Judge, 1898-03-26 · page 13 of 16
Judge — March 26, 1898 — page 13: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, with one small cartoon joke embedded among product ads. The single cartoon shows a **music lesson scene**: a Professor instructs a Tenor singer, asking why he doesn't "sound the h" in his singing. The Tenor replies it won't go higher than "g"—a pun on the musical note. This is British humor (credited to *Punch*), poking fun at both dropped H's (a class marker in English speech) and musical limitation. The rest of the page contains ads for liquor (Carstairs Rye, Great Western Wine, Urbana Champagne), Crescent Bicycles, Ely's Cream Balm (a nasal remedy), and other products typical of early 20th-century magazines. The only non-advertising content is a brief joke about a temperance lecturer whose chairman tried to "blow the foam off a glass of water"—mocking absent-mindedness. **Context for modern readers**: This reflects an era when magazines mixed editorial content with advertising seamlessly, and British humor was regularly reprinted in American publications.
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