Judge, 1901-01-19 · page 13 of 16
Judge — January 19, 1901 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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This Judge magazine page (appears to be from around 1900, based on "The 1900 Girl" book advertisement) is primarily an advertising page with brief satirical commentary. The main cartoon depicts a domestic scene with caption humor about aging: an aunt asks her eight-year-old niece how old the aunt is, and the child admits she cannot remember whether the aunt is "twenty-eight or eighty-two"—a jab at women's vanity about their age. A small article titled "The Old Guard" humorously notes that New York's elite Old Guard military-social organization, founded in 1826 and traditionally austere, surrenders annually to women at their ball. It's gentle satire about masculine pride yielding to feminine charm. Another brief item mocks the recent diplomatic note to China during the Boxer Rebellion era, suggesting it might be dismissed as a "pipe dream, or an opium-joint note"—cynically implying diplomatic efforts were unreliable. The page is otherwise dominated by period advertisements for whiskey, chocolates, shaving soap, medical nostrums (opium treatments), and steamship lines—typical of Judge's commercial content.
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