Judge, 1903-07-18 · page 12 of 16
Judge — July 18, 1903 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from Judge magazine contains primarily **advertisements and brief humor pieces** rather than political cartoons requiring historical context. The main content includes: **Advertisements:** Hunter Baltimore Rye whiskey, Wilson Whiskey, Ocean Steamship Company (Savannah Line), Pears' soap, and Bausch & Lomb lenses. **Humor pieces:** Short jokes about theater courtship, the difference between "hi tragedy" and "low comedy," and a schoolboy's clever response to a teacher about the word "fail." **One substantive satirical piece** criticizes the **University of Chicago's advertising practices**—comparing their recruitment of a Michigan professor to "patent-medicine" marketing tactics. The critique suggests the Rockefeller-funded institution used undignified commercial methods (like soap wrapper contests) to attract students, contrasting unfavorably with traditional academic gravitas. The satire targets **turn-of-century university commercialism** and Chicago's aggressive, business-minded educational approach. The referenced "Dr. Harper" likely means William Rainey Harper, Chicago's founding president known for aggressive expansion.
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“The patent-medicine style of univer- sity advertising is characteristic of Chi- cago. Harperesque—in short, to the last, least detail. Only in the Rockefeller insti- tution of learning and applied faking would it be possible. A professor from the University of Michigan goes to the Uni- versity of Chicago and immediately a prize-heifer advertising campaign is inau- gurated to entice his students to follow him. One wonders only that the Harper uni- versity contented itself with merely offer- ing Professor Mechem’s post-graduate courses to the Ann Arbor seniors, What was the matter with Chicago's premium department? Could no business alliance be formed with one of Chicago's famed industries by which the Michigan student who presented so many wrappers of So- and-So's laundry soap should receive a post-graduate course free of cost? Are there no additional inducements to be offered to the Michigan student who forms the greatest number of words out of the letters of Dr. Harper's name ?”—Detroit Free Press. Hi Tragedy—* Yes, I'm with Bigstar's company now. I get a hundred a week.” Lowe Comedy— Say | you'd be in luck if you only got the difference.” Hi Tragedy—" The difference? What do you mean?” Lowe Comedy—“ The difference be- tween what you get and what you say you get."—Philadelphia Press. eo What's in a Name Like a racer in the chase, far to the front, and forging ahead, Hunter BaltimoreRye Is the leading whiskey of America. In a great run the country over, on its quality, popularity, reputation, it comes up always on call. Jane. “ Do you, Millie ? do you start 2" “T can tell you better in the morning. The young man who will buy the tickets is coming up to-night to propose."—Cleve- land Plain Dealer, ‘es, I hope to go to Europe this year, How nice! When Sold at all f.st-class cates and by jobbers. WM. LANAHAN® SON, Raltimore, Md. Hay Fever ? Run Down? Over- worked? Insomnia? Depres- sion? Physician advises sea trip ? Time and money limited? Friends advise go where telegrams, telephones and correspondence cannot reach you? You have been leading too sedentary a life? A trip to Europe too long, expensive and tiresome? A short sea voyage possible? Where to go? How? By Savannah Line. New York-Savannah, Ga., 100 hours round trip at sea. New modern passenger ships. Trip may be made, if desired, less than a week. Climate of Sa- vannah, Spring, early Summer, delightful. All expenses at sea, round trip, only $32.00. No malaria. No hay fever at sea. No telephones; only rest and rec. reation. Agent, 317 Broadway, N. Y., will tell you more about it and give interesting printed things. OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO. SAVANNAH LINE Literature will be mailed free. Address C. B, WALWORTH, Gen, Pass. Agt., Room A, 81 Beach St., N.Y. Established 1823. WILSON WHISKEY. That's All! THE WILSON DISTILLING CO., Baltimore, Md. JANE'S ESTIMATE, Misrress— Jane, Jane! you've broken cost a dollar apiece.” You must be more careful. Each of those tumblers Jane—" Law, mum! now I should ‘ave thought they wouldn't cost more'n twenty cents apiece.” «Remember, boys,” said the teacher, « that in the bright lexicon of youth there's no such word as * fail.’ After a few moments a boy raised his hand. “ Well, what is it, Socrates ?" asked the teacher. “I was merely going to suggest,” re- plied the youngster, “that if such is the case it would be advisable to write to the publishers of that lexicon and call their attention to the omission." 7he Wasp, Crusteigh— How did you dare, sir, to kiss my daughter last night on the bal- cony 2” Gayboy—* Well, now that I've seen her by daylight, I wonder myself."—Cincin- nati Commercial Tribune. Pears Pears’ soap is dried a whole year. That's why it lasts so, as a wafer. It wears as thin Sold all over the world, “Lama self-made man,” said the proud individual, “Well, you are all right except as to your head,” commented the other part of the conversation. “ How's that 2” “The part you talk with is out of pro- portion to the part you think with,” Siz Francisco Wasp. comicbooks.com