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This page is primarily **advertising and magazine masthead**, with limited satirical content. The dominant feature is a large Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pen advertisement, emphasizing the pen as an "always acceptable" Christmas gift. The few short humorous pieces include: - **"A Christmas Tragedy"**: A sentimental poem about a man whose fiancée elopes, leaving him still paying "easy-payments" on her diamond ring—satirizing both romantic disappointment and consumer debt. - **"Lesson From The Past"**: A brief quip comparing a man's bold confidence to David facing Goliath, suggesting overconfidence gets comeuppance. - **Steel trap jokes**: Wordplay about "smart" steel traps that "know exactly the right time to shut up"—likely mocking overly clever people. The page reflects early 20th-century concerns: installment purchasing, romantic betrayal, and genteel humor typical of *Judge*'s middle-class readership. The advertisements (fountain pens, smoking pipes) target affluent consumers.

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Judge is published weekly by the LESLIE-JUDGE COMPANY 225 Fifth Avenne, N New York City Marquette Builling, Chicago, Ill. Entered at New York as Seconi-class Mail Matter One year, oF 52 numbers - = 85.00 Six months, oF 25 numbers - 7. to Thirteen weeks a” 3 125 Subseriptions payable in advance by draft on New York, or by express or postal order, not by local checks which are at a discount in New York 18, its dependen- ian Provinces add a year for postage; to all foreign countries add Eunopran Acexrs— International News Com- pany, Bream's Building, Chancery Lane, “a, Avenue de COpera, Paris ; Soa’ hange, 16 John Sti ‘detoh de la Victoire, Paris; 1 Cl 2, Germany. and advertising for all the publica- Judge Company will be taken at regular rates at any of the above offices. The contents of Juoce. are protected by copyright in both the United States and Great Britain. tributors must include a stamped and self- lope with all manuscripts, otherwise teed. mitted for publication, only on condition that we shall not be held responsible for its loss or injury while in our hands or in transi If Juoce cannot be found at any news d, th publishers will be, under obligations if that Tact be promptly reported on postal card or by letter. BACK NUMBE! its copy ; 1909. 20 cents; 1998, 30 cents, ete. A Christmas Tragedy Although the Christmas-tide is near, And S Wi e thrilled, It, g tear, His heart with pain is filled. The news has come to him to-da (Could there be worse mishap ?)— His fiancee has run away To wed another chap! But there is more to hurt his pride, And make him feel a cur— The knowledge that last Christmas-tide He bought a ring for her! A diamond ring—oh, luckless man!— That cost two hundred net, ‘Twas bought on “easy-payments” He's paying for it yet! ‘oung’s Magazine Lesson From The Past “Well, who do you think you are? David, unafraid “Tam the man higher up,” grufily an- swered Goliath, looking contemptuously down upon him But David got him.—Chicago Tribune. plan— “asked Mothers will find Mrs, Winslow’ best remedy for their children. The Rest Was Silence “Why do they s: D'?"* asked the talk: ‘er could see anything lectual about a steel trap “A steel trap is called smart,” explained the elderly person, in his sweetest voice, ‘cause it knows exactly the right time to shut up.” More might have been said, but in the cir- cumstances it would have seemed unfitting. —London Punch. When He’s Mum When a man bumps into a brand of trout worth talking about he has but little to about it.—Chicago News 1's Soothing Syrup the 25e w bottle. As smart as a steel ‘e boarder. “I varticularly intel "Scuse me, ples I forget Done your Chri Shopping y ATERMAN'’S IDEAL is one < ‘the very few gilts which the receiver can put right in his pocket for constant use. If everyone had -the sata of his own | Christmas presents this is the kind that would be purchased. Asa gift to anyone, or for yourself, there is not another article that shows better purchasing discretion than Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pen a compliment to your taste, 4 _ This'pen is made in a very wide range of sizes and styles in order that the pen technique of every writer may & individually suited. Your selection may be exchanged until satisfactory. Whether you buy a plain Waterman's Ideal of one studded with demands Piers quality is of that | / same successful standard which the careful workmanship” /) ee ies and Waterman patents have brought to continued perfection. % No. s1235.00 || This is the gift for people who are hard to suit. Larger Siaes: Aroid Substitutes Gift Booklet on Request No. 414: $700 From the Best Dealers Net No. 415. 8.50 3 ‘ No. 416. 9.50 Made in Regular, Safety and Self-Filling Types: Fal coe L.E.Waterman Co, 173 Broadway. N.Y @ SCHOOL ST.BOSTON. 189 CLARK ST..CHICAGO._734 MARRET ST.Si LLEWATERMAN COMPANY. LIMITED, MONTREAL 6 RUE de HANOVRE, PARIS. No 12...$2.50 Larger Sizes: KINGSWAY, LONOON. A Great Thing J. Pierpont Morgan never takes any physical exercise. “It must be a great thing to be rich enough to even hire people to clip your coupons.”— Chicago Record-Herald. Flattery There's hardly anything that delights man with you more than for you to remind him that his weather prediction last week t. especially when it wasn't. —N. York Press. South African Calabash Pipes All band mounted with solid silver band bearing the English Crown Mark, carefully selected bowl, and bard vulcanite bit. The Calabash is known in London as “the fad that came to stay."” Write for circular to WAKEM & McLAUGHLIN, Inc. 225 to 237 E. Illinois Street = = Chicago comicbooks.com