Judge, 1905-07-29 · page 13 of 18
Judge — July 29, 1905 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising with some satirical short pieces**, not a political cartoon. The main content includes: **"Fun in Spots"** (top): A brief satire about a tired author finding solace in public libraries among dead authors' works—a gentle jab at struggling writers and literary pretension. **"Nasta Had to Smile"**: A humorous anecdote about a Pittsburgh license clerk who insists a Syrian bride smile rather than cry during marriage licensing, dismissing her cultural customs as unsuitable for America. This reflects early 20th-century attitudes toward immigrant assimilation and American exceptionalism. The page is dominated by **period advertisements** for Evans' Ale, Coates' Plymouth Gin, Sohmer Pianos, Surburg's Arcadia Mixture tobacco, and other products—typical of Judge's revenue model. No major political figures or events are referenced; the satire is domestic and social rather than political.
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away into a very un- literary frame of mind and feels that he can never write iN ‘FUN® a IN-SPOTS. © IN A PUBLIC LIBRARY. The tired littérateur wills, Real money we rarely find, though once I came across a brand-new five spot. The owner called the next day on the bare chance of finding it. She was a poor washerwoman whose little daughter had used the bill for a book-mark. "She said St. Anthony sent her to the library wheel on the locomotive and hold on with my teeth, Say, I'll tear down this whole hemisphere and wreck half the solar sys- tem but what I'll see my ownest, onliest own before Sunday,” etc., etc. As this was some time ago and the universe is still intact, we venture to ex- press a conviction that Thomas saw his sweetheart as per schedule agreed upon But think of a girl leaving that kind of literature strewn about her books ! For busy men and women—Abbott's Angos- tura Bitters. A delightful tonic and invigora- tor—a health-giver and a health-preserver. All druggists. t NASTA HAD TO SMILE. License Clerk Hegner, of Pittsburg, takes a cheerful view of marriage. For example, he thinks a girl ought not to ap- o1 POINTS. Spiders and baseball-players are great nfl Death has evidently traded his pale horse for an automobile. Woman is a conundrum, but man is unwilling to give her up. The cream of the baseball club should be found in the pitcher. It pays to be good ; if you get in the penitentiary it shortens your term, There doesn't live a man who objects 0 having nice things said about him.— Chicago News. Coates’ again. will be found helpful to go into a large, sol public library and spend a few hours tal repose and “ tank up,” as th the spirit which broods nong the bookish throng shelved about ‘4, Nothing salves the wounds and _orasions of toiling authorship like these Sours spent among the shades of dead uthors. It smooths the wrinkled brow ‘are to reflect how peaceful and dead sey all are, and you fall to thinking how ‘o be’ that way with yourself ome day, and your courage revives. hen you saunter into the reading-room id note the throng of busy authors ated about the tables, Some are deep scientific papers and their healthful ore shows how literature mollifies and | suages the tempests of life. Some are ainly employing the halcyon hours to Je them over until night so they can go ) bed in some convenient. freight-car hen the, will again seek the solace of he library chairs; and many are there for it, and went out with tears of grati- tude ‘in her eyes. Postage stamps and imitation bills we meet regularly, But our greatest trouble is with advertising circulars, which seem to find their way into the books either accidentally or de- liberately or both.” Original Plymouth Gin PURE—DRY, Flavor Unequaled. The Standard for 200 Years. Best for Rickey, High Ball or Fizz. The only genuine has the MONK on the label. proach the altar with tears on her face. Marriage, in his eyes, ought to be accom- panied with a ringing laugh, or at least with smiles, Nasta Johnx, a Syrian girl, appeared before him recently with Isaac Ezer for alicense. The girl was weeping. The interpreter said that the girl meant nothing by tears, that it was the custom in her country, etc., for the prospective bride to cry. “Custom be dashed!" said Hegner angrily. “This is not Syria. She must smile when she gets a license here.” When the case was made plain to Nasta she changed her tears into smiles, and the license was made out forthwith, calm were, Here is a letter that was found in “ The Bishop's Carriage”: “My Darling — I am crazy to see you. Do you know I am just mad, stark mad, a gibbering lunatic for love of you. If anything should happen to keep me from coming over Saturday ; if the gov- ernor, for instance, should say, ‘Thomas, I want you to run down to the office Sun- day and get off a trial balance, for the directors meet Monday,’ actually, dearest, I think I'd rise in wrath and smite him hip and thigh and grind him through a sausage-machine and spritkle him’ all over seven counties, If I miss the train I'm going to walk; if I break a leg I'll tis going New York and Kentucky Co. yecause the park benches have grown irksome. In these excursions to libraries I have vandd items of interest now and then about the ways of readers. For instance, it is aston- ishing how ‘many odd things turn up in, books reurned by borrowers. One librarian says: * Bills, especially grocery- and gas- wi quently met, and among the I might mention hairpins, air, book-markers, of course m really valuable; bits of lace, Iress samples, sketches, dried leaves and sects, piotographs, and once in a while nsurance policies, and even drafts of| ORICKLY HEAT - CHAFING quickly cured by Packer's Tar Soap Pure as the Pines Relieves Sunburn, Bites, Stings, etc, like magic. SOOTHING - HEALING - ANTISEPTIC Jom Packer Mfg. Co, New York. PERFECT IGNITION ian vattery DAYTON suectaicat h MFG. co. Ma etaven ‘DAYTON, OMI0. Evans For Picnics pull myself along on my hands; if my arms give out I'll roll; if I can’t’ roll I'll scratch along on my ears. I'm going to sce you Saturday if I have to bite into the the Stomach Quenches the Thirst Sharp. the Ap: Fills All Wants «*No one Wwho smokes URBRUG'S Ale For Yachting For Fishing For Golfing For Camping For Traveling Crown Corks—if desired. 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