Judge, 1902-11-08 · page 12 of 16
Judge — November 8, 1902 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising** with one satirical joke. The main cartoon depicts a family obsessed with the early 1900s "food craze"—the period's faddish enthusiasm for branded breakfast cereals and health foods. The humor lies in the absurd escalation: grandmother eats one brand, mother another, children divided among ten brands, and the father eating hay in the stable, suggesting the fad has driven the family to nutritional chaos. The joke mocks Americans' gullibility toward commercial food marketing and health claims. This reflects genuine contemporary anxiety about industrialized food and advertising's persuasive power. The remainder is pure advertising: patent medicines (Abbott's Bitters, varicocele "cures"), railway services, Wilson Whiskey, and Bicycle Playing Cards. These ads reveal the era's unregulated medical fraud and aggressive commercial marketing targeting consumers' health anxieties.
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“What on earth has become of the Jinks family, 1 wonder?” | Why-—what's the trouble with “em?” “All hit heavy by the new food craze. Went over the other mornin’ and found |'em at breakfast—grandmother eatin’ | Blank’s food, Jinks’s wife tacklin’ Dobb's Cereal and the children divided between | ten different brands.” “And where was the old man?” “In the stable, eatin’ a bale o' hay.” —Atlanta Constitution. As a health-giver no tonic made equals Ab- bott’s, the Original Angostura Bitters. Drug- gists and grocers. Mrs. Housckeep—" John, you really | must have the landlord come and see for himself the damage the rain did to our ceilinj Mr. Housekeep—" 1 can't, without let- ting him see the damage ‘the children have done to the rest of the house.""— Philadelphia Press. Lonponperry is the water that Lovers of the kind of literature that is every expert club and hotel waiter a rare combination of philosophy and always serves to particular people. humor will turn somersaults of Joy when They know that it lends zest to they read “The Letters of a Self-made the appetite and blends perfectly Merchant to His Son" (Small, Maynard with wines and liquors. & Co., Boston). The father is a wide- awake man who understands human nature, and knows his Chicago by heart He is ‘a philosophic symphony in pork, For Barbers, Cigar |and his sayings that reek with worldly EASY MONEY or Nowndealcrs. sud | wisdom and horse sense make those of ‘Aldress Chas. Johnson; #0.B-807,Chicape | David Harum look like the aphorisms that sparkle in the average college paper. The son to whom the letters are written ott AIR Pees te einen ah _|is a Harvard student, and if he has any Sarat appreciation of eightcen-karat literary gold, he knows, or should know, that in many respects he has a father who can write letters that stamp him as a self- made combination of Lord Chesterfield and Josh Billings. VARICOCELE CURED FOR $10. YOU CAN BE CURED AT HOME. Ne .can cure yoo. And we will cure you for only fio. We ar nly doing this for a short time asa matter of advertisement to introduce our "New German Bicthod all over the world. Our caret beta cheap trentment. It w our regu ar géo cure, and we guarantee ein every wa YOU WISH TO KNOW WHAT VARICOCELE IS? Send for our free book, “How Dangerous is Varicocele,” and you will learn all We are the only physicians in America authorised to use the Famous German Cirulcion Treatment for Varicocnl. We have cored thousands upon eine 2 ade roculare. i WYSECK: Dept Bs, mare’ Vaniocele castes Write for Partleulars Free. SaiLendyon tal paricalary tres, 06 yea wil was enc heweet ig of th, nwa and tho youare Suing vat” We tre Med ne nay fieuer taoron is Aunts heres oe commas ek you have inventigated thin, We" aise Care Nervous Debinys nnd all Gncanca and’ wealtesses ot the pelve polos VIENNA MEDICAL INSTITUTE, 130 Dearborn St, Chicago, Ill SOUTHERN RAILWAY To SAVANNAH, AIKEN, AUGUSTA, Florida, Cuba and Nassau. THE ROUTE OF THE Established 1823. WILSON WHISKEY. That’s All! ‘THR WILSON DISTILLING CO. Baltimore, Md. Southern’s Palm Limited .+. AND. New York & Florida and Asheville, Hot Springs and Toxaway in the “LAND OF THE SKY” and SAPPHIRE COUNTRY. ‘The Route of the Washington & Southwesicrn Limited and the U.S, Fast Mail and New York & Memphis Limited. The Route Selected by the U. S. Government for the Prompt Handling of the U. S. Fast Mall. For information regarding Schedules, Sleeping Car Service, Rates, Etc., address N. Y, OFFICES, 271 and 1185 BROADWAY. ALEX. $. THWEATT, Eastern Passenger Agent. ALL SHE WANTED. old Millyuns has promised to marry Dolly next June if he lives ?"* "Yes; she says if he'll only Jive up to his agreement that’s all she'll ask.”” Bicycle Playing Cards wear well. Sold by dealers. Popular price. 29 backs, including new automobile designs. Order by name. Back shown is “‘Autobike’? design, Copyrighted, 1901, by U. S. Playing Card Co., Cincinnati, U.S. A. comicbooks.com