Judge, 1901-03-30 · page 14 of 16
Judge — March 30, 1901 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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This page contains multiple advertisements and satirical content typical of Judge magazine's mix of humor and commerce. **Main Satirical Content:** The "Reflections of a Storekeeper" column offers cynical observations about retail life and human nature—humor based on the gap between public morality and private behavior. Examples include selling sugar-cakes to dogs owned by ladies while mistreating stray dogs, and exaggerating customers' babies while lying about product quality. A brief political jab references Secretary of Navy and Admiral Sampson versus Commodore Schley, a contemporary naval dispute from the Spanish-American War era (unclear from text alone which figure represents what position). **Advertisements:** The page is dominated by ads: Trimble Whiskey (with toasting figures), an odometer, the New York Times Saturday Review (emphasizing its literary authority), and "The ZIM Collection"—water-color reproductions by cartoonist "Zim," compared to Mark Twain for his caricatures. The cooking-school joke is a simple pun about doughnut origins. Overall, this appears to be a typical mixed editorial-advertising page from early 1900s Judge.
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a you do drink, drink Tri 4 Nhe Nbig» * Come and take at my table a seat (Tho' granting the times may be bad); Now and then a good dinner I get, And my share of good Trimble I've + Phila, & New York. Whiskey ESTABLISHED 17 Green Label. if ‘AT ALL FIRST-CLASS DEALERS. OUR COOKING-SCHOOL,. Tracner —'* Where were doughnuts first made?” Scuotar—" In Greece.” REPLECTIONS OF A STOREKEEPER. We would be the most successful storekeeper in the world if we could lie so entertainingly about butter and eggs as we do about our cus- tomers’ babies. When a pug dog comes in with a lady we feed him sugar-cakes; but when the dog comes | in alone we crack his ribs with a potato-masher. | We never sold but one man a bottle of per- | fume, and he sprinkled that around the corn- jen toil ats ee pee. Some people eat ciscoes during Lent because jwe would ot trast them for sugar-cured ODOMETER hams, After a woman feeds her husband three | packages of prepared brain-food she thinks he ought to know enough to let her boss every- thing around, There is no cheese, however strong its con. | _Weemeenvenneeeesonnnoonnsconoosnesonssssesessesied stitution, but will feel weak when placed along-| Admiral Sampson Is reported to be wri side a young wife's first lemon-pic. a book. ‘These are halcyon days for the at We kiss'dirty-faced children sometimes more | miral's enemies. —Chicago Times- Herald as a matter of business than as a token of love. nase There ts no grief so pathetic as that of a| |,An Indiana girl, suing her lover for breach woman who buys a pair of shoes just before |°f promise, says“ he billed and cooed with the wwe start a bargain-sale in the shoe-department, | Petitioner for a\ period extending over two v buffalo Espress years.” Probably in his cooings and billiogs there were a good many josh billings.—Aanser City Star. The Secretary of the Navy should be warned — that he is Long on Sampson and not sufficient-| A tight fit—A fit of drunkenness.— Phils. ly Schley about it.—Atlanca Constitution. | delphia Bulletin. Dollar’s Worth Of Literature For Ten Cents! Send 10 CENTS for five numbers of the New York Times Saturday Review. justable attaching frteres to. é iiving wheel sizes and fal Information, imaera, Coating Maehaas & Piura, No other publication in the world devoted to books has so great a circulation as The New York Times Saturday Review. Harper's Weekly : “Not only has the Saturday supplement of THE TIMES become a serious and worthy factor in journalism, but all other proprietors of newspapers, whose wisdom is greater than their vanity, have emulated the example. Every daily journal in New York, and nearly every one in the country, now has a well-conducted literary department, Imagine, if you can, the extent of the uplifting influence thus wrought upon the minds of millions who require a con- stant whetting of the intellectual appetite for the acquirement of knowledge.” The New York Times Saturday Book Review is sixteen pages. It is the only publication which treats books as news. Send for sample copy. Address THE NEW YORK TIMES, New York. The “ZIM” Collection OF ORIGINAL WATER-COLOR REPRODUCTIONS OF SKETCHES BY « ZIM.” Price, $3.00 per Set of Eight Pictures. “Zim has been characterized as the Mark Twain of picturedom. His figures, while always broadly comic and sometimes grotesquely exaggerated, are nevertheless truly artistic caricatures of actual types, selected with fine humorous discrimination. The pictures in this collection were done specially for it, and have never been published in any other form. The elaborate color-work, reproduced in fac-simile by the famous French process, shows ‘ Zim’ in several of his happiest moods. Each individual figure of the set brings brightness and color to the wall, wherever it may be hung. This edition is limited to 2,000 sets. The collection consists of eight of the very best examples of Mr. Zimmerman’s work, reproduced in six colors by the original process, all handsomely mounted ready for immediate framing. The size of each picture, exclusive of the mounting, is 1x t4 inches, For decorative purposes they cannot be surpassed. The price of the ‘Zim ” collection is $3.00 per set of eight pictures, or the pictures can be obtained singly at 50 cents each JUDGE COMPANY, 110 Fifth Avenue, New York. comicbooks.com