Judge, 1900-08-11 · page 19 of 20
Judge — August 11, 1900 — page 19: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertisements and filler content** rather than political satire. The main elements are: **Advertisements:** - Rustic furniture and garden construction company - Northern Steamship Company (Great Lakes travel) - Lackawanna Railroad (mountain and seaside resort destinations) - Judge Magazine's new humorous publication **Editorial Content:** The page includes light verse and jokes typical of Judge's era: - "These Pleasant Evenings" — a humorous poem mocking the crowded, uncomfortable summer experience at public gardens (sweaty crowds, expensive overheated venues, tipping poorly-paid staff) - Brief quips about Chinese foot-binding and flies in butter — typical of period humor **Social Context for Modern Readers:** The content reflects early 1900s leisure: steam travel, resort destinations, and public summer gardens as entertainment. The complaints about crowds and heat suggest these venues were extremely popular and increasingly commercialized — suggesting satire of the commodification of leisure and the gap between advertised relaxation and actual crowded, sweaty reality. The page is essentially a **commercial/promotional issue** with light editorial humor supporting the advertisements.
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600000000000 000000000000 000000000: janetc Rustic Work! IN AN ENDLESS VARIETY OF BEAUTIFUL AND GRACEFUL DESIGNS ADAPTED FOR THE TASTEFUL ORNAMENTATION OF. City and Country Residences. RUSTIC CHAIRS, SETTEES, HANGING BASKETS, STANDS, WINDOW BOXES, VASES, STUMP BOXES, BIRD HOUSES, BRACKETS AND CROSSES. Special Department for the Construction cf Rustic Sum- ROUND HANGING BASKET. mer Houses, Well Houses, Arbors, Bridges, Feaces, Gate- ways, Boat Houses, Etc, CEDAR SETTEB TRIMMED WITH ROOTS, Price, 4 feet, $13.00; 5 feet, #1 Very comfortable, stroa: Bein Ta | Dae $075! 12 Inches, NEW YORK RUSTIC CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, 19 Fulton Street, Opp. Front, New York. LL WHE WORLD| IP Wt hls NORTHERN STEAMSHIP COMPANY Wil opee the STEAMSHIP3 NORTH WEST AND NORTH LAND) 3 ees arene I acces ‘agnificent ships afloat. Cuisine Por particulars ean service and extended tours apply to V.GF, GTON, pints M. LOWRIE, cen. Pass. Ag't, BUFFALO. President. THESE PLEASANT EVENINGS, About seven in the evening, after all the blis- tered day, We will clamber on the street-car and go boil- ing on our way To the crowded summer-garden, where the sod uae TAKE TO THE Seems to linger very shyly, forty feet above the ct ume MOUNTAINS ‘And we walk and walk and wonder where there| (A/a? isa vacant seat, And we bump against the waiter with enlarge- ment of the feet. DELAWARE. 163 Minates from We crow wi ve ed wp toa table with some overheated Altitude de 1000 feet: And we listen, warm and weary, to some en- a ervating jokes, : Ss While the band is struggling madly with an 223 Minutes from iva the Mgerniced fecal if tee oR nd the high-priced female artist sings as i eH é Mitade 60 fa ‘Then we drink some lukewarm mixture, which adds fuel to the heat, % And we tip the frowzy waiter with enlargentent of the feet. ‘Then at midnight, hot and stringy, once more wearily we roam, And we see the nice, cool people who had sense With apalmeat fan beside them and a glass RICHFIELD of lemonade, | as And a breeze that kept them happy as they sat SPRINGS out in the shade ; : And we mop our brows and mutter of the! “family retreat" OM T W And the bump-against-you waiter with enlarge- Prom HE EST" ment of the feet. —Josh Wink in Baltimore American. foTnEQEA SHORE’ TAKE “* What are you preparing so carefully there?” remarked Mrs, Perish to her husband, who was studying over a document. ‘Oh, it's simply aletter. Ihave a friend in Havana, and I'm writing to tell him that if anything happens I'll go on his bond—unless he heads me off with a confession."—/ndianapolis News. When the pesky fly, So artful and sly, Doesn't care any longer to flutter He buzzes around ., With mournful sound And buries himself in the butter. —Chicago News. The idea of making the feet of Chinese wo- men small is that they may not go too far; but it doesn’t appear to have worked in the case of the empress dowager.—Philadelphia Times, WOULD IT JAR YOU? NO,SIR. One Hundred and Twenty- eight Pages of Fun— Pictorial and Otherwise. Anew Humorous Mag- azine from the ‘‘Judge”’ presses. For sale on all trains and at all live news stores. PRICE 25 CENTS. You cannot afford to miss it. It’s an out and out mirth provoker. Your Newsdealer sells it; or, send 25 cents in coin or stamps to JUDGE COMPANY, 110 Fifth Avenue, New York City. comicbooks.com