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This page from the satirical magazine Judge contains primarily **philosophical essays and advertisements** rather than political cartoons requiring historical context. The main content is "The Accidental Hour," a meditative piece arguing that seemingly random events—a poor actor receiving unexpected charity, a young man meeting his future wife by chance, a woman's piano purchase ending in her death—are actually the fundamental nature of existence. Every event appears accidental but interconnects to shape lives. A secondary anecdote describes how a yellowjacket's sting caused the narrator to jump, inadvertently dodging a falling brick—chance saving his life. The satire is **philosophical rather than political**: Judge uses everyday scenarios to humorously argue that life consists entirely of interconnected accidents and coincidences, challenging readers' assumptions about fate and causality. The remaining space contains **period advertisements** for Packer's Tar Soap, Murad cigarettes, and other products typical of early 20th-century publications.

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ACCIDENTAL. CTOR FAVERSHAM'S little story, printed in JUDGE some weeks since, has been much in our mind of late. It is the story of a fortunate accident, a purely casual meeting of utterly unrelated trains of circumstance, resulting in an inci- dental good toa poor actor. According tc the story, here’s a young actor, un- known, desperate, wandering the streets fa great city looking for the opportu- to earn the next dollar. In the same ni city is an old man, rich, mourning the death of his son ten years gone by, and treasuring in his heart the gratitude he felt toward a soldier who befriended that son. The rich man has contracted the habit of surprising soldierly - looking young men on the street with sealed en- velopes containing one - hundred - dollar bills, and notes explaining his beneficence. He has already given nine and is about to give the tenth, ing youngster, flashes the blessing upon him and departs. That one hundred dol- lars starts the actor on his career. FOR EXAMPLE. Accident. Is there any such thing ? Isn't. everything that happens in this old world of the same accidental char- acter? A young man walks out of his home in the evening. Pauses at the gate. Looks up the street, then down. Is utterly without plan or intent. For no better reason than that a zephyr blows gently from the right he goes with it. That evening he meets the girl who be- comes his wife, whereas if he had gone the other way they might never have come together.* Accident. ‘A Nebraska Willie was sitting on a ladder in the quasi-darkness surrepti- tiously watching his sister Sue and her beau spooning. When the osculatory demonstration reached its height Willie got excited and lost his balance, fell off the ladder and broke his arm.’ Up to that moment neither sister Sue nor her beau had any really serious intentions. From that moment a wedding was a cer- tainty. Accident. Here is a woman who for ten years slaved to save money enough to buy a|* piano, Little by little the savings accu- mulated. The day of triumph arrives, and with the earnings of her ten years she goes forth to buy her pisno. The purchase is made. She sees the instru- ment brought to her door. She goes out CHAFING, Prickly Heat, DANDRUFF Quickly Relieved by Packer's Tar Soap Pure as the Pines “ Antiseptic, Soothing and Healing.” joie dep seer “Excellent in Chafing and Itching.”” poral el rem “ A Real Luxury for bathing and sham- pooing, and # protection against con- tagion.”” Med. Press. ‘The Packer Mfg. Co., New York. He sees a husky-look- | to assist in the unloading. She can hardly restrain her enthusiasm. ‘The van men tip up the great box, it slips and | falls upon its owner and kills her, Acci- dent. And pathetic, indeed. THE ACCIDENTAL YELLOW JACKET. were plying the trowel above and adding to the brick courses. Suddenly a brick slipped and came hurtling down straight for our youthful head. We were stoop- ing over and entirely oblivious to the danger. A big, fiery yellowjacket_hap- pened to be in the neighborhood, and, seeing a little freckled-face boy in an exposed position, considered it up to him to have some fun. That yellowjacket stung us and we gave a jump that was motored by about forty-mule power. We jumped in just the right time to miss that deadly brickbat! Accident. In need of something for indigestion? Abbut’s Angostura Bitters. At all druggists’. CORRECT. It has been observed by the that sometimes the children of the woman by love are not well managed.—Ex. A man's gratitude is always at just before you do him a favor.— THE WAY OUT. OF FOOD BROU AND HAPPIN CHANGE failing to go through school on account of nervousness and hysteria, found in Grape-Nuts the only thing that seemed to build her up and furnish her the peace of health, “ From infancy,” she says, “I have not been strong. Being ambitious to learn at any cost I finally got to the High School, but soon had to abandon my studies on account of nervous prostration and hysteria. My food did not agree with me; I grew thin and despondent. | could not enjoy the simplest social affair, for I suf- fered constantly from nervousness in spite of all sorts of medicines. This wretched condition continued until I was twenty-five, when I became interested in the letters of those who had cases like mine and who were being cured by eating Grape-Nuts. «Thad little faith but procured a box and after the first dish I experienced a peculiar satisfied feeling that I had never gained from any ordinary food. I slept and rested better that night and in a few days began to grow stronger. “Thad a new feeling of peace and rest- fulness. In a few weeks, to my great joy, the headaches and nervousness left me and life became bright and hopeful. I resumed my studies and later taught ten months with ease—of course using Grape-Nuts every day. It is now four years since I began to use Grape-Nuts ; Lam the mistress of a happy home, and the old weakness has never returned. Name given by Postum Co , Battle Creek, Mich, “ There's a reason.” Read the little book, * The Road to Wellville,” in pack- | ages. ® Most Perfect Block Signals on THE Sage aoe i ete idk an expression of interest, although his h JUDGE remembers a Pi etic pte ™IS- eyes twinkled behind his glasses, he ap in his own career. He was playing shed, « Are you sure ?"—Chums. at the base of a brick wall, The masons Take! who says that she believes in managing | An ambitious but delicate girl, after | A SIMPLIFIED SPELLER. Rudyard Kipling dined on one occa- sion with a party that included several other well-known writers—a fair propor- tion of men and women who knew some- thing about literature, and a large num- ber who knew little and made up for) their lack of knowledge with pretense. | Several of the last-described kind started a useless discussion concerning spellings, pronunciation, etc., and one, firing his remark straight at Kipling, said, «I find that * sugar ‘and ‘sumach’ are the only words beginning with ‘su ‘that are pro- nounced as though beginning with * sh. Bored though he was, Kipling’s polite- ness did not desert him, and, assuming THE HARLEM SOLUTION, Flatter —“\t takes a_ great deal of money to move the crops.” dirs, Flatter —* Well, why can't they store them and go to boarding ?°—Vew York Sun. However, the less a man talks the more he doesn't have to apologize.—Ex. a RECIPROCITY. We will now mind putting dates upon our tin cans if London will agree to put dates on Punch's jokes.— Chicago Inter- Ocean. There's hardly anything makes a hu- morist madder than to read a joke some- where and have you get it off on him be- fore he can on you.—£x. Mr. Hotelkeeper A man is known by the company he keeps and a Restaurant by the wine and ale it serv Evans’ Ale Satisfies of Turkey testi qualities of the The Tobacco blending experts to the incomparable lurad blend by select- ing it for their own personal enjoyment. ese men make tests by smoking various blends of tobacco, Whentheir taste be- comes impaired they relieve it by smoking the exquisitely soothing blend used in MURAD CIGARETTES ‘The Murad is neither very strong nor vei mild. It offers the ae quality of “fullness” of vor, with all the deli- cacy of aroma itis possible to produce from the finest Turkish leaf. The result is a ebeons, sens nellew flavor— lelightful at first and unceasingly delight- ful ever afterward. aly det 10 for 15 cents S. ANARGYROS, Manufacturer NEW YORK CENTRAL LINES. comicbooks.com