Judge, 1905-07-29 · page 15 of 18
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This page features a humorous children's composition contest entry from Morris County schools. A 12-year-old boy named John Duffy submitted an imaginative story about accidentally traveling to the moon via Brazilian aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont's airship. The narrative parodies early 20th-century scientific romance fiction—a popular genre—by combining fantastical elements (storm-lifted protagonist, moon travel in seconds) with matter-of-fact observations about the Man in the Moon's hospitality and enormous mittens. The satire targets both children's creative writing pretensions and the era's fascination with aviation and space travel. The humor lies in the incongruous juxtaposition: a schoolboy casually describes lunar hospitality with the same mundane tone used for ship travel, treating the impossible as routine. The page also includes period advertisements (Lea & Perrins sauce, razors, champagne, etc.), typical of Judge magazine's commercial layout.
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BOY’S TRIP TO THE MOON. In the recent county examinations in the Morris county schools one of the 9 w, a, iteimicmiattrnmarc|| Lea & Perrins DINNER Ea rite an imaginary story on +A trip to Sauce COMPLETE COMPLETE OUT WITHOUT john Duffy, twelve years old, handed wy : 4 i = THE ORIGINAL WORCESTERSHIRE iT iT |in ‘the followin “Many peopie would think it absurd to take a trip to the moon. My trip was an accident. I was on the Mary Jane, going to India, We had just passed Junder the equator when a storm struck us. I jumped ona hatch and went flying up in the air like a witch on a broomstick. | ‘#1 looked down tosee the Mary Jane sink beneath the sea. All at once some- |thing hooked me up by the seat of the trousers and hoisted me into the air. “1 looked up and saw my old friend, Santos Dumont, going by in his air-ship. The Peerless Seasoning Butlers in the best familles, chefs in leading hotels and cafes and all first-class cooks can tell you that Soups, Fish, Hot and Cold Meats, Gravies, Game, Salads, etc., are given arare and appetizing relish If LIQUEUR —GREEN AND YELLOW— | THis FAMOUS CORDIAL, NOW MADE AT TARRAGONA, SPAIN, WAS FOR CENTURIES DISTILLED BY THE CARTHUSIAN. MONKS inenes EHARTREUX) AT THE MONASTERY oF LA GRANDE CHARTREUSE, FRANCE, AND EXOWN. THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. AS CHANTREUSE. THE ABOVE CUT REPRE: Schrs TE BOTTLE AND LABEL EMPLOYED IN THE PUTTING UPOF THE ARTICLE SINCE THE MONKS" EXPULSION FROM FRANCE, PND IT 1S NOW KNOWN AS LIQUEUR PERES CHARTREUX (THE MONKS, NOWCVER, STILL RETAIN THE EXCLUSIVE FiGhT 10 USE THE OLD BOTTLE AND LABEL AS WELL), DISTILLED BY THE SAME ORDER OF HONKS WHO HAVE SECURELY GUARDED The SCERET OF ITS. MANUFACTURE FOR NOREDS OF YEARS AND WHO ALONE TosstSS A KNOWLEDGE OF THE ELEMENTS OF THIS DELICIOUS NECTAR, Avér-chas Wine Merchants, Grocers, Hotels, Cafés, Litjer & Cova Broadway, New York, N.Y., Sole Agents for United States. G600D INCOMES FOR ALL. 25 to 30 per cent. commis- ston to get orders for our cele- brated ‘Tens, Coffees, Spices, Ex- Mractvand aking Powder, east. rresents and Coupons with evet purchase. Charges paid. For Prompt aitention address re of THE GREAT AMERICAN TEA ox BRD, 31-33 Vesey Street, N.Y. THE LIMIT. Mlowke—You get married? Why, you can't even pay rent !” Broate—s Well, what are her pay-rents for?" Cleveland Leader. The Truth Can be told about Great Western Champagne pec: Hon for healthfulness, the. boo: Quee and favor that desire. 1) € received a GOLD MEDAL.” PLEASANT VALLEY WINE CO., Sole Makers, Rbelms, N.Y. etd by eenpectabie wine leLiecoveeyebere, The thing that’ hooked me up was an anchor that he had forgotten to pull in. I called to him and he pulled me up. He was very much surprised and also glad to see me. He asked me to go to the moon with him, and as there was nothing else to do, | agreed. He then turned on full power and we reached the moon in two seconds. It was very cold and the man in the moon loaned me a pair of his mittens. They were nearly as large as our schoolhouse. That night I slept in one of them. In the morning I hired some of the man in the moon's servants to carry them around for me. At dinner- time he set before me a barrel of lamb chops, a large tankard of tea and a clothes-basket full of bread. He was very much surprised to find that I did not eat it all at one meal. “ After dinner we went out to see his mountains. He told me not to go too near the edge, and then went into the house. I wanted to see how the earth looked from the moon and peeped over the edge. All at once I lost my balance, tumbled over the edge and began my downward trip to the earth at the rate of five thousand miles per second. “ Suddenly [hit what I supposed to he the earth, but discovered that it was the roof of Lincoln schoolhouse. I was just in time for my examinations."—Newark (VJ) News. REMARKS, Many a tombstone inscription is a grave error. The man who is his own best friend has few others. No news is good news—except in a newspaper office. ‘A woman has less logic than a man, but more instinct. Only a fool regards happiness and wealth as synonymous. The fellow who courts trouble gener- ally ends by marrying it. : It’s the man who stands up for his rights that isn’t apt to get left. When a fellow falls in love he doesn’t always tumble into luck.—Philadelphia Record. Leara Telegraphy and A.R. Accounting $50 to $100 per month salary assured our graduates un- You'don'e pay vs until you have a position. Largest system of telegraph schools in Amenca. 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