Judge, 1907-06-08 · page 14 of 16
Judge — June 8, 1907 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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This page from Judge magazine contains satirical commentary and advertisements typical of early 20th-century American humor. **Main Content:** The lead poem "Why Wait?" advocates showing kindness and appreciation to people before they die, rather than only praising their virtues posthumously—a sentimental moral plea. **"A Sensitive Editor"** satirizes the financial vulnerabilities of country newspaper editors. The piece argues that editors face constant economic pressure: taking editorial stances costs them advertising revenue and reader subscriptions, regardless of which position they take. This critiques how economic interests constrain press freedom and editorial integrity. **Other humor pieces** include brief jokes about marital clothing costs and a rhymed anecdote about an alligator swallowing a fisherman named Billy. **Advertisements dominate the page**, hawking period remedies (Santa Midy capsules for kidney troubles, Cook Remedy Co. for blood poison) and spirits (I.W. Harper Rye, Trimble Whiskey, Sunny Brook Whiskey, Underberg Bitters)—common in magazines of this era before strict advertising regulations. The page primarily exemplifies Judge's mix of social commentary and commercial content rather than featuring specific political cartoons or identifiable caricatures.
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WHY WAIT? | iru tosmaerow night should die, You would endeavor to forget My faults, my weaknesses, and try, Perhaps, to even magnify The virtues that were mine, and let Your judgment of me rest, at last, Upon my worthy deeds alone ; You would forget, when all was past, The weaker traits that I had shown. AClubCocktall | sxgprrizn DrLicnt | Why will you not, ere I depart, | Overlook my faults sometimes and see | And judge with kindness in your heart? Why will you not before I start Upon the long, last journey be Content to judge me by the best And fairest things I've done and said, And kindly overlook the rest— Why will you wait till I am dead ? —Chicago Herald. A SENSITIVE EDITOR. It costs the country editor cash to stand up for what he believes to be right. Any other citizen can stand for any proposi- tion without loss fin: US But the editor is “fined "every time he takes a stand for a measure or a principle. If | the paper stands for the anti-pass law, as we did, he loses his own pass and gets no railroad advertising. If he argues against patronizing mail-order houses he jumped on" by the farmer, who in- sists that he has a perfect right to spend his money where it pleases him best. If he accepts foreign mail-order advertising the home merchant throws him down. If he turns down the foreign advertising he turns down so much cash, He supports certain men for office, and their oppo- nents stop their paper. The paper which comes square out in the open and sup- ports or opposes any measure treads on toes somewhere and loses money.—AMan- kato (Kansas) Advocate. HARDLY IN IT, Mr, Myles—" Do you have any trouble in keeping your wife in clothes ?” Mr. Styles Yes, considerable. Haven't you seen that new décolleté dress she’s got ?"— Yonkers Statesman, HOUSANDS have discarded the idea of making their own cocktails —all will after giving the CLUB COCKTAILS a fair trial” Scientifically blended from the choicest old liquors and mellowed with age make them the perfect cocktails that they are. Seven most popular of which are Martini (Gin ase), Manhattan (Whiskey base). Ti rwing label appears on every bottle : | G. F, HEUBLEIN & BRO, Sole Props. | Hartford New York Looden | “ON EVERY TONGUE” 1 do drink, dri ink Trin ou ene Y MbIe» thei fon a foot Pays Green Label. AT ALL FIRST-CLASS DEALERS THE DEPARTURE OF BILLY. A Georgia fisherman, who proves that he can rhyme a little, bewails his fate as In the Home follows : ‘or Business Circle “ Trouble’s knocked me silly— Still hangin’ roun’ my gate; Underberg Alligator swallered Billy An’ the whole blamed can o* bait !" ; —Atlanta Constitution, Bitters Abbott's Bitters are noted for their digestive Is Tovalaable, : properties. At all druggists’. stan Dealere DEFINED. ; Knicker— What is a lawyer 2” Bocker—* The umbrella for a brain- — — ; storm ‘New York Sun. If you drink champagne because it's good, 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. Grandfather Used Solo BY Leading Dealers JUBLES OATARRH of the BLADDER. Relieves all Dischai Sunny BLOOD POISON FOR MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS we have made the cure of Blood Poison a Bleed Polson Permanently Cured. reated at home, under same guar We solicit the most ve exhausted the old Spots, Ulcers ir or Eyebrows cures. 1co-page: COOK REMEDY CO. 1480 MASONIC TEMPLE, Chicago, II, U. S.A Brook The Pure Food Whiskey FOURTH-OF-FULY NUMBER FUDGE | Being an intensely Patriotic proposition Will publish an Independence-day Double number With all the proper | Accompaniments of Colors, fireworks, | And powder. | This number will be |Dated Fuly 6th And will be for sale m All news-stands Monday a.m, Fuly 1st |AU copy for this number Must be in hand June 22d at noon. No better medium For publicity. Fudge Company |225 Fourth Ave, N. 1. comicbooks.com