Judge, 1904-08-06 · page 16 of 20
Judge — August 6, 1904 — page 16: what you’re looking at
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This page mixes advertisements with satirical content typical of early 20th-century Judge magazine. The main cartoon features a **book agent pitching an encyclopedia to "Old John,"** who declines with the quip "I'm too old to ride now"—a joke playing on the agent's aggressive sales pitch and the customer's age. The **"Sonnet of a Farm-Hand"** uses ironic contrast: a farmer boasts about rural life's supposed benefits (pure air, no smoke, freedom from care) while the text reveals his actual misery (brutal sun, aching head, blistered back, only six dollars saved). The satire mocks romanticized notions of farm life versus urban work—both exhausting, but farmers deceive themselves about their superiority. The page is otherwise **dominated by period advertisements** for whiskeys (Hunter, Wilson, Old Overholt) and Leslie's Weekly magazine, reflecting the publication's commercial nature. The smaller poem about an eagle and donkey satirizes parental claims of offspring resemblance.
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©000000000 SONNET OF A FARM-HAND. How glad I am to be a toiler where There ain't no smoke to make your collar black— Gosh ! how that sun does beat down on my back !—- Where every prospect pleases, and the air Is always pure and bracin'—I declare, My tongue feels almost dry enough to z crack— Git up, there, Fan, or I'll give you a whack !— And all you have to do is laugh at care. pity them poor slaves that work away Up there in town—gee ! how my head Trex. does ache !— While I am out here, singin’, glad and gay— And what they earn the selfish bosses d take ; ay ca “ve saved six dollars since the first of May. And seems as though my blistered back ‘ud break. When perfection is reached, that —Chicago Record-Herald. ends it. It is thus that Prepare the system to endure summer heat yy fortifying with Abbott's Angostura Bitters, Hunter — “If you were married,” said the sum- e mer girl, * would you believe everything IS. ey husband told you 2" make him believe I believed it."—Wash- on its quality and purity has ington Star. passed the goal in the race. High in the air with mighty sweep The eagle circles free ; Both elephant and donkey say, “The child takes after me !” —New York Sun. Sold at all firstelass cates and by jobbers WM. LANAHAN & SON, Halumore, Ma. LESLIE’S WEEKLY Oldest and yet youngest ee : Boox-acent—"' Now, sir, can | sell you an encyclopedia?" illustrated paper in America Oto Joun—' No, I doan't think so. I'm tew old to ride now.”* Every part of the paper of human interest Jasper’s hints to money- makers alone are worth ten times the subscription price $4 per Year $1 for 3 Months BOTTLED IN BOND WHISKEY MUST BE AT LEAST FOUR YEARS OLD WEEKLY EVERY BOTTLE CONTAINS FULL MEASURE <MAN—-LS PPDCHyYzZ eee mane AND Desiring paper of superior excellence and uniformity can. secure it of the makers of the LITHOGRAPHERS P@Pers used in the various publications of THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY. ’ ’ 4 comicbooks.com