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This page from *Judge* (a prominent early-20th-century American satire magazine) comprises primarily **brief humorous anecdotes and advertisements**, not political cartoons. The illustrated content appears limited—there's one small photograph labeled "A Failure" showing what seems to be a domestic scene. The jokes target familiar targets: aging women pretending to youth ("Imperfect Past"), ineffectual job-seeking, marital discord, and bureaucratic absurdity. One item references Korea's "coming event" regarding Prince Yung-chin's topknot ceremony—a light, exoticizing reference to Asian customs. The substantial editorial/advertising space features *Packer's Tar Soap* and *The Prudential Insurance Company*, reflecting this magazine's reliance on commercial support. The "Failure" photo caption satirizes marital dispute resolution. Overall, this represents **mainstream genteel satire** targeting domestic life and minor social follies rather than sharp political critique—typical of *Judge*'s entertainment-focused content during this era.

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IMPERFECT PAST. «Well, well,” exclaimed Miss Passay, «50 she’s twenty-tive to-day. I guess it would surprise her if I should tell her I was the same age.” “Oh, no,” replied knows that, of cours: he knows that I'm twenty-five 2” “No; that you were."—Philadelphia Press. iss Knox ; + she MORTALITY CAUSES. Professor Tab—* | understand that the death-rate here is very large. Can you give me the reason of the large percent- age of mortality 2” Texas Timpkins —" Wa-al, t's some various, pard. It runs all the way from five aces ter nateral cussedness."— Chica- go News. Br. Ball's Cough Syrup Is the best for colds, sore threat, ed rippe: Physicians can prescribe nothing better. 25¢. COULDN'T SUPPLY IT. “Tse you advertise everything for the said the man entering the child's bazaar. “Yes; this is the place,” said the floor-| walker.’ What do you want to get?” « Well, what I want to get is something that will get up out of a warm bed on a cold night and walk the floor with a cross | baby !"— Yonkers Statesman. SYMPATHETIC JUROR. “What made you so sympathetic to- ward the prisoner?” “Well,” answered the juror, after be- ing locked up away from home and| frends ourselves, we realized what it is to be in the clutches of the law and felt sorry for him."— Washington Star, Digestion’s greatest aid — Abbott's Bitters. A“nip" after each meal affords relief. ANTIQUATED EMPLOYMENT. “Can't you find any work at all ?” Plenty, sir; but everybody wants ref- erences from me last employer.” “Can't you get them ?” “No, sir. He's been dead eight years !"—Mlustrated Bits. HE FORGOT. “Why do you hate him so?” “He and I were lovers once, and we quarreled.” ++ Was that all ?” “No. He came to me, and we both acknowledged that we were partly wrong. |] Then we agreed to forgive and forget.” «Yes “He has forgotten."— Chicago Record: Herald. twenty- Egotism is the thunder that curdles the milk of human kindness.—£x. For HEALTHY HAIR and SCALP \Packer's Tar Soap Pure as the Pines Recommended by the Medical Profession for cleansing the Hair and Scalp, and in treatment of Dandruff and Baldness. The STANDARD for SHAMPOOING ES NOT DRESSED. Editor—“\ notice that you say that the women at the ball to-night were « ele- gantly gowned.’ Do you think that | *gowned ’ is a good word 2” Reporter —* Well, you couldn't call them dressed."—Somerville Journal. FATE. Some laws, like pictures painted fair, Have but a sorry fate in store. They're framed with most attentive care, Hung up and ne’er considered more. —Washington Star. COMING EVENT IN KOREA. The ceremony of putting up the top- knot of the young Prince Yung-chin will take place, we are told, about the middle of the first moon of the new year.—Korea Daily News. WHY HE DIDN’T SEE HER. She—" I saw you in the street other evening, Mr. Saxby.” He—"Did you? Why, I didn't see you.” She—*1 suppose not. up."—Exchange, ‘ar the I was standing IN 1950. ‘Mrs. Smartleigh seems like a very capable woman,” "Yes, indeed. She's the chief regent of the Daughters of the Panama Canal Commission." — Cleveland Plain Dealer. HORSE SENSE. Wise— Now, he's got what I call * horse sense." Ascum— Wise —“ He never Philadelphia Press. How, for instance ?” bets on one,"— BUILDING NOTE. Contractors are often called on to ex-, pand houses.— Reader. You can't convince a woman that a bargain is a bargain unless she gets it. GOOD NATURED AGAIN. GOOD HUMOR RETURNS WITH CHANGE TO PROPER FOOD. ‘+ For many years I was a constant suf- ferer trom indigestion and nervousness amounting almost to prostration,” writes a Montana man. “My blood was impoverished, the vi- sion was blurred and weak, with moving spots before my eyes. This was a steady daily condition, I grew ill-tempered, and eventually got so nervous I could not keep my books posted, nor handle accounts sat- isfactorily. I can’t describe my sufferings. « Nothing I ate agreed with me, till one day, | happened to notice Grape-Nuts in a grocery-store, and bought a package, out of curiosity to know what it was, “TL liked the food from the very first, eating it with cream, and now I buy it by the case and use it daily. I soon found that Grape-Nuts food was supplying brain and nerve force as nothing in the drug line ever had done or could do. “It wasn’t long before I was restored to health, comfort and happiness. Through the use of Grape-Nuts food my digestion has been restored, my nerves are steady once more, my eye-sight is good again, my mental faculties are clear and acute, and I have hecome so good-natured that my friends ave truly astonished at the change. I feel younger and better than I have for twenty years. No amount of money would induce me to surrender what Ihave gained through the use of Grape- Nuts food. ame given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, M « There's a reason.” | Read the little book, * The Road to Well- THE PRUDENTIAL Has THE STRENGTH OF GIBRALTAR “Five years ago I took out two policies of $10,000 each in your company. At the time I made a memorandum on my list of life insurance: ‘Due 1916, with possibly an additional two thousand as a dividend. “When notified a few days ago that a dividend on my two policies, of $1,208.60, was due, and that it was mine for the asking, I was surprised and greatly pleased to discover that the prospects were £0 good for the two thousan dollar dividend being paid. «+ [now regret that at the time I took out this insurance in your company, I had not made the amount double.”* This Policyholder thought that possibly $2,000 would be pald as a dividend in 1916, but in 1906—when his policies had been In force only five years—he receives $1,208.60, and, mark you, this Is only one dividend, Mf the policyholder lives until the policy matures he will have received two other dividends, and if he should die at any time the policy will be paid in full. The Prudential INSURANCE CO. OF AMERICA Incorporated as a Stock Company by the State of New Jersey. Write for Specimen Five Year Dividend Eodowment Policy like this af your age. JOHN F. DRYDEN, President, Dept. Ne NEWARK, N.J. | \ ville,” in packages. A FAILURE. “So you don't believe in the mind cure?” No.” * Did you ever try it?” “Well, | once tried to convince my wife that she didn’t really want a new gown.” @ BEST LINE TO CINCINNATI AND ST. LOUIS — New York Central Lines. comicbooks.com