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This page from *Judge* magazine (early 1900s) contains several satirical stories and an advertisement: **"Raising Rates"** mocks President-elect Taft's parenting strategy: paying his young son five cents not to swear. The joke's punchline arrives when the boy, having learned more profanity from his nurse, tries to "sell" this new vocabulary back to his father—implying the economic incentive has backfired spectacularly. **"The Wrong Man"** satirizes a young suitor confronted by his girlfriend's mother asking about his intentions. The interruption by the couple's young child repeating alphabet letters (the wife's "dictation" from her husband at his club) creates confusion about whose intentions are being questioned. **"The Professor's Joke"** depicts a professor's amusement when a student repeatedly stumbles reciting a poem beginning "Greece, her knee"—a mild sexual innuendo joke playing on the student's embarrassment. The remaining brief anecdotes employ similar gentle, domestic humor typical of early-1900s middlebrow American satire. The **Karo syrup advertisement** uses a woman demonstrating candy-making, appealing to domestic housewives.

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“Leannot tell how the truth may be; Teay the tale as “twas told to me.” STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE| [7,; Making Fudge | and Taffy—get RAISING RATES. THE WRONG MAN | President-elect Taft is very fond of Whether the Ladies’ Home Journal is golf. He tells a good golfing story. A giving a practical suggestion or simply | political friend of his invented a plan telling a story in publishing the follow- whereby he kept his eight- or nine-year- ing, JupGE is unable to say: | id son from shocking his mamma by re-| ‘A young man had been calling occa- peating swear words and slang, a prac- sionally upen a young lady, when one tice to which he was rather addicted. night, as he sat in the parlor waiting Every time the little fellow used a for her to come down, he was surprised naughty word, the father gave him five | tosee the mother come in the room. He | centg.on the promise not to use it again. | was still more surprised when she asked ‘The friend had great faith in the power him, in a very grave and stern way, . af this eystem until che day reccatly | what wore hls fitentions: cf ES ARG. 28609 S00 Gas 68 al Grocers en he was chatting with half a, ‘*He turned very red and was about to ‘A book of cooking and stammer some sort of a reply, when the candy-making recipes voice of the young lady was heard to sent free on request. who had been out ‘walking say, near them with his nurse, burst into the| * an eS Ren drawing-room, blue eyes ilancing o1 with enthusiasm, his pink checks bulg- ing in a triumphant smile, | QUICK: DICTATION: “Oh, papa, papa!” he cried, “I've! ‘My dear,” said a New York business just heard a new one that's worth a ™an to his wife, as he was starting for quarter.” the office, “don’t expect me home very | early to-night, as I will have-to dictate | THE PROFESSOR'S JOKE. hay reas aie ierespeneny tn | >, seal ght,"’ was the response; “bui aan es ident Roosevelt I wish you wouldn’t work so hard.” dee ee aoe eeneland, “On one, He left his office at the usual hour and the daily par onB NaN s Owe went to the club and sat down at the occasion he was called upon to recite 8n cand table with three other old poem, beginning, | *Just a moment, you fellows, before “At midnight, in nis guarded tent, | we deal the cards, I've got to keep my The Turk lay dreaming of the hour | Word with my wife. One of you must When Greece, her knee in suppliance tke down what I dictate: ‘A, b, ¢, d, bent, je f,g, h, i, j,k, 1, m,n, 0, p,q, tr, 8, Should tremble at his power.’’ |t, u,v, w, x,y,z.” There, those letters tare off my min He only got as far as the third line,” sf when he began to hesitate, and then reppy IN AUSTRALIAN VERSE. stopped. Twice he repeated, “Greece, F ; 7 her knee," and then stopped. The old| American sailors with the Pacific fleet professor beamed on him over his Were very much surprised to find how . and then dryly remarked, f#miliar the Australians we with .ce her knee once more, Theodore, | American customs. The latter also Pecbons ahettt eg then” |knew almost as much about President shies lial | Roosevelt as did the Americaas. ‘That they even knew about his crusude against HER MOTHER.IN-LAW race suicide ly evident from the following skit, published in an Austr PROVED A WISE, GOOD FRIEND. ane A pure, fine-flavored syrup that makes the finest kind of candy. Mamma, mamma, that is not the A young woman out in Towa found a wise, good friend in her mot n-law, OME, Tedldiiy FOUR aN Fea jokes notwithstanding. She write si peed hey | It is two years since we began using ‘e the rabbit! Postum in our house. 1 was greatly | tet the habit troubled with my stom ion | Go and multiply was blotchy and yellow. After meals 1 often suffered sharp pains and would ARCTIC FARE. » to lie down, My mother ofte: told me it was the coffee I dr ‘The late Sir Leopold McClintock, the IN THEATRICAL CIRCLES. meals, But when I'd q arctic explorer, was once giving an ac- | Sie sid go round." have a severe headac count of his experiences amid the ice he rs “While visiting my mother-in-law I fields of the north, remarked that she always made such | ‘We certainly would have gone much dey aacee ans good coffee, and asked her to tell me farther toward the pole | il not ourdogs—,, TACT. ; I didn't think they were, because how. She laughed and told me it was given out at a most critical moment."” | Let, me see some of your black kid the fashion paper says black kids have easy to make good ‘coffee’ when you) _ “But,” exclaimed a lady in the au- loves," said a member of the four hun-| tan stitches, and vice versa. I see, the use Postum dience, “1 thought the Eskimo dogs “red. tan stitches, but not the vice versa i | “These are not the latest style, are) The shopman explained that vice versa “1 began to use Postum as soon as I were practically tireless creatu L i Ran to r p A bre a whined she asked, when the gloves were Was French for five buttons, so she Kot home, and now we have the same — The explorer's fac hy for good * coffee’ (Postum) every and J cally gloomy expression as he ri x d. . bought three pairs. have no more trouble. Indigestion is a ‘I —er—speak in a culinary sense, Wee madam replied (he ebopman: thing of the past, and my complexion miss." ¢ have had them in stock only two has cleared upbeautifullye | days. 4 Generations of “My grandmother suffered a great NOT WHAT HE WANTED. ; Americans have honored deal with her stom: Her doctor told prrig her to leave off coffee. She then took | y, tea, but that was just as bad. ,..,. |mayor's banque ngland, ily was induced to try Post-’ said that many of the unemployed did she has used for over a year. sire to be employed. One day, on led during. the winter over the te in Hampshire, a man asked part of Iowa, visiting, some work. He said, “Yes; go to thing she had not been able to do for my bailiff, and he will give you a spade, says she owes her present and J will pay you sixteen shillings «| Ith to Postum.7™ ee attte Weeks | Name given by Postum Co., Rattle sedi eat an:;.## k, Mich. 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