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This page contains a serialized humorous narrative ("Mrs. Corbin Reads the Riot Act") depicting a marital confrontation. A wife confronts a man she believes is her unfaithful husband, accusing him of coming home with powder on his coat, wearing gaudy clothes, and attracting women's attention. The twist: he's a stranger she's mistaken for her spouse. The humor relies on the misidentification and her embarrassed retreat. The page is primarily **advertising**, featuring hotel, piano, and champagne ads typical of the era. The champagne ad uses an extended metaphor comparing buying imported champagne to buying a butcher's trim—you're paying for unwanted extras. This reflects early-20th-century marketing emphasizing domestic American products as economical alternatives to imports. The other brief jokes ("Tight Wad," "A Good Example") are light domestic humor about money and persistence, standard for Judge magazine's family-oriented satirical content.

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WHEY New Yorlk 51? THE NEW FIRE-PROOF NAVARRE Soventh Ave, & 38th Street BUSINESS MEN FAMILIES TOURISTS Maximum of Luzury at Minimum of Cost, Five Minetes’ of Theatres, Shops and Clubs, "300 Feet West of Broadway. New Dutch Goll Roam, | Laren in, the City. Electric pass Hotel to alll Railroa: EUROPEAN PLAN $1.50 per Day $2.00 per Day WITHOUT BATH. WITH BATH ‘Svites $3.50 and upwards SEND FOR COLORED MAP OF NEW YORK EDGAR T. SMITH, Managing Director Plaza Hotel, Chicago, under same management. Take Mz Pree30 Day Triat our Own Breskioa "AN Ree "Records uccessfu Time to Pay Nation-Wide Salo of rade Pianos Ever Sree ion Banished. Lier, prano ie ebloped a to the home’ ways Years Tee to mil prectat satisfied, keep it and start emall ‘Sor Gmonths. Ask ine Pasment han, At the saat polnt {claim forte wire infor dota yea have bal today for Rp 4068 W. Chestnut St, Loulsvilte, Ky. tal‘ Adice Fase NAME... Corbin Reads the Riot Act. (Concluded from a preceding page.) “If you'd let me explain’’—I en- treated. “T tell you no explanation is need- ed,’’ she went on, interrupting me fiercely. ‘‘I understand everything now—those ‘business engagements’ that take you downtown nights, when you ought to be home with baby and me, and all the other things. Oh, if I was only a man, that I might choke the whole truth out of you! Only last night you came home with pow- der on your coat, and when I asked you about it you hemmed and hawed and turned red, and said it was bil- liard chalk. You might as well have said it was softsoap. Didn’t I know? I could smell it. And your clothes! You're getting worse and worse! I hate loudnes inaman. You can't help attracting the attention of every flirty girl you come near, be- cause they can hear you even when their eyes are turned in the other di- rection, That coat you've got on, that hat, and those pants! I knew you when I was half a block away, just by those gaudy checks in your No gentleman would wear Mrs. trousers. such pants, no’’. She gasped for breath. vantage of my opportunity. “‘My dear madam,’’ I began, as calmly as I could, ‘‘your husband may admire pretty girls. Your hus- band may be an abominable flirt. Your husband may buy razor strops when he oughtn’t to, and he may come home with powder on his coat. But, my dear madam, I am not your husband. I am sorry that we wear the same kind of pa—of trousers— and that they have misled you. Doubtless you lost your husband back in the crowd. Or it may be that, his admiration for some pretty face, However that may I took ad- he lost you. be’?—— And I caught my first and last glimpse of the horrified face under the big black hat. Her Retort. Tight Wad—“If you lost me, you'd have to beg for money.”” His —Well, it would come natural.’’ A Good Example. Teacher—‘‘ Who can tell the mean- ing of ‘persistence’?”” Small boy—'‘Mother talking fora new hat.’” Ecards Extra Dry Champagme When you buy a rib roast you pay for the bone and the “trim” (which you can’t eat) as well as the meat, which you can eat. If a butcher came along who would sell you as good or better meat and who did not charge for the bone and trim, you would buy from him—that’s not being “cheap,” it’s being intelligent. When you buy a foreign made cham- pagne you’re paying $1.00 for import duty and ocean freight (which you can’t drink—that’s the ‘bone and trim’”) and $1.00 for the pint of wine. When you buy Cook’s Imperial you pay $1.00 (no bone—no trim) for a cham- pagne that is truly superior in every re- spect—purity, sparkle, fragrance and deliciousness. Served Everywhere American Wine Co. St.Louis,Me. Itc If you intend to be |happy, begin now— | will show you the way, and keep {you on the right road. Most joys \are fleeting; Evans Ale is lasting. 1786 c.nevansasons:nudeonwy. 1913 In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. It will be appreciated. comicbooks.com