Judge, 1900-04-21 · page 12 of 18
Judge — April 21, 1900 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** from Judge magazine, with one small cartoon and several product advertisements typical of early 1900s publications. ## The Cartoon The main cartoon ("At His Service") depicts a **father-in-law confrontation** using ethnic dialect humor. A man with a heavy accent (indicated by phonetic spelling: "t'ousand tollars," "vould") demands the promised check his father-in-law offered upon marrying his daughter. The joke's punchline—that the father-in-law would "give any man a check" for that amount—suggests the son-in-law is such poor husband material that any man would accept such a deal to take him off his hands. This reflects common early-20th-century humor mocking immigrant accents and stereotyping them as undesirable sons-in-law. ## Advertisements The page features Kodak cameras, tires, whiskey, Mariani Wine (a patent medicine), and cash registers—typical products advertised in period magazines.
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