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This is primarily an **advertising page** from Judge magazine, with a historical reprinted humor section. **The Main Content:** "Our Grandfathers' Smiles" reprints a humorous 1860s-era bill supposedly from a 17th-century painter who "repaired" religious artwork—the joke being absurdly irreverent items like fixing St. Peter's rooster's tail, gilding the devil's claws, and putting teeth back on Herod. It's religious mockery dressed as historical curiosity, typical of 19th-century anti-clerical humor. **The Advertisements:** Pages like this were common—showing period whiskeys, patent medicines, shoe powders, and the White Rock water brand (still extant today). The copy reflects early-1900s marketing: gender stereotypes ("Ladies Can Wear Shoes"), dubious medical claims, and casual casual drinking culture. **No Political Cartoon:** Despite the "JUDGE" masthead, this isn't satirical commentary—just ads, reprinted old jokes, and puns. The page represents how magazines subsidized content through advertising.

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Always The Same Good id p Home. Buffer and Club Choicest Malt —Brewed and Matured The BLATZ WAY Ask for It at the Club, Cafe or Butte! INSIST ON ““BLATZ"* Connceronoence InviteD DIRECT LADIES CAN WEAR SHOES one size smaller after using Allen's Foot-Ease, the antiseptic powder to makes tight or new shoes feel cary: gives instant Don't accept any substitute. age, address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Ro HENRY LINDENMEYR & SJAS PAPER WAREHOUSE Nos, 22, 34 and 36 Bleecker Street Branch Warehouse, 2) Beckman Street, New York. ALL KINDS OF PAPER MADE TO ORDER wics ‘and TOUPEES LOMBARD BAMBINA CO. 113 Monroe 5t, Lynn, Mass. SIS HOPKINS HER OWN BOOK 10c All Newsdealers 10¢ Stamp” of every bottle of Sunny Brook Whiskey Age only has mellowed and fla vored this rare old Kentucky Whiskey, ASK FOR IT ‘Sunny Brook Distillery Co. Jetterson Co. ky. JUDGE OUR GRANDFATHERS’ SMILES, (From Leslie's Budget of Fun, 1860.) A Curious Account. A French paper says there has been discovered, among some old parchments belonging to the seventeenth century, a curiously worded account st the abbot of a convent, by a painter who jhad done some work for a church. The | following are some of the items in the bill: Fr. Sous. 5 1. Amended and varnished the Ten Commandments Embellished Pontius Pilate and put a new ribbon in his cap . For a new tail to St. Pe- ter’s cockrel and mending its comb Replaced the penitent thief upon the cross and mended one of the fingers Feathered and re-gilt the left wing of the angel Ga- briel . Washed the handmaid of Caiaphas, the high priest, and reddened her cheeks . Renewed the sky, gilt the sun, and cleaned the moon . Brightened up the flames of | Purgatory and touched up a few souls | 9. Brightened up the fires of | "hell, put a new tail on Lu- cifer, mended one of his | claws, and done a few |___ things for the damned . Put a new edging on Her- od’s robe, arranged his wig, and put in two new teeth Cleaned and shod Balaam's ass . Put new teeth in Samson’s jawbone 3, Tarred Noah’s Ark Mended the Prodigal Son’s shirt and cleaned and wa- tered his swine Curent Bitters—Sample with patent dasher sent on receipt of 25e. Rest tonic and cocktail bit- tere, Oct. C. bilache & Co., N. ¥., Gen'l Distra. ah tittle nine-year-old, overhearing a cussion among a parcel of ladies seat cooking a steak—some advocating broiling beef and frying mutton—in- quired, ‘Aunt Kit, how do they cook sweepstakes?” A brilliant young gentleman re- marked the other day to a lady with whom he was bowling: “T think, miss, that you would have | made a capital baker.” “Indeed, sir, why?”” “Because you make such excellent rolls.” Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup the best remedy for their children. 25¢ a bottle. “What shall we call the Prince of Wales, When into our harbor the hero sail sa bit of aquestion,”’ Jenki “The Prince, of the isle “There, stop!"’ cried Bob, all wreathed in smiles. “T've just been reckoning up, ‘tween whiles, What the Bowery boys will call him eed Talleyrand, the prime minister of | | Napoleon, was disliked by Madam de Stael. It so happened that Talleyrand was lame and madam cross-eyed. Meet- ing one day, madam says, “Monsieur, how is that poor leg?” Talleyrand quickly replies, “Crooked, as you see."” lam @ Pinch, use ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE. 12 | | While Rock American Water for American People Judge is published weekly by the LESLIE-JUDGE COMPA? Y, 225 Fifth Avenue, New York City Jobn A. Sleicher, President. Western Apvertistno Orrice: 1130-7 Marquette Building, Chicago, Ill. One year, or 52 numbers = rs.) ‘Six months. or 26 numbers 0 ‘Thirteen weeks - 7 es Subscriptions payable in advance by draft on a New ‘York, or by express or postal order, not by loeat checks which are at a discount in New York Cit Postage free in the United. States, ta dependencies, and Mexico. To Canadian Provinces add & conta a year for postage; to all foreign countries add § EUROPEAN AGENTS—Jni News Company, Bream’s Liuilding, Chancery Lane, F.C. London: Rrentano's, Avenue de COpera, Paria ; Saarbac! ves Exchange, 16 John Street, Adetvhi, London: 28 Rue de la Victoire, Paris: 1 Clara Strasse, Mainz, Germany. ‘Sctecriptiona and advertising for all the publications of LeslieJudue Company will be taken at resular rates at any of the above offices, The contents of JuDGE are protected by copyright in both, the United States and Great Britain. Contributors mast include a stamped and self-addressed envelope with all: manuscripts, otherwise retura of the latiar when found, unavailable cannot be wusrantced’ We receive such materiel sub, mitted for publication, only on condition that we shall not be held responsivie for ita loss or injury while in our hands or in transit. If Jupce cannot be found at any news-stand, the publishers will be under obligations if that fact bo nd on postal card or by letter. PTRACK NOMPENS Tamera 10 cents per copy : 1909, 2) cente;: 1968, 30 cents, ete. 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The names of girls in these latter | Lillie and Jennic and Addie and Nellie | days hi decided tendency to termi-| and Hattie. ie.” Taking up a couple of| Whether the blossoming out of the | catalogues of ladies’ schools the other |dear old-fashioned names into foreign day—pleasant reading, by the way, | posies is the result of foreign tours, or those pages full of the names of school | whether Shakespeare is wrong about the girls are!—we found the following| sweetness of roses, or whatever it is, angels in “ie”: we can only exclaim, “Y, girls!” Essie and Elsie and Carrie and Katie | and Kittie and Fannie and Annie and| If a man could fool his wife as easily Millie and Mollie and Minnie and Lizzie as he can his conscience there would be and Libbie and Lucie and Laurie and |no limit to his behavior.—N. Y. Press. 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