Judge, 1901-09-28 · page 14 of 20
Judge — September 28, 1901 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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This page consists primarily of **advertisements and miscellaneous content** rather than political cartoons. The notable satirical pieces include: **"The Arts of Childhood"** column mocks urban disconnection from rural skills. An elderly narrator laments that modern boys can't make kites, water-wheels, or cornstalk fiddles—traditional pastimes—suggesting anxiety about lost Americana and industrialization's effects on youth. **"A Letter from Home"** is a darkly humorous rural dispatch listing disasters (fire, death, jail) with deadpan acceptance, satirizing rustic stoicism and backwoods indifference. **"Obliging"** presents a brief joke about a village laborer's honest admission that he can't predict when his current job ends, let alone secure the next one—satirizing working-class precarity. The page also features standard period advertising for pianos, whiskey, morphine (legal then), and *Quality* magazine itself, reflecting Judge's commercial function alongside satire.
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THE “SOHMER” HEADS THE THE ARTS OP CHILDHOOD. LIST OF THE HIGHEST ** We hear a good deal these days about the GRADE PIANOS. |PX27 i the man, who, though old ip Established 1823. “ Twonder if the world realizes that some of the most pre- cious arts of childhood are in danger of becom- ing extinct? How many boys to-day can make a kite, properly hung and with a tail sufficient | to balance, the ends nicely bent and worked down with a bit of broken glass? I interviewed my young nephew the other day, and was thun- derstruck to discover that he knew nothing about it, Could he make a water-wheel, a s Sohmer Building, gry, Suey | wind-misl, an elder pop-gun, a jack-lantem. a puecater Sew ntemn. ‘. i buzz-wheel, an air-gun from a goose-quill, with h t?: All p sere ie St = a sliced poisto foremmanition a willow whis- That’s ! A LETTER FROM HOME. tle,a squirt-gun? No; he knew nothing about Dear Bill * This is to let you know your them. * But surely,’ said I, almost pathetically, house took fire on Wednesday last. bein’ struck | *you can make a cornstalk fiddle ? Do you by lightnin’, your two mules run away with a| mean a violin, unk? said he, yawning. ‘Then circus, your uncle Jim is dead, an’ your broth-| I gave it up. I don’t believe the youths of to- er Bill is in jail fer moonshinin’. | would write | day know enongh to stick a feather in a corn- more, but there is no news worth mentionin’. | cob and throw it into the air. Iam going to Be good !"—A tanta Constitution write a book some day upon the arts of child- hood to save them from utter annihilation.”“— GENTLEMEN'S, HEAVY Detroit Free Press. THE WILSON DISTILLING CO, WHAT IS PAME? ‘This from the correspondence column of a fal. weekly farm paper: ‘* I would like to exchange | a volume of Byron's works for some pickle- jars; also an illustrated copy of Tennyson for a good receipt for hog cholera. I have also Milton’s * Paradise Lost, which I will be glad to exchange for a few pear-trees,"—A tata e hich company shall I take?” is some- |times a question with a young man, Alter a few relatives die of some hereditary dis- case the question is, “* Which company will take me?” Better get life insurance while you can. Pawy Murvat. Lark, 221-3-5 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. MANCHESTER, N. H., The Leading Family and Farm- ing Paper in New England, OBLIGING WILL MAKE THEM ! uj llage jobher, who for days has been working” in the Aouse}—"*Can you tell me when you are likely to have fnished this a job?” ONLY ADVER ViLLace Jonuee—" If you can tell me, mura, wheer I'm likely to TISE INIT.. get another.” lee 3 =. ‘The John B. Clarke Co, Arthur E. Clarke, iT SORT Publishers Manager is published everywhere September 20th. “ a YOU CAN'T FAIL TO MISS IT! = oars oe ‘and book (in ape) | ibe fe PURDY, Room 4 Bins Dullelon, Houston, Fens. A High-class Satirical Monthly. Illustrated by the best-known artists and caricaturists, and contributed to by our brightest writers. A MAGAZINE OF SOCIETY, Lackawanna the first edition of which was completely sold out three days after” Railroad publication. QUALITY is sold by all first-class booksellers, and is to be found at your hotel or at all important railway stations. Beftale, wt PERRO PRICE, 10 CENTS PER COPY.