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This page is primarily **advertising with some light humor pieces**, typical of Judge's format. The main cartoon is "ON ICE EN ROUTE," a brief humorous anecdote about a woman asking an iceman to deliver groceries on ice while he waits, then carry them upstairs for her. The joke plays on class assumptions: the working-class iceman is incredulous at being treated like a servant, responding sarcastically ("Has it come to this?"). It satirizes the entitled attitude of middle-class housewives toward working people. A secondary piece, "TIME AND THE PIG," presents a brief exchange between a new tenant and old pig-keeper about efficiency, which appears to be a simple wordplay joke about priorities. The page is dominated by **period advertisements**: Hunter Baltimore Rye whiskey, Blatz Beer (Milwaukee), Liqueur Pères Chartreux, and various patent medicines and collar brands. The "STRAIGHT TIPS" column offers sardonic social observations typical of Judge's satirical voice, mocking pretentiousness and human folly. The page reflects early 20th-century concerns: class dynamics, labor relations, and consumer culture.

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RYE WM LANATIAN AUNT Hil f i 3 : , The driver of the ice wagon was pre- paring to execute one of his est stunts in turning was halted by a piercing fem “Ieeman, oh, iceman!"” He stopped with less grace than he had advanced. A woman app “Do you go up to One Hund Fifth Street," she asked, deliver ice at my hous her name and address. The that number was on his route and that he was due there in about half an hour. 1 am so glad!" she said. se things up for me? a salad, a quart of eam, [started to f, but T have to carry them home mys : sand it is so hot the things won't be fit to cat, HOT DAYS HOT NIGHTS suggest the fragrant Julep or High Ball made ot HUNTER @5 BALTIMORE For recuperation and restoration, It is a pure tonical stimulant. }99999999999999992993999999999999999999999999999999R, @s) CECE KER E CECE C CEE E CECE CECE CECE ECECCCE EEC EE CECE EEE ER” ON ICE EN ROUTE. by the time I get home with them; you will just put them on the ice to keep cool and send them up on the dumb- waiter to my flat, I will be much obliged."” And she handed up two par- , I'll be ——!"" said the ice- “Has it come to this?”” And surprised to refuse parcels and di the most conv TIME AND THE PIG. New tenant Turning out the pigs, are you? Well, we don't turn out no x. We fats "em up quick in the sty, and saves tim Old pig-keeper—" Law bless ye, mas- ter! Wot's toime to a pig?”’—Punch, First aid to the host. Fine at meal —all times. The one time You can tell a Blatz Bottle a block away! notable achievement in brewing. The veritable fulfillment of beer character, quality and healthfulness. Always the same Good Old Blatz. Ask for it at the Club, Cafe, or Buffet. Insist on “ latz.”? Correspondence Invited direct. itled "A In answering advertisements please menue wenwuneocecessoorccccreoreceoesssessesseees soit | mention Junce. STRAIGHT TIPS. There is nothing #0 tiresome as a cheap hero. | ‘Time flies like a ninety-horse-power automobile when a fellow is on a vaca- tion, Don’t look for fresh eggs in an out- of-date grocery. Success will generally turn the head on the stiffest neck. is difficult to draw the line be and abuse, joke teller is often a dreadful proposition. There is no fool like the fool who thinks he is fooling 'em.—Scranton Tribune, BEVERIDGE CUSSED HARD. An interesting story told by the Washington correspondent of the Cin- cinnati Times-Star recalls the fact that | Senator Albert J. Beveridge, of Indiana, once lived in Kansas. After the future Senator had finished school, he went | North and worked in a logging camp, jand then decided to come to the Sun-} | State. He was persuaded to stop etween One day there was ‘trouble at Dighton and a necktie party was being arranged for a certain of- der. Beveridge mounted a dry-goods box and talked the lynchers out of the idea, literally saving the intended vic- tim’s life ¢ Times-Star story gives Bever- 3 your hardest struggle in life, Senator?” Mr. Beveridge was asked one day. “To quit cussing,” said he. “I jlearned how to swear hard enough to impress the loggers, and it was years before I could break myself of the habit. But it helped save my life one time. 1 was in a little cow town in western Kansas when a mob undertook to lynch adrunken man for stealing a mule. I believed him innocent and I managed to outcuss that crowd. And then the man who preferred the charge came after me, and I cussed him out so that he put | his gun back in his holster and went away."" vektail shoul insat that naking it; insures you! Every lover Abbott's getting the very best COULD SHE? many calls than they now have to put ands in their pockets and give money to further important causes.”* The woman looked thoughtful. “I'm always willing, of course,’* she said, “to give money for a good cause; but as for putting my hund in my | pocket-—""—New York Journal. CARELESS CUPID. The two girls were talking. their talk Bessie—"Oh, Mabel! Tam in an aw- ful dilemma! I've quarreled with Harry and he wants me to send his ring back."* Mabel—"That’s too bad Bessie—"But that isn't the point. I've forgotten which is his ring!"— Kansas City Journal, This is GOING SOME. “My uncle used to smoke his pipe and | blow smoke rings that would float across | the room and ring the door knob.”* My uncle,” said the other ldreamily, “used to blow some | would ring the door bel |USE ALLENS FOOT- “EASE, cahaken into th liar that ie powder to brs fort. Always use Break, in Xow ‘Shoes. Try it to-day. pt any au ‘or ras Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, It will be appreciated. SIC SEMPER. “You are all the world to me,’ said the man who had been twice divorced. “Y replied the pretty grass widow; “and if I married you it would- n't be long before you would be looking around for new worlds to conquer.” Chicago Record-Herald. .Collars an Cuffs SSeARKER BRAND SD ik \ MADE OF ruinew JN utd “15¢ FS825¢ sizes PRACTICAL ADVICE. May (seriously)—**Between the rich Sizes, old man I don’t love and the poor young |man I do love, I am between two horns of a dilemma Fay (flippantly)—"Then take the horn of plenty.""—Boston Traveler. SANTAL CAPSULES its tis HENRY LINDENMEYR & SONS ‘PAPER WAREHOUSE . 34 and 36 Bleecker ) Beckman Stree ALL KINDS OF PAPER MADE TO OKDER