Judge — December 12, 1908 — page 14: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

SHEARS een ano een PASTE-POT THE COMIC SIDE. A London urchin ran into a baker shop, and placing a halfpenny on the counter, asked nervo' nd timorously, “Mister, ‘ave you a ‘alfpenny buster (bun) ?"" “Yes, my little man; here is one Would you mind hovin’ it down my back?”” Down your back, my little man!| Why down your back?"" ‘Cos, sir, I'm only a little ‘un, and if those chaps outside know I've a buster, they'll take it; and I am so hun- gry, | am!" ‘Dear me, how wrong of them! Come | around here, my little chap. There— down your back.”” The boy ran off. In an instant an- othe T entered—a bigger boy. mister, ‘as a little boy just s* ‘And did ‘e arsk you to shove it down i a8 us big fellows would take Where's your watch and 8 got ‘em; ‘e's just around ed the baker, Ina trice the ollared the till and bolted. ‘The shopman never saw the comic side of it all. —The Strand. DIFFERENT. Id man!"’ said the consol- You know, love laughs at I know," replied the dejected But her father ain't a lock- boilermaker."’—Detrvit Free Press, COOK'S vs. IMPORTED CHAMPAGNE. When you buy champagne, whether at your club, at a hotel or for private fa ily use, rtainly seems foolish to pay two prices for it; yet that is exactly what you do when you buy imported you pay does not represent quality—it represents impost duties. It is a fact not generally known, but the less true, that many so-called cn wines are in reality of American make, shipped to France and there bot- nd reshipped to this coun- fancy foreign label, and re asked to pay three or four times its intrinsic worth. In other words, you ng for that label and two ocean voyages. Cook's Imperial Champagt American product, is as fine a can possibly be produced. It is made from choicest grown gray picked fresh from the vine, when the juice is ripe for win Connoi unite in sa pint of bou Cook's Im: perial equals the finest genuine imported varieties and surpasses most of them, yet the price is only half what you are asked to pay for fu Every one who aj . things of life shor a bottle of this truly excellent wine and convince himself that, ardiess of price, it is far and away the best cham) tainable. The man who says ported champagne is better th Imperial should hav on him for proof to the y served at the best bars, hotels and cafés in the country. an ine as an ime A GOOD REASON. a great admirer of the secret- it affords him a great) chance to say afterward that he voted for all the winners."’—WDetroit Free Press, ALA TENNYSON. | The bachelor hath a merry life. | 'Twere better to have loved and lost Than, shackled to a nagging wife, To be forever loved— and hossed, Cleveland News, ing?" believed the tales that he told.” | trated Bits, hife Rock “The World’s Best Table Water.”’ TALK ABOUT LUCK? BRIEF COMMENTS. “Did Cadderly have much luck fish-|The morning after! Glorious day! We welcome it again, Why, every one When some men shout a glad “Hooray!” *—Illus-| And others grow profane. —Washington Star. “Remarkable luck! Office of SANTA CLAUS & CO. To the American People: Coprright, 1907, by Jusee Co. “YOURS TRULY" THEE WED Flagg. JUDGE This is to certify that my Picture Department for the Holiday Season of 1908 will be at the Judge Company, 225 Fifth Avenue, New York City. They have prepared a beautiful illustrated catalogue of the prints best suited for Christmas gifts and will send the same upon receipt of eight cents in stamps. I might also say that they have for sale a number of the original drawings and paintings from which these prints were made. These are much larger than their reproductions and make an adom- You will be surprised at the prices, which range from one to twenty-five dollars. Write for them. With all the compliments of the season. SANTA CLAUS. ment for any home. P. S—I also want to say that a year's sub- scription to JUDGE or LESLIE'S WEEKLY is a weekly reminder of the giver, and makes an ideal Christmas gift—both are published by the Judge Company. COMPAN 225 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK CITY comicbooks.com