Judge, 1907-09-14 · page 13 of 16
Judge — September 14, 1907 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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This page from Judge magazine (an American satirical weekly) contains multiple short jokes and advertisements typical of early 20th-century humor. **Main Content:** The page's cartoons mock social conventions. "The Subjection of the Male" depicts birds in water, with a caption joking that a man won't swim because his girlfriend made him shoes and "now he doesn't dare take them off"—satirizing male subservience to female partners, a common Judge theme. "Horrible Example" criticizes a Worcester man fined for hugging a girl without permission, suggesting this minor consequence won't deter similar behavior elsewhere. **Advertisements:** Prominent ads include Evans' Ale (promising work productivity), Iver Johnson revolvers (emphasizing safety—"cannot go off by accident"), Cook's Champagne, Club Cocktails, Dr. Siegert's Angostura bitters, and Williams' Shaving Soap. The page is primarily **advertising-driven humor**—short jokes interspersed between product endorsements typical of Judge's revenue model. The satire targets contemporary social anxieties about gender relations and consumer culture.
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HEATED. The streets are white with dust to-day, | It’s hot ! If it were only just to-da It's not! For dog days have arrived again, That torment to the sons of men, That melancholy season when It’s hot ! —Somerville Fournal. Back to work-~- Evans’ Ale will make it a pleasure | Keeps you up to the mark, and in the path of good heal:h SCRAPS. * Boss!" shouted the big cook from the kitchen, “we have a lot of scraps out here that ain't working.” “Lot of scraps, eh?” replied the pro- prietor of the Shovedown lunch-room, * Well, mix them all together, add a little fiery tabasco sauce and then put a sign outside, ‘Central America pudding to-| —Chicago News. SIDEBOARD GOSSIP. Vermouth—* Here comes the butler to make | Iver Jonnson’ jew YouE: 99 Chambers Si “aCi¥iC COAST: 16 ER JOHNSON \sarery AUTOMATIC REVO LVER You Must Pull the Trigger or there will be no discharge. This is the one revolver that cannot go off by accident. We make the kind that dis- charges when you want to shoot and not before. One million six hundred thousand have been sold and not an accidental shot. ‘Ashandsome a revolver as is made; ina number of styles and several * sizes. Assafe as a spiked cannon, but as full of business asa hornet’s nest. Send for our booklet "Shots" and our illustrated and descriptive cataogue of the best revolvers, shotguns and bicycles you can get anywhere. Wer Johnson Safety Hammer Revolver | tver Johnson Safety appariare Revolver centerfire cartridge Bie, barrel, nickel plated fi jeartrlage, tor 38 starirldee $6 lors evory there, of will ba sat prenad on reeeint WiSriho ou head on grip and our hamo.on betel Ba sale by Tardcee and Srorting Arme & Cycle Works, 153 River St., Fitchburg, Ma: of price tt treet. : Pickhubon & ‘Park Bt, Alameda, Cal, 17 Mincing Lane, B. 0. Makers of Iver Johnson Single Barrel Shotguns and Iver Johnson Truss Bridge Bicycles THE SUBJECTION OF THE ‘MALE. * Why doesn’t Bill come in swimming 2° “Oh, his girl made him a pair of shoes, ard now he doesn't dare TH USANDS have discarded the idea of making their own cocktails —all will ving the CLUB COCKTAILS a fair Scientifically blended from the choicest vors and mellowed with age make them rfect cocktails that they are. Seven nt popular of which are Martini (Gin n (Whiskey base). label appears on every bottl | HEUBLEIN & BRO., Sole Props. London | Williams take them off."* HORRIBLE EXAMPLE. A Worcester (Massachusetts) man has ive dollars for «+ ab- sent-rhindedly hugging a girl.” And we | venture to say that hundreds of men in that same town pull off a similar stunt ith malice aforethought and escape pui Keep your wits Rbout you.—- Washington Post. CALL TO COURAGE. Brush your troubles all aside, They will weaken when defied ; Scatter them both far and wide, If you can. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. CHANGEABLE. “What would you call the color of Mrs. Swiftley’s hair?" “I think Tad call it fckle."— Lx. Shaving Soap “Your Health!” Ts a toast that really means something when ma Brrvas i served. A liqueur glass ices, cut wy-three awards at Principal Ex- es. = ree book of recipes and ry positions. Seed for complete mixing’ gui 4. W. WUPPERMANN, 44 West 34th St., New York beard— allays irritation, makes shaving easy and May be had in the form of Its cream-like lather softens the pleasant. “The only kind that won't smart or dry on the face” Shaving Sticks or Shaving Tablets comicbooks.com