Judge, 1906-10-27 · page 14 of 16
Judge — October 27, 1906 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily an **advertisement and humor magazine spread** from *Judge* magazine. The cartoons and jokes satirize American society circa 1906: **"Valuable Statistics"**: A mock-serious article that pokes fun at obsessive quantification. It combines absurd hypotheticals (Niagara Falls as beer, giant noses) with invented statistics—satirizing both public fascination with "impressive numbers" and pseudo-scientific showiness. **The jokes** (Mark of Favor, The Boston Boarder, Honors Easy, You Get Used to It) are brief, pun-heavy social humor typical of the era, mocking pretension (a Boston boarder using fancy Greek terms) and class differences. **Advertisements** for alcoholic beverages (champagne, Club Cocktails, Trimble Whiskey) and other products dominate the page—standard for *Judge*, which relied on liquor advertising revenue. The ads target middle/upper-class readers who could afford quality spirits. The overall tone reflects early 1900s American culture: mocking excess, pretension, and Boston snobbery while openly promoting alcohol consumption.
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Champagne & course! AClub-Cocktail ASRQOTTLED DeLicHT pisseur's stre t nd ac emity in the flave of his favorite drink. of unifermly good TAILS. Bar cocktails are slap-dash guesswork —giext by accident, bad by rule—but never th or uniform to a cultivated taste. CLUB COCKTAILS are scientifically blended choic Aand mellowed t licious flavor and ar Insist on CLUB. One pcktail — CLU Seven Varieties OF All Goad Grocers and Deale G.F, HEUBLEIN & BRO, Sole Pi Hartioed New Vo ‘THE POACHER Lnowle nly Address PICTURE DEPARTMENT, JUDGE CO, 225 Fourth Avenue, New York Trade sypplicd by Anderson Moga rine Co. ey | been killed at work he would VALUABLE STATISTICS. If the Niagara Falls were composed of beer instead of water it would fill a stein holding 25,234,720,000 quarts every hour. A man to lift and drink this stein would needs be 353,186,080 211 feet tall. A man of Louie Gleims capacity could drink an hour's flow of the falls in 1,097,- 161,739 days 2 hours and 52 minutes. Allowing that it takes 14 steins to make aman tight on beer and 18 to get him spiflicated, an hour's flow of th cated for two days and make the entire Mongolian race tight for a week. The calculations are based on the supposition that the beer would be drawn solid and that the foam would be in proportion to the mist rising above the falls. If all the rice raised in the United States in 1906 were to he made into ciga- e papers there would be enough to roll ettes, which would cause Lucy Page Gaston to employ 19 assistants, If all the noses on all the human beings in the world were one nose, it would be 3.870.104 agate lines from tip to . andl 793.61§,107,131 agate lines from upper lip to the tip. It could smell onions cooking on the fixed star Algeneb, pro vided the hay fever in 44.69 01 1 per cent. of the nose did not affect the entire nose. If all the buckwheat batter used in the nineteenth congressional district of New York in the months of November, Decem- ber and January, 1905, were paste, it | would be sufficient to put up 23.492 337 twenty-sheet circus posters, which would cover all but 17 miles and 23 yards of the great wall of Chin If all the kangaroos in Australia were Jone kangaroo, it could jump from Cape |Wales, “Australia, to Christianshaab, Greenla one jump. If it should Jalight with both feet on Christianshaal |glacier it would start a wave that would do $21,311,145 damage to shipping and docks at Reykjarik, Iceland, — Chicago | Tribune MARK OF FAVOR. | Joe Mowbray, who was building chimney at the Westwood church, Kal- kuska, having raised it to the height of twenty-five feet, and run out of brick, de. | scended to the ground, He had scarcely | done so when lightning struck the church. The point where Joe would have been, had he remained, was that at which the bolt did some of its worst work. Joe feels | grateful tor being out of brick, as had he ways have thought Providence dissatistied with the job, and Joe prides himself that no man this side of Jordan can build a better chimney than’ he.— Detroit News THE BOSTON BOARDER. It was in Boston, of course the boarders asked the landlady, ** Isn't there any oxycoccus narcrocarpus sauce to go with this roast turkey ?”—Somer- ville Fournal, HONORS EASY. “What's the matter?" custome s the tobace nickel ; “that coin 's ail right “Oh! it'll pass, 1 guess,” replied the |tobacconist ; “but it isn't as good as it might be “Well, neither is this cigar.""—Casho. lie Standard. demanded the st examined his YOU GET USED TO IT. “All my old friends tell me the first year is the trying one for married folk,” remarked the bride. “They say that if you get through the first year you're all right.” . “Yes, that's true,” said the woman who had celebrated her silver weddin, “You don’t mind it much alter the first year."— Cleveland Press A man may think he is sharp, and stil! be taken in by a sharper.—£r falls | would keep the entire Aryan race spifili- | that one of | ScLe rroretsrons WHITE, HENTZ & CO. Phila. and New York ’ u Green Label. AY ALL FIRST-CLASS DEALE Pears’ Soap has never offered premiums to induce sales. It is, in itself, a prize for the complexion. STORY PICTURES FOR THE CHILDREN Sead 50 CENTS for a set of seven ‘Story Pictures, beautfelly printed and mounted. The Little Ones will spend happy hours weaving thew childsh fancies into @ones of their own. For 10 cents we will send one sample ptr JUDGE COMPANY 225 Fourth Avenue New York City, Established in 178. TO BE SURE. Father (after a long search for a book) Well, here it is. I wonder why one always finds a thing in the last place in h one hunts ? Son— 1 expect it's because when we find what we are looking for we stop hunting." —Pearson's Weekly. Quickly - Smoothly To California California has the same beauty no matter what season you go there, but \ The Overland Limited is the feature train of the west. 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