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This page from Judge (circa early 1900s) is primarily **advertising with embedded humorous anecdotes** rather than political cartoons. The main cartoon, "The Force of Habit," depicts a wealthy man (labeled "Mr. Pickle") questioning why a tramp carries a telescope, auto horn, and rope. The joke: the tramp has grown so accustomed to possessing these items that he can't feel comfortable without them—a commentary on how habit shapes behavior regardless of logic or station. The text stories mock prominent figures through anecdotes: - **President Roosevelt** is praised for terse writing style, but a teacher is embarrassed when students find his published letter contains sentences of 82 and 118 words—directly contradicting his reputation for brevity. The satire undercuts Roosevelt's self-fashioned image. - **Speaker "Uncle Joe" Cannon** cannot read his own handwriting; when asked to translate three words from his letter, he admits they mean "Personal and confidential"—mocking his notoriously difficult penmanship. The page is otherwise filled with period advertisements for whiskey, cigarettes, champagne, and hotels.

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| ESTABLISHED 1810 OLD OVERHOLT RYE A STRAIGHT WHISKEY, MADE TO- Day THE |} SAME AS IT WAS IN 1810—AL- MOST A CEN- TuRY Aco. sprints PHILIP MORRIS ORIGINAL LONDON CIGARETTES Anywhere everywhere, CAMBRIDGE the regular sine AMBASSADOR after-dinner sise In Little Brown Boxes | COOK: IM EXTRA DRY ‘ Is better than foreign Champagnes but costs only half the price, as it is Ameri: can made and there is no duty or ship freight to pay. Served Everywhere JUDGE’S LIBRARY AT ALL NEWSDEALERS TEN CENTS A COPY, | Washington, STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE “Teannot tell how the truth may be J aay the tale as “twas told to me.” THE PRESIDENT'S BREVITY. ONE ON “UNCLE JOE." A teacher in Washington, D. C., was| A good story on Speaker Cannon was giving her class in literature a talk on| told in the lobby of a Washington hotel modern authors and their styles, She|the other day. It seems that Represent explained that, as a general rule, the|ative Cushman had received a letter best style is the simplest and also the| from ‘Uncle Joe’ and was unable to clearest. By way of example, she|make it out. Going to Speaker Cannon, pointed to the English of President he said, Roosevelt as being characteristic for its| ‘Here is a letter I got from you, but, case and brevity. Emphasis was laid on|to save my life, I could not read it. the fact that he always used short, After I puzzled over it for a while, 1 direct sentences. At the end of the showed it to twenty or thirty members recitation the teacher requested the|of the House, and together we have pupils to bring two sentences from some | managed to make out everything except article by the President. these three words down at the bottom of The teacher was dumfounded the next | the page. Will you kindly translate day to find that practically all her pupils | these words?” had selected the first two sentences of a| ‘Uncle Joe’? took the letter and published letter to Senator Knox. The|studied it for a while, then he re- first sentence contained eighty-two| moved his cigar and said, ‘These last words and the second one hundred and | three words are, ‘Personal ‘und confiden- hteen, jtial.’"" ‘THE FORCE OF HARIT Mr. Pickle--* My ood man, why do you carry th Tramp—" Il well yer how dat is, boss. Yer se aire, wid ana ile, a yacht an’a bulldog, an’ I don't feel com dese articles by and rope?” appy million- ble widout telescope, au fen the added ives ta scrape fruit, A GOOD SUGGESTION. One of the spe sat the dinner ven in Cleveland by the National Eda me ational Association was Booker T. BREAKING “THE ‘NEWS: the distinguished negro| One of the orga leader of the South. In the course of | Amateur Press As ion in Philadel- his remarks he told the following story |phia in 1876 was the Hon, James M. about a who was| Beck, of New York. At arceent idently rather lony which was attended by a number of old One Sunday morning, while the min- | memb of this asso tion, Mr. Beek -r was in the midst of his sermon and | wes one of the speakers, and in his reached the point where he was|marks he spoke as follows about shouting, ‘And fourthly, dear brethren,’ | early journalistic attempts: a man poked his head through the door| ‘‘In looking back upon those days, and said in a low voice, when the publishing of amateur papers “Don't get too much excited, par-| seemed the most fascinating thing. in son, but your church is on fire! world, I feel, indeed, that Lam qui ‘All right, Brother Joni id the |in the fossil class. The organization of son, ‘I will hasten out, but possibly | the National Amateur Press Association you'd better wake the congregation. ms almost prehistoric. In looking ack through the years it is almost as | misty as the stone age. I was a very small boy when I took part in. those weighty deliberations. I feel like the youngster who said to his father, her, was writing done on tab- lets of stone in the old days?” Yes, my son,’ replied the dutiful parent pent apd fla National EXPLAINING MIRACLES. On one occasion Dr, Walter popular *Scotch pov explain to an old lady the meaning of the Biblical expression, “Take up thy bed and walk,” by saying that the bed was simply a mat or rug. “No, no,’” replied the lady. believe that. The bed was a r four-poster. There would be no mira in walking away wi’ a bito’ mator rug.”” Smith, r, tried “Tcanna ; ular ! mused the boy. ‘Then it » must have taken a crowbar to break the news!" HOTEL CUMBERLAND ROMEIKE'S "ess Cutting Boren | appear about you. y which you “*Ask Any Canadian." NOTICE. ALL CANADIANS in the United States are respect- fully requested to create a demand for Gooderham & Worts Canadian Whiskey. Ask for it at your club and all buffets. The favorite whiskey of Canada. WAKE & Be ‘CMICAGL The Truth Can be told about © thece slate 1900, the WESTERN w the onty one received a GOLD MEDAL” PLEASANT VALLEY WINE C0., “ Sole Makers, Rhelms, N.Y. (Bald by rvepoatabte stew ‘eeu NEW YORK 8, W. Comer Hroadway at S4th Street comicbooks.com