Judge, 1903-11-28 · page 16 of 21
Judge — November 28, 1903 — page 16: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** from Judge magazine, with several short humorous anecdotes interspersed between ads. The page contains no political cartoons. Instead, it features **social humor** typical of early 20th-century American magazines: - A joke about a man building a chicken house for "pink camels" (absurdist humor) - An anecdote about a woman asking a suitor if he'd love her when old - A child's misunderstanding of "octogenarian" as a disease - A joke about gossips being like automobiles—destructive and loud The **advertisements** promote products common to the era: Kodak cameras, Deimel underwear, Angostura Bitters, champagne, pens, and Whitman's chocolates. These ads reflect consumer goods marketed to middle-class readers. One ad jokes that Southern Railway excursion tickets offer "perpetual comfort"—typical period advertising copy. The page represents **leisure reading**: light humor, consumer culture, and product promotion aimed at affluent readers, with no satirical political content.
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“Hello!” said the neighborly bore. “« What are you building the new chicken- house for ?” “Why,” replied Nettles, pink camels, of course. You didn’t sup- pose I'd put chickens in it, did you ?"— Philadelphia Public Ledger. Clear complexion indicates pure blood— result from use of Abbott's, the Original An- gostura Bitters. « And before | accepted him,” said Miss Passay, “| asked him if he would love me when I was old.” The idea!” exclaimed Miss Bright. “Why, if he proposed to you already proved that, hadn't he delphia Record. A DELIGHTFUL HYGIENIC LIQUEUR, distilled from the strengthening herbs of the tropics—Dr. Sicgert’s Angostura Bitters, the only genuine. Women should remember that to catch aman needs only a net, but to hold him Ja cage—wVew York Press. G 428! tt for a flock of | F ‘You will get more prompt attention and better service by mentioning JUDGE when answering advertinements. if A Holiday Hint KODAK Booklet at the dealers or by mail. EASTMAN KODAK CO., Rochester, N.Y. George,” said the little girl to her} brother as she looked up from the paper she was reading, “it says here that, an- other octogenarian is dead. What is an octogenarian 2” “Well, I don't know what they are, but they ‘must be sickly creatures. You! never hear of them but they are dying.” — Youth. If a man tells you he has a cold, tell him'to try Deimel Underwear and'you won't have to ask how his cold is again. Weslern Champagne 0 Wi rfectly natural in flavor, and sold at about one- half the cost of foreign vintages Made by the PLEASANT VALLEY WINE COMPANY RHEIMS, W. ¥. For Sale by Leading Houses everywhere. W# BARKER CO. TROY.NY. ‘WINTER EXCURSION TICKETS ON SALE. ‘The Southern Railway announces winter excursion tickets Bow on sale to the health and resorts of asp evel the the perpetual com- Sas fered bythe Southers Railway is of the mm asa and it reaches all the prlacipal re: | Most gossips like an auto are— son at the Prpcipal re-| Most gossips fries und the Precise oan “Through Pull: | Deserving of our scorn; nbor d z jcar, and diomgrcar sev. | For while they run their neighbors down Te aoe me ‘They also blow their horn. —New York Sun. ALI-POINTED PENS Broadway. Alexander (H. HEWITT’S PATENT.) Suitable for writing in every position; glide over amy papers never scratch or spurt ‘Made in England of the finest Sheffield rolled steel, Batt-Porwre pens are mere duraNe, and are ahead of all others FOR EASY WRITING ARE THE BEST BUY THEM. Buy an assorted sample box of 2& pent for 28 ots., a ‘a fon to suit your hand. Having found one, stick to it! vost yeex yrost M, BAINBRIDGE 4 CO., 99 Watiau SrAcET, New York, \er any Sationery Store, WY SE WHITMAN’S Chocolates and Confections Always the Successful Candidate Hunter —"You look pleased abou something, Dumley.” ; Dumley—" | have reason to. I've just thought of a jolly good answer to a co- nundrum. If I could only think of a co- nundrum to fit it, by George ! I believe I'd send it to the papers."— Boston Tran- comicbooks.com