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This page from *Judge* magazine contains several humor pieces and advertisements, likely from around 1904 (given the "Asiatic Crisis" reference to the Russo-Japanese War). **Top cartoon "Stripping the Daisy"**: A woman plucks daisy petals saying "he loves me/loves me not" while counting a pile of gold coins. The joke: she's indifferent to the romantic outcome because she's wealthy—suggesting a satirical comment on mercenary marriage or that money trumps love. **"How He Worked It"**: A man admits his system for horse racing is telling friends his picks, then betting against his own advice—mocking overconfident tipsters. **Other brief jokes** mock newlyweds, inheritance disputes, and con artists posing as blind beggars during working hours. **"The Asiatic Crisis" section**: Promotes *Ridpath's History of the World* as necessary reading to understand the developing Russo-Japanese War and its potential global implications—contemporary advertising tied to breaking news. The page is primarily **advertising and light humor** rather than serious political satire.

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STRIPPING THE DAISY. She pulled the daisy bit by bit ‘he question great to settle, “ He loves me,” and “ He loves me not,” She counted every petal. Which way it went I do not know ; She did not make complaining. Perhaps it was because she saw A pile of gold remaining. —New York Times. “Yes,” said the clerk at the Skinnem Young wife—“ Henry, | made that pie myself from the recipe that has been in the family fifty years or more. Does it re- mind you of old times ?” Young husband (tasting it) —“ Yes, dear. It reminds me, somehow, of the times when I was a boy and could eat any. thing.”"—Chicago Tribune. oung Rapidgait had hard s disinherited recently.” Harold—"Cut off without a dollar, ch?" Fercy—" No; his mother did the dis. inheriting. He was cut off with ninety. cight cents."— Pittsburg Post, house ; ‘+ we have eighteen hundred serv- ants.” “Well,” said the departing guest, “I must have overlooked four or five. "I'm quite sure I haven't tipped that many."— — Pittsburg Post. Young Sorreltop—“ Then you utterly —_ cast me off, Esmerald: “ Hello!" cried the policeman; “read-| Miss Esmeralda (with great gen ing a paper, ch? I thought you were a|ness)—" Why, no, Sylvester ; but—but it blind man ?* would be so silly for a girl to say yes the “So I am during business hours,” the| first time. If—if you are of the same mind blind beggar replied ; “but I'm off duty| you might ask me again some day, you now."—Philadelphia Press. know."— Chicago Tribune. The Asiatic Crisis One of the greatest struggles in history opens with the Russo-Japanese war. Its outoome may change the entire map of Asia, and perhaps Europe. What likelihood is there of other nations becoming involved? HOW HE WORKED IT. pat 1s your system for playing the races?" Jerroto—"' Oh, | tell all my friends what horse to bet on; then, Mf they seem to think my advice Is worth taking, | bet on some other orse."* eae ee MICHAEL _DAVITT, former Member of Parliament, who investigated the Kishineff atrocities, says in the New York Hera‘d: a the history of the Crimean War aod fad bow long Rusia fought land, France, Turkey and Sardinia combined, to bow fong the Czar’s Army can stand up against Japan.” Ridpath’s History of the World “The only World's History that reads like a story- book, yet ts as a standard authority,” is a necessity at all times, and doubly so now CANADA There may be many people—or, in fact,in other countries, too—who have never heard of your goods. Through “Judge” columns they can be reached, and if you make a good argument they will have faith in your advertisement and like your goods. Sent.on Seven Days’ Approval GREAT NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS WILL SPEND HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS to give you the latest news of battles and movements of the armies ana navies. To appreciate what the great struggle means you should go further back than the newspapers and magazines will take you. Read t ons. You can't understand the news of the war unless you're reasonably familiar with the history and development of these countries. Nowhere can you find everything you want to know 80 succinctly and interestingly told as in Ridpath's History of the Worl A SAVING OF FIFTY PER CENT. in cleaning up our stock we find a few slightly *rabbed” and miamate an Sterner tolled pats’ © The didcrente would tenteely be netiecaite ieitatgns,cetaide the SELECT A GOOD MEDIU: won rebind such n seal OD MEDIUM AND STICK TO IT Se'TU ape Whe a hat Shay rena Serth tous with the 10 to posseas the. world’s ry that reade Iki ste oy each en an Wihiows MeRinleys 5 A good medium is the best and most faithful agent you can have. op Vine the great It works while others sleep. A man, woman or child in a good mood is more liable t foretold moTiemer ante tape so naa ENOUGH SAID. Mlertae ies tea, now Yat terest ‘you can Boch comicbooks.com