Judge, 1906-06-23 · page 12 of 16
Judge — June 23, 1906 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising with light humor and social commentary**, typical of Judge magazine's format. **Main Content:** The page features product ads (whiskey, beer, patent medicines) interspersed with brief satirical pieces. "The Artificial Life" is a poem mocking consumer culture and materialism—a man lives entirely surrounded by artificial/manufactured goods, even fighting "dyspepsia" (indigestion) with artificial pills. The satire targets early 20th-century anxious consumerism. **The "Maud Muller" cartoon** references a famous 19th-century poem, updating it to modern times. The joke: instead of romantic pastoral concerns, the maid now worries about "magazine probers" investigating trusts (monopolies). This references contemporary "muckraking" journalism exposing corporate malfeasance—a major political issue of the Progressive Era (roughly 1900-1920). **Cultural Context:** These pieces reflect anxiety about industrialization, artificial products replacing natural ones, and growing corporate power—concerns driving Progressive Era reform movements.
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PPOOOS OO 0009 O00: RIPENED BY MATURITY, IN ABSOLUTE PURITY HUNTER BALTIMORE RYE OBTAINS ITS SUPERB BOUQUET 1 frat.class cafes and by Jobbers, \NAILAN & 6ON, Baltimore, Md. | digestive properties. ROMEIKE’S et er eihape clippings which may appear about you. ject on whic Every newspaper and United States and Earope too notices, Hawny Rowaixe, BLOOD POISON FOR MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS we have made the cure of Blood Poison a Blood Permanently Cured. Thome under same guar- ‘We solicit the most have exhausted the old or any sul ‘you Book Free. * COOK REMEDY Co. 1480 MASONIC TEMPLE, Chicago, IIL, U. S. A. pa | by all Droggi THE ARTIFICIAL LIFE. As a little child he lay In an artificial crib, Took his artificial milk In an artificial bib, Had an artificial mother And artificial aunts, And in time they put him Into artificial knickerbockers. To an artificial school And an artificial college Went this artificial youth After artificial knowledge ; And he loved, artificially, An artificial maid, With an artificial blush Ani an artificial braid, They are dwelling to-day In an artificial home, With an artificial porch And an artificial dome, And an artificial fireplace, Tiled in artificial blue; The chairs are artificial, And the rugs ar They An artificial dish, On artificial broth And artificial fish And artificial fowl cial fillets ; And they fight their dyspepsia With artificial pillets. An end will come To the artificial life Of this artificial man And his artificial wife. An artificial tombstone Will rise above the sod, And the artificial daisies Will nod, nod, nod. —Newark News. Abbott's Angostura Bitters are noted for their At all druggists’. SUCH IS HUMAN NATURE. “To the average moderate drinker,” observes an urban philosopher, “the other moderate drinker looks a good deal like a lush."—Exchange, SHAKE INTO YOUR SHOES Allen's Foot-Ease, Itcures painful, smart. ing, nervous feet and instantly takes the sting out corns and bunions. Foot-Ease makes tig! new shoes feel easy. Itis a certain cure for swea callous, swollen, tired, aching feet. Try it fo-day. ‘any substitute. ple of the FOOT-EASE ‘new invention, address, Allen stamps, Don't accy also Fre RN-PAD, sted, Le Roy, Ntson—- Whe only whaskey, thet places a compa, quararieed onclysis on each kerery, beltle- See back \abel! Thats Alt BUBBLES. A woman shouldn't jaw her husband any more when he has the mumps . The long and short of it sometimes is, By walking about a mile."—| can you draw a long breath ? Don’t think you see (crow’s) fect and lines in her face.—Philadelphia Bu‘letin, ‘A LONG-DISTANCE ROUND. Bill“ 1 want to get Secretary Taft's car, Do you know how I can get around him 2" Nn Yonkers Statesman, If you drink champagne because it's good, | You're sure to drink the « Brotherhood.” | {90,000 Bhicxtavers ens But if you drink it for a bluff, Francido,, We teach you in lew wel.” Unin art Then imported is good enough. guaranteed. Free catal ‘The wine says the rest. COYNE BROS. TRADE SCHOOLs, [St Loats New York: 239 10th Ave. Oe fs "Be a oe * MAUD MULLER UP TO DATE. Where are you going, my pretty maid ?"* really can't tell you, kind sir,”” she said Since the magazine probers are gayly turned loose, The milk trust, perhaps, will be next In the noose. Conditions are changed since | worked for * Ma * Goose.” HGH LIFE The Champagne of Bottle BEER The main point of beer, like everything else, is SUPERIORITY of QUALITY. Try a bottle of HIGH LIFE Beer and compare it with any other brand, and the question of Superiority and Quality will be settled for all time. We use only the best materials money can buy. We have spent fortunes to obtain, and are still spending large sums annually to. maintain “PERFECT PURITY.” You will find MILLER HIGH LIFE BEER for sale at all first-class hotels and clubs and on dining cars and steamships.