Judge, 1904-08-27 · page 11 of 16
Judge — August 27, 1904 — page 11: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains primarily **advertisements and humorous anecdotes** rather than political cartoons. The advertisements include Parker's Tar Soap (promoting healthy hair), Optimo Cigars, Sohmer Pianos, and prominent display for **The Prudential Insurance Company's "Safely Welded to the Rock"** campaign. The humorous content (labeled "GEORGIA SCENES," etc.) comprises **short jokes and stories**: - A future ocean liner with rooms so far apart you need a trolley-car - Questions about athletic girls and hammocks - A racial stereotype dialogue about a Black woman disciplining her child - Various one-liners about romance and food The **Evans** medicine advertisement emphasizes its "creamy head" and "rich bouquet." The jokes reflect **turn-of-the-century American humor**, including casual racial stereotypes common to the period. The Prudential ad showcases 1900s-era optimism about corporate "strength" protecting families. This is **primarily a commercial publication page**, not editorial satire.
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Fassenger (on ocean liner of the future) — Will you please direct me to my state room? It's No. 72 Clerk—« It’s about half a mile aft. Take trolley-car on starboard promenade.” try to conceal her age.” Mifkins—" What's the explanation ?' | She has a twin brothe Morning Telegraph. At the exhibition of the California fruit- growers’ association, at Ch the Sohmer Pianos were chosen in preference to all other makes, thus again showing the high estimation in which these popular instruments are held by | the public. + Do you think the modern girl is bene- fited by an athletic training ?” | “Yes,” answered Miss Cayenne. «It enables ‘her to get in and outof a ham-| mock without breaking her nec! Washington Star. Last week a strapping negro woman was up before a magistrate, charged with unmercifully beating her boy. “LT don’t understand how you can have the heart to treat your own child so cruelly,” said the magistrate. «Jedge, has you been a parent of a wufless yaller boy like dat ar cub of Never—no, never” (with great ve hemence—and getting red in the face). “Den don’t talk; you don’t know nuf- fin about it."—Philadelphia Ledger, Systematic Shampooing with Packers Tar Soap Pure as the Pines means healthy hair and scalp and| prevents premature baldness ‘The Packer Mig. Co., New York. well? Well, I should say so,” re- marked the Chicagoan, speaking of a prominent fellow -citizen, “Why, his} family ’s got money to burn “But their blood,” suggested the Bos- ton girl ; * what of that?” | “ They make extract of beef, blood pud-| dings and things of that. Nothing ever goes to waste in their slaughter-house.” | —Philadelphia Press. 40 sizes, 106. to 50e. each A. SANTAELLA & CO. Makers, TAMPA, Fla. | prospect to grow GEORGIA SCENES, Here you have a river Singin’ on the run ; Yonder is a green field Wavin’ in the sun. Here you have a youngster Swingin’ on a gate— Feller with a fishin’-pole, Another diggin’ bait. Not a bit o' gloom there— Everything is bright ; Wish I was a bloom there, Swingin’ in the light, Atlanta Constitution, ctive liver, depressed spirits—make | right with Abbott's Angostura Bitters. genuine Abbott's will revolutionize the system. “ Wouldn't it be a fine idea to establish | book stations in the Russian army so that the Russian soldiers could be supplied with good reading material ?" «But why favor the Russians rather than the Japanese 2” “Well, I wanted the Russians to have the books so that he who runs may read. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. "You look hot," said Sinnick. “One would think you had been running a) race « Well,” replied Faiker, the reporter, | *Lhave been chasing around to-day, for fact.” “Fora fact? What possible use could you have fora fact ?"— Catholic Standard. Cumso— Gildersleeve, why don’t you and Wilberforce smoke the pipe of peace Gildersleeve—"1 swore off smoking last month."—Detroit Free Press. AS EASY. NEEDS ONLY A LITTLE THINKING. The food of childhood often decides whether one is to grow up well nourished and healthy or weak and sickly from im- proper food. I's just as easy to be one as the other, provided we get a proper start. A wise physician like the Denver doctor who knew about food can accomplish wonders, provided the patient is willing to help and will eat only proper food. Speaking of this case, the mother said her little four-year-old boy was suffering from a peculiar derangement of the stom- ach, liver and kidneys, and his feet became so swollen he couldn't take a step. “We called a doctor who said at once we must be very careful as to his diet, as improper food was the only cause of his sickness, Sugar, especially, he forbid. (0 the doctor made up a diet and the al food he prescribed was Grape- s, and the boy, who was very fond of sweet things, took the Grape-Nuts readily without adding any sugar, (Doctor ex- plained that the sweet in Grape-Nuts is not at all like cane or beet sugar but is the natural sweet of the grains.) “ We saw big improvement inside a few days and now Grape-Nuts are almost his only food, and he is once more a healthy, happy, rosy-cheeked youngster, with every p into a strong healthy man.” Name given by Postum Co., Bat- tle Creek, Mich. ; The sweet in Grape-Nuts is the nature- sweet known as Post Sugar, not digested in the liver like ordinary sugar, but pre- digested. Feed the youngsters a hand- ful of Grape-Nuts when nature demands sweet and prompts them to call for sugar. There's a reason. Get the little book, “ The Road to Well- ance. ville” in each package. ‘You will get more prompt attention and better service ‘Sold by First Class Dealers Everywhere. by meationing JUDGE when anawering advertisements. First lump of delight My husband is so jealous.” Second lump of delight—" How ab- surd !" First lump of delight yours ?” second lump of delight—" Of course | not.” First lump of detight— atin; ‘—New Yorker. Mr. Eubedee— Yes, I've changed a good deal since then, Mrs. Jones.” Mrs. Fones—* And lor the better, T “Why, isn’t They used to call mea wild youth, you remember ; but now "—— Mrs. Fones—" Now ?” “Now they call me an How humili- He—" Did Hi at the seashore ? I don't know ; but his friends in hicago Fournal. vans. Ale. Its Creamy Head Its Rich Bouquet Its Mellow Flavor Its Perfect Condition Spoil you for the “muddy” kind Any deater, Anywher vacation “ Look here proprietor, * what did you guest “Why,” replied the waiter, “he didn’t pass over a tip, so I said, +I think you have forgotten something, sir." “That's just it. After you said that he returned to the table and took three or | anges and six pears,"— Chicago Vews. First boarding-house mistress— Vve seen it figured out that people can live on twelve cents a day. cond boarding-house mistress— but you can't get them to do it."— dyn Life Wives sometimes object to life insur- They know Get particulars free. No i) Widows never do. its value. portunity. PENN MUTUAL LIFE, 5 Chestnut St., Philadelphia Any place Safely Welded Provision for the future of your family and protection for your home is loyalty to your sacred trust. The Best Provision The Safest Protection LIFE INSURANCE The Prudential INSURANCE CO. OF AMERICA. Dept. N. HAS THE STRENGTH OF GIBRALTAR JOHN.F. DRYDEN, President. “Visit The Prudential’s Exhi Home Office: NEWARK, N. J. , Palace of Education, World's Fair, St. Louis” “Why,” asked the teacher, «did Nebu- chadnezzar eat grass ?" And after a silence the small boy from Chicago made answer, Maybe there was a beef strike in Babylon."— Washington Magistrate —“ The evidence clearly shows that yon threw a stone at this. man.” Prisoner—" .n’ the looks of the man shows more thin that, your honor; it! shows that I hit him."—Scraps. First-Class Hotels and Clubs, on Wheels The Through “Trains of... The New York Central. comicbooks.com