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This page is primarily **advertising**, featuring cruise ship announcements and product ads (Chiclets chewing gum, Pears' Soap, Hamburg-American Line). The small satirical content includes three brief humorous stories: 1. **"The Heart That Failed"** - A domestic drama where a man discovers his wife's infidelity but finds peace through an unstated action (likely suicide, given the "heart failure" conclusion). Social commentary on marriage and propriety. 2. **"A Booming Country"** - An ethnic humor piece mocking an Irish immigrant's amazement at America's prosperity, using stereotypical dialect ("B' th' powers"). 3. **"A Possibility"** - A brief joke about a widow suffragette asking a suitor if voting rights are "grand"—satirizing women's suffrage activism as mercenary or absurd. The page reflects early-1900s Judge magazine's blend of travel advertising with light satirical content targeting contemporary social issues (suffrage, immigration, marriage).

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1912 1913 ANNOUNCEMENT Two Ideal Cruises Around the World Sailing from New York, Oc- tober *19, 1912. From San Francisco, February 6, 1913, by Steamship Cleveland (17,- 000 Tons), duration 110 days, cost $650 up, includin; all necessary expenses about and ashore, railway, hotel, shore excursions, guide fees, etc. Also to the ORIENT from New York, January 30,1913, on Steamship Cincinnati (17,- 000 Tons), an 81 day tnp, costing $350 and up. = htful_ cruises to the INDIES, Venezuela, halal Canal and Bermuda, by S. S. Moltke, trom New Yok, lanuary 4, 23; Febru- ary 25; March 29. SS. Victoria Luise, January 15; February 8; March 11; April 10,1913. 16-21-27-28- 29 days. $145, $160, $175 and up. 20,000 mile cruise to SOUTH AMERICA. Nile service by superb steam- ers of the Hamburg and Anglo-American Nile to Weekly cruises to Jamaica and Panama Canal on large “Prinz” Steamers. hiclets REALLY DELIGHTFUL The Dainty Nint Covered Candp Coated Chewing Gum Chiclets are the re- finement of chewing gam for people of re- nement. Served at swagger luncheons, teas, dinners, card par- ties. The only chew- ing gum that ever received the unqualified sanction of best society. It’s the peppermint—the true mint. Look for the Bird Cards in the packages. You can secure a beautiful Bird Album free. For Sale at all the Better Sort of Stores Sc. the Ounce and in Sc., 0c. and 2c. Packets SEN-SEN CHICLET MPANY c Metros pliten 6 Tower The Heart That Failed. (Concluded from a preceding page.) that was not what she said really. What she did say was something like this, “Why, you silly little baby—did oose want to kiss Lala’s cheek—little pre- cious tootsey-wootsey-sootsey, angel mine."’ He could have forgiven her for ad- dressing an ode to the Greeks, even had she punctuated it with bayonets. It was the baby—little-precious-tootsey- wootsey-sootsey-angel-mine that moved him to action. He glanced at his wife, with the Vibert coloring to the left of him; to the left of that, a cheek that Vibert would have to retouch, He fumbled in his pocket. A relieved expression flittered across his face. His shoulders straightened; his eyes bright- ened; and he appeared like something made in the image of areal man. He bowed to the lady who was his wife; patted the dog that done him such a good turn; nodded to the chauffeur whose freedom he had long envied. Then he walked across the road and sat down under a tree. He raised a bit of white paper to his lips and it fluttered to the ground. Mrs. Money had noted all this, par- ticularly the bit of paper. Languidly she walked over and picked it up, folded it carefully and put it in her vanity box. “Heart failure,’ she exclaimed, yet apparently without emotion. ‘*And I never dreamed he had a heart,’ thought the chauffeur.’’ HE LAY AROUND THE HOUSE ALL DAY. A Booming Country. An immigrant was coming over from Ellis islind on the ferryboat as the sun- set gun was discharged, “Phat’s thot?’ he inquired of his friend, rather alarmed. “Oh, that’s sunset,’? was the reply. “B’ th’ powers, it must be a great country where the sun goes down with such a flop as thot!’ he exclaimed. Hamburg-American Line Pears’ Soap.is not medicated: just 41-45 Broadway, New York E pure soap. Contains no free, A Possibility. Laie gpaicamees lalkali to injure the delicate texture) ‘The gay young widow Bidette Sea Frascice of the skin. Was a dyed-in the-wool suffragette. | . When young Binks asked her hand, Matchless for the complexion. She said, “isn’t it grand | Established io 1789. | For a voter to land in your net?”’ In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. It will be appreciated. comicbooks.com