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This is primarily an **advertising page** with humor sections interspersed. The main content includes: **Advertisements:** - Suit tailoring offer ($1,450 for all-wool serge, available on credit) - Leslie's photography prize contest - Correspondence schools for music and law - Patent attorney services **Humor Section ("Jokes"):** The page contains brief satirical quips mocking early 20th-century middle-class life: - A farmer boasting about "intensive farming" while leasing airspace to wireless companies (satirizes agricultural modernization and new technology) - New parents where baby makes photographer look unpleasant (gentle domestic humor) - A wife discovering "overdrawn" means "exaggerated" (wordplay on financial anxiety) - A child mispronouncing "autocracy" as "autocrazy" (political wordplay, unclear if satirizing actual autocrats) The jokes reflect *Judge's* typical approach: light social satire targeting urban middle-class concerns—finances, technology, domestic life—rather than sharp political commentary. No specific political figures or events appear identifiable here.

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Size of print. res and there are no conditions not be submitted elsewhere at enber. if the picture is accepted. whether it wins a prize or not, it will be used and paid for at the usual rates. “It copyrighted, written copyright release must accompany photo. Leslie's wants news pictures and wants them quickly Address, Editor Leslie's, 225 Fifth Ave., New York City CENT. | 109 books — = ENT INCOME SO PER ew library — furnished every 6 GUARANTEE: You pay only a Tuition retunded if “is- "AGE FREE BOOK TODAY! Da tERICAN 2 sScnooL OFC CREST ONDENCE venue and S8th Street, Chicago, U. S.A. LEARN MUSIC At Home! | OPPER— EASY LESSONS FREE — Piano, . Banjo, Mandolin. , Cornet, Harp, ccolo, Trombone, Flute or to sin You ry Dostage—vwhich is small. in, simple, syste E- your name and get y re chool of Music, Box 282, 225 Sth Ave., N. Y. City WANTED—AN IDEA! WHO CAN THINK OF SOME Protect your ideas, they may bring you wealth. Write for “Needed Inventions” and “How to Get Your Patent and Your Money.” Randolph & Co., Patent Attorneys, Dept. 129, Washington, D.C. simple thing to patent. can lease the air to some wireless company, I'll have about everything under cultivation. Who says intensive farming doesn’t pay?” —Chicago Journal. The Other Way About—Newpop— Well, my dear, did the photographer suc- ceed’ in making the baby look pleasant? Mrs. Newpop—No; the baby succeeded in making the photographer look unpleasant. —Boston Transcript. Joyous Tidings—* Charley, dear,” said young Mrs. Torkins, “I have good news.” “What is it?” “The bank sent me word that my count is overdrawn. I looked in the ynonym book and found that ‘overdrawn’ is the same as ‘exaggerated.’ —Washington Star. Not Far Wrong—“ A-u-t-o-c-r-a spelled Tommy, reading aloud. After a pause, he pronounced it triumphantly. “ Autocrazy.” And he wondered why his father laughed. —Chicago Herald. His Plan—She—Now that you've got a raise of sixty a month, Tom, we can afford a more expensive flat. He—But we're very comfortable here. How would it do if I ask the landlord to r our rent?—Boston Globe. He Did—‘“I really don’t believe,” said Gladys coyly, “that you particularly wanted to hear me sing.” “T did indeed. “Thad never heard you.” her admirer protested. Livingston Lance. For Universal Peace—IWVillis—I won. der if there will ever be universal Peace? Gillis—Sure. All they've got to do is to get the nations to agree that in case of war the winner pays the pensions.—Dallas News. Preparedness—Clark—Do you believe in preparedness? Clubleigh—Sure! I never go home without having an excuse all framed up Kansas City Star. Failures—* How are the incubators ge ting along?” asked a friend of his neighbor ho had recently bought some. ight, I suppose; but although ave had them’ for two weeks now, not one of the four has laid an egg y Ladies’ Home Journal. Summer Resort Ethics—“She gave “Would it be good to ask for another tonight?” nquestionably, my boy. If you don't she may think you didn’t like the sample.” Kansas City Journal. Defined—" Pa, what is the great white way?” “Following the golden rule, my son. Pittsburgh Post. Just the Pet—‘The alligator can go six months without eating.” “Just the pet for a poet.” Courier-Journal. Film Fun The Magazine of the Happy Side of the Movies The making of a movie is almost as full of romance and adventure as the finished film itself. There's many a laugh and prank that happens “off-stage” that never reaches the screen. If you would like to have the big motion picture performers tell you some of these ipodente in anecdote and interview they lo it for you each month in FILM FU N. You will enjoy the play more when you creen if you know the “inside” of its production and get acquainted with its heroes and heroines. You can meet your favorites informally in the columns of FILA their chatty stories pictures of ‘the new featu released you'll find the magazine full of laughter and fun all its own. ‘Tear off the coupon and send it in. Ten cents a copy — $1.00 ts for a year of 25 ¢ a three months? quainted subscription, FILM FUN 225 Fifth Avenue New York Published by the Leslie-Judge Co FILM FUN 225 Sth Avenue New York Ug ard fed (81.00) for which please send me ri for t year Name Address...