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This page combines satirical humor pieces with advertising. The main content consists of six brief jokes mocking various social situations: **"Shear Steal"** jokes target a motorist claiming a slow-moving car somehow knocked someone two blocks (he "must be in the rubber business"), and a wife selling superfluous fat to a soap manufacturer—both playing on absurd explanations. **Other pieces** mock domestic life: a neglectful nanny, a wife receiving cheap cigarettes, Irish maids' speech patterns, and a magistrate's illogical judgment awarding a clock to one party and "eight days" to another. The large advertisement for **Nujol** (a Standard Oil laxative product) dominates the left side, promoting constipation relief as essential for "Growing Old Gracefully"—reflecting early 20th-century obsession with digestive wellness as a health cure-all. The humor targets working-class characters, domestic servants, and urban confusion—typical Judge magazine fare satirizing contemporary American life and consumer culture.

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Shear Steal His Resiliency—Magistrate—Ii, as you claim, your car was going ata | F very slow rate, hardly moving, in fact, how was it that this man you struck | 7 was knocked two blocks ahead? | @ ‘Motorist—The only way I can explain, your honor, is that the man is in | | the rubber business.—Baltimore American. | Evidence—“Has Reggie come home from school yet, Mary?” asked | Uf Reggie's mother. « | § I think s ,” said Mary. ‘The cat’s a-hidin’ in the coal house.” | —New York T | The Modern Wife—Mrs. Knicker—What did your husband give you? Mrs. Bocker—Some frightfully cheap cigarettes. How to Do It—‘‘My wife,” said Mr. Clark, “sent two dollars in an- q swer to an advertisement of a simple method of getting rid of superfluous I | fat.” “Was the information what she wanted?” asked Mr. Simmons. | “Well, she got a reply telling her to sell it to the soap man.” —Zenith. | ny Nothing Wonderful—Visitor—You don’t know who I am, do you, | GROWING OLD imag? 2) Jimmy—Naw! GRACEFULLY Fie Ant Tisewsinyonare, dowels ‘The key to health in old age Jimmy—Aw, that ain’t nothin'—I know that myself. —Boston Transcript. is the prevention of bowel A Modern Solomon—Scene—Police Court during dispute over cight- disorder. day clock. a \ Magistrate—I award the clock to the plaintift. | Constipation, which becomes Defendant—Then what do I get? . Magistrate—I'll give you the eight days.—Stray Stories. | more and more chronic with advancing years, frequently makes the burden of old age seem heavy indeed. Yet in most cases constipation can be entirely prevented by a little care in the matter of Precaution—Mamma—What is Willie crying about? } Bridget—Shure, ma'am, he wanted to go across the street to Tommy — | Green's. Mamma—Well, why didn’t you let him go? Bridget—They wer ‘ades, he said, ma'am, and 1 wasn’t shure as he'd had ’em yet. —Doctor's Leisure Hour H yy diet and by supplying in F: We | Nujol an efficient substitute Wy Ws i for the mucus which exhaust- Ss aA | ed nature no longer provides. Copyright 1917 by Le; rege epoca at the Post- i Office at New ‘York as sort Dsass dail matter.Cable | address‘Sudgas' *) Telephotie 6632MadisouSpuate Published weekly’ by the Leslie -Tudege Co. 225 Fifth Ave | | Nujol is not a bowel stimu- lant. It acts as an internal lubricant, softeuing the con- tents of the intestines and so promoting normal evacu- ations. New York City pce eae | Reuben P, Sleicher Secretary Jot A Steicher President NUJOL is bottled at the refinery and is sold only in pint bottles bearing the name NUJOL and the imprint of the Standard Oil Company (New Jersey). Refuse substitutes—be sure you get the TAWaldtrot. Editor | Grant E Hamitton | Art Director A.E. Rotlauer Treasurer genuine. Vol. LXXIL January 20, 1917 No. 1840 ST ANDARD OIL COMPANY > a Dae ey LE ANY SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bayonne New Jersey One year, or St numbers - - - - = - - -& | | : oa” . f 1} Fie New York, « 1 order Ltd | . Breans Build L 2 B, Englands = | cane de TOpere, Pe Exchange, 16 John Strect, Aig, London; BR a Victoire, Parte: 1 Clara Strasse, S 9 4 Clare Stveen 1; of Lestie Judge Company will be takea ; office Rt ate jinclose a stamped and self-addressed envelope with all manuscripts, otber fe wise return to the latter when found unavailable cannot be guaranteed ive such o it mm that we shall not be held le for its loss ot it ti y newsstand, the publishers will be under obligations if that fact pen be promptly reported on postal card or by letter TACK NUMBERS: Present year, 10 cents per copy: 1916 20 cents, ete, | Na -- tents of Jeoge are protected by rupstight in both th Sod Great Brita, ig Send for booklet ce States, ite dependencies, and dian Provinces ad for “THE RATIONAL TREATMENT OF CONSTIPATION." Write your name and ~inlaarsinaie= _ dependencien, sad | address plainly below H p rin countries add 81.00 0. Marquette ago an EN Wrrice: Tremont Buil yi Aeon crmest: Wyatt Buildi : comicbooks.com