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This page from Judge magazine contains mostly **advertisements and brief humorous anecdotes** rather than political cartoons. The main content includes: **Advertisements:** W.L. Douglas shoes dominate the left side, alongside patent medicine ads (Romeike's, varicose vein treatments). **Humor Sections:** Small jokes and quips scattered throughout: - "Garden Pests" plays on a conductor misunderstanding what seeds a commuter is planting (poison for neighborhood pets) - "Seeing Her Home" uses the double meaning of "see her home" (accompany/observe the house) - "Bookshop Errors" satirizes clerks' incompetence, mixing up book titles - "Fish Lines" and "Dramatic Note" are light puns **Social Commentary:** The anecdotes gently mock working-class confusion, suburban rudeness, and clerical incompetence—typical Judge fare for light satire aimed at educated readers. The page lacks the sharp political edge Judge was known for; it's primarily a vessel for small-space advertising and filler humor typical of early 20th-century magazines.

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The Exquisite Cordial of the Centuries | “Se atetessenets W: L. DOUCLAS Sale Agents $5, $4, $3.50, $3 & $2.50 | SHOES 523.5075 $3. 82.50 4 $2 L. Douglas shoes are worn by more men than any other make, GARDEN PESTS. Conductor—* Hello, Subbs! in the big bag—garden seeds?"" Commuter—‘*Not exactly. Going to plant it in my garden, though—it’s ar- What's Conductor—‘Great Scott! What do you expect to raise?”’ Commuter—"The mortality among my neighbors’ cats, dogs, and poultry."’—Christian Advo- cate. SEEING HER HOME. Hega’ think Miss de Blank is very rude.” Jones—'*What causes you to think that? I never thought her so.’ Hegan—"I_met her out for a walk this afternoon and asked if I might see her home. She said yes, I could see it from the PATENTS PRODUCE I FORTUNES go any farther.""—United Pres- byterian, BOOKSHOP ERRORS. fnpene about pour eur trem ciky In @ suburban bookshop the which you may want to be "up Every other day a woman sought a epgpaper and periodical of importance in the Uni- copy of “The Servant in the i =f Wav Hounixes i101 West 208 | House," Charles Rann Ken- morality play. ‘No, ROMEIKE’ ‘Street, New Yor! nedy’s VARICOSE VEINS, ' BADEEGS, madam,” declared the clerk; “we haven’t ‘The Servant in "asi the House,’ but we have ‘The Woman's Helper,’ a most ex- cellent cookbook.”’ Quite in line with this was a recent reference in print to ‘‘Lost Borders,’’ Mary Austin’s story of the far West, which the Harpers re- cently published, as Mary Aus- tin's “Lost Boarders."’—Book ews Monthly. is published weekly by the LESLIE-JUDGE COMPANY, 225 Fifth Avenue, New York City Westean Apvertisine Orrice Marquette Building, Chicago, I THOSE LITTLE ANGELS. Entered at New York as Second-class Mail Matter little boy of yours get hurt? “That good little boy of yours hit him in the head with a brick. Subseriptiona payable in advance by draft on | Jewish Lec New York, or by express of postal onder” net bp | UeWish Ledger. local checks which ure at a discount in New York City, batage free in the United States, its dependen- Mexico. To Canadian Provinces add {0 fF for postage; to all foreign countries One year, or FISH LINES. The herring is funny fish, Of that be well assured: In every case it must be killed Before it can be cured. —Red Hen. pany, Brea don: Brentan , regres eile, a oezables DRAMATIC NOTE. ‘What good is an asbestos cur- tain, anyhow?”’ “Keeps the show from being —Yale Record. addressed envelove with al ‘manuscripts, otherwise return of the latter w Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup the best remedy for their children. 25 a bottle, ie for tts tos in hile in our hands or in mie or Ts leo iisry It Juoce cannot be found at any news-stand, the Dublishers will be under eblirations f that fact be PRACK NOMBE SOUND REASONING. 4 int “Came in last night and fell against the pian “Hurt yourself?” “No; I struck the soft pedal.’’—Red | Hen. NG ve dering a change of address should give the oki as ‘well as the new address, and the ledger number on their wrapper. | From two to three weeks must nec essarily elapse before the change can be before the first copy of Jubor will reach any new sal rate | with him.” The distracted father-- on, you'll know what you owe your parents. “How did that naughty ms | teur.—Boston Herald. PLAIN TO BE SEEN. , A MODERN EDUCATION. A Denver man who vi Fond mother—** How did ed the museum at City! you get along in school to- Park recently tells of a day, Susie?” farmer he saw there. The) Tired child (wearily)— ruralist stepped in front of ‘Oh, I missed in my geog- @ portrait which showed a man sitting raphy again. I forgot whether the in a high-backed chair. There was a Putumayo joined the Amazon east or small white card on the picture reading, | west of the confluence of the Ma “A portrait of E. H. Smith, by him-| and Ucayale rivers. self.”” Same child (years later; wife and The farmer read the card and then’ mother)—‘* What is it you want to know, chuckled to himself. “Regular fools, these city fellers are,’ he said. ‘‘Anybody who looks at primary geography) that picture ‘ud know Smith's by him- Amazon River, mamma’ self. They ain't no one in the paintin’ Mamma (after long reflection) — Denver Post. think it’s somewhere in Africa or A: 1 forget which.""—New Yor! Weekly. Little daughter (struggling over a “ the WHY HE WAS SERIOUS. They sat each at an extreme end of the horsehair sofa. They had been coortin’ now for some- thing like two years, but the wide gap between had always been respectfully preserved. “A penny for your thochts, Sandy,"’ murmured Maggie, af- ter a silence of an hour and a half. Weel,” replied Sandy, slow- ly, with’ surprising boldness, “tae tell ye the truth, I was jist thinkin’ how fine it wad be if ye were tae gie me a wee bit kissie.”” “T’'ve nae objection,’’ sim- pered Maggie, slithering over, and kissed him plumply on the tip of his left ear. Then she slithered back. Sandy relapsed into a brown study once more, and the clock ticked twenty-seven minutes. ‘An’ what are ye, thinkin’ asked Mag- ie, softly. Her heart was go- ing pit-a-pat with expectation. “An? what micht it be?”” “1 wa swered Sandy, aboot time ye were paying that ‘penny!’ —Hotel Register. A TRADE JOKE. Mr. Roosevelt (in office of Outlook) — “*How much stuff do you want on this crooked-corporation theme?” Managing editor—‘‘ About a Big Stick- ful!"’—Christian Endeavor World, AFTER THE CHANCE MEETING. She—'This light dress spots awfully easy.’” He—"You bet! I spotted blocks away.""—Yale Record. es There is nothing more tantalizing [than to go home all primed to scold about something and find company there and be obliged to act agreeably.—St. James (Mo.) Journal. rs The eye of a little Washington miss was attracted by the sparkle of dew at early morning. ‘‘Mamma,’”? she ex claimed, ‘‘it’s hotter’n I thougtt it THE RECORDING—ANGELS. Go on, howl into that! And then, later ""— London Sketch. A teaspoonful of Abbott's Bitters with your Grape ideal appetizing tonic. Sample by in stamps. C. W. Abbott & Co, SNAKE BITES. The story is told of a certain town in the West, which had gone dry, that a stranger applied at the hotel for a drink of whiskey. He was told that it could not be sold to any one unless bitten by a rattlesnake. Upon inquiring whether there were any rattlesnakes in town, he was given the name of a man who had one. ‘‘But,"’ said his informant, “there's no use in your going there, for that snake's engaged for two weeks ahead." —Sunday-school Times. it two SOLID SPAGHETTI. “Funny!” “What? “Night falls, but never break: “Uh, huh.”” “And day breaks, but never falls!"’— Red Hen, LITERARY NOTE. Bjornstjerne Bjornson had a great name even before he became a littera- with perspir: wealth, What do you mean?”” “Look here, the grass is all covered —Baptist Connon In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. It will be appreciated.