Judge — March 19, 1910 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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# Analysis of Judge Page: "Judge Smoker's Number" This page collects humorous short pieces about smoking and cigars, typical of Judge magazine's satirical format. **Top cartoons**: Sketch-based jokes about cigars and domestic life—a husband's system for preventing his wife's worry about cigar smoke by using cheap cigars that produce smoke "curtains," and riddles about identifying mystery women through pipe-smoking clues. **Main illustration ("Between Puffs")**: Shows two gentlemen in a study having a conversation between cigar puffs. The dialogue references Napoleon, appearing to be typical period banter comparing mundane domestic matters to historical events—a common Judge humor device. The overall page satirizes Victorian-era male smoking culture and the social pretensions surrounding it, using cigars as the vehicle for gentle mockery of bourgeois life and masculine conversation.