Judge, 1900-02-24 · page 13 of 16
Judge — February 24, 1900 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising with brief humorous anecdotes** rather than political cartoons. The jokes are genteel parlor humor typical of early 1900s magazines: **The anecdotes** mock social pretension and gender stereotypes—a woman's virtue questioned for not blushing at French theater; a stage actress's theatrical suffering met with bureaucratic mockery from an audience member offering parliamentary sympathy ("Mason" appears to reference a politician); wordplay about mantillas and a gentleman's jokes going "over a pretty woman's head." **The advertisements** include: - Hunter Baltimore Rye whiskey (targeting "best judges") - Williams' Shaving Soaps - Cream of Wheat cereal (positioned as nutritious for youth and age) - Judge's Library entertainment series (10 cents) - "The Pretty Girl" book (25 cents—a collection of illustrations of beautiful women) The page reflects Gilded Age/Progressive Era commercialism and period attitudes toward women's appearance and intellect, marketed through seemingly sophisticated humor in a satirical magazine aimed at educated, affluent readers.
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On account of its Age and Rich Flavor HUNTER BALTIMORE RYE is the Favorite Of a large majority of those who are best judges of A Fine powers Ne Stimulant worreea oy WHLANAHAN G SON BALTIMORE Pertectly Matured and Mellow. 14 at all First-class Cafés and by Jobbers. Wi LANAHAN & SON, Baltimore, Md: “Poor thing !” exclaimed one young woman at the theatre, ‘That girl is beautiful, but 1.” How do you know?” $ sat all through this French farce without blushing once."— Washington Star, ‘The worst thing you can say of a man is that be isa thoroughbred. It means that he will say up when he wants to go to bed and drink ubisky when he does not want it—A woman tas the same unsatisfied feeling for a man who xras once swect on her and then discontinued hisattentions that she has for a love-story that she was prevented from finishing.—Arkansaw Thomas Cat, They spoke of the mantilla, ‘Is it not a m, sefior?” murmured the beautiful Castil-| jan. ‘**It is a joke,” he replied. ‘A joke, sefior?” ‘It usually goes over a_pretty wo- man's head, you know.” ‘*Ain’t you terrible, sefior?” Here she looked up at him with her great pleading eyes, —Detrott Journal, “Ah, me!" wailed the suffering stage hero- ine, who had been cast into prison and other- wise brutally treated; “‘ah, me! is there no pity in the world ? Is there no ray of sympathy for poor me?" A portly gentleman arose in the stage-box and exclaimed, ** I will introduce a resolution of sympathy for you to-morrow.” And the audience yelled, ** Hurrah for Mason !” Baltimore American, fing Soap (Barbers), 6 Round Cakes, Mb,oe, Exquisite also for toilet, Trial cake for ac stamp. MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF FUN FOR SALE EVERYWHERE price, | () cents At your newsdealer’s, on all trains, and at hotel news-stands. IN YOUTH it is needed to supply con structive material: IN AGE it is needed to repair waste. Made of hard, Nor- therm wheat, almost all gluten, little starch or J other useless matter, i it is easily digested and assimilated, as it meets a natural crav- ing, and is the food for constructive uses. breakfast Ask your grocer to show you our elegant views of North- westem Scenery, one of which it he will give with each purchase of two packages. They are fine ravures, in no sense cheap, ut soft, beautifully toned pic: tures, mounted on dark mats, size 15 by 17 inches, entirely fit to appear on the stateliest wall, and without mark or advertising of any sort. CREAM OF WHEAT CO., Minneapolis, Minn, THE PRETTY GIRL. we us A NEW BOOK. wu x A collection of pictures of beautiful women, artistically printed on plate paper and tastefully bound in an illuminated cover. Price, 25 Cents. & YOU WANT IT. Sold by your bookseller, by all hotel newrstands, and by the boy on the train or you can obtain it by remitting 25 cents fn coin or stamps to the publishers. ‘THE PRETTY GIRL pictures are from drawings made by some of the moat famous of Judge's” artists. They have never been published in book-form be- fore, The little sketches printed herein are reproductions in minfature of some of the illustrations appearing in THE PRETTY GIRL. @ Only a Hmited edition of this attractive book has been published. Order it at once through your bookseller if you do not wish to miss it. JUDGE COMPANY, Publishers, 110 Fifth Avenue, New York. comicbooks.com