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This page features a humorous poem titled "A Wasted Life," which satirizes American obsession with baseball through the early 1900s. The poem describes a Pennsylvania man who has never attended a baseball game, systematically cataloging all the experiences he's missed—seeing home runs, cheering at games, watching pitchers work, rushing to the park, and the camaraderie of fandom. The satire is gentle but pointed: the poem treats never attending baseball as a genuine tragedy, calling his life "a blank" and "a dreary place." The exaggeration is intentional—baseball fandom is elevated to something almost religious or essential to American identity. This reflects the era when baseball was becoming America's "national pastime," and attendance at games was viewed as a core American experience. The joke mocks both the sport's cultural prominence and fans' passionate devotion to it. The byline attributes the poem to the *Birmingham Age-Herald*, a regional newspaper. The page also contains unrelated advertisements and brief humor columns typical of Judge's format.
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ENGLISH IN JAPAN. One can find food for humor in a short \iksha ride about Yokohama, by observing. be peculiar wording of signs displayed a front of shops. Following are a few miliar ones which may be seen on the gain streets, or neatly printed on cards ndows and over counters : * The One Prices Store. Flowers Bulbs and Seeds Artists. “All kinds of Birds and Beasts Mer- nts.” + Japanese Restaurant properly served » Europeans.” "We seek your pleasure to display fine sik and embroidery.’ “Yokohama First Class Laundry. Washing Europeans our specialty.” "We manufacture smoke for destroy ing of the fly and insec We develope amateurs promptly, and printing neatly. All photography cheap.” “I, Takasatsu, Tailors and everything furnishings for the gentleman. Our styles are made in London."— The Badger. THE KANSAS EDITOR. The editor of a Kansas country paper tas found a way of persuading the delin- quent subscriber. It was quite accidental. He had borrowed a rifle recently, and he sarted up the main street of the town to return the weapon to its owner. ‘The de- vent subscribers got it into their heads that he was on the warpath, and every one he met insisted on paying what he owed him, One man wiped out a debt of ten years’ standing.) On his return to his fice he found a load of hay, fifteen bush- ds of corn, ten bushels of potatoes, a load of wood, and a barrel of turnips that had been brought in. All the country editors are now trying to borrow Winchesters.— New York Tribune, ONE REASON FOR LIVING IN TOPEKA. Where did you learn the Lord's Pray- er?" asked an Atchison Sunday-school teacher of a little girl. “used to live in Topeka,” de girl, «and I learned it the "Now, let me hear you say teacher to the next litile girl. “I don't know it,” said the next little girl; «I never lived in Topeka." —Kansas by Journal. d the lit- said the NEW BUSINESS, An undertaker in a town out west has opened an automobile agency as a side line—thus laying himself open to the sus- picion that he is trying to increase his business.—Somervilie Fournal. QUITE so. “Some women only want a husband for a background.” “And they are the kind that like to shift the scenery at frequent intervals."— Louisville Courter-Fournal, Evans’ Ale is constantly growing in popu har favor as a Summer Beverage amg the Great Army of Pleas- ue Seekers, because it is Refreshing, Appetizing, Sathtying, Easy to Serve, Always R No Sediment eady. Itacds a zest to a Picnic lunch that imparts happiness and en- Jpyment to the occasion. Foocking around won't at it, | CESS Pee Bano and Seli-Player co A WASTED LIFE. There is a man in Pennsylvania who never saw a baseball game. Tempo de fortitudo. He never saw a baseball game, Nor on the bleachers sat; He never saw a good home run, Nor sluggers at the bat. He never called the umpire down, Nor never tried to root ; He never was a fan at all, And full of wind to Loot. He never saw the local club Rise up and tie the score ; He never saw a finish that Made visitors feel sore. He never saw a southpaw work, Nor backstop throw to third ; Amid the cheers that rent the air His voice was never heard. He never hustled for a car To take him to the park ; He never wended his way back At night or nearly dark. He hasn't had much fun, I wis, His life has been a blank ; A dreary place, this world, to him Who 's not a baseball crank. —Birmingham Age-Herald. Winslow's Sooth- ‘cir children. ase a bottle. WE MISS THEM. 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