Judge, 1908-02-08 · page 6 of 16
Judge — February 8, 1908 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several unrelated humor pieces typical of Judge magazine's satirical format: **"How Jones Economized"** shows a railroad eating-house owner posting prices—5 cents for pie, 10 cents for another pie—mocking cheap establishments and their transparent economics. **"Appropriate Names for Twins"** is wordplay humor listing name pairs (Kate and Duplicate, Max and Climax), requiring no political context. **"A Difference"** jokes about a barber's prices increasing from 5 to 10 cents, with accompanying dialogue about shaving. **"Force of Habit"** depicts a barber asking routine questions (close shave? close window? trim mustache? about Roosevelt's third term?) to an unresponsive customer—satirizing mechanical professional habits and contemporary political speculation about Theodore Roosevelt. **"At the Grand Opera"** is a family humor piece where a bored uncle explains a curtain hole to his nephew, mocking both opera pretension and parental explanations. The page appears primarily comic/humorous rather than overtly political, typical of Judge's mixed content approach.
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