Judge — October 17, 1908 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains several satirical stories and illustrations typical of early 20th-century Judge magazine humor. **"Judge's Favorite"** features a photograph of an elegant woman in a long dress, captioned as depicting a character from literature named "Algeria." **"Repartee"** is a short joke about a hotel dispute over broken glassware and payment. **"The Impossible"** is a poem listing things that cannot occur, including politicians losing positions and "sinners on the sidewalk from directoire dresses crying." **"He Met With Reverses"** and **"What Did He Mean?"** are illustrated jokes about misunderstandings. **"As to Fog"** discusses climate differences between America and England, with humor about London fog. The final section discusses "Prohibition orators" and their characteristic sideburns—likely satirizing temperance movement activists popular in early 20th-century America.