Judge, 1906-01-13 · page 13 of 16
Judge — January 13, 1906 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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This page from *Judge* magazine contains primarily **humorous anecdotes and short jokes** rather than political cartoons. The content reflects early 1900s American social satire: **Key humor themes:** - **"Supernatural"**: A debate about whether children should believe in Santa Claus—suggesting belief in fantasy prevents dissatisfaction with reality - **"Marriage Under Difficulties"**: A satirical account of a couple forced to marry straddling the Oklahoma-Kansas state line because their license wasn't valid across state borders—mocking jurisdictional absurdities - **"Information Wanted"**: A patient questions a doctor's five-dollar fee being as high as his fever—class commentary on medical costs - **"Incipient Consumption"**: A woman recovers from illness through proper diet—promoting food's medicinal value The jokes target **bureaucratic inefficiency, medical profiteering, social pretension, and marital difficulties**. The page also includes advertisements (Gold Seal Champagne, Sohmer Pianos, insurance) typical of period magazines. No specific political figures or events are caricatured on this particular page.
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SUPERNATURAL. ou think children should be en-, 10 believe in Santa Claus ?” answered the man who never ppy. ‘A touch of the super- eps them from being too frank ssing dissatisfaction with their 1s guits."— Washington Star. exposition where the Sohmer Pianos | brought into competition’with others ¢ invariably taken the first prize. “Do courage’ «Ye oks / satura’ in exp Christi Atever have be bey h NOT LUCKY FOR HIM. d of the family — You are very ry boy, to be the seventh son, It ag you everlasting fortune.” 7—"lthasn’t so far, All it’s tis the old clothes of my six —Mlustrated Bits. ‘TOO MUCH. Shipwrecked mariner (to the naive who is showing his friendship by rubbing noses in the usual native way)—“Look ere, [don't mind you makin’ me a king or a hemperor, but I'm ‘anged if I'll be a bloomin’ pocket ‘an‘kercher, "— Zhe} Stetch. Price lucky, will b Son No. oug! brothe The first thing in the morning, if you need a | tacer, should be a tablespoonful of Abbott's Argostura Bitters in an ounce of sherry or a (hs of soda. Try it NO QUITTING. Marryat—"You don't believe in di- sorce, then ?’ Mu: No, sir; I've got too much spo: blood.” “Marryat—" What has that to do with GOING TO A LONELY HOME, Uncle Mac Lockhart spent Monday tight with me, and said after the 2oth of month he would go back to Ken- ucky. I regret very much to have him lave. He is a good citizen and a Chris- tian to boot.—Seguachee ( Tenn.) News. HATES TO GO HOME, The lover can't help showing The girl he's calling on That when he's slow in going He's positively “ gone.” —Philadelphia Press. Evans First_in_ Progress First in Perfection First_in Popularity For120 Years!! Ale Marriage Paper “tres"| THE CORRESPONDENT, Toledo, Ohto. tion would set in. NURSERY VERS DE SOCIETY. How doth the little Busy B Improve each shining minute ? By saying things about her friends Who more than her are «in it.” And who, forsooth, is Busy B? I very much fear That the aforesaid Busy B Is Busy Body, dear. —Nashville American. MARRIAGE UNDER DIFFICULTIES. The Pond Creek (Okla.) Vidette tells a story of a young man who secured a mar- riage license there to wed a girl who lived | just across the state line in Kansas, Just before, the ceremony he happened to think that an Oklahoma license could not legal- ly be used in Kansas ; so the bridal party drove to the state line and over to the Oklahoma side of the road to have the ceremony performed there. Then the minister began to feel some doubts as to whether he had a right to perform a mar- riage ceremony outside of his own stat The matter was finally settled by having the marriage in the middle of the road with the minister across the line on the Kansas side and the bride and_bride- groom on the Oklahoma side.—Kansas City Journal. INFORMATION WANTED. Dr. Price-Price—"You've_just got a common fever, that's all. Five dollars, please.” Patient—“Pardon me, doctor, but—er —is the fever as high as the fee ?”"—De- troit News, Nervous old lady (on seventh floor| of hotel)—" Do you know what precau- tion the proprietor of the hotel has taken st fire ? Porter —" Yes, ma’am ; he has the place inshoored for twice wot it’s worth.” INCIPIENT CONSUMPTION. HOW FOOD HEADED OFF THE INSIDIOUS DISEASE. The happy wife of a good old-fashioned Michigan farmer says : “In the spring of 1902, I was taken sick—a general breaking down, as it were. I was excessively nervous, could not sleep well at night, my food seemed to do me no good, and I was so weak I could scarcely walk across the room. « The doctor said my condition was due to overwork and close confinement, and that he very much feared that consump- For several months | took one kind of medicine after another, but with no good effect—in fact, I seemed to grow worse. “Then I determined to quit all me cines, give up coffee and see what Grape- Nuts tood would do for me. I hegan to eat Grape-Nuts with sugar and cream and bread and butter three times a day. “ The effect was surprising ! I began to gain flesh and strength forthwith, my nerves quieted down and grew normally steady and sound, sweet sleep came back tome In six weeks’ time f discharged the hired girl and commenced to do my own housework for a family of six. This was two years ago, and Iam doing it still, and enjoy it.” Name given by Postum| Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There's areason. Read the little boo! “* The Road to Wellville,” in packages. THE “SOHMER” HEADS THE List OF THE HIGHEST GRADE PIANOS SOHMER PIANOS Only ance tn reaver S York. Sohmer Building, Sth Ave. cor tad St. cooK's Leder Et Tee ai award over all makes at the World’s Fair. Foreign Champag: es cost twice as much because are obliged to pay duty and ship freight on them.,| BERVEO EVERYWHERE AMERICAN WINE CO. 87. Louis ; WHAT A FAMOUS EDITOR SAYS ABOUT ingredients in each one. CLUB COCKTAILS. I sometimes drink a cocktail. In fact, Llike a cocktail when toward evening the fatigues of the day begin to tell on me. Some people like a cocktail as an appe- tizer, but everybody who likes a cocktail likes a good one. For a good while I have kept in my house, whether in the country or in town, the Heublein Club Cocktails in bottles, more for convenience than anything else. I knew they were good and | liked them, but just why they Were so good did not occur to me until some one, speaking of the vast quantities of these that the Messrs. Heublein must make in a “batch,” led me to this sort of reasoning. Bar-keepers, and even one’s self, in mixing cocktails, necessarily can- not have a uniform and exact quantity of A few drops more or less of either ingredient greatly changes the nature of the product. Ina great laboratory, where quantities like the Club Cocktails are made at a mixing, each article is accurately weighed or measured, and the compound is following an exact formula, This insures that each and every cocktail or bottle of cocktails put up shail | be precisely correct in its composition, Again, recalling the fact that age is nec- essary to the proper blending of all| liquors, it occurred to me that these hot- ted cocktails by the time they are used by the consumer may have already been} months or even years in bottle, hence that the blending must be perfect. Rea- soning thus, I feel constrained to tell my readers about it, as | know that a gondly number of them enjoy a perfect cocktail Uhave found the s-veral brands prepsred Heublein Brothers, Manhattan, Whiskey, Gin, Vermouth and York, all excellent GOLD SEAL America’s Favorite Champagne. Possesses all the delicious qual- ities of the best French wines at one half the cost of the im- ported product. 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