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This page is primarily **advertising and light humor**, typical of early 20th-century Judge magazine. The content includes: **"Mistah Blizzard"** poem uses dialectal speech (representing African American vernacular of the era) to personify winter as an unwelcome visitor disrupting nature—a common poetic device of the period, though the dialect reflects outdated and offensive conventions. **The humor pieces** are brief anecdotes with punchlines about everyday life: a man's romantic rejection, a senator's church attendance as evidence he's not retiring, and a woman's discovery that coffee caused her stomach troubles. **The advertisements dominate the page**, hawking patent medicines (Angostura Bitters, Packer's Tar Soap), pianos, shaving soap, and Evans Ale. The Williams' Shaving Soap ad includes a testimonial from a Philippine soldier—referencing America's colonial presence there. **Overall:** This reflects early 1900s American consumer culture, racial attitudes in humor, and heavy reliance on medicinal products for ailments (often caused by those same products).

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MISTAH BLIZZARD. ! Hi, Mistah Blizzard ! Don’t yo" know All de ole-time moc Is fixin’ fer ter sing. What yo’ doin’ round here Wid gray fros’ on yo" wing ? Hi, Mistah Blizzard! Ain't it time ter go? What yo’ hide de valley fo" En dress de hill in snow ? | Leave de birds en blooms alone—_| Don't tarrify um so. —Allanta Constitution. We have received from the Bobbs-Mer- rill Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, « In the Bishop's Carriage,” by Miriam Michel-| son. This history of the adventures of an extremely clever woman, who was cast by fate to enact many widely different réles, will be read with avidity and delight by all people who have a weakness for a story that is full of vim and ginger. PURVEYORS TO HIS MAJESTY, the German Emperor and King of Prussia, are the manufacturers of Dr. Siegert’s An- gostura Bitters. « Of course the old professor is a pretty shabby old fellow, but he understands at least a dozen languages.” “H'm ! but he doesn’t hear money talk in any of them."—Philadelphia Press. Ask for Abbott's Angostura Bitters when you go to druggist or grocer for a reliable tonic in the spring. Abbott's, the best for all seasons. Dinak—* How beautiful am de new moon to-night ! It fill me full ob delight.” Mose—" Yes ; it look des’ like a slice ob waternillion !"—San Francisco Bulletin. Chapped and irritated skin quickly relieved by Packers Tar Soap Pure as the Pines Cleansing and Soothing Healing and Antiseptic The Packer Mfg. Co., New York. Bertha—" young professor Ethel—"Yes; ltalked about new books, and he said he hadn't got through reading | Shakespeare yet !"—Detroit Free Press. | at a man that} queer You are relieved of all worry when you order a boitle of (t’s sure to be what you wanted and expected— and always will be. “ they say siowsky has finally come to his senses and has given up trying to per- suade Miss Jollyeyes to marry him. He's | odenaed as ba: « How did it happen 2” “He discovered that the curl of hair he has worn in his watch for the last year was taken from her switch.” — Detroit Free Press. “Senator,” said the interviewer, “it is rumored that you intend to retire from poli « Well, well,” replied the senator, “it's queer how rumors start. 1 suppose this one grew out of the tact that I attended church with my wife last Sunday." —PAil- adelphia Press. The musician or artist who buys a Sohmer Piano gets an instrument that is a work of art and the result of many years! hard study and labor. ROBBERS, Brown bee, sippin’ honey Yander, in de dew, Folks is des a-waitin’ Ter steal it all fum you! Ever see sich doin’s Sence freedom set yo' free? Bee—he rob de flower, En man—he rob de bee ! —Allanta Constitution, EMPTY NOW. HOW ONE WOMAN QUIT MEDICINE. « While a coffee uset bled me for years,” says a lady of Colum- bus, O., “and I had to take medicine all the time. I had-what I thought was the best stomach medicine I could get, had to keep getting it filled all the time at 4o cents a bottle. I did not know what the cause of my trouble was, but just dragged along from day to day, suffering and tak- ing medicine all the time. “ About six months ago I quit tea and coffee and began drinking Postum, and I have not had my prescription filled since, which is a great surprise to me, for it proves that coffee was the cause of all my trouble although I never suspected it. «When my friends ask me how I feel since I have been taking Postum I say, *To tell the truth I don’t feel at all say that I get hungry and eat everything I want and lots orn and it never hurts me, and I am happy and well and contented all the time.” “T could not get my family to drink Postum for a while until I mixed it ina little coffee and kept on reducing the amount of coffee until I got it all Postum. Now they all like it and they never belch it up like coffee. «We all know that Postum is a sunshine maker. [ find it helps one greatly for we do not have to think of aches and pains all the time, and can use our minds for other things.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. The one who has to bother with coffee aches and pains is badly handicapped in the race for fame and fortune. Postum is a wonderful rebuilder. There's a reason. Look in each package for the famous little book, * The Road to Wellville.” y stomach trou- THE “SOHMER” HEADS THE LIST OF THE HIGHEST GRADE PIANOS SOHMER PIANOS Sohmer Building, Bidreier New Ircater New Sth Ave., cor 224 Bt. EGYPTIAN DEITIES No Better Turkish Cigarette can be made CORK TIPS Look for Signature OR PLAIN o& S. ANARGYROS Friend—" Why do you mark things ninety-nine cents when they are actually worth one dollar ?” Merchant—" Well, you see, customers hate to leave without that odd’ cent, and by keeping them waiting for their change they generally see something else they want."—New York Weekly. Ars, Henpeck— Let me see, is it + big- amist’ or * polygamist ' ?” Mr. Henpeck— What are you talking about?” Mrs. Henpeck—« Why, aman who has one wife too many isa ‘bigamist,’ isn't he?” Mr. Henpeck—“ Not necessarily.” — Philadelphia Press. ILLIAM “SHAVING SOAP wie ees A PHILIPPINE SOLDIER writes : Camp Vicars, Minponora, P. I. Williams’ Shaving Soap is a boon to the soldiers in this country, and tne only soap which will pleasantly fulfill all the requirements of a ‘ White Lian," and stand the test of this climate. We have tried other shaving soaps, but find that they invariably sweat out and become unfit for use WM. M. OPDYCKE, 23d U. S. Infantry. : In the arctic regions, creamy, healing lather of Williams’ Shaving Soap is safe, healthful, satisfying. A boon to mankind. Williams’ ne ving Sticks, Sharia; Write for Free Booklet, THE J. B, WILLIAMS CO., Glastonbury, Conn, U.S. A. or in the tropics, the Tablets, Toilet W: ywder, etc., sold every wher How to Shave. 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