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This page mixes humor pieces with advertising typical of early 1900s satirical magazines. **The cartoons/jokes shown:** "The Inventor" mocks gullible investors: a poor Nebraska man sells a $2,000 "device" to keep horses off barbed wire—it's merely a sign reading "NOTICE TO HORSES" with spectacles for "near-sighted horses." The satire targets both the inventor's audacity and the buyer's credulity. "The Young Housewife's Latest" jokes about domestic incompetence: a mistress attempts cooking without the maid and, when lettuce isn't washed, asks "Where do you keep the soap?"—confusing dishwashing with food preparation. **Advertising dominates** the rest: I.W. Harper Rye whiskey (emphasizing age and respectability), Williams Shaving Soap (appealing to men's grooming), and the August issue of Judge's own *Magazine of Fun* (50 cents, available at newsstands). The page reflects early-20th-century consumer culture and gender-role humor now dated and clichéd.

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Suage THE INVENTOR. A poor man went about in Nebasta| Hooking for work. He obtained a job in |a village sawing wood. The sawyer in- terested his employer, arid finally con- f-ssed the reason of his poverty. He was an inventor and had spent his substance ‘on a device to keep horses off harbed- wire fences. The idea seemed promis- | ing to the Nebraskan, and he finally paid two thousand dollars for the right to sell the device in his state. The sample was sent later. It wrs a sign-board to he hung on the fence, and read as follows: NOTICE TO HORSES. Dangerous —Keep Away With the sign-board came a pair of spectacles for the use of near-sighted horses ! THE YOUNG HOUSEWIFE’S LATEST. | _In the cook’s absence the young mis tress of the house undertook, with the help of a green waitress, to get the Sun- day luncheon. The flurried maid, who had been struggling in the kitchen with a coffee machine that refused to work, confessed that she had forgotten to wasl. the lettuce. * Well, never min 1. Goon with te coffee, and I'll do it,” said the consid- erate mistress. “ Where do you keep the soap ?"— Youth's Companion For cross purposes—streets —/x. wiry beards and delicate skinsusu- ally go together. The rich, creamy, antisep- tic lather of Shaving Williams Soap makes their separation easy and pleasant and leaves the face soft and healthful. “The only kind that won't smart or dry on the face.” Wiliams, arco Shp and Shaving, Cakes sold everywhere scents tn tam | Wiltime ‘Shaving Stick ora cake of Wi 7 Butane shaving jams’ Laxury Suaving Soap, trial THE J. 1. WILLIAMS COMPANY Gtastoxaeny, Coxx, AGED AND RESPECTED With character and merit. The spirit of Kentucky hospitality; the essence of good cheer. The best whiskey for all uses. Gold medals at New Orleans, 1885; Chicago, 1893; Paris,” 1900; and Grand Prize. highest award, at World's Fair, St. Louis. fora oy A few cupies of tive first editios THIS AND THAT ABOUT CARICATURE By Zist, are still available. Upon receipt of $1.50, this clever little book will be sent tu any address, postage prepaid. JUDGE COMPANY, New York Jcpers LinRARY, A MAGAZINE of FUN FOR AUGUST, ON ALL NEWS-STANDS Sold by leading dealers everywhere, FORTUNATUS. Knicker —“ Has Jones got luck ?” | Bocker— Yes; hie is the kind of fellow viho can sow the wind and reap a cyclone | cellar."—New York Sun. UENRY LINDENMEYR & SONS PAPER WAREHOUSE) ER MADE TO OnDER PLASTERERS, | wanted in Sot wens. ree c COYNE BROS.” TRADE SCHOOLS St Loais Copyright, 1906, by Judge Compan Photogravare, 1215. 50 CENTS **GOOD-NIGHT!I"* It is the last word. There is nothing more to be said. The beautiful, artistic, pertinent —speaks SU ar pertinent —spe: Addon Pi@ure Department, Judge Company { 225 Fourth Avenue, New York Add extra post rgefor forcign orders. FROM a list of fifteen weeklies considered, Jupce has just been se- SOMETHING THAT WILL JUST | SUIT YOU. cespiie ie for Sommer Coages vee walar last season. We gave the moneyed hest grade work both in color and ae ee eae brief eye picrares to any address fa the United States vpon receipt of price \ FOR 50 CENTS | 3—Miniature Heads on card, 621256 2—Popular Girls, in colors, 11 2 1456 $—Smart Girl, colored, 72 4354 $—"*1 Won't Come Out Till You Go "Way," tn colors ‘Stantaws) 2—Biack and White line drawings ( ‘Value One Doar FOR 40 CENTS Wre-vil send Mra Prank Lasl's two spicy books, the most delightful of summer reading “Renta in Our Robes” ** Are Men Gay Decetvers?” henge ning We wisn rnd PICTURE DEPARTMENT JUDGE COMPANY 225 Fourth Avenue : New York lected as one of three me- diums to be used during the coming year by one of our largest National adver- tisers, the only humorous weekly to be used and the third renewal of this order. PRECAUTION. Patience—" Why do they always cha:: the groom into the church first and ma’ > | him wait for the bride at the altar?” | Patrice—"1 suppose they ‘re afraid The Judge Company publishes the only humorous monthly magazine in America. The Magazine of Fun (formerly Judge's Library) has shown | a remarkable growth during the past year, and is now read by more than | a quarter of a million persons monthly. Each issue usually contains as many as twelve original humorous articles and thirty pages of pictures. August number now on sale on all news-stands, 10 cents a copy. JUDGE COMPANY | 225 Fourth Avenue : ’ : ’ NEW YORK | | they left him outside he'd hack out a run away, '"— Yonkers Statesman. comicbooks.com