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This page from Judge magazine (a satirical publication) contains mostly **short humor pieces and advertisements** rather than political cartoons. The humor consists of brief jokes about contemporary life: a tree overhearing lovers, the phrase "nip and tuck" explained through a man stealing liquor, Ecuador's indigenous head-shrinking practices referenced as absurdist humor, and quips about school punishment and tennis. **Key substantive content:** A lengthy testimonial (labeled "A BACK LICK") promoting Postum, a coffee substitute, where a Missouri woman describes suffering decades of stomach ailments attributed to coffee. She credits switching to Postum with resolving her health problems. This reflects early 20th-century wellness marketing and the anti-caffeine health movement of that era. The page also advertises Evans Ale, Sohmer Pianos, Cook's Champagne, and a Judge Company publication featuring Theodore Roosevelt. **For modern readers:** The humor is largely mild observational comedy about daily life; the Postum ad reveals period anxieties about food safety and health that differ markedly from today's understanding of nutrition.

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DESCENT OF A TREE. “How did that phrase, ‘nip and tuck,') The Four-Track News for August is| Ernie—« Miss Passy doesn’t seem A monarch of the forest ruled, ever come into use, and what does it] out, and even as much as the Hour-Zrack strong enough to drive a golf-ball any Its branches all unbroken, mean, anyhow ?” News for August is out, the man is in| more. She is almost old enough to play And listened to the tender words “The most natural supposition is that| who has the good sense to buy it. The | tennis. , . By happy lovers spoken, it was started by some man with a thirst. | man who is not satisfied with the August! /déa—" Tennis? Why, she’s getting old Whenever he wanted a nip he went and| number of this popular magazine would | enough to play croquet !""— Chicage News. : tuck it."—Chicago Tribune, not be satisfied with a Saratoga trunk full | 1 jan ae of all its glory, of bonds equipped with self-cutting cou- it had to listen to the words : 5 eel bed eam taee ‘The name of Sohmer & Co. upon a piano is| PONS capable of renewing themselves tor aM PaEn Orr. 5 © e a re-cutting every ten minutes. To make New York Sun, | guarantee of its excellence. 1m z= SES EE: _ a long story short, this is a superb num |: ,\°ce of ber of a superb magazine. Its table of SM ma contents is varied and bright, and every | “#75 baggageman— one & ‘Seis Yiwhy. It may be a decoy."—Chicago un +.,|kind of man will find something in its wich is ten mile longer—Addanta Con-| “That may account for the tales I've j 28) Tribune, ich ; 2 _the tales I've | pages to entertain and interest him. For stitution. Vets about his shady past" —Piladel-| further particutars address George II. — . hia Press. 7 . Daniels, publisher, 7 East Forty-second| Experience is the interest upon the In need of a tonic? ‘Take Abbott's Angos- street, New York city. average investment.—Four-Track News. tura, the king of tonics. At grocers’ and drug- . gists’. The years reduced it to a stump; First baggageman—* Look out! Bet- ter not toss that trun! Second baggageman Vhy not? It No matter how long de sermon is, i He talks a great deal about his family better dan de trouble of de outside worl's, | tree. “Did you get along without being pun ished in School to-day ?” + Tsee that the Ecuador Indians have| “YeP 3 the teacher didn’t catch me learned how to reduce the human head to | Ne" Harper's Bazar. one-third its size.” “Say, they ought to come up here and A BACK LICK a g-after studio."— Cleveland Many great discoveries have been made by accident, and things better than gold mines have been found in this way; for example, when even the accidental discov- ery that coffee is the real cause of one’s sickness proves of most tremendous value because it locates the cause, and the per- son has then a chance to get well. “For over twenty-five years,” says a Missouri woman, “I suffered untold agonies in my stomach, and even the best physicians disagreed as to the cause with- out giving me any permanent help, differ- ent ones saying it was gastritis, indigestion, ; neuralgia, etc., so I dragged along from The Best Drink year to year, always half sick, until finally I gave up all hopes of ever being well For Everyone, Everywhere eo when taking dinner with a friend one j ay; she aald she had anew drink whieh All the Time ined G05bda Ws Spesbie paabak Hoppe: turned out to be Postum, and I liked it so De ro well I told her I thought I would stop coffee for a while and use it, which I did. 1s Come. now, own up; don’t; «So for three months we had Postum you find it a little harder to get around | in place of coffee without ever having one than you did five or ten years ago ?” of my old spells, but was always healthy Not a bit, I assure you. | and vigorous instead. have noticed, however, that they make] «Husband kept saying he was con- Stairs steeper,than they used to, but that,| vinced it was coffee that caused those of course, is another matter."—Zoston | spells, but even then [ wouldn't believe it Transcript. until one day we got out of Postum, and as Sa | we lived two miles from town I thought to use the coffee we had in the house. 99 . RES hee a “Up they go. SOF CS SCE te a VILLER'S MARK HANGS HIGH To clear the skin of pimples, moth ff it, and I said good-bye to coffee forever, : Gican's ‘Sulphur Susp daly [toumeatine dna MILLER BREWING GO, for toilet purposes. I's the only II gr beter and my complexion i mach MILWAUKEE.U.S.A. Cunt fat . improved. All the other members of our enough pure sulphur to be af) family have been benefited, too, specific for skin diseases. in place of the old drink, coffee.” Name Bpaaeentalsencrornse mnlshen merit: [| given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Michi-| gan. | ‘en days’ trial of Postum in place of coffe or tea is the wise thing for every Send f f th I am very much bothered. I can|coffee drinker. Such a trial tells the ex- | end roc. for a copy of the marry a rich widow whom I don’t love |act truth often where coffee is not sus- or a poor girl that I do love. What shall | pected. Ido?" Look in each package for the famous Convention Number “Listen to your heart and marry the| little book, * The Road to Wellville.” of « Judge one you love.” “You are right, my friend. T shall| HE “SOHMER” HEADS THE containing the finest picture marry the girl. s «Then, ean you give me the widow's| MIST OF THE HIGHEST of address ?*—Fliegende Blaetter, GRADE PIANOS = sili President Theodore Roosevelt ne SiS gUrreyS SetvES ee 5 0H M ER SR CER, Judge Company, New York. Sohmer Building, Qniz microm SERVED EVERYWHERE Sth Ave., cor 22d St. York. SAN FRANCISCO—Four Days from New York or Boston—By New York Central comicbooks.com