Judge, 1907-06-01 · page 12 of 16
Judge — June 1, 1907 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from Judge magazine (date unclear from image) contains several brief satirical items typical of early 20th-century American humor: **Main content includes:** - **Hunter Whiskey advertisement**: Nostalgic copy claiming the product has been Baltimore's favorite for generations—typical period advertising - **Short joke submissions**: Scattered witty one-liners mocking various social types: pompous professors, would-be settlement workers who are actually bill collectors, and marriage scandals - **Judge's Amateur Contest**: Reader-submitted cartoons with captions, including jokes about poverty ("not a crime"), artists exploiting subjects for material, and a couple's mutual devotion - **Grant Hamilton Studios ad**: Offers commercial art training with promises of cash returns The satire targets pretension (the "sociologist" bill-collector), human folly (dogs wasting energy), and working-class humor. The content reflects Judge's formula: urbane mockery of genteel society mixed with populist jokes, all framed around reader participation contests and advertising.
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ade THE OLDEST _INHABITANT OF BALTIMORE. (CAN HARDLY REMEMBER WHEN WHISKEY WAS FIRST PUT UPON THE MAR. . STEADY GROWTH IN POPULARITY THROUGHOUT THESE MANY YEARS PROVES 1T THE reer EROOUCT OF Rare wr shell trrtlann eaten ant by Sober erat ATAS SON Slates mae BUY ANY OR ALL. 1 suppose those plants are biennial?" Sure! Buy any uv ‘em you want to.” Garpener— uae 1 AN ANTIQUE JOKE. | «Funny, wasn’t it,” remarked Her- cules, as he dropped into the office of the Elysium Herald. labors should have made a ten-strike."— Baltimore American, Mothers will And Mrs, Winslow’ ing Syrop the beat remedy lr eve childrens asc ebettle IF IT COULD BE DID. If a dog would only put the energy that he devotes to wagging his tail into turning the ice-cream freezer, only think how use- ful he might be !—Somerville Journal. A SOCIOLOGIST. Knicker —“1 understand Smith does settlement work.” Bocker— Yes; he's a bill-collector.” —New York Sun, A tablespoonful of Abbott's Bitters in a glass of sweetened water after meals is the greatest aid to digestion known. BUBBLES. Has plain sailing—the pretty girl. Moving pictures do not always move one to tears. the new wrinkles. “What?” asked the editor, looking up | e from the article he was polishing up on the last matrimonial shindy kicked up by Jupiter. The strong man laughed like a child. “Why,” he answered, "that my twelve| “The Champagne of Waters” HARD LUCK. Miss Rat—" You are not looking near so well as when I last saw you.” " : It's a hard thing when circumstances force one to Sbasidin the Aldorf- To do line work one should be up toall| wastoria refrigerator and he has to content himself with a Third Avenue free-lunch counter” The palmist has hopes of handling a handsome sum. | No, no, the angriest people do not come from Ire-land. All play is not “no work” to the am- bitious musician, The police force is not exactly of uni- form excellence. One of our first resolves should be to be true to the last. Some people make money, and some make alimony.—Philadelphia Bulletin, || ficient. GRANT HAMILTON STUDIOS 712 Flatiron Building, New York WANTED—Young men who wish a good practical Art Education, no frills or foolish your drawings of commercial value. A full year’s course by correspondence at a sodas Illustration, Cartoonin; of "Commercial Art" in which one can have CASH RETURNS when pro- i! Grant E. Hamilton, Flatiron Building, New York City. ness. An education that makes cost. I teach Comic Drawing, Caricaturing, etc.; in fact, all branches (Second Prize, $2.50.) Sobmitted by Frank A. Miller, Argentine, Kansas, Weary Witte: poverty is no crim “ZIM. Submitted by Willard W. Wilson, Santa Barbara, California. Hansome Pere—"* If it was you'd be in jail de rest of your life.”” Submitted by A. Vandervoost, Brooklyn, New York. (First Prize, $5.00) Sebald by Rare: Cook, East JUDGE AMATEUR: CONTEST 325 Fourth Ave. New York.” CREATIVE ART. Uncte Henry—" Gosh! y’ know th artist what got this Joke off tuk an’ put these clothes on me an‘ gimme this fool hat what | kain’t wear, an’, honest, | feel like a durn fool. Submitted by R. Elmo Graves, Chicago, Illimow. ee ey ALL THE WORLD TO THEM. = 4 comicbooks.com