Judge, 1906-06-09 · page 12 of 16
Judge — June 9, 1906 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from Judge magazine is primarily **advertising and advice columns**, not satirical cartoons. The main content includes: **Advertisements**: Hunter Baltimore Rye whiskey (claiming 50 years of quality), patent medicines (Santal capsules for kidney trouble, blood poison treatments), and notably **Grape-Nuts cereal**, featured in a testimonial about feeding a sickly infant who recovers through proper nutrition. **Humor sections**: "Freaks of Language" plays on English linguistic absurdities (why "horse-radish" isn't actually radish drawn by horses). "Halcyon Days" jokes that a father means the summer months when his wife is away from home—mild domestic humor about marital relief. **The Wilson's whiskey ad** (top right) emphasizes complete analysis on each bottle as a selling point. The page reflects early 20th-century attitudes: patent medicines with dubious claims, infant feeding advice (Grape-Nuts as baby food), and lighthearted misogyny in the "halcyon days" joke. There's no identifiable political satire here—it's largely commercial content typical of the era's magazines.
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C87 Satrimore RYE WH.LANAHANG SON BALTIMORE. 50 YEARS’ TEST, STILL THE BEST Sold at all Aratetass cafes and by jobbers. Wit EaNAWAN & 80%, Daitimore, A few copies of the first edition of THIS AND THAT ABOUT CARICATURE By Zim, are still available. Upon receipt of $1.50, this clever little book will be sent to any address, postage prepaid. JUDGE COMPANY, New York GROUND FOR SUSPICION. An Emporia woman brought suit in the district court to-day for a divorce from her husband because she found a canceled cheque in his cheque-book for two-dollars for ribbons for his typewriter. Emporia Gazette, BLOOD POISON FOR MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS . Punples, Copper-Colored Spots, Ulcers on any part of the body, Hair or Eyebrows faling one, write for prove of cures. toorpage Book Free. COOK REMEDY Co. 1680 MASONIC TEMPLE, —Chicage, IIL, U. S. A. | tions offered him continues to hold down FREAKS OF LANGUAGE. While a delegation is a bunch of dele- gates, an amputation is not a collection of amputates or a precipitation a number of precipitates. A clothesline is a rope to hang clothes on, but hanging checks on a checkline would be both risky and eccentric. Horse-cars are so called because they are drawn by horses, yet no amount of horse-hauling could make the ordinary radish a horse-radish. Though an ice-chest is undeniably a chest for the retention of ice, no one would think of storing hair in a hair trunk or zinc in a zinc one. While life-insurance provides an indem- nity against the going out of one's life, fire-insurance does not provide against one's fires going out. Money paid to a ferryman is ferriage, but money paid to a cabman is not cab- bage.—Chicago News. Mothers will find Mrs, Winslow's Sooth- ing Syrup the best remedy for their children. ase a bottle. HALCYON DAYS. “ Pa, what are halcyon days ?” “Sh-h-h,” replied H. Peck, sr.,as he looked around to assure himself that he and his son were alone ; “they're the glo- rious summer days when your dear mam- ma is far, far away from the wicked, noisy city, enjoying freedom from house- hold cares and getting the sweet pure air she needs so much."—Chicago Record- Herald. We often wonder why the man who is always boasting of the splendid posi- a cheap job.— Exchange. BUILDING FOOD TO BRING THE BABIES AROUND. Wson- “Whe ony winskey thet places a compde, quaxarieed onclysis on each werery, battle. See back \abe\! Thats All When a little human machine (or a large one) goes wrong, nothing is so im- portant as the selection of food to bring it around again. * My little baby boy fifteen months old had pneumonia, then came brain fever, and no sooner had he got over these than he began to cut teeth and, being so weak, he was frequently thrown into convul-| | sions,” says a Colorado mother. “I decided a change might help, so took him to Kansas City for a visit.. When we got there he was So very weak when he would cry he would sink away and seemed like he would die. | “When I reached my sister’s home she said immediately that we must feed him || Grape-Nuts and, although I had never| used the food, we got some and for a few days gave him just the juice of Grape- Nuts and milk, He got stronger so/ quickly we were soon feeding him the Grape-Nuts itself, and in a wonderfully short time he fattened right up and be- came strong and well. | “That showed me something worth knowing and when, later on, my girl came I raised her on Grape-Nuts ‘and she is a strong, healthy baby and has been, You will see from the little photograph I send you what a strong, chubby youngster the | boy is now, but he didn’t look anything like that before we found this nourishing, food. Grape-Nuts nourished him back to | strength when he was so weak he couldn't |keep any other food on his stomach.”| Name given by Postum Co,, Battle Creeks, | Mich. All children can be built to a more sturdy and healthy condition upon Grape-_| | Nuts and cream, The food contains the} elements nature demands, from which to make the soft gray filling in the nerve- centres and brain. A well-fed brain and strong, sturdy nerves absolutely insure a healthy body. Look in packages for the famous little book, «The Road to Wellville.” TYPICAL AMERICAN DRUMMERS the weekly that makes people laugh. Full of fun, good-nature and | Jud JE optimism. Sceu everywhere. A great favorite with the general public. Makes mirth for the reader and money for the advertiser. Lame | —the pioneer illustrated news weekly of Amer- Leslie S Week! ica. Enters over 100,000 homes every week and is read by all the family. Its columns arc A very profitable advertising medium. For advertising rates, specimen copies, and detailed information, address | JUDGE COMPANY :: 225 Fourth Avenue, New York | clean, instructive. and entertaining. Recora