Judge, 1889-06-29 · page 13 of 16
Judge — June 29, 1889 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertisements and filler content** typical of Judge magazine's business model, rather than political satire. The modest satirical content consists of brief **humorous one-liners** about contemporary social observations: - **Chicago divorce joke**: References the prevalence of divorce among urban women - **Milwaukee gardening pun**: A play on "scratch for a living" - **"Lovely Woman" section**: Series of jokes about women's behavior—their church attendance, longevity, shoe-fitting choices, and a lengthy anecdote about a barely-literate California woman requesting song titles from a music dealer The tone is **gently mocking of women**, reflecting common early 20th-century attitudes. The jokes assume female irrationality and vanity as humor sources. The bulk of the page consists of **patent medicines, corsets, railroads, and root beer advertisements**—the magazine's actual revenue source. The "Files for Judge" at bottom advertises the publication's own product for organizing copies. No specific political figures or events are referenced. This appears to be a typical non-satirical issue focused on commercial advertising.
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But this is obviously’ a mistake, for you seldom see a six-foot Dansville Breeze, “Women must have been happy in the time of Noah.” ** Why so?” ‘Be. cause it took a long time to grow old in those days."—Boston Gazette, Women often do the wrong thing. If a woman has a number 7 foot and the shoe-dealer says she can wear a number 3 shoe, she's very apt to put her foot in it.— Yonkers Statesman, ‘The New Vork Graphic says Elliott F, Shepard “' publicly evinces a fond- ness for big red apples." It is more creditable to have a big red apple than a big red nose—and it doesn't cost as Rochester Herald. Yes, indeed ; but why don’t you put chalk on it A young woman in the mining re- gions of California recently wrote the following letter to a music-dealer in Sacramento: “Have you got a song with the words & accompliment called chipy Get your Hair cut, johny get you gun—I don’t know the name of the song but I think that is part of the first verse. 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