Judge, 1908-12-26 · page 15 of 17
Judge — December 26, 1908 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and filler content** rather than political satire. The left column contains three anecdotal stories: a beggar's entitled complaint about unpaid "debt," a cowboy mocking a college tenderfoot for being thrown by a horse that merely "coughed," and Rudyard Kipling's struggle with writer's block (illustrated via an anecdote about a man stuck to a tar-covered buoy). These pieces use gentle humor to mock **social pretension and Eastern naïveté**—the beggar's ingratitude, the city boy's incompetence at ranch life, and the writer's paralysis. The right side features advertisements for Edison phonographs, Judge Company photographs, Clyde Line Steamships, and other commercial products—typical magazine revenue generators. The single "judicial" joke at bottom plays on "stay" (legal restraint vs. corset support), typical light wordplay of the era. **No clear political message or significant historical reference appears present.**
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ESTABLISHED 1810 OVERHOLT RYE A STRAIGHT WHISKEY. MADE TO. DAY THE SAME AS IT WAS IN STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE (Continued) THE BEGGAR MOVED ON. There was one story that the late |Donald Sage McKay, of the Church of St. Nicholas, New York, was very fond of telling. It related to a beggar. A | gentleman, on passing into church, had | regularly given the old mendicant a |nickel per week. | Then the benefactor was laid up with the grip for five weeks, On again going to church he handed his usual nickel. | The beggar looked at it, and then hob- bled after him, with the complaint that there waga little account between them. “What's that?”” asked the gentleman. “You owe me a quarter of a dollar,” was the reply. | He was promptly told that the money was a gift, and not a debt. |_ ‘Then you'll have to look out for an- other beggar!"’ the mendicant declared. 1810—AL- MOST A CEN. TURY AGO. A. OVERHOLT & C0, Pittsburg, Pa. A fruit cocktail is @ combination of grape fruit, | Abbott's Bitters and ulverized sugar to sult taste. NO SYMPATHY FOR THE TENDERFOOT. Ralph D. Paine, author of “The Stroke Oar,’? and one of the foremost writers of college stories in this coun- try, tells this story about a young col- | lege man he met in the West: | “The young college fellow thought | that he could ride, and in front of a lot | | of cowboys mounted a pony. The pony soon threw him. A cowboy, helping {him up, said, 1 but my neighbor has gathered He has left them out over help myself.” 2 Third neighbor (at open window) — Ue Klee Fai ts meet yard } turned to his book. “Hello! ' What threw you?’ “What threw me? Why, she bucked | something fearful! Didn’t'you see her buck?’ cried the tenderfoot. “Buck?” sai She only cough the cowboy. ‘Rats! Soothing Syrup the aro tad A STORY BY KIPLING. A magazine editor was praising Rud- yard Kipling. when Kipling got the he said. “*I thought it| would encourage him. He is in a bad | way now. “You know he is writing searcely | anything. I thought he was idle, lazy, and I took him to task about it. He said he knew he looked idle, but in real- ity he was trying hard to work, only he was stuck. | ‘tHe said he resembled a man who | made a bet one summer day at the sea- side, that he would swim out a mile and ahalf toacertain buoy. The bet was accepted, the man stripped and plunged in. His friend retired to the hotel to watch his progress from the window. —_| | _‘*From the window, with a field glass, the friend saw the swimmer reach the buoy in due course, draw himself up out | of the water, and sit down comfortably with his legs dangling over. So far, so good. Evidently he was resting, well pleased with his feat. “Some minutes passed, and the swim- mer had not moved, The watcher re- But every now and then he looked up, and still the swimmer sat in the same position on the buoy. — | ‘An hour, two hours, went by—still the swimmer remained. A white, slim) figure seen against the oncoming dark, he sat on the buoy’s edge; his feet dan- gled in the sea; he seemed to be mus- ing. “Finally it began to grow quite dark, and, thoroughly alarmed at last, the watcher got a boat at couple of men and rowed out to his friend. “Out there the mystery was soon ex- plained. The man was stuck fast to the buoy, which had been freshly tarred that morning."” APPROPRIATE JUDICIAL ACTION. “*What was done by the court in that Sift tio neighbore—" Where are. all the apples?” Blaetter. Fa | corset-trust case?” “*A stay was granted ’ Mr. Edison made all sound-reproducing instruments possible, but he perfected the Edison Phonograph, AMBEROL RECORDS fer EDISON PHONOGRAPHS are Mr. Edison’s newest and greatest invention. They are no larger than the regular Records, but hold twice as much music and play twice as long. Every Edison Phonograph in existence, except the Gem, can be equipped with an attachment to play these new Records as well as the old ‘Records, A {all line of Edison Phonographs can be heard and both kinds of Records can be enjoyed at the store of any dealer anywhere in the United States. ‘Ask your dealer or write to us for catalogues of Edison Phonographs and ison Records. NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH COMPANY, 41 Lakeside Avenoe, Orange, N. J. Pictures Make the Home We Make the Best Pictures HOLIDAYS WEDDINGS GRADUATIONS, ETC. Send 8c. for Our Il- lustrated Catalogue JUDGE C0. 23, 225 FIFTH AVE. DELIGHTS BEYOND PARALLEL e NEW YORK CITY are the rewards of motor enthusiasts who participate in or witness the annual ‘automobile contests oa Ormond’s coquine The ideal trip is by the CLYDE LINE STEAMERS the only direct all-water route from New York to Jacksonville, Florida with a short stop at Charleston, 8. C. 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