Judge, 1903-08-08 · page 12 of 16
Judge — August 8, 1903 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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This page mixes advertising with light satirical content typical of Judge magazine. **"An Eye to Business"** (the main cartoon) depicts a father and son negotiating over a birthday gift. The boy bought his father a knife for fifty cents—his entire allowance—then immediately demands a dollar and fifty cents compensation "or it's unlucky." The satire targets childhood logic and petty commercialism: the boy treats gift-giving as a transaction requiring profit rather than genuine generosity. It's gentle humor about children's mercenary thinking. **"July Envy"** (a poem) expresses summer heat exhaustion through envying a polar bear sleeping peacefully in arctic snow, free from thermometers and July temperatures. The satirical point: modern man is enslaved by summer weather and social obligations while animals escape into blissful hibernation. The rest is period advertising for whiskey, pianos, and other products—standard Judge content where ads subsidized publication.
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JULY ENVY. Somewhere Sleege on hs bed of snow, Established (823. And cold winds blow Across the vast expanse, Where snowflakes dance. He sleeps, his majesty the bear! No sultry glare Disturbs his dreams. There only gleams The softened Borealis light s Through his luxurious arctic night. He sleeps alone. | Man is unknown— That's All! Iceman and plumber, dairyman and) axe co Toma grocer, | Sneee a When he asks credit none can tell him ‘ “No, sir! The Umpire And, bliss of blisses ! there the months pass by With no thermometers and no July. Would I were there Somewhere, Up with the polar bear, Old; Rich, Mellow Flavor — Washington Star. Where taste is the test, flavor a ithe umpire, hence it is that You can face the work of life with a new determination when you feel full of energy. Abbott's, the Original Angostura Bitters, create Hunter = j= BaltimoreRye cat HSGere has made it The Most Popular r Whiskey in America NS ARTIFICIAL | ‘Bold at all first-class cafes and by jobbers. \ CARBONIC WM. LANAHAN & SON, Waluimore, Md. If Ananias were alive to-day he could easily get a job writing summer-resort booklets.—Philadelphia Record. THE “SOHMER” HEADS THE LIST OF THE HIGHEST GRADE PIANOS SOHMER se PIANOS setg mame Bor (who has spent fifty cents upon a knife for his father’s birthday present)—" Look, father, Sohmer Building, Gupte | here isa knife | have bought you all with my own money!" Sth Ave., cor 22d St. Yor! af Fatner—"* Thanks, my boy. It’s very good of you. Boy—" But, you know, you ought to give me something for it, Else it's unlucky.” Fataer—"' How much >” Bor—"'Oh about a dollar and fifty cents.”* IN CAMP Experience teaches that the success of a vacation in the woods depends fully as F much upon a careful choice of food and drink as upon congenial companions. Illustrated by GUS DIRKS : DEWAR'S. SCOTCH WHISKY “SPECIAL” and “ WHITE LABEL” 2 ] SI fellow: id For Sale Everywhere Ee epee er ’ sure to include itin your supplies this year THIS CAMPING PICTURE : nine 8; Vay Rew es , ' infer cers tm ary pln paper 2 : frercaement of any Kinds "Rea ¥e of cent in aver hutatle ‘ at fas or homes ‘ert month, in tary bythe famecs nase ry ‘Ciittca 7: Cispman. FREDERICK “GLASSUP ‘Agent for John Dewar & Sous, Lid.» 1265 Bleecker Street, - jew York comicbooks.com