Judge, 1907-04-13 · page 7 of 16
Judge — April 13, 1907 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains two unrelated cartoon sequences satirizing American social life, plus advertisements. **"A Spirited Pose"** (top): Shows an artist attempting to paint a "twentieth-century gladiator" but struggling with an uncooperative, energetic male model whose movement and vitality resist capture on canvas. The satire mocks both overly ambitious artistic pretension and the difficulty of depicting modern, dynamic subjects in traditional art. **"A Monologue on Spring"** (center): A rambling, humorous meditation on spring's arrival, using exaggerated dialect and absurdist observations (sassafras tea as cultural history, frogs establishing "voice-placing establishments," etc.). The accompanying photograph shows what appears to be a child with a donkey—its connection to the text is unclear. **"His One Joke"** (bottom right): A brief gag about an uncle repeatedly telling the same joke about a man named "Hill" who has a valet—a timeless satire on tedious storytellers. The page is largely filled with period advertisements for Packer's Tar Soap, interspersed among the editorial content—typical magazine layout of this era.
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A SPIRITED POSE. Tue oLaviator—" Oh, ho! thot's phat yez want. All roight. There yez is, wid all th’ lolfe an’ motion given me by a koind providince!" A MONOLOGUE ON SPRING. Some of these times a johnny-jump-up will shoot his little sister UST couldn't help it. It gets into one’s corpuscles in a manner that jane-jump-up and tearfully declare to the coroner that he didn't know makes it necessary to eliminate it somehow. The man with the it was loaded, Dear, dear! bundles of sassafras-root bark is on the corner, and the memories of The bulrushes out What! again? Excuse me. tea-fights with that The trees are leav— Well, isn't there ANYTHING you haven't material as the heard before? foundation make The crawfish are re-enameling and kalsomining their stucco resi- one perspire and dences, and the frogs are opening their conservatories and voice-plac- grow weak. ing establishments, The sassafras Oh, if all the voice-placers who conduct squalleries in the busy habit in the coun- _marts of men would only place the domestic-finish voices out there try was the pioneer among the frogs, how much more we who have suites within eleven of the pink-tea blocks of these yowlfests would accomplish! How many more custom- movement in ers we should have! Oh, bother! In addition, piffle! America. ‘The bock-beer signs are out, with their goat-heads strangely sug- (Oh, notatall, gestive of a good many butters-in that we know, Bock is to beer No obligations what limburger is to cheese. It is a sort of edition-de-luxe, an ex- whatever. Idon't treme, aggravated case. mind dropping an Let us go put on our For HEALTHY HAIR and SCALP historic gem once rubber boots, take with us in awhile in that. a pneumatic rubber cushion, USE careless, noncha- an old buggy-seat-oil-cloth- lant manner.) covered pad, a bottle of 9 Out jin the rheumatism medicine, some aC e r S meadows there is sarsaparilla, an umbrella, trouble. The cow- and a change of socks, and z slips in the mud — comimupe with nature. | ar S fa] ap and strains her— It is the g.s.t.!!! Let nah, nah, nah! us rejoice! All together— Pp Hy ure as the Pines That's too old—far one, two, three—rejoice !!! too old, I beg sw. Recommended by the Medical Profession for cleansing the Hair and Scalp, and YOUr Peon HIS ONE JOKE. The grass is in treatment of Dandruff and Baldness. Y Uncle John with joy will blades, the flowers With this one witty sally: EXPERT OPINION. are cleaning and «1 know a man whose name is The STANDARD for SHAMPOOING “You're mistaken, my dear (hic). I'mnotintoxshi- ling and reload- Hil— cated (hic); I’m only shuffering from a brain-storm.” ing their pistils. Of course he has a valet.” ‘The Packer Mig. Co., New York comichooks.