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This page contains brief satirical anecdotes typical of Judge's humor, along with period advertisements. The jokes target domestic life and social pretensions: **"Prevented Her"** mocks the excuse that motherhood prevents women from pursuing arts/music. **"A Mean One"** satirizes an actor who finds death scenes funny because his low wages make even stage death preferable to his real life—dark humor about theatrical working conditions. **"Noise, Motion and Dust"** jokes that selling one's automobile but cleaning rugs provides equivalent sensations—poking fun at the nouveau riche fascination with automobiles. **"Dark Philosophy"** features "Uncle Eben" (a stock rural character type) philosophizing that you can't outrun fate. The remaining anecdotes satirize marital dynamics, medical advice-giving, and military discipline. The advertisements for heating devices and patent medicines are typical of the era. The content reflects early 1900s middle-class American anxieties about technology, marriage, and social status.

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PREVENTED HER. Your wife used to sing and play a greatdeal. I have not heard her lately. ince we have had children she has had no time.”” “Ah, children are such a blessing!" Exchange. A MEAN ONE. “What!"’ cried the stage manager. “You laugh while you are supposed to | be dying?”” | “Certainly,” replied the actor. “At the wages you pay, why shouldn’t death be greeted with joy?”’—Exchange. NOISE, MOTION AND DUST. “Thad to sell my auto, but I haven't, ed it yet.” “How's that?” | “*You can get most of the sensation | * | by cleaning rugs.""—Louisville Courier- Journal, DARK PHILOSOPHY. Make that Cold | “A man kin allus fix up arguments to quiet his conscience,’’ said Uncle Eben, Uae Cele ae toe. Ne etter heel Room a Cozy Den Ea much you turns de clock back, sundown SeANE toe EXTHAN AGANCE: gwinter come jes’ de same."’— Washing- In nearly every house there is one room that is extremely ,_ Pa Smith threw. down his wwspaper ton Star, hard to heat—it is therefore practically closed for the winter. in disgust. “It's shameful,” he ex- : claimed, "the way these ‘ere colleges ieenusciousey This room can be made the coziest room in the house with no waste money on furniture Ere’s 89 Dyctor—"Did your husband follow trouble by the use of the Account of somebody giving Oxford fo°Y my directions? Did he take the medi- e Exch 8 ‘ . cine I left for him religiously ?”’ srenange. Patient's wife—''\'m afraid not, doc- GOOUNESS GRACIOUS) tor. He swore every time I gave him Mr. Howard— a dose, :'— Boston: Transcript. (Equipped with Smokeless Device) n't it wonderful whet force Nisaare baat eis) ‘Deyea TRUE EITHER WAY. Ps This beaver gi intense est with ne smoke, no smell. . Tatkmuch elous! Do y 1 aa an urn it as high as you can to light it, as low as you can to know when I first saw it, for a full, North tes nay eee i extinguish it. Easy to clean, easily carried from room to around the house letting their wives sup- room. Nickel or Japan finish. Every heater guaranteed. moment I couldn't speak.""—Brooklyn Eagle. basi esis port them."” And there are some very Rav + ta te bese lang forall’ People have principles so as to explain energetic husbands who lie around the The ‘oO Lamp Wand heoehold pur why they don’t live up to them.—Ez. house entirely too much.— Houston Post, ses, Gives a clear, steady light. Made of brass throughout and nickel plated. "Equipped with the latest improved central draft burner. Handsome—simple —aatisfactory. Every lamp guaranteed. No single issue of any other magazine under the sun ever had such If you cannot get heater and lamp at your dealer's, write an array of contributors as appears in the to our nearest agency. STANDARD OIL COMPANY CHRISTMAS UUncorporated) wf Tol (td SEPARATED. A regiment of soldiers was recently tte drawn up one Sunday for church parade, | In the first place few other magazines have the space for it. We are aware that names but the church was being repaired and aren't everything, and some of the best hurmor that appears is the work of new and could hold only half of them. comparatively unknown writers, In this great holiday annual is the cream of “Sergeant-major,”” shouted the colo- everything. You've got to prove our Christmas pudding by tasting it; but nel, “tell all the men who don’t want to just by way of indicating what is in store for you, here are a few names of | ais those better-known humorists who have contributed a laugh to the Christmas ro. ghureh to fall out.on:‘the reverse SUDGE, in picture, prose or verse, for your delectation, They are scarcely half of the list, and all live up to their reputations in this nun ber for wit and jollity. WRITERS: Oliver Herford, Gelett Burgess, Carolyn Wells, Wilbur D. Nesbit, Elliott Flower Charles Battell Loomis, Albert Bigelow Paine, William J. Lampton, John Kendrick Bangs, Tudor Jenks, Ed Mott, Tom Masson, Kobertus Love, Victor A Hermann, F. P. Pitzer, Perrine Lambert, Roy K. Moulton, Lurana Sheldon, Edwin Of course a large number quickly and ladly availed themselves of the priv- —_— ilege. | “Now, sergeant-major,"" said the/ colonel, ‘dismiss all the men who did L. Sabin, Hugh Pendexter, Porter Emerson Brown, Burges Johnson. not fall out and march the others to ARTISTS: J. M. Flagg, Peter Newell, A. B. Frost, J. R. Bray, Louis Wain, H. chureh—they need it most."’—Philadal- C. Greening, Arthur Dove, Florence Scovel Shinn, Charles Sarka, Arthur Lewis, phia Inquirer. Ouo Lang, HH. A. Petersen, Jobn Conacher, Arthur Jameson, Nellie Meyer, Frederick Richardson, Jack Sears, Walt Kubn, Will Crawford, Bob Addams, Aug. Hutaf, BROUGHT UP TO DATE. Laura E, Foster, J. H. 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