Judge, 1915-12-18 · page 25 of 28
Judge — December 18, 1915 — page 25: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and promotional content** rather than political satire. The left side features ads for Leslie's Illustrated Weekly Newspaper (a competing publication), celebrating its 60-year history and promoting subscriptions. The center contains three **humorous anecdotes**—brief joke stories typical of period humor magazines: 1. "What His Uncle Left Him"—plays on a marriage proposal twist, where a woman rejects a suitor until he mentions an inheritance, only to discover he inherited nothing. 2. "By Proxy"—satirizes modern marital disconnection: a husband hires an office worker to call his wife with romantic endearments while he's at his club; she doesn't notice the deception because she's distracted with bridge. 3. "Retaliation"—incomplete in this excerpt, but appears to concern a singer exacting revenge after being kept late at a social engagement. The right side advertises writing instruction courses and Evans Ale. **No clear political cartoons appear on this page.** The humor reflects early 20th-century social anxieties about marriage, leisure, and modernity.
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ee lustrated Weekly Newspaper LTE ped 1855 Prev Crate Sixty years ago Leslie's was founded. Over thirty-one thousand weekly issues have brought the world-news without interruption to its readers. Sixty-years-young, vigorous and efficient, Leslie's is offering a picture service to its readers today that has made it America’s greatest illustrated weekly newspaper. And each of these sixty years of the nation’s progress has contributed something to Leslie's to make it a still greater illustrated weekly newspaper. Pictures that show you what the dailies try to describe and authoritative articles on finance, trade, motors, sports and travel give Leslie's its place of prominence on the reading table of every cultured home. For five dollars you can watch a year's pro- gress with Leslie’s, 225 Fifth Avenue, New York City. than eleven of Edith’s brothers have been here this term to take her out, and she tells me she expects the tall one with the blue eyes again to-morrow.”—Tit-Bits. What His Uncle Left Him—He had been refused, but he declined to be- lieve it. “Then I am to understand that this is your final answer, Miss Stubbles?” “My final answer.” “Nothing can move you?” “Nothing.” “Then my life will be a lonely one and my fate a harsh one, for my uncle with whom I lived has just died and left me——” “That fact somewhat alters the case, Henry. I can not be harsh to one who has sustained such recent bereavement. If I could believe that you are sincere——” “Sincere! Oh, Miss Stubbles!”” “You have certainly made an impression on my heart. Give me time to think of it.” “How long?” “After all, why think of it? Henry, I am yours.” “Oh, Genevieve!” “Your poor uncle! Was he long ill?” “Three days.” “Tt is too bad! You say he left you——?” “Yes, he has left me.” —. “How much?” “How much! I said he had left me. He had nothing to leave. I am alone in the world now, homeless, penniless, but with you by my side—why, she’s fainted!"— ‘Argonaut By Proxy—A matron was confiding her domestic troubles to a friend. “T find,” said she, “that my husband has charged someone in his office with the duty of calling me up every afternoon to mumble terms of endearment. ‘That’s a pretty way to treat one’s wife, isn’t it? He’s been spending his afternoons at the club.” “How was it,” asked the friend, “that you didn’t at once notice that it wasn’t his voice that called?” “Well,” explained the aggrieved wife, “T’ve been pretty busy with bridge every day, and I’ve been having the maid answer the telephone.” —New York Times. Retaliation—A singer, who recently passed an evening at the house of a lady WRITE for Print and Pay The Newspapers, Mgga- zines, Moving Pictures Pay more for the same class of ser- vice than most of the professions Every Intelligent Person Should Learn How to Write With a table, a chair, paper and a typewriter you can begin now and you need not give up your present occupation or employment. Even if you do not wish to take up journalism as a profession, there is no better mental training. There is nothing difficult about learning how to write. The man or woman who writes is automatically thrown in touch with the big people who are shaping the destiny of the state and the nation, and with the big things that are taking place in the new develop- ment of the country. The fundamentals are carefully and simply arranged in our Correspondence Course of Instruction. A Wash- ington correspondent who has written for every class of publications during the past twenty-five years has arranged the work, and is in charge of the course. Write today for information U. S. PRESS ASSOCIATION 523 BOND BUILDING WASHINGTON, D. C, EVERY FRIEND IS IN NEED E of a Supply of Good Old f\ for the Holidays. Why not be Santa Claus to friend or family in city or country by “sending a barrel of 10 dozen bottles? Any Dealer or C. H. EVANS & SONS, Hudson, N. ¥. stayed late. As he rose to go the hostess said: “Pray, don’t go yet, Mr. Basso; I want you to sing something for me.” . “Oh, you must excuse me tonight; it is very late, and I should disturb the neigh- bors.” el Never mind the neighbors,” answered Wear it A Week the lady, quickly; “they poisoned our dog At Our Ex, ense yesterday.” —Kansas City Journal. Leslie's Mlustrated Weekly Newspaper ie + Dee 99 Established in 1855 Price 10 Cents Unversatile Nature—Maric, the 8-year- old hopeful of a certain household of this city, was seated at the breakfast table one morning. As usual, eggs were served. Now, either Marie was not hungry or she had grown tired of the inevitable bill of fare, for very earnestly she lifted her eyes to heaven and exclaimed: “T wish to goodness hens would lay some- thing besides eggs!”—Philadelphia Ledger. GREAT BEAR SPRING WATER “Its purity has made it famous” ‘50c the case of six glass stoppered bottles. (pvr) \G 0 id ny to of me B af comicbooks.com