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This page mixes entertainment with advertising from the early 20th century. **Main Content:** The top features Marie Cahill, a stage actress in "Judy Forgot"—a contemporary theatrical production. Below are several brief humorous anecdotes typical of Judge's "jokes" section, including a carpenter's protest of a math problem based on the eight-hour workday (labor activism), a man wearing roller skates due to poverty, and an old bachelor relieved to escape engagement. **Centerpiece Advertisement:** The large AT&T advertisement uses a rowing crew metaphor to promote telephone service, equating teamwork and cooperation with the company's organizational efficiency. The image of rowers working in unison symbolizes unified effort serving "nearly a hundred million people." **Other Jokes:** Brief comedic exchanges about marriage, finance, and fidelity—standard period humor. **Lower Advertisements:** Include patent medicines (Hunyadi János laxative water, Abbott's Bitters) typical of magazine advertising from this era, when such products were heavily marketed. The page reflects early 1900s American popular culture: vaudeville entertainment, labor concerns, marriage satire, and aggressive patent medicine advertising.

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JUDGE'S FAVORITE. MARIE CAHILL, IN “JUDY FORGOT."* Your art is winsome and your air Is something that is somewhat rare. You make us joyful all the while We quietly sit and watch you smile. Labor's Protest. A school teacher gave her pupils this sum for home work: ‘How long would it take eight men, working ten hours a day, to build a house, fifty feet high, if they built an inch an hour?’’ The next morning one boy brought to the school, instead of a solution of the sum, this letter from his father, who was a carpenter: **Madam—I refuse to let my son do that sum, as it looks to me to be a slur on the eight-hour system. Any sum not more than eight hours a day he is wel- come to do, but no more Cleveland Press. NOT SUCH A FOOL AS HE LOOKED “ What on earth are you doing on roller skates this wet day ?”” “Well, you see, my shoes are worn through on the soles and my shoemaker won't trust me any more till I make a payment on my account."” —Meggendorfer Blacter. Was It Yours? ‘‘What was the happiest moment of your life?”’ asked the sweet girl. “The happiest moment of my life,’’ answered the old bachelor, ‘‘was when the jeweler took back an engagement ring and gave me sleeve links in ex- change."’—Canadian Courier. Sliced Oranges withadash of Abbott's Bitters are appetizing and healthful. Sample by mail, 25 ets. in stamps. C. W. Abbott & Co., Baltimore, Md. In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. | oes he Wor = that Counts There is no wasted energy, no lost motion in the work of the Varsity Crew. Perfect team work, co-operative effort and uniform action are strik- ingly exemplified. The same principle of in- telligent co-operation exists in telephone communication in its broadest application. In handling the talk of the nation, the Bell operators respond to millions of differ- ent calls from millions of dif- ferent people, twenty million communications being made every day. Ten million miles of wire, five million telephones and thousands of switchboards are used to handle this vast traffic. More than one hundred thousand employees, pulling together, keep the entire sys- tem attuned. Unity is the keynote. Without this har- mony of co-operation such service as is demanded would be impossible. - One policy, broad and gen- eral,in which uniformity of method and co-operation are the underlying principles, re- sults in universal service for nearly a hundred million people. AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES “One Policy, One System, Universal Service.” Wanted Him To Specify. “Will you always be true?’ asked the broker's suspicious daughter, when young Sportleigh had thrown himself at her feet and begged for her hand. “As true as steel!”” he cried. Common or preferred?” she in- quired, still suspicious.—Chicago News. The Truth Will Out. Rich banker (to his daughter’s suitor) —"Don't talk so much of love; you know that what really attracts you is the eighty thousand marks that my daughter will get when she marries."” Suitor—‘* What? No more than that?”’ —Fliegende Blaetter. “How is your wife this fall?”’ “Just able to hobble around —Life. It Natural Laxative Water Recommended by Physicians Refuse Substitutes Best remedy for CONSTIPATION AT Att onuccisTs will be appreciated. comicbooks.com