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This page is primarily **advertisements and light humor** rather than political satire. The main content includes: **The Poem "Proper"** (by Wilbur D. Nesbit): A satirical critique of modern women's hypocrisy. It mocks women who dress provocatively, enjoy risqué entertainment (coarse songs, sexually suggestive plays), drink cocktails, and dance the tango—yet maintain an air of propriety. The irony is that these "improper" behaviors have become socially "proper" through normalization. The poem suggests this permissiveness is fleeting: within a year, she'll deny these interests and blush at mild language. **The humor pieces below** mock courtship and marriage: one about a husband viewing his wife as replaceable machinery (outdated, requiring trading in for a newer model), and another as a joke about a woman discounting her age "one-third off for cash" when marrying a wealthy man. **The advertisements** for Brentano's books, Judge magazine bindings, Murray & Lanman's Florida Water, Boston Garter, Hotel Le Marquis, and Absorbine comprise the page's bulk. The satire reflects early 20th-century anxieties about changing women's social roles and behavior.

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Tous les Livres et Journaux de France Nouveaux et Anciens “Everything French and Frenchy” French Fashion Papers On Parle Frangais—Even to Americans BRENTANO’S Fifth Avenue at Twent)-Seventh Street NEW YORK PRESERVE YOUR COPIES OF JUDGE in a handsome binder which we offer you eetional pasts of JUDE for your library table and asure at all times, Address Should You Forget when sailing for LONDON or PARIS to put in your satchel that indispensable bottle of MURRAY & LANMAN’S Florida Water you can obtain it of druggists when you get the BUT you will miss the great comfort of having it with you on IT IS BETTER NOT TO FORGET IT. Ask for cat booklet LANMAN & KEMP, 135 Water Street, New York. not come up to earlier models, but for ornament and ostentation and in individ- uality of design, of course, there is no comparison. The control is not quite so good, she is not so readily steered, but this trifling defect is easily overcome by permitting her to go her own way. If she does not answer to the brake as quickly as might be desired, it is because of her greater speed. The average bachelor has neither the time nor the inclination to master the de- tails of the wife problem. He chooses from what is offered him, largely on faith, and the matter is greatly simplified if he may feel that his selection is not neces- sarily final, that altered needs may be met as they present themselves. It is false economy that prompts any husband to go on, year after year, with the same wife, when custom has made it easy and ordinary to turn her into the scrap heap and procure something newer, handsomer and infinitely more up to date. Proper HER DRESS displays as much or more Of her, as though she did not wear it; It closely clings to every pore—- You shudder lest some time she'll tear it. Let us no criticisms fling, For that is quite the proper thing. She smiles at songs whose words are coarse, Whose meaning is not even hidden, But springs, it seems, from some vile source, By no one else than Satan bidden. Tut, tut! The songs she'll hum and sing, For they are quite the proper thing. She goes to plays which treat of sex— Not as the once-thought-bad *‘Camille’’ did, But in which language less complex Is with amazing frankness wielded. Yet from her place she does not spring— Such plays are now the proper thing. The sour, the cocktail and the fizz, Which make red veins upon the eyeball, Are to her throat as champagne is Or as the long, insidious highball. These to her lips she would not swing If they were not the proper thing. Ah, well! a year or so from now She will not know the tango rushes. A doubtful word to cheek and brow Will call a torrent of deep blushes. So let us not with censure sting, Because she’s quite the proper thing. —Wilbur D, Nesbit, Counteractive s Passée says she just dotes on Then I wish some one would admin- ister an antidote!”’ One-third Off “When Miss Willings married old Moneybags, she gave her age as twenty- five. I feel sure she is older than that.” “Oh, I suppose she allowed one-third off for cash!”” If you desire an umsually fine garter buy the 50 cent grade OLOROE FROST CO., MARERG, HOTEL LE MARQUIS 12 to 16 East 31st St., New York. A lending fambiy hotel. just off bth Ave.. tn a r European Pla: Single Rooms, $1.50. Suites; "$3.00 Upward. Sperial rates between May and October, Send for booklet and particulars, E. H. CHATILLON. You need an effective, dependable liniment and germicide in your home. Safety demands that it cermicide-liniment that ccmbines safety wit efficacy—it is made of herbs @hdtrebatzins ni acids of poisons. AbsorbineJ: THE ANTISEPTIC LINIMENT member of the family Applied to cuts, wounds and bruises it kills the germs, makes the wound aseptic and pro- motes rapid healing se Absorbine, Jr.. wherever ahigh grade lini To alla: swollen vet » brui Te. —_ y the throat $1.00 and $2.00 per bestle at drugelits or postpaid F will be sent postpaid upon A Liberal Trial Bottle receipt ‘ot 0c In. stare. W.F. YOUNG, P.D.F., 115 Temple St. Springfield, Mass. In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. It will be appreciated. comicbooks.com