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This page is primarily a **humor/joke column** and an **advertising section**, not a political cartoon requiring analysis. The "Shears and Paste Pot" section collects humorous short bits and jokes on everyday topics: fashion, travel, women's suffrage, family life, and romance. These satirize conventional society—for instance, a suffragette jabs at bachelor social events ("A party without women?... stagnation"), and a woman sympathetically suggests her life could be worse than having a black eye by joking she could be an unmarried woman like her visitor. The lower half announces contest **winners** for Judge's puzzle competition and advertises the upcoming "Twenty-Ninth Christmas Judge" issue featuring humor from writers like Grant Hamilton and Tudor Jenks. The tone reflects pre-WWI American magazine humor: lighthearted domestic comedy with gentle digs at gender relations and social conventions, presented without the sharp political edge we might expect. It's essentially a historical artifact of early 1900s popular entertainment.

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Alady visitor in the slums re cently | observed that one of her protég ablack eye that far surpassed any she had seen before, and, guessin, she wished to be sympathetic, and said kindly, after speaking of the woman's | sir, would thi ee, | but stagnation?” “Never mind, Mrs. Flanagan; every- thing will be all right. Your trouble might be worse."” | Candidate—“1f elected, 1 shall carry “Sure, you're right, it might be! out the pol of the present adminis- worse,” ed the woman philosoph- | trati ieally. “1 might be like yourself, miss, | with no husband at all."’—Cassell's | trouble Magazine. jout =, (flippantly)—"A stag actly. And what, ation be without women Christian Regist HARD TO PLEASE. ‘Don’t take the to carry Throw ‘em GREAT. London Punch EPISODES IN ‘THE LIVES OF ‘THE Beau Brummel buys a cravat A RECOMPENSE. Torke—*Your daughter's ate must have cost a THE BOY AND HIS AUNT. | musical) Little nephew—'*Auntie, did you! lot. of | marry an Indian? Aunt—Why do you ask auch a silly but I've got question, Freddy | Little nephew—*Well, I saw some scalps on your dressing table.""—/ear- son's Weekly. | Yes, it did; arke—** Indeed tay thee—"Yes, T'd been trying to th,the house next door for years and tory ouldn't sell, But since she’s ‘ome they've sold it to me for half Harper's Weeldy JEALOUS CATS! A girl in a small Kansas town has been engaged seven times. Her neigh- bors have adopted this slogan for he “Present company always accepted.'’— | Kansas City Journal. Sometim, = wi Beane fn “ene a woman smiles, she In anewering advertisements please mention JUDGE. It will be app Judge Puzzle Awards IN STATE CONTEST (See Issue of Judge for September 25th, 1909) The award of prizes made in accordance with the conditions printed in Jupce for September 25th, 1909, is as follows : 4. Mlinois 5. Arkansas 6. Underberg Bitters R. Barnes, Thomaston, Conn. Frederick Russell, New York, N. Y. Matilda L. Hill, Baltimore, Md. P. H, Franke, Kansas City, Mo. Laura Hickox, Bedford, N. Y. Mae L. Nelson, Seattle, Wash. FOURTH PRIZE A copy of George Reiter Brill’s picture, “Don’t You Whip My Doggy !"” Awarded to each of the following : Robert H. G. Smeltzer, Philadelphia, 1. Maryland 2. "gon 3. Maine FIRST PRIZE $5.00 Awarded to Rev. C. I. Junkin, Devon, Pa. SECOND PRIZE $1.00 Awarded to each of the following Peter Duffy, Louisville, Ky. ; Katharine Lockwood, Philadelphia, | Pa. Charles M. Augur, Denver, Col. W. J. H. Nourse, Worcester, Mass. James J. Eret, Chicago, Il. THIRD PRIZE | la copy of James Montgomery F picture, ‘* The Third Degree. Awarded to each of the follo | BS Stuyvesant Gibson, Jr., New York, OVERCOME BY HIS FEE N. Pat (at sea)—"* Sure I never thought that parting | Biddy would make me feel so quare!" - London Opinion. Pa, Retta V. Priestley, West Hoboken, A. P. Must Charles B® Conn, Marion Day, Kansas City, Mo. William Milne, New York, N. Y. Charles H. Gibbons, Hot Springs, Va. Rolla W. Mitchell, St. Joseph, Mo. nSamue! A. Greenwood, Niagara Falls, Albany, N. Y. Elwell, Jr., Mt. Carmel, Grice Lampman, Youngstown, O. Leo Utz, Oshkosh, Wis, Ashley W.Kendrick,Saratoga Springs, Mrs. A. K. Stillwell, Red Bi Della Smith Marsden, Detroi John C. Rand, Boston, Masi W. W. Cunningham, Dallas, Tex. George B. Salender, Frankfort, Ky. C, F, Mason, Scranton, Pa. Maude C. Atchison, Orange, Ne J. Mrs. Elvin Wheeler, Atlanta, Ga. Arabelle McKinstry, Painesville, O. John Pancratius Harris, Fort Worth, Ye M. A. Young, New Castle, Ky. P. Cutler, Providence, R. 1. %. R. Hook, Manhattan, Kan. L. L. Beegie, Brooklyn, N. Y. Mrs. T. A. Duggan, New Orleans, La. orge Washer, Jersey City, N. J. E. R. Benson, Cleveland, O. Thomas J. Longo, Detroit, Mich. R. Monckton-Dene, Annapolis, Md. €.G. Jordan, Los Angeles, Cal. atrick J. Daly, Boston, Mass. ‘to make beautiful and valu- HS aie itr eKnost thetutay of mary ready moneys “mail act can gives” rstmas Pres ‘yuar cbote [OFT O16 Reliable. THE TWENTY-NINTH CHRISTMAS JUDGE Will Be Issued Next Week For All Good Folks Who Love Good Jokes. It is filled to the brim and running over with Yule-tide fun. Get a copy at any news-stand and join JUDGE'S brotherhood of Christmas cheer. Santa Claus is president of the brotherhood. It has the true Christmas flavor imparted to it By the clever pencils and brushes of James Montgomery Flagg Grant E. Hamilton Walt Kuhn E. Flohsi Harvey Peake E. Zimmerman Charles Sarka G. G. Wiedersein H. A. Petersen Clyde Squires By the clever pens of John Kendrick Bangs Carolyn Wells R. W. Sneddon Tudor Jenks Thomas L. Masson Henry James James Jay O'Connell Edwin L. Sabin James Melvin Lee Wilbur D. Nesbit Roy K. Moulton Strickland W. Gillilan Walter Beverley Crane Frederick Moxon Myrtle Conger Albert Bigelow Paine Peter Newell Etc., Ete, AMERICA'S GREATEST HUMOROUS WEEKLY ee ee eee eC nErEnEenenemmnmamsenmnamme’ LESLIE-JUDGE COMPANY, 225 Fifth Avenue, New York comicbooks.com