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**This page contains three distinct cartoons and satirical pieces:** 1. **"Politics in Pumpkinville"** — A poem satirizing women's newfound voting power (likely post-1920 suffrage). The joke: a henpecked farmer can no longer ignore his wife's preferences because she can now threaten to vote for his political rival. This mocks both the perceived weakness of men and celebrates women's newly-gained political leverage. 2. **"Mistake Somewhere"** — A brief joke about a maid claiming she "overslept" at her previous employer's house after two days. The implied scandal (likely an affair) relies on readers understanding the maid's real reason for staying. 3. **"Arches, Not of Victory but of Defeat"** — A humorous story about an obsessive shoe fanatic named Firkins who endlessly discusses specialized footwear designs. The satire targets pedantic hobbyists who bore others with technical minutiae. The surrounding advertisements promote period products (seasickness remedy, piano lessons, hotel accommodations), typical of early-20th-century Judge magazine content.

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Thousands of Travelers the world over depend upon MOTHERSILL’S SEASICK REMEDY remedy. No cocaine, opium, coal tar tas produces or thar dort, nor other habit forming drugs. Sold by leading druggiata everywhere on guarantee of satisfaction or money refunded. 60c and $1.20. MOTHERSILL SILL REMEDY COMPANY snehe NER Politics in Pumpkinville By Mixa Invexc MY pop he used to hector mom So fierce that by and by She didn’t hardly dare to look A ‘tater in the eye. She had to scrape and slave and save And wear her old black coat,— But everything is different Since women got the vote. For pop he’s up for Constable Of Pumpkinville agin Augustus Abel Brown and pop Is mighty set to win, And so no matter what mom wants He dasn’t turn her down, For if he makes her mad, for spite She'll go and vote for Brown. Changed Willis—Women used to wear clothes to show off. Gillis—And now they wear them so they don’t show at all. Tar LEARN PIANO! KNICKERBOCKER ew arr HENRY W. SAVAGE offers ¥ ee gro Draven by Bos Gousox Mistake SoMEWHERE Mistress—How was it you stayed two days at your last place? Maid—Guess | must have overslept meself, mum. Arches, Not of Victory but of Defeat (Continued from page 12) but he says they ought not to have done the way they did. Firkins is pretty mad at ’em. For my part I can’t exactly see a toeing-in ballet dancer, and if any one moved to re- draw the feet in the Cruikshank and Phiz and Barnard and Thackeray illustrations, I’d be the first to stamp with disapproval. And now Firkins is going in for a lot of special shoes—he’s a shoe-fancier. Turf-graspers and common-sense and other orthopathetic, pho- netic, hydraulic, synthetic—I can’t remember Drawn by R. A. Cusnnn Fry Paper 20 JUDGE EVERY UP TO DATE NSN $ Beverage GORMERLY KNOWN AS CHECONA EVANS ALE THE CROWD FOLLOWS EVANS* Your Dealer or ©. WH: EVANS & sass, he Hodson, NY the names of all of them. They’re all along the Indian lines. As a view they’re not much as pulse-quickeners, but he says we've all got to come to it. Perhaps we'll all grow red if we wear them long enough. | do when I think of it. He’s going to start a movement soon to have each pair of foot-rests at the shoe-polishing establishments converge. It’s a bully good thing Firkins has only two feet. If he were, say, a centipede, he’d talk about them until half-past doomsday. As it was he told me more—much, much more about it, oh, aff about it until—well, I told him he'd convinced me it was time I turned in, and I did it. Good night! P.S. They decided to Jet me draw the mar- ginal tracks after all. Game “Any good shooting on your farm?” “Fine! I just saw a couple. of Bolsheviki sneak into the wood-lot; there’s an oil-stock agent going along the lane toward the house; I flushed a common hobo down near the rail- road track this morning, and I believe that’s a long-winded candidate cutting across the orchard toward my hired men. Load both bar- rels, young man, climb over the fence, and sail right in!” Film Fan The magazine that puts you on speak- ing terms with your favorite star. For Sale at All Newsstands iSca $1.50 a year Kata Rates on Application) mn LESLIE-JUDGE CO, 225 Filth Avenue, New Yert City “A Smart Hotel for Smart People” Me tan f homey to jetropolitan in, every respect, yet HOTEL WOLCOTT Very destranle for women traveling alone Thirty- First Street, by Fifth Aoewse, Now Yort 9 PRESS BUREAU ROMEIKE'S Wye ot yor soon a urnet eee newspaper er any sub- avers een aera fe, toe Oped Sites HENRY ROMEIKE, 106-110 ‘Seventh Ave, Now York