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This page contains **primarily advertising and humor columns** rather than political satire. The main feature is a **B.V.D. underwear advertisement** (center), depicting an overheated office worker suffering through summer without the advertised product. The headline "He Mops In Misery Without B.V.D." uses humor to sell undergarments as essential for comfort—a common early 20th-century advertising strategy playing on male anxieties about appearance and bodily comfort. The surrounding text includes: - **"From a Sinner's Diary"**: A humorous first-person column about a banjo player's accumulated dirt from various small-town events (clambakes, celebrations, revivals), written in folksy, rural Americana style. - **"Egg View Notes"** and **"His Botany"**: Brief, lighthearted local gossip and satirical poetry about rural characters. The page reflects Judge magazine's mix of gentle social humor and advertising aimed at middle-class readers interested in consumer goods and small-town Americana.

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From a Sinners Diary HY DON'T you take some soft iW soap or something and wash that 4 our banjo?’’ anes and gentlemen, I wouldn’t have that dirt off, if I could by saying so. There’s dirt on there the world knows pot of —dirt I prize as cobwebs in a wine tllar, Dirt from Mulliken’s clambake, where they had two kinds of clams—he dams and she clams; dirt from a Lake Odessa Fourth of Julia celebration, where it was 0 hot in the hall I thought I was sanstruck and saved myself by using Car- son's hat for @ fan, being so weak I let him hunt for it quite a while before I re- rived enough to tell him where it was; dirt from a Clarksville field day, where brother tried to pass a Canada dollar bill for peaches and couldn’t, and took it back jooking pious, like he can, remarking it as all the same to him and wondering sbere he got the thing—he always sup- one kind of money was the same as another (he was passing it for me—I can’t ook pious); dirt from Kelly, where I let yolunteers do half my playing, but always take the offering myself; dirt from a Sebewa Bowery, where the chief musician tilted his chair against a carpet hung up for a background and was saved from falling off the band-stand by the entire orchestra grabbing him in various places; dirt from a Mohawk princess'g lecture; dirt from serenades and revivals and local- option street meetings. Tlook at that muck and sand and clay, collected in these high places, and re- member when I had a sheepskin head, ebony pegs, marked frets, no position dots, thirteen brackets, with one simple chord on my fingerboard, where now 1 ars feet have a calfskin head, patent keys, raised much | frets, elaborately inlaid pearl position rd dots, thirty-three brackets, and contain n three chords and their relative minors, though I don’t say it boastingly. —Lynette Freemire. Egg View Notes Ambrose Crosslots has bought a busted umbrella, so he won’t have to be hunting for it all the while. The fancy rope seen around the neck of Ote Gimber’s calf is the one he got with abathrobe his brother sent for his birth- ndred ner, day. % Ambrose Crosslots says: ‘‘ When Oppor- 3 fer tunity knocks, make your dog shut up.’ a Mose Thorn’s dog was found running litte} around on a fresh cement walk over at thst | Spring Ledge Saturday. i. Leslie Van Every. P, His Botany vig His knowledge is a tiny shoot; " His worth a seedling, weak, inert; it” His honesty is small of root, d net And smaller yet above the dirt; oi His soul's aspear that tall weeds choke; His self-conceit’s a giant oak. Fr GREAT BEAR SPRING WATER. a “Its Purity Has} Tt Famous” ir ber case of 6 glass stoppered bottles sev.) He Mops In Misery Without B.V.D. TYPICAL summer day—a typical office scene—a round of In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. It will be appreciated. smiles at the mingled discomfort and discomfiture of the | man who hasn’t found out that B.V.D. is ‘‘the first | aid” to coolness. You, of course, have B. V.D. on or ready to put on. If not, march to the nearest store and ge¢ it. For your own welfare, fix this label firmly in your mind and make the salesman show it to you, If he can't or won't, avalk out! On every B.V. D. Under- garment is sewed This Red Woven Label BEST RETAIL TRADE. (Trade Mark Reg. U. 8 Pat. OF; ‘and Foreign Countries) B.V.D. Coat Cat Undersbirs and Knee Length Drawers, $0c., 75a, $1.00 and $1.50 the Garment. BLV.D. Union Suits (Pat. U. $. A. 4-30-07) $1.00, $1.50, $2.00, $3.00 and $5.00 the Suit. TheB.V.D.Company, NEW YORK, 64, Aldermanbary, BC. . O , Olfrape Incapsule form. Handy for Desk or Home “NATURE'S FOOD" ‘The first pressing of an Italian Olive Fruit, espe- cially selected and tested in our laboratory for its “superior quality. Olive Oil Grape stimulate the appetite, enrich the blood and ward off disease. ‘Their constant use gives a clear complexion and robust health, All first-class druggists sell them or you can order direct from the laboratory. 24 for 850-100 for $1.00. Literature free upon application. GRAPE CAPSULE CO., 106 Fulton 8t. New York Makers of Hicinol-Grape Castor OM London Selling Azencyt Snug Shirt— Trim Socks ’ SHIR GAR Adjusts itself to any posture—comfortable, durable, Ask your dealer—if be can, we will. SHIRT GARTER CO. Columbia, Tenn. comicbooks.com