Judge, 1907-08-31 · page 12 of 16
Judge — August 31, 1907 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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This page from *Judge* magazine contains several disconnected satirical pieces and advertisements typical of early 20th-century humor publications. **Main Cartoon**: "Changed His Feelings" depicts a man whose dog has destroyed his slippers. In fury, he declares he'll cancel his S.P.C.A. (animal welfare society) membership and beat the dog severely—a joke about how quickly people abandon their principles when personally inconvenienced. **Recurring Joke Format**: Several brief quips mock romantic sentimentality ("I told her my soul soared to empyrean heights"), marital discord (the wife lecturing on "Dark Side of Married Life" while displaying her "meek" husband as proof), and dog obedience. **Advertisements**: The page heavily features whiskey, patent medicines (blood poison cure), and cigar promotions—standard for *Judge* of this era. **Social Context**: The humor assumes readers appreciate cynicism about love, marriage, animal welfare activism, and financial speculation. The page reflects early 1900s attitudes toward gender dynamics and consumer culture rather than specific political satire.
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IF PLACED END TO END WOULD REACH FROM BALTIMORE CHICAGO THIS GIVES SOME OF THE MAGNITUDE (OF ITS POPULARITY 34 at all Aratclass cafes and by Jopbere A UANATAN @ SON, Ualtimore, Md The girl on the front steps is now very much in evidence. The season is at hand when she stoops to conquer.—Ex. ARTISTS YOU SHOULD KNOW. Our picture line is growing all the time. We have only carefully-selected subjects by the best popular artists, reproduced in photogravure or photogelatine on the highest-grade stock. Send five cents to cover mailing expenses, for our new forty- eight-page catalogue, showing all our latest pictures, classified in subjects and with an Artists’ Index. Address Picture Department, Company, 225 Fourth Avenue, New York. CAPSULES BLOOD wis) FOR MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS we have made the cure of Blood Poison a re Hair of Eyebrows falling out, write for prools of cures. too-pege Nook Free ¢COOK REMEDY Co. 1480 MASONIC TEMPLE, Chicago, IIl., U. S. Ae Judge! Maage GEE! “I told her that in her presence my soul soared to empyrean heights of ineffa- ble bliss.” ** And what did she say to that?” She said, «Gee !" "—Courier - Four- nal, Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's Sooth- ing Syrup the best remedy for their children. 25c a bottle. WHY NOT? “Come,” cried the mother of the pee- | vish little bull-pup, + you can’t mend mat- ters by whining, can you 2?” “I'm afraid not,” sniffed the pup. “Then,” said the mother, ‘if not, \ison - Yor quarartlee f purity, see back \abel oneverybdiie; whine not.""—Answers, Wats WN CHANGED HIS FEELINGS. Man (whose slippers have been torn by his dog)—"* Just walt, you cur! Now I shall cancel my membership in the S. P. C. A., and give you such a beating that you will not be able to see or hear.” —Meggendorfer Blatter. Jasper’s Hints to Money- makers Do you ever make investments in Wall Street securities? Do you ever buy of sell stocks or bonds? If 20, do not fail to read "Jasper's Hints to Money-makers'? ‘every week in " Leslie's Weekly." in which questions regarding stocks and bonds are hone@lly and conservatively answered, and hints given as to the outlook in the @ock market from week to week. This is the mof reliable financial department publish- ed im the United States, and thousands have testbed in writing that it has either made of soved them money. of “Leslie's Weekl wedeater's for tencons, elf or sent trial subscription t “+ Leslie's Weekly’ for $1.00, which will give you the right to free an- swers to any questions rega: chs and bonds which you may, Address Judge Company, 225 Fourth Avenue, New York. “On Every Tongue” I. W. Harper Rye Famous for generations as the best whiskey for all uses. A woman seldom gets old enough to admit she is that old.—£x. HORRIBLE EXAMPLE. “ My dear,” said Mrs. Strongr want you to accompany me to th hall to-morrow evening.” «What for?” queried the meek and lowly other half of the combine. «Tam to lecture on the * Da Married Life,” explained Mrs. I want you to sit on the platform and pose as one of the illustrations."— (ii. cago News. Merely as an evi- dence of good faith write me on your business letterhead, or 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 entirely 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 is 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, $5.00 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: | will, upon request, send one hundred Shivers’ Puri- | Stivers’ PURITANO r SE sare | t ant 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 them, he agrees to remit the price, $5.00, within ten days. In ordering please use business letter- head, enclose business card or give reltt- Jences. Conspicuously displayed in my office is a card which says : * Visitors are invited to go through the factory,” and it means just what it says. We are only too glad to have customers and prospective cus tomers see the cigars made. HERBERT D. SHIVERS, 919 Filbert Street, Philadelphia, Pa. comicbooks.com