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This page contains primarily **advertisements** with one satirical article. The main satire is "A Gotham Sunset," which mocks wealthy New Yorkers' obliviousness to natural beauty. The piece describes how busy Manhattan businessmen are so consumed with work that they never notice sunsets—they work during daylight hours and commute via subway/elevated train at dusk, missing the sky's spectacular displays. The satire critiques urban workaholism and materialism: New Yorkers travel abroad to see wonders while ignoring superior natural beauty at home. The accompanying ads promote cordials, cocktails, pianos, and notably an **Iver Johnson Safety Automatic Revolver**—marketed with the selling point "No Fear of Accidental Discharge," emphasizing its safety mechanism. This reflects early 1900s consumer culture where firearms were advertised as household products. The page serves as a window into Edwardian-era concerns: urban congestion, leisure commerce, and technological/consumer product promotion.

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Liqueur ome weet fies Charen LIQUEUR PERES —GREEN AND YELLOW— THL: FAMOUS CORDIAL, NOW TARRAGONA, 8 HC the man behind the bar a cock- tail is a mixed drink—nothing more. With us, the making of CLUB COCKTAILS is as im- portant a task as producing a fine wine.’ Our formula calls for such exact proportions of liquors that the flavor, taste and strength of CLUB COCKTAILS are pre- served to a uniform standard. Thorough ageing makes them per- fect beyond compare. Seven kinds—Manhattan, Mar- tini, Vermouth, Whiskey, Holland Gin, Tom Gin’ and Yor G. F. HEUBLEIN & BRO., Sole Proprietors Hartford" New York London ‘A GOTHAM SUNSET. A tired New Yorker, one even- ing recently, by some accident or other, caught a glimpse of the setting sun. He rushed into a hotel, full of the new experience, and wrote this letter to the Sux (New York Sun is meant): “ After a rainy day I stood at Sixty-fourth | street and Broadway this evening. There | was a sunset. I have traveled over seas and continents, but I never saw a sunset more wonderful. New Yorkers have unique opportunities, Why, in the name of heaven, do they pay money to go to places where they see things about half as good as those in their home town ?” This exclamatory outburst has given us genuine pleasure, and at the same time has occasioned no little surprise. First of all, we marvel that any New Yorker should have seen a sunset. What has a busy, seething Gotham brain to do with such a purely rural, orderly, calm and uaworldly proceeding as the setting of | the sun, Your skyscraper man knows the sun at the zenith, during its business | hours, when it has its coat off, as it were, and is up to its ears in work. But in his off-time, so to speak, when the orb of day is leisuring among the gray summits of the morning, or coming out of his ocean bath, while the red and white streamers of the dawn unfurl and fill the east with } a sort of sumptuous, first-cover-page ma, nificence of color effects—your skyscraper man is still snoring, while one eye stealthily watches the alarm-clock. | again at night, when the heavenly lum nary pulls down his desk curtain and | slowly commutes toward the Orange va ley, loitering dreamily into the purple and golden cloud-company that ti ron about his exit at eventide—what does your skyscraper man, bang-banging north | in the subway, or clinging to an L strap, know about this rich, quiet, unostenta- tious piece of stage business going for- ward on the distant shore of twilight land? This New Yorker's letter has inter- ested us for another reason. It has led us firmly to resolve on witnessing one of these alleged gorgeous sunsets for our- self. We are determined, one of these days, to go up to Sixty-fourth street and see with our own eyes what this sunset is | he is bragging about. | “Is Jones working for cheaper gas ?” “Not directly; but he is trying to get his daughter engaged."—New York Sun. When the appetite, 1s 8 nothit ry dash or of seas, on yout Ser food “Only ba sare ms ginal —in’ use’ half Century "A potent side digestion ak eae: The house: wile wilf tind hundredsct usea Yor Melibenny's Write for book of reciper—tent upon request. ALUENNTS T4300, ew Beta, La, Iver Johnson Safety Automatic Hammer, $5.00 Hammerless, $6.00 Extra length Barrels, pc. per inch. Pearl Stocks, $1.25 extra. No Fear of Accidental Discharge Af it's as Safety Automatic Revolver because the revolver hammer never touches the fring pi afety principle. found only in the Iver Johnson is ¢ to the fret that the fever transmits the blow from the hay mer to the firing pin is never in position to do so except when (i trigger is pulled all the wa: All hardware and spelen’ pods dealers scl Iver Johnson Revolvers and can verify these facts if they will fen ohomsipplpery Hivos “Bey ver Johnson's Arms and Cycie River Street, Mew Yous Owricet Ww Onamisers Steves free with desertptive catalog: , Mass. THE “SOHMER” HEADS THE LIST OF THE HIGHEST GRADE PIANOS SOHMER PIANOS Sohmer Building, guateses Sth Ave, cor 22 St. DAUGHTERS TO SPARE. It was the wedding day, and the un- fortunate bridegroom was’ making his exit with the usual accompanimen: of rice and old hots, He snatched his hat fiom a peg, seized an umbrella from the hall-stand, and was going out of the door, when the bride’s father called after him : “You are carrying off my umbrella, Henry. Bring it back at once. I've six daughters, but only one good umirel- la"—Ex. 1881 Mage 1905 The Christmas Number of JUDGE will be a thing of beauty and a joy forever. It will be far and away ahead of last year, and probably the best number we ever issued. The Christmas Number of JUDGE will exemplify in every way the progress of twenty-five years, It will contain in its illus- tration and letterpress the work of the most notable humorous writers and talented artists now living. Among them are the following : WRITERS Jerome K. Jerome S. E. Kiser ‘Bob Burdette L. H. Robbins Eli Perkins Carolyn Wells Tom Hasson E. Vance Cooke J. Lampton John Kendrick Bangs S. W. Gillan Jack Appleton W. D. Nesbit ‘Perkin Warbech F. P. Adams Lowell Otus Reese ARTISTS E. Flohri of. S. Daggy J. H. Smith J. R Bray H. R Doug! W. 0. Waso ofrt Young J. Conacher ‘Harrison Cad. L. E. Foster H. HM. Wild: JUDGE COMPANY 225 FOURTH AVENUE, NEW YORK Eastern Office: Room '25, Jounal Building BOSTON, MASS. Advertising Department B, C, EVERINGHIM, Manager. ‘Western Offi 4313 Hartlord Building CHICAGO, ILL. comicbooks.com ey yn ae