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This is primarily an **advertising page** from Judge magazine, with a small "Stories with Smiles" humor column on the right side. The humor section consists of brief anecdotes featuring **Senator Heyburn and Senator William E. Borah** (identifiable Idahoans prominent in the early 1900s). The jokes mock political figures through wordplay and ironic situations: - The "January kiss" joke plays on a wife checking if her husband kept New Year resolutions—satirizing politicians' broken promises - The fortune teller story about a woman wanting to abandon her husband mocks the gap between politicians' flowery rhetoric and messy reality - The Governor Hodges anecdote implies embarrassment about past humble positions The humor relies on gentle political satire typical of Judge's style: poking fun at politicians' hypocrisy and pomposity without harsh attacks. The jokes suggest these were recognizable public figures whose contradictions between stated values and actual behavior were worth lampooning to readers. The page's bulk consists of liqueur, hotel, and patent medicine advertisements—standard for the era.

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AFTER DINNER ASK FORA THE QUEEN OF THE LIQUEURS Made at the Stories ‘with Smifes The January or Judas Kiss.—Senator Heyburn, discussing a political betrayal, said, “The thing was as bad as the Judas kiss, or, rather, the January kiss, as it's more timely to say now.’"’ “The January kiss?’’ stammered the “Piecille Cure” ‘Ye [Abbaye Ie enon FRANCE Pronounced Mab cordial—for short. puzzled reporter. “‘Why, yes, the January kiss," said Senator Heyburn. ‘‘It’s the kiss a wife gives her husband in January, you know, At First-class Wine Merchants, Grocers, Hotels, Calés. GEORGES J. M. LEVITTE & COMPANY, Inc. Sole Agents for the United States. ‘321 Lexington Avenue, HOTEL ALBERT 11TH STREET AND UNIVERSITY PLACE One Block West of Broadway NEW YORK CITY Dicerice, alread avd "Steamship Lines MODERN ABSOLUTELY FIREPROOF 300 Rooms (200 with Bath) RATES $1.00 PER DAY UP Excellent Restaurant and Cafe Moderate Prices Send for tree Mlustrated Guide and Map of New York City ‘New York, N. Y. Pears’ “Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win.” One cake of Pears’ con- vinces. to see whether he’s broken his New Year resolution yet.'’’"—Pittsburgh Chronicle. Telegraph. Traveling Too Fast.—Senator Willian E. Borah, in demonstrating that it is al. ways best to familiarize yourself with the road before you travel too fast, cited the experience of a young woman who called on a fortune teller. ‘Lady,’ said the fortune teller im- pressively, after gazing at the fair one's pretty pink palm, shuffling a deck of cards and fading away into a dreamy trance, ‘‘the fates have decreed yous beautiful future. You will visit foreign lands and mingle with great people. Nothing but success and happiness will be yours for years tocome. Finally, cor- quering all rivals, you will marry the man of your choice, a tall, dark, hand- some man of distinguished ancestry.” Sold all over the world. cf Frei “You don’t really mean it!"’ exclaimed mI InPORTED the young woman. ‘‘Will he be young?” LLEY FRANCE ‘ “Yes,” was the reassuring reply of the LIQUID PISTOL fortune teller; ‘young and rich.” Will stop the most vicious dog (or “Very beautiful,’’ commented the man) without perma: j young woman, with a smiling glance at Hinges fer bode tle the fortune teller; ‘but how am I to get rid of my present husband?"’—Philadel- phia Telegraph. 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Address the | minds me of the first time 1 saw the Gor Avenue, New York. by M.M.D., 600 Fifth Ave., New York. — ernor. He was only State senator then. AIX-LES-BAINS He was called to Leavenworth to inspect the penitentiary, and I had to go dows Savoie, France, On the Lac du Bourget; 8 hours rail from Paris and write it up—met the Governor for the first time. The warden, by way of giving a special treat to the prisoner World Renowned for the Treatment of Rheuma- tism, Gout, Arthritis, etc. had collected seven or eight hundred of Regattas Fishing Aix is the most beautiful of all them in the assembly hall, and, in an of hand way, requested the senator to s+ Pigeon Shooting » Battles of Flowers || Alpine touring centres, and for Two Sumptuous Casinos — Operas motoring in Savoy and Dauphine, ring measure. dress them. i ‘Mr. Hodges wasn’t as proficient is po then as he is now. He ws plainly embarrassed and hesitated a mit ute. ‘My fellow-citizens’—he “That didn’t sound right, and he com menced again. ‘‘My fellow-convicts'— “By that time the prisoners were smi ing. Mr. Hodges dropped his formal manner and smiled, too. ‘Well, I don't know exactly how to address you, boys he amended, ‘but I'm mighty glad to se *—Kansas Cit HOTEL DEL’ EUROPE and VILLA VICTORIA HOTEL BRISTOL, Bains, Best situation near Baths and Casinos, Highly reputed and specially patronized E. LEDER, by American Society, Send for Illustrated Booklet. Prop. Every lover of a good cocktail should insist tat Abbott's Bitters be used in making it; insures Fer getting the very best. C. W. Abbott & Co, Ba more, Md. In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. It will be appreciated. PIELTLIPEREELE SESE FA comicbooks.com