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This page contains satirical commentary and advertisements typical of early 20th-century Judge magazine. The main cartoon, **"With the Scientists,"** mocks scientific pretension by depicting researchers obsessively measuring trivial physical properties (Earth's hardness, the universe's weight) while ignoring real social problems like poverty and labor conditions. The satire suggests scientists waste effort on arcane calculations that don't improve ordinary people's lives. Supporting this theme, brief humor items mock impractical solutions: a London cabdriver's anxiety over taximeters (new technology), and a rural man turning to selling washing machines after failing at everything else—suggesting desperation driving adoption of dubious inventions. The page is largely advertisements (cigars, hats, shaving soap, ale), reflecting Judge's commercial nature. The overall message critiques both scientific elitism and modern consumer culture's false promises of improvement.

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A SPORTING CHANCE. The taximeter system has been intro- duced in London, and one of the papers there asked a“ cabby ” how he liked it. “You see,” said the cabman_ frankly, “most of us likes a bit o' sport. I tike my keb out in a mornin’, an’I don’t know whether I'm gota’ to” mike my yard Wherever there’s "ss" there's always handy, chuck it on the hay-scales, and | multiply the result by one thousand. mil- lion, It's a great help. Sleep comes . sporting chance. OR no better reason than that it is a hot day, and hard thinking is a di cipline to the flesh, JUDGE invites his readers for a little stroll with the scien- tists to hear what they have to say about more sofily to the pillow of the day laborer who feels that the universe is heavy enough to «stay put and is a great strengthener. Abbott's Angostura Bitters braces the nerves At druggists’. LAST RESORT. a jolly time unless some- | body comes along and gives it a kick. Ina country neighborhood when a man fails at everything else he takes the agency for a washing-machine.— Topeka Capital, Mothers wilt fi ing Syrup the best rem the problems of the hour. We are too much in the habit of thinking that the problem of the hour is how to pay ty Yacation Days and Evan’ Ale wot HOW HARD IS THE EARTH? Next the scientists tackled the problem of the hardness of the earth. Every boy who ever fell out of a cherry-tree knows the earth is pretty hard. But there is nothing exact about such an opinion, nothing a scientist can tie to. Just how hard is it? That's the question. Up to 1863 the view prevailed that the earth was a mere egg-sheil affair, quite hard | on the outside, but extremely fluid and rather hot inside. Lord Kelvin thought as a whole the mass might be a shade more rigid than glass, but not quite as| rigid as steel. Then Professor George Darwin took hol of the question, and under his skillful manipulation the liquid ra, Winslow's Sooth- Jy for their children. ase a bottle. uicket. Or, we are thinking how we can purify politics, or establish the millen- yum, or make all the rich eople good and kind and generous. again, we are thinking of health Ss iseey how milk ind crackers will beget long life, and vegetables produce virtuous people with- ‘out passions, and how we can be what we want to be by just wanting to be what we want to be. These are the problems to most of us. But to the scientists these are not problems at all. They have got miles and miles beyond such trivial things. They have even got it settled just how much the universe veighs, For ‘THE OLD EVER NEW. The girl who is going to be married in October says that there has been a great deal written about love, but nobody has yet done full justice to the subject.— Somerville Journal. If any persons still doubt the superiority of the Sohmer Piano let them try for themselves and be convinced, not only that the Sohmer is the Lest, Lut that it will continue to be the best My cigars prove that they are equal to cigars costing double or more of a retailer. There are three ways in which my Panatelas at $5.00 per hundred prove themselves equal to the re- tailers’ «10°. straights.” First: The tobacco in them iwenty years they wrestled with this question. While other people slept the scientists were out in the night, tugging away at the hills, breathing in the dele- terious night air, catching pneumonia and rheumatism, adding endless columns of figures by day, in order to find the weight of this universe. Then Lord Kel- vin came along with the answer, and an- other one of the truly great problems was settled, The universe, all know now, is as heavy as a thousand million suns, All you have to do to find the heft of this magnificent whorl of incandescent worlds is to grab the first sun that comes Textap Ro. Correct Hats for Men. Fall Styles Now On Sale. New York. Chicago. Philadelphia. ‘And Accredited Agencies In All Principal Cities Wizard Repeating LIQUID PISTOL of the World, ‘Will etep the mont victows wor went out of the earth and it became tar harder than steel. La Place thought the axial density of the globe was equal to the density of a column of mercury as high as from St. Louis to San Francisco. Anybody can try this simple experiment by placing the column of mercury on his head and estimating the contactual in - pact. Professor T. J. J. See figures, fi- nally, that the earth's ‘rigidity is about three times that of nickel steel. That's hard enougn for us, and with that we wash our hands of the whole subject. HOBOKEN SPELLING REFORM, | The following bill-cf-fare was offered to the patrons of a down-town restaurant in Hoboken: Clem Chowder. Hemburger Stek. Korn Bif & Kabbitsch. Fisch Caks. Hungaria Smoli Stek. Fried Kad.—Hoboken Observer. Oulasch, WHAT SHE WANTED. | Druggist—« Try it again, little one. | What was it your mamma told you to | get?” | Little girl (with another severe mental | effort)—‘"I think it was, +I died of opos- juvenile class, between electricity and lightning ?” sum,” I want ten cents’ worth "— Yosh, FREE, “Johnny,” queried the teacher of the what is the difference You don’t have to pay nothin’ for light- .” answered Johnny.—£x. and ‘Square Decorated Boxes, ONE AND TWO POUND SIZES. a la sraney Metallic Moire Papers Japancse Picturcs and a large Vuricty of Flower Designs, including the Representative Flower of each Month. | ‘ALSO. Copyrighted Date hgeta colors hy A. Be Weneel hci alg, Haven le ay [xo LvePRaeaTNS Bese No Present More Buitavle for ‘ty | Occasion. 1b, Sige, round of equare, Sed wh ed with $1, ool eu i fae or aed chat inva ound or mare tiled ith wiih $9.00 “Any of the 60 different desizns in either size, round or square, ON SALE AT he. hey RETAIL STORES land hy Authorized ales everywhe~ rail Onlers Promptly Pill illiams Shaving Soap imparts to the skin that smooth, healthful, refreshed feeling which only a pure, antiseptic shaving soap can give it. dry on the face.” Wittiame, Saaring Sticks and Shaving Cakes sold everywhere. Send ¢ cents tn stay Luxury Suaving Soap, trial size. iiliams’ Shaving Stick or w cake of It is ‘The only kind that won’t smart or ps for a (Enough for 80 shaves.) THE J. B. WILLIAMS COMPANY Dept. A., Glastonbury, Conn. is long, clean Havana and genuine Sumatra, They are hand-made by experienced men — expert cigar-makers ; not by machines operated by inexperienced girls. You will not find tobacco or workman- ship of equal quality in any cigar that retailers sell for less than toc, Second: Former smokers of retailers’ 10c. cigars testify to perfect satisfaction in | changing to my Paratelas. Third : My customers tell me that if they run out of my Panatelas between orders they have to pay a retailer oc. or 15¢. apiece for cigars that will take their place. These are all simple facts. However, I do not ask you to take my word or the word of my customers. I want you to PROVE FOR YOUR- SELF tnat what I say is true. Hence I make you tnis offer: MY OFFER 1S: 1 will, upon request, send one hundred Shivers’ Panatela Cigars on approval to a reader of JUDGE, express prepald. He may smoke ten cigars and return the remaining ninety at my ex- pense if he Is not pleased with them; If he Is pleased, and keeps them, he agrees to remit the ; price, $5.00, within ten days. The fillers of these cigars are Clear Havana, of good quality—not only clear, but long, clean Havana —no shorts or cuttings are used. They are hand-made, by the best of workmen, The making has much to do.with the smoking qualities of a cigar, The wrappers are genuine Sumatra. In ordering, please. enclose business card or give personal teferences, and state whether mild, medium or strong cigars are desired. HERBERT D. SHIVERS i259. Filbert Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Morning, ! Noon and Night F Fast Trains to the West—Via NEW YORK CENTRAL LINES. comicbooks.com