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Judge — November 18, 1905 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily advertisements and promotional material for *Judge* magazine's upcoming Christmas issue. However, the featured content is a humorous anecdote about imprecise geography. The story mocks vague directional knowledge: a French official tells a consul visiting Tahiti to simply "call on" the governor-general there, as if it's a casual Sunday visit, when it actually requires four weeks by steamer from San Francisco. The joke is extended through Robert Louis Stevenson's similarly flippant response about Samoa's location: "the second turn to the left after you leave San Francisco"—treating a distant Pacific island nation as though it were a local street corner. The satire targets how geography seems irrelevant to people discussing faraway colonial territories, suggesting either ignorance or indifference about actual distances and travel involved in colonial administration. The page also includes a brief "She Drummed" joke playing on the double meaning of "drummer" (traveling salesman vs. percussionist).
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SAMOA FIRST TURN TO THE LEFT. When anew consul had been appointed to represent France in San Francisco, before leaving Paris he called on the official having charge of consulate affairs, who said, “Oh, by the way, the gov- ernor-general of Tahiti is a great friend of mine. If you ever run down there to spend Sunday be sure to call on him.” It takes only about four weeks for a steamer to sail from San Francisco to Tahiti. This recalls the remark of Robert Louis Stevenson in regard to Samoa, where he lived so long and eventually died. While the novelist was paying his last visit to his native land a friend, whose recollec- tion of geography was rather - shaky, asked, “Where the deuce is Samoa, Stevenson ?" “It's the second turn to the left after you leave San Francisco,” said Robert Louis, whose memory of maps only ran to recollection that in going to Samoa from the Pacific coast one always stopped first at Honolulu. ‘SHE DRUMMED. “My husband, you know,” said Mrs. Nexdore, “is a drummer.” « Indeed !" replied Mrs. Newcome. “I thought it was your daughter,” “Eh? How do you mean ?” “T thought it was your daughter who used the piano."—Ex, G00D INCOMES FOR ALL. 25 to 20 per cent. commis- stow to get orders for our cele brated Teas, Coffees, Spices, Ex- 7 Beant B.C. £, co THE GREAT ANERICAN TEA 0. V0" en 440, 31.23 Vewey street, x-¥- (| ATLANTIC CITY is most delightful in November and December and the new Fireproof Chalfonte is in the very centre of its varied attractions. There is no better time for a visit than now. Write for Illustrated Folder and Rates to THE LEEDS COMPANY Always Open On the Beach TIME IGNORED “« Where more is meant than meets the ear.’” - weom black halftone tint, with wide margin, nzsble to frame, pame-partout or mount, size 121-217, sent upon receipt of price, Silty cents, VILAS-DIVEN CO. 961 LACKAWANNA AVENUE, - ELMIRA, N.Y. Beaten, Ws i Lea & Perrins’ t Sauce THE ORIGINAL WORCESTERSHIRE The Peerless Seasoning This bottle with the label bearing the signature, Lea & Perrins, is familiar to the public, having been on the market for more than seventy years. As a seasoning it improves more dishes than any other relish ever offered to the public. Soups, Fish, Meats, Game, Salads, etc., are made delicious by its proper use. LEA & PERRINS’ SAUCE adds enjoyment to every dinner. Joba Duncan's Sons, Agents, New York, ++sNOW READY... “THIS @ THAT” About Caricature By ZIM: A book of sound advice for the comiceart student $1.50 by mail Address Zeese-Wilkinson Co. 215 East 24th Street, N.Y. LET THE CHILDREN TELL THEIR OWN STORIES. Send ten cents for one of our “Story Pic- tures,” beautifully printed on heavy coated PEPE Hach one is complete story by isc, t with no reading matter. ‘The little ones will spend happy hours weaving their childish fancies into stories about the pictures. a pictures, pasted in an album, with their little stories written out, will make a most beautiful souvenir of a child's early life. For fifty cents we will send seven cuts, not one of them of a character to be out of place in a child's hands. Address Judge Company, 225 Fourth Avenue, New York. HENRY LINDENMEYR & SONS PAPER WAREHOUSE 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 Sisson E. Vance Cooke W. J. Lampton —_Jobn Kendrick Bangs S. W. Gillan Jack Appleton W. D. Nesbit ‘Perkin Warbech F. P, Adams Lowell Otus Reese JUDGE COMPANY 225 FOURTH AVENUE, NEW YORK ‘Western Office: 1343 Hartford Butiél ¢ Charles Sarka J. Hd, Flagg F. F, Lincoln J. Re Shaver E, W. Davis Eastern Office: Advertising Department 140 MASONIC TEMPLE, Chicago, IIL, U. S. A. Room 25, Journal Building BOSTON, MASS. B, C, EVERINGHIM, Manager. CHICAGO, IL" comicbooks.com