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This page contains editorial commentary and social satire typical of early 20th-century Judge magazine. The main cartoon labeled "HELP" depicts a figure in formal dress (possibly representing wealth or authority) appearing distressed while observing destruction or chaos in the background, likely satirizing economic or social upheaval. The text discusses various topics including Haiti's political situation, marriage law reforms, and references to President Roosevelt's use of the word "frazzle." There's commentary on a Chicago meat packer's exploitation of pig byproducts and criticism of theatrical productions. The satire targets political hypocrisy, social pretension, and industrial excess. Without clearer dating or additional context, the specific historical moment remains somewhat unclear, though the tone suggests commentary on Progressive Era social issues.

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Hrunywick Building, 225 Fifth Ave, New York. JOHN A. SLEICHER, Sur montns. of #00 ‘Thirteen weens which areata 0. To Canadian Provinces a year. Postage free in the Uni dependencies, and Me: reign countries add MOPRAN SA14S-AGENTS— International News Company, Bream's building, Chancery Lane, &. C. London; Brentane't, Avense st 1 Opera, Paris: Saaroack's News hachange, Mains, Germany. 1 JUDGP cannet be found at any newsstand, (be publishers will be ender atitevs should copy of JUDGE w the old a teach any AITI is having a paign. 'y exciting political cam- A man is known just as well by the company he avoids as by that he keeps. It is most remarkable how many men allow their religion to be run in their wives’ names, ‘Those who are trying to form an egg trust should remember that most States have a law against shell games, Esperanto is to follow in the wake of Volapuk. The latest “world language’ is called “* Elo." What will be the next? That the ‘* Peerless One" will run again will be good news to the book agents, who have put on the shelf ‘* The Life and Character of William Jennings Bryan." According to our English contemporary, the London Punch, at the entrance to each of the imperial palaces in Germany there is ited a neatly framed little notice that reads as follows: now exhil “No interviewers admi ‘The ** Flower of Peace ’’—which is pictured on the opposite page—is a good one tor Richmond P. Hobson to examine. He will find no powder on the petals. Even the war clouds which he has continually spread over it could not blast it. ‘The girl who picked a woman's pocket in New York on the day before she was married was not a hardened criminal, She was sim- ply getting. little experience for the future, knowing that such a method is the only way to get money from ‘a husband. It looks as though that common catastrophe of the kitchen on Christ- mas Day would be enacted on a very wide scale. The ‘‘ catastrophe’’ is, of course, that old chestnut about “the downfall of Turkey, the throw of Greece, and the bre of China."" over ing up Don't jump at conclusions, Min isters in New York, who have bi complaining that the marriage-ti law recently passed in that has largely reduced. th marriages, doubtless forget that 190% is a leap year, and that women do not like to get married during such a year, for fear the people will sa “She did the proposing. number Sunday schools all over the PURLIAMKD WEEKLY AT 10 CENTS 4 COPY. One year. or sa numoers = ° Subscriptions payable in advance by draft on New York, or by express or postal order, mot by local checks fount im New Vork City. “from East Anglia. The News Cable Address, “Judgark.” Tel. 6632 Madison Nqua: |. PW, Schneider, Secretary, Arthur Terry, Treasurer. 1136-7 Merquetie B umuers = - Xe put contents of FUDGE ave crotected by cooyrigh in both the United Slates and Great (ain. CONTPIBUTORS must inciose a stamped and self-addressed envelope with all manuscripts, otherivise return of the Latter when found unavailable cannot be guaranteed. ‘obligations if that tact be promptly reported os poutal-card or by letter. BACK NUMBERS Prevent year, 10 cents pet copy 1997, 20 cents 1906, 30 cents, ete Il as the mew address. and the ledger oumber on theit wrapper. From two to three weeks must fw vubsctiber BRIEF DECISIONS FROM THE BENCH. try are reporting the usual large increase in attendance at this season of the year. On reading the list of the proposed members of the Cuban cabi- net, one should be careful not to confound it with a tobacco adver- tisement. Almost every name reads like the label of a cigar box, Our esteemed contemporary, the Detroit Free Press, offers a very practical suggestion when it says that all eggs should be dated with the hour and day they are laid. If this were done, lots of trouble could be avoided in restaurants. The London News objects to the fame that President Roosevelt is receiving from his use of the word *‘ frazzle,"’ and calls attention to the fact that Sir James Murray gives the following definitio: “* Frazle : to unravel or rend cloth. Frazlings : threads of cloth, torn or unraveled."’ Mr. Murray asserts that the word originally came sists that President Roosevelt was in error when he said that the word came from the Southern part of the United States. It was the boast of a great Chicago meat packer that in his stock-yards every part of the pig was utilized except the squeal. Recently a manager of one of the rural plays wanted some realistic pig squeals for his show, and he accordingly gave a contract for the required number to a phonograph dealer, who took a machine down to the stock-yards, ‘‘ canned’ the squeals, and turned over the rec- ords to the show manager. Those who talk about the extravagance of the present age should remember that with the by-product already mentioned, nothing now goes to waste in the pork industry. “HELP oe comicbooks.com