habit ?” “The pictures they give away with them."— Washington Sar. : AROMATIC DELICACY— MILDNESS— PURITY At your club or deater’s comicbooks.com