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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page The top cartoon titled "Dar goes de merry outer Cris'mus!" depicts a person slipping on ice during winter, with a sleigh visible in the background. The accompanying dialogue joke plays on ethnic dialect humor, common to early 20th-century publications. Below is a handwritten letter to Santa Claus requesting toys named "Johnnie and Peggy," followed by an illustration showing two children writing, and a toy store depicted as a mobile storefront. The caption "What every parent knows" suggests the page is satirizing the commercial pressure of Christmas gift-giving and children's expectations—a timeless theme. The other content on the page consists of anecdotal humor pieces and a serious article titled "It's Easy, But—" addressing business ethics.

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It’s Easy, But— by Sue Stuart T’s Easy enough to be pleasant When life goes by li But the girl worth while, Is the girl who can smile When her boss says to her: “Miss Jones, T wish with all my hea that we could afford to give you something worth while this Christmas. We appreciate your faithful services and your loyalty, but you see business has been so darned poor—as I told you last year, if our business should ever reach the point where we are really making money. you will get-your share of the profits. But right now it is all we can do to meet our bills but, an I wish you a very merry Christmas, I letter to Bill, Smith “Dear Bill: If you have any more of that 1912 Bourbon lik shipped me last’ month at quart, send me a couple of it will reach me in time for Christ- mas. Label it) Furniture Polish -* Yours truly, Brown, Green & Co., : per Green.” a song, zi eet A teacher in a public school was trying to instill a little grammar - into her class of defective children. Selecting a rather unusual specimen “Mary, you may tell me Drawn by E. W. Kemate, “Dar goes de merry outer Cris’mus!” “L hope to save tobaceo.” Rd Bobby—Does the stork that brings the Wife (reading newspaper)—Scientists A. citizen was seen standing in a de- can multiply the sound of the human jected attitude before a lamp-post. voice 12,000 times. “Well, Maria.” he mumbled, “I know babies come from the z0c Mother—I think so, « ie. “He must have stopped at the monkey Hushand_ (thoughtlessly)—What have [I'm drank. Why don't you say some- cage for ours.” they done in the way of subtraction? thing?” What every parent knows. 4 fer ha insure impor She junior neces if she look 4 She movie sports ting” Wh you a house. ing to tion t she'll If is no. the carry Ky The o isab Dor becaus comicbooks.com