Judge, 1906-03-17 · page 14 of 16
Judge — March 17, 1906 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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This page from Judge magazine (established 1893) contains primarily **advertisements and humorous filler columns** rather than pointed political satire. The main content includes: 1. **"Another Reform"** — A satirical piece mocking reform movements by absurdly proposing to "reform" checkers (the board game) through ridiculous restrictions, mirroring contemporary Progressive Era campaigns to regulate sports like football for safety reasons. 2. **"A Pastor's Qualifications"** — Rustic humor about rural church congregants listing contradictory, mundane expectations for a new pastor (whiskers, golfing ability, snow-shoveling skills), satirizing small-town pretensions and changing social expectations. 3. **"Sizing Him Up"** — Brief class-consciousness joke contrasting a man's pompous bearing with his ordinary "mister" title. The page is dominated by **product advertisements** (liqueur, Pears' soap, Trimble Whiskey, tabasco sauce) typical of Judge's revenue model. The humor reflects period attitudes toward religion, social reform, and masculinity rather than partisan politics.
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The Supreme After-Dinner Cordial LIQUEUR EAGLETTE An especially fine American product, ace knowledged by connoisseurs to be unequalled here or abroad. Asa delicious aid to diges- tion, and-a cordial of delightful favor, itis without a rival. A fitting fin UEUR DISTILLERIES ros. Cineiunatt, U.S. A. SIZING HIM UP. “Who is that big man?” stranger. asked the replied the native, “is Mr. Pompus. “Only plain ‘mister’? Wh the bearing of a major-genera * Yes; and the overbearing of a young lieutenant."— Exchange, he has Pears’ “Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win.” One cake of Pears’ con- vinces. ‘Sold all over the world. Jasper’s Hints to Money-makers 4 Do you ever make investments in Wall Street securities? Do you ever buy or tell stocks of bonds? If s0, do not fail to read " Jasper's Hints to Money-makers!” every week in * Leslie's Weekly." in which questions regarding stoc' and bonds are honedily and conservatively answered, and hints given as to the outlook in the @ock market from week to week. This is the moft reliable financial department publish- ced in the United States, and thousands have teftifed in writing that it has either made or saved them money. 4 Buy a copy of “Leslie's Weekly" at your newsdealer’s for ten cents, and see for yourself, or send in a three months’ trial subscription to + Leslie’s Weekly” for $1.00, which will give you the right to free an- swers to any questions regarding s#-chs and bonds which you may ask. Aditew Jadge Company, 225 Fourth Avenue, New Y. ANOTHER REFORM. A Massachusetts man, influenced by the success of the agitation to reform football, is endeavoring to arouse the humanitarian interest against checkers, He desires to moderate the rigors of that game, which, he says, numbers its vic- tims in the thousands, He would mod- ify the glaringly vicious features of the game in the following manner, to wit: 1, Abolish the king row. mit the jumps to one in any direction, 3 Restrict the bets to one glass of hard cider on each game. 4. Adopt a minimum age limit of sev- enty-five years for players. 5. Pronibit discussions of the game out- side of the cobbler’s shop or grocery- store. 6. Compel each player to produce a written permit from his wife. 7. Restrict the playing to one evening a week, and stop the game when curfew rings. A PASTOR'S QUALIFICATIONS. Our Baptist Meeting House is still with- out a Pastor in charge all the time reg- ular since our former Pastor repaired over to Camden N. J. across the River to take 1. A No. of different pastors have been in our midst trying themselves on our citizens but on acct of not being up to the qualifications we reckon the place is still open. What a heap of our citizens would like to see in the way of a new Pastor is viz, Whiskers, kind eyes cither blue or gray, wife not very pretty but a heap sociable, no small children but some daughters would be O. K., pas- tor should bea right smart talker with- our reading sermons & should be able to make speeches at political meetings, take in smokers in the Bee ‘Hive, drop in at the P, O, at nights now & then, play golf, .. Tennis, B. B., sieve his own ashes & shovel his own snow off not saying any- thing about keeping Garden & keeping the parsonage in repair such as painting & fixing up. MAYBE we will have a permanent 1 some time.—Bustleton Cor- respondence Philadelphia North Ameri- can, A BOOTBLACK’S ESTIMATE OF FOLK. Of the many points of view from which to judge the success of a lecturer, the one revealed in this incident is unique. The hootblack at an Illinois Chautau- qui assembly was asked, * Who was the est lecturer on the programme this as the quick reply ink Governor Folk the twenty-five cents the day he was here."— Lippincott's. ‘Adds tastiness to food, encourages the appe- tite,and promotes digestion. But ‘Metihenny’s, th Gravies, Oyst | wedded wife ?” words of the church catechism, «1 re-/m |nounce them all. A bridegroom at St. John’s Kilburn was asked by the vicar the customary question, | agara falls ?” “Wilt thou have this woman to be thy and he replied in. the| water I should say there had been some u do drink, drink Trim one ye bia Tnx \s "To Woman! A perfect being, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort and com- d." —Wordsworth rimbie Whiskey Green Vabel. AT ALL FIRST-CLASS DEALERS. Ware, uewizeco. ‘evamuihen 179% MIXED UP. LIKE HOME, Knicker What do you thin’ Bocker—" Well, from the ghty_carel w York Sun, blasting going on." "—London Standard, | N “Rub it on wood and make it come good.” In by-gone times an itching palm was said to betoken the recelat ‘of money. Today, the sure sign of money & an advertisement in Leslie's Weekly and Juice Large and certain returns result from the use of these money-making mediums Leslie's Weekly wire inet homes every week and is read by all the family. Its colsrnas ie be instructive and entertaining. A very profitable advertising medium. Judge sthe weekly that makes people laugh. Fall of funy nature and opt everywhere. A great Frvorite with the gf cence ‘publice ‘Makes mirth for the reader and money for the advertiser. LESLIE'S WEEKLY, Fourth Ave. and 19th St., New York City. Fourth Ave. and 19th St, New York Cty. ‘W. L. MILLER, Advertising Mgr. B. C. EVERINGHIM, Advertising Mc’. CHAS. B. NICHOLS, Western Representative, [313 Hartford Bidg., Chicago. JUDGE, amount of