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This page is primarily **advertisements and brief humor pieces**, typical of Judge magazine's format. The main content includes: **Humor snippets ("Bubbles")**: Short jokes about wordplay and social observations—a man who "never seems right when one gets left," a crooked-eyed person looking "cross," puns about sawmills and tennis courts. These are gentle satirical observations of daily American life. **Key advertised products**: Hunter Baltimore Rye whiskey, Abbott's Angostura Bitters, Sohmer pianos, and Grape-Nuts cereal. **Notable humor piece "Repairing Brain"**: A pseudo-scientific advertisement for Grape-Nuts cereal that claims brain workers (lawyers, journalists, ministers) lose phosphate of potash through mental exertion and must replenish it through proper food—specifically Grape-Nuts, which supposedly contains this mineral. This is **satirical health-claim marketing**, the type common in early 1900s advertising that blended dubious science with product promotion. The page reflects Judge's dual purpose: satirizing contemporary culture while monetizing through advertisements, many making exaggerated health and social claims.

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/HUNTER RYE | PRODUCT OF THE STILL THE AMERICAN GENTLEMAN'S WHISKEY Beldat alt tret-ctacs cates wd by Jobtera BUBBLES. Of rio account—ooo0o, The long-green—a six-foot bumpkin. A tennis suit should be tried in open court. To see a mill and say you saw it, seek to see a saw-mill, Somehow it never seems right when one gets lett. The out-and-out good baseball player is seldom put out. The crooked-eyed sitter looks cross even when the photographer says, “* Look pleasant.""—Philadelphia Bulletin. Cocktail! Remember, never at its best with- out Abbott's Angostura Bitters. NOT FAR WRONG. “Tdon't like that young man of yours. He strikes me as a dilettante.” “Why, papa, you don’t even know what that word means.” Don't, eh? It means a jack-of-all- professions." Philadelphia Ledger. The Sohmer Piano is an instrument that is an ornament to any parlor. PEACEFUL PROVENDER. “It's strange there should have been a fight in the Japanese diet.” So i mostly rice and such stuff. there was a fight in a Exchange. Mothers will And Mra, Wii syrup the best remedy tor their chil ship-load of it w's Sooth= \- asc abottie, IMPOLITE. Gladeys—" Jack Slocum threw me a kiss yesterday on the links.” Violet— Yow impertinent | What did you say Gladeys—""1 told him that his_man- ners were bad; that it was impolite to throw things at people.” — American Spectator. Whe LANAllAN’ & SON, Baltimore, Md An ounce of prevention is better than | a pound of cure, when you're the one| + pounded.—Exchan, The best place for Resi, Recreaon of Recuneraon at this season is ATLANTIC CITY and the new Fireproof CHALFONTE: is especially well equipped to supply the wants of those who come to secure them. | Write for Illustrated Folder and Rates to The Leeds Company Always Open On the Beach A few copies of the first edition of | THIS AND THAT ABOUT CARICATURE By Zim, are still available. Upon receipt of $1.50, this clever little book will be sent to anv address, postage prepaid. | the brain tissue. | built. | crude phosphate of potash of the drug- HE STARTED IT. “ Why are you going about with a lan- tern and a cynical smile?” asked the bystaraler. + Don't énterrupt me,” returned Diog- enes, “I ano, the original investigating committee."— Washington Star. REPAIRING BRAIN A CERTAIN WAY, BY FOOD. Every minister, lawyet}, journalist, phy- sictan, autnor or business ‘man is forced under pressure of modern Gonditions to the active and sometimes oves-active use of the brain. Analysis of the excreta throwan out by the pores shows that brain work breaks down the phosphate of potash, separat- ing it from its heavier companion, albu- men, and plain common sense teaches that this elemental principle must be in- troduced into the body anew each day if we would replace the loss and rebuild We know that the phosphate of potash, as, presented in certain field grains, has an affinity for albumen, and that is the only way gray matter in the brain can be It will not answer to take the shop, for nature rejects it. The elemental mineral must be presented through food directly from nature’s laboratory. These facts have been made use of in the manufacture of Grape-Nuts, and any|’ brain-worker can prove the value of the| ! proper selection of food by making free| | use of Grape-Nuts for ten days or two weeks. Sold by grocers everywhere (and in immense quantities). Manufactured by the Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. JUDGE COMPANY, New York Nison- “Whe ony winsicey, Mok proces o compete, quaxarteed anchysis on each werery, battle. Seedback label! you. IN PIONEER DAYS. Frontier scHooLuasrer (thinking a friend is olaying a joke on him)— You're just stringing me. a law was passed by Congress and the Senate and signed by the President of the U. S.— to protect 18-HOUR TRAIN TO CHICAGO. a) 20TH CENTURY LIMITED—new York Central and Lake Shore.