Judge, 1906-10-27 · page 12 of 16
Judge — October 27, 1906 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from *Judge* magazine is primarily **advertising and humor reprints** rather than original political satire. The content includes: **Main Cartoon ("A Well-Meaning Proposition"):** A cab driver propositions a woman, offering to trade horses because his pulls better. The humor is in the crude double entendre—the "proposition" is ostensibly innocent but sexually suggestive to contemporary readers. **Recurring Joke Format:** Multiple brief jokes about marriage, engagement, and relationships occupy the upper portion. These are reprinted from other publications (credited sources like *Philadelphia Press*, *Baltimore American*), typical of *Judge*'s format of collecting witticisms. **Advertisements:** The page is dominated by ads for whiskey (Hunter Baltimore Rye), garters, blood poison cure, and house plans—typical patent medicines and consumer goods of the era. **Social Context:** The matrimonial jokes reflect early 20th-century attitudes toward marriage as somewhat adversarial between spouses. References to "fast" women and marital foolishness reflect period anxieties about gender and courtship norms. This is a **commercial miscellany** rather than sophisticated political commentary.
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BALTIMORE Re orTito Ov WH.LANAHAN & SON BALTIMORE. 50 YEARS’ TEST, STILL THE BEST CAUGHT. * Well, well! I'm surprised to hear of Miss Passay being engaged to Mr. Gay- man, He's so awfully fast, you know.” h, I don't know; apparently he wasn't fast enough to get away from her." —Philadelphia Press, SOMETHING EXCELLENT FOR LUNCH. * Atluncheon I had something which was excellent, but not substantial. “« What was it ? “An excellent appetite."—/ Diavolo vosa, Abbott’s Angostura Bitters make the best cocktail for family use. Druggists. MATRIMONIAL AMENITIES, “Twas a fool when I married you.” “ My friends all told me so at the time, madam."—Baltimore American. ‘THE RELATION CAME. In the Legard house there was a great dinner, After a while the maid was called and the mistress said, “Serve the dinner ; there is no one else to come ex- cept a relation of little importance.” Five minutes afterward the maid an- nounced in a loud tone, «The relation of little importance !"— Lo Scacciapensieri. Exceptional durability. combined with per- fection of tone and touch, make the Sohmer Piano peculiarly adapted to the use of pupils and teachers in establishments where piano playing is taught. Now that the college foothall season is ahout to open, perhaps those massacres over in Russia won't seem quite so gory. —Somerville Fournal. GENTLEMEN WHO DRESS FOR STYLE OMFORT JUST PLUNGE IN. lives hunting trouble. ried right away.—Somerville Fournal. Some men spend a large part of their Others get mar- NEATNESS, Al al BOSTON Ifyou drink champagne because it’s You're sure to drink the " Brotherhood. But if you drink it for a bluff, Then imported is good enough. The wine says the rest. good, THE RECOGNIZED STANDARD) “BAThe Name is Press Cutting send you all ROMEIKE’S LIES FLAT TO'THE LEG— NEVER SLIPS, TEARS NORUNFASTENS BLOOD POISON FOR MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS we have made the cure of Blood Poison preity, | Blond Polson Permanently, Cure Fou can be ‘opper-Colored § part of the body, Hair of Eyebro wt, write for prools of cures. 1oo-page FROM a list of fifteen weeklies considered, Juoce has just been se- lected as one of three me- diums to be used during the coming year by one of our largest National adver- tisers, the only humorous weekly to be used and the third renewal of this order. Mudge Wilson - Yor guararttee of purity, see back \abel oneverybaiiie; Wats WN A WELL-MEANING PROPOSITION. Cas oriver—'Gracious, madam! Won't you trade with me? He pulls better than mine.""—Aliegenden Blatter. DO YOU EVER THINK ABOUT OWNING: YOUR OWN ROME ? F YOU are thinking about Building a House an in- vestment of $1.00 now will save you hundreds of dollars in building a house, by get- ting the latest and most prac- tical ideas of the noted and capable architect, Mr. George Palliser. We therefore de- sire to call your special at tention to our new book just issued and containing over ONE HUNDRED UP-TO-DATE HOUSE PLANS THE TITLE OF THIS BOOK IS GEORGE PALLISER’S MODERN BUILDINGS A new up-to-date book, containing over one bundred plans (all new) of houses ranging in cost fom fraatatonseo, also plans of Pablc Liseary Baiting, Summer Hotela:Seablen Pablic Hs ten ates This took is a collection of practical designs showing examples of houses recently built. valuable to everyone thinking of building, by reason of their having. been, with very few exc planned in the ordinary course of a busy archnect’s practice daring the last lew years, and bal Fult"deacrition accompanes each plate, rring size, height of ‘hus giving information of very great val jn embody the best thought and most careful tly of those erecting t frving real results as {o-cost and a gubde that is sate to follow. These designs and plana haves! {orev value tat can be fully apprecated for their practical uulity, and stand alone as realexar of how some people's homes are planned and what they cont To those wanting homes or selling homesites, members of building associations land comp real-estate men, those having land 10 improve, carpenters and builders, and e ei io cree hopes town a home, theve denna are valuable and will Grove of very Ee f coneainas1§ large pages, ae 11 te ches.” Price, bound in beavy paper cover. 8!» imcloch, $2.00." Sent by mal, postpaid, (0 any address on feceit ~! aif orders with remittances to JUDGE COMPANY, 225 Fourth Avena w York Re order or check—don’t send comicbooks.com