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This page primarily features **advertising for two decorative prints** rather than political cartoons. The advertised images—"Have a Heart" and "Look Before You Leap"—are described as popular Judge cover illustrations by artists Flagg and Enoch Bolles, available as framed prints for 50 cents. The page's right column contains **humor anecdotes** typical of Judge's satirical style, mocking various social situations: a fussy woman interrogating a clerk about kid gloves, servants' efficiency, a disappointed car owner, working-class domestic disputes, and wealthy women performing charity. These brief jokes reflect early 20th-century class consciousness and domestic absurdities rather than specific political events. The cartoons themselves (showing a well-dressed couple and a bathing girl) appear designed as *aspirational wall decorations* rather than hard-hitting satire. The overall page represents Judge's commercial side: selling genteel humor and decorative goods to middle-class readers.

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Both, printed in full colors, 9 x 12, mounted on a heavy double mat, ready for the frame, will be mailed to you for 50 cents, postpaid. Re If you prefer to have either without sua the other, they will ‘N jupce *. be sold separately a8 Fifth Wn for twenty - five New York City fi Enclosed find \ cents a piece. \ Fill out the coupon and \ mail it in Please send me“, “Have a Heart” and “Look Before You Leap.” Address. . How would you like to have these two lit- tle girls, one by Flagg, and one by Enoch Bolles, for constant companions? Re “Have a Heart,” and “Look Before You Leap,” are two of the most popular pictures that have appeared on the covers of JUDGE this year. Re The bathing girl and her pretty sister will make a charming decora- tion for your walls. Look Before You Leap” Passing the Mustard _How Indeed—The fussy woman was picking over the undressed kid gloves while the weary clerk answered queries. “Wil these gloves wash?” asked the woman. “They will wash in a solution,” repli the clerk. val “Are they guaranteed not to shrink?” asked the woman. “How can you guarantee undressed kids not to shrink from washing?” demanded the clerk.—Cincinnati Enquirer. One Phase of Efficiency—‘And you have had the same servant for two years?” “Yes,” replied Mr. Crosslots.” “She s she doesn’t believe in changing after she has gone to the trouble of teaching the family her ways.” —Washington Star. The Unhappy Motorist—‘“ When you bought your motor-car I dare say you thought it would give you a great deal of pleasure?” “Oh, y replied the unhappy motorist. “T was de mooth-tongued sales- man. I have since discovered that it forces me to contribute generously to the incomes of a large number of peo} for whom I have no affection whatever.”—Birmingham Age-Herald. Candor—Mrs. Hiram Offen—Supposing Bridget, I should deduct from your wages the cost of all the dishes you broke? Bridget—Shure, mum, in that case it’s meself ‘d be like the dishes.—Boston Tran- script. asked the prospective purchaser, cautiously “It certainly ought to be,” replied the gentleman farmer. “I have put all the money I had into it.”—Richmond Times- Dispatch. Bilkins’ Scheme—Roderick—Great Scott! Has Bilkins lost his mind? Van Albert—I don’t think so. Why? Roderick—Just look at the illumination in his house. He has had every gas jet burning all day long. Van Albert—Oh, that’s just a little scheme Bilkins has to increase his gas bill this month. His wife is coming back tomorrow, and he told her he had been remaining at y night since she went away.—Pacific Service Magazine. Hardly That—Editor—Did you tell that fellow that if he didn’t advertise with us we would print an article denouncing his product? Advertising Manager—Well, hardly that. I just told him that in view of his sin attitude we should have to be true to the high standard of journalism we had set for ourselve Topeka Journal. Entertaining the Slums— Twobble went down into the district. yesterday to brighten the lives of poor slum dwellers.” “Highly commendable. What did she do for them?” : “She told them about the good times she's been having at Palm Beach.”—Birmingham Age-Herald. comicbooks.com