Judge, 1907-08-24 · page 14 of 16
Judge — August 24, 1907 — page 14: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and announcements** rather than political satire. The content includes: **Small Comic Vignettes:** Brief jokes about social etiquette—a man's "high handshake" from attending ladies' teas, a marriage proposal conditional on cooking ability, and gossip about whalebone corset prices rising (implying women are being "squeezed"). **Social Service Content:** "Smiling Joe" describes the Fresh Air Fund, a charitable organization providing seaside respite for poor New Yorkers, particularly mothers and children from tenements. This reflects Progressive Era philanthropy. **Main Feature:** An announcement that *Judge* will now accept color advertisements on outside covers, highlighting the magazine's national reach and modern capabilities. **Period Context:** The advertisements (Mennen's talc, Underberg bitters, Sohmer pianos) and the casual sexism in the jokes typify early 1900s commercial culture. The charitable appeal and technological innovation demonstrate the era's mix of industrial advancement with emerging social consciousness.
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Collars a4 Cuffs G2 BARKER BRANDS, At MADE OF uncr J” I5< FOR ZS < sizes for After Shaving. _qimia that, yout barber wea Menaea's ight man and a loose log are equally dangerous. — Chi ‘Tho Pest Bitter Liqueur. Alt Deaters, Iatending sof a STRICTLY FIRST. CLASS Pha sno and. Selt-Player combined, Should not fail to examine the merits of the world renowned \Tuape REASONABLE SUGGESTION. Dick— Where do you suppose Cholly Saphead got that high handshake that he lis always working Tom—* Taking cups from the ladies at |high teas, maybe."—Sumerville Fournal. A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER. “ My son wants to marry your daugh- ter. |dinner ++ Yes, if she gets the materials for one. Does your son know how to supply them ?—Baltimore American. Does she know how to cook a good | LOOKS THAT WAY. She—"1 see that the price of whale- bone has risen in one hundred years from $150 to $1,500 per ton.” He—* That looks very much as if some- body was being squeezed.” — Yonkers Statesman, GOSssIPY. To any gossip, A secret foe Is the one who won't tell What she wants to know. Philadelphia Bulletin. SMILING JOE After being strapped to the frame for a year he has been put on his feet for life at Sea Breeze, with the help of the sun and the wind and the sand and the surf, good food and kind care, Sea Breeze is also the place where we are trying to provide Fresh Air Outings for 25,000, many of whom are sick of at the breaking point, with no other escape from dark, foul tenements and stifling streets. Buy happiness for them, with strength and new courage, by sending to Sea Breeze for a week : A worn out mother with three children.$10.00 4 Teething Baby ‘and “little mother ™ de nderfed akop gil earning $318 week 2.50 ing. toe self-sup- AS HE WAS tie happiest si 1.00 A day party of ic3 bay) Literature sent for Fairs and Enter. tainments. We will write if desired, just how your gift is used, whether $1 or $100. Inquiry is invited aszto Memorial Gifts. a R. 5. MINTURN, Treas, Room 20, No, 103 East 224 Street, New Vork Clty EW YORK ASSOCIATION FOR IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF THE POOR R. FULTON CUTTING, PaesioenT SOHMER | PIANOS and the “SOMMER. CECILIAN” Inside Players, sailed on application, 224 St. Tout you be “up to date.” importance in the ers, $520 lor 2 W. 26th St Copyright, Judge Co., 1906, “I WON'T COME OUT TILL YOU SO} "WAY" We are afraid they won't be in any hurry t0/"g0 way,” with such a prett Jook at ; and if she *T very earehil she wil avrract the mashers” of the Ginny deep. Then she'll be between two fires. Photogravure, 12 x 16—so cents Add extra postage for foreign ordiers. Address Picture Department, Judge Company 225 Fourth Avenue, New York mw owINS the custom of our es- teemed contemporaries, Jupce will occasionally accept an advertise- ment to be printed in three or more colors on the outside cover. If the interested advertiser will glance at the cover of August 3d_ he will sce the very convincing and ar- tistic announcement of the Louis Park Company, advertising the Hiawatha Natural Mineral Spring Water. The advertising pa- trons of Jupce, like its readers, are not con- fined to any State or nation. Our first col- ored page was from Massachusetts, the next from Ohio, the third from Switzerland, the fourth from New Jersey, the fifth from Wis- consin. The outside covers of September and October are for sale. Correspondence invited. November and December covers are sold. ‘Advertising in Colors i Merely as an evi- dence of good faith write me on your business letteriicad, of enclose business card and PERMIT ‘me to send you one hundred of these cigars on ap- proval. No obligation whatever on your part to keep the cigars unless they erftirely suit you and you are con- vinced that I am selling them to you at wholesale prices The expressage will be |prepaid—you have the privilege of smoking ten of | the cigars before deciding and then if the decision against me you will kindly return the remaining nine- ty cigars at MY expense and the transaction is ended. If the decision is in my favor you remit me the price, $500 per hundred, and you have ten days to decide. A word about this cigar. [It is the exact size and shape of the cut. It is | HAND MADE. Itislong, clean, clear Havana Filler. It is ‘a genuine Sumatra wrapper. It is the dealer's ten-cent cigar quality. MY OFFER IS: I will, upon request, send one hundred Shivers’ Puri- tanos on appro exe press prepaid, toa reader of Judge. He'may smoke ten cigars and return the remaining ninety at my expense, and no charge for the ten smoked, if he Is not pleased with them; if he is pleased and keeps jthem, he agrees to remit the price, | $5.00, within ten days. In ordering please use business letter- |head, enclose business card or give reter- ences. SMIVERS* PURITANO, Conspicuously displayed in my office is a card which says : * Visitors are invited to go through the factory,” and it m just what it says. We are only too gl to have customers and prospective cus- tomers see the cigars made. HERBERT D. SHIVERS, 919 Filbert Street, Philadelphia, Pa. BS) CAPSULES BLOOD POISON FOR MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS we have made the cure of Blood P lood ain Throat, Pimples, C on any part of the Ealing out, write for proots_ of cures Book Free. COOK REMEDY CO. 1480 MASONIC TEMPLE, Chicago, IIL, U.S. A- 225 Fourth Avenue, New York City | Trade nied by Andcrion Macasine Ox. 32 Uri THE JUDGE COMPANY . Syuare, New York, comicbooks.com