Judge, 1903-06-06 · page 11 of 16
Judge — June 6, 1903 — page 11: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** from Judge magazine, with short humorous anecdotes in the margins—typical of early 20th-century publications mixing content and ads. The brief jokes are domestic humor and mild satire: - A gag about a fiancée's vague answer ("Because") to why she loves her partner - A newlywed couple joke (the bride unhappy that her husband spends only four evenings at the club instead of more) - A sword-swallower accidentally getting a toothpick stuck—slapstick wordplay - A piano teacher's frustration that a student's father uses "frightful expressions" (profanity) The **"Bingo/Jingo" reference** to the Sultan's palace guards is topical satire about Ottoman Empire security concerns, likely from the pre-WWI era when such news was current. The **dominant feature** is advertising for products like Egyptian Deities cigarettes, Williams' Shaving Stick, Sohmer Pianos, and patent medicines—reflecting the page's commercial purpose rather than editorial content.
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Tom—\ can't help asking my fiancée) Bingo—" I read in the papers that the oceasionally why she loves me.” sultan has had the guards around his Dick—Me, too. Mine always gives| palace trebled.” | ine a very satisfactory answer.” ‘Jingo—" Yes; and they're likely to be Tom—"That's so? What does she| quartered next."—Baltimore American. No better Turkish Cigarette say?" : See Dick— Because.”"—Philadelphia Pub-| «1 you please, Mr. Billings, can I get can be made lic Ledger. de afternoon off? Me grandmother "—— “Too thin, me boy. Just died, hasn’t| Ring- manager — What is all that| she 2” howl about over there in the side-show ?"| + Who—me grandmother? Not much, e Roustabout The sword - swallower] she ain't. She promised to take me to accidentally got a toothpick in his throat.” de ball game dis afternoon if I can get off.” —Baltimore American, “You can go, my boy."—Cleveland — Plain Dealer, Dr. A. Groyen, Royal Medical Staff, Berlin, , , recommends Angostura Bitters as ‘follows:| A pure juice! A natural ferment! The in- + These bitters are the most powerful stomachic | §redients which compose Coot's dmperial Ex- 3 and nervine which we possess, and, therefore, | 4"¢ Dry Champagne. may be warmly recommended by medical men.” _ “Well, is married life all that it is painted 2" asked the girl. | “Not quite,” replied the bride, with what her friend later declared she was almost sure was a sigh. ‘We've been married three months now, and during that time Jack has spent but four even- ings at the club."—Syracuse Herald, Hark ! In the dark watches of the night they could plainly hear footsteps in the kitchen, “ Burglars !" he exclaimed, hastily cov- ering up his head. * Oh, Henry !" sighed his wife ; « I wish I had your faculty for looking at the bright side of things. I'm sure it’s that Brown woman trying to entice my cook Cork Tips as well Husband (angrily)—"1 never saw a e ” An editor of a small paper recently! name of his wife he had to leav wn.— away."—Kansas City (Missouri) Inde- ore Gan please as you are” et /stated that he had been Wissed by one of| Fourth Estate. ee ee pendent, that L mstried you,"—-Chicago Wews.® | the most beautiful married women in the — os * |town, He promised to tell her name in| F. Hopkinson Smith—«'The Under Good health is real wealth—Abbott's the ; the first issue of his paper next month, | Dog’ is always sure of sympathy. What Original Angostura Bitters is a veritable for- ot steed Ake fo ce licens | In two weeks theclrculatian of his news: |aow?’ Painting, buildings witing, or tune to the weak. marked the lady in the Chicago city-hall.| paper doubled. But when he gave the| thinking ?"— Baltimore American. — “ Dog or man, please ?” asked the busy Young bride (looking over the new|Clerk.— Yonkers Statesman. house)—“ Why, Herbert, do you call this] —_— . litde pigeon-hole a shoe-closet ?” _ Piano-teacher— Don't you think, Mrs. Young husband— My love, that will|Smith, that your daughter plays with a hold a hundred pairs of shoes of the size| 00d deal of expression 2" you wear.” Mrs, Smith— \ never noticed that she Young bride— Well, perhaps you are| Said anything when she was playing ; but right. It’s neat and cozy, any way."—|1Am sorry to say that some of Mr. Smith’s| Chicago Tribune, expressions at times are simply frightful. —Boston Transcript, Packer’s | You may be an Ale Tar Soap drinker, but it takes > is pure, mild, invigorating and EVA N Ss antiseptic. It soothes while cleansing, and for more than a AL E quarter of a century has been The Standard To make you an For the Hair and Skin 8183 Fulton St., New York. THE “SOHMER”? HEADS THE LIST OF THE HIGHEST GRADE PIANOS SOHMER *SHAVING PIANOS STICK digas Barer clea Wasa ul taiae hee Genera Westey Merritt, U.S.A., says: Manuel Lopez @ Co., Sth Aven cor 22d St. Fositae New) «T have for a long time used your Shaving Stick 9-11 Thames St, = New York W# BARKER CO. TROY.NY: and found it better than any other I could procure.” 35-37 Randolph St. - Chicago, Til. EN S& LINED LARS fs, Its great convenience, as well as the comfort and pea a ea luxury it affords, commends Williams’ Shaving Stick to all travelers by land or sea. Which is the more valuable, your life, or your goods and chattels? The latter you are sure to insure; that which gains which gains) You will prompt a service them, your life—well, you didn't think of | by mentonksg Jovce Chee aero ae Price, ase. Of all druggists itthat way. _ og TASH Be aI Se, Osea: Cane. PENN MUTUAL LIFE, the’ Giaseng te | iow 921-3-5 Chestnut St, Philadelphia. | your money. F. B. MILLS, Box 60° eee Hil, Ro San Francisco—Four Days from New York or Boston—By NEW YORK CENTRAL,