Judge, 1900-06-02 · page 12 of 16
Judge — June 2, 1900 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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This is primarily an **advertising page** from Judge magazine, with minimal editorial content. The few jokes present are brief and domestic in nature: 1. **"Miss Poetica" anecdote**: A brother interrupts his sister's poetry reading ("A meteor shot") by asking if it's about Kentucky—a mild joke about interrupting creative pursuits. 2. **Wife's warning to husband**: A woman tells her husband his golf club will kill him like Abel's club did, urging him to come home more often—satirizing men's leisure activities keeping them from domestic duties. 3. **Suicide joke**: Mocking a New York woman who killed herself over a poorly-fitting silk waist, with commentary that she should have killed her dressmaker instead—dark satire on vanity and impractical women. 4. **Bible removal**: A rustic observes a young woman has removed the family Bible from the parlor, suggesting moral decline. The page is **dominated by commercial advertisements** for railroads, shoe polish (Vici products), books, and medical treatments for drug addiction—typical of Judge's revenue model rather than satirical content.
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