Judge, 1907-10-05 · page 14 of 16
Judge — October 5, 1907 — page 14: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising with light satirical humor**, typical of early-1900s Judge magazine. The main cartoons are brief comedic exchanges: - **"Sort of Brainstorm"**: A husband jokes that he's worn buttonless shirts since his wife became a women's suffrage advocate—a contemporary jab at the women's rights movement as nagging or emasculating. - **"Floral Scandal"**: Anthropomorphized flowers make puns (lily pads), a genteel Victorian humor style. - **"Free Speech" and "Guess!"**: Brief quips about courtship and divorce, reflecting period attitudes toward gender relations. The **dominant content** consists of product advertisements (Krementz collar buttons, Underberg bitters, home building plans) and Herbert Shivers' cigar promotion, which occupies substantial space with a lengthy sales pitch emphasizing factory quality and fair trial policies. The humor reflects early-20th-century social anxieties: women's suffrage, changing gender roles, and consumer trust in manufacturing—all addressed through genteel wordplay rather than sharp satire.
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SORT OF | BRAINSTORM. cher — A NEW INVENTION, “L have read that some genius of a shirt- maker has in- | vented a shirt without but- ho rata ery | tons.” atiytowreeedortwilinct! «Do you ten call that a |novelty? I jhave worn them without buttons ever since my wife became de- voted to the cause of wom- en!"—Ex, old, ca tell me what wisdom is?” Small Har- old—“Yes, ma‘am. informat the bra Because the Krementz Collar Button costs more to manu- facture than any other gold-plated collar button on the k % market. Thereason? J |M@ne, [Re There's more gold in it, Not a] lieve with be- mere wash or dip, but a layer of lieve it.—Ex. gold rolled on the supporting metal. Wears . longer than any other button made. The ut is some quality is stamped on back and guaranteed. fF |), orn All first-class dealers keep them. “Story J | a night watch. of Collar Button” gives all styles and sizes. | |man to look FREE for asking. after men who KREMENTZ & CO. are as honest 73 Chestnut St. Newark, N. J. ug eat, Ueaca Fire and the drawings A man's silliness may border on the ragged edge| of lunacy, but you can't i wilt wend you my ‘and honestly whethet hen Tce your work Correspondence or Resident Ask for 11 shirt atore. If pot in soe Tniltance, and we will tall to Catalogue complete with all la Yree om request. The Fiberlold Co., Dept. 26, 7 Waverly Place, ¥.¥ ware Many a man’s final disappear- ance is the result of a strenuous at- tempt to keep There are fifteen thousand active accounts on my books ‘That is, there are fifteen thousand men con- tinuing to buy cigars from me after they have given my cigars a fair trial. This is about the best evi- dence that I can offer that my cigars make good. There are almost as many I will as the day is long.—Ex. In the Home ‘or Business Circle Underberg cago News. GUESS! The way to understand what a girl means is to guess something exactly op- York FLORAL SCANDAL, “You can’t paint the lily,” declared the rose. ‘«Maybe not,” responded the aster. | posite to what it seems.— New But have you noticed 2” Press. oticed what ?” “The lily pads !"—Exchange. : — Boston lady—\t is a great thing to FREE SPEECH. see a lot of children growing up together Free speech is a good thing, but some| in a family.” people are too free with their speeches.—| Chicago lady—* Yes; but they inter- Philadelphia Bulletin, fere with the freedom of divorce."—Ex. DeAWEKCE: Is Invaluable, reasons why they do. name three or four here. First, economy. My custo- mers get their cigars at strictly wholesale prices. At AU Dealers) Next, they know what they are getting. Every cigar is as T describe it. Another. The cleanest cigar factory in America. Stilt more. Clean, clear, aight tuba No drug. doctoring or flavoring Next. All hand made cigars. No machine in the world will make a cigar that will smoke as well as one strictly made by the trained buman hand. Another. Fair treatment. 1 never ask a man to buy my cigars until he has given them a fair trial at my expense. 1 manufacture every cigar that I sell, and my factory is not a little basement affair on a side street either, but a full size five story city building liter- ally within the business heart none too large for my ever increasing vutput. MY OFFER IS: I will, upon ju send one hundred Shivers’ Panatel: on approval, to a reader of JUDGE express prepaid. Me 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. Be sure and state which you prefer light, medium or dark cigars. My Panatela cigar is hand made, of clear, clean, straight, long Havana filler with a genu- ine Sumatra wrapper. It is the retailer's toc cigar. I make other cigars than the Panatela. If you prefer some other size or shape, or cigars} with Havana wrappers, permit me to mail you | my catalogue. and explain more fully my methods of supplying smokers with genuine cigars at wholesale prices. HERBERT D. SHIVERS 919 Filbert Street Philadelphia, Pa. NOT JEROME'S. The eyelids of the average man open and shut 4,000,000 times a year.—Kar- ficient. of "Commercial Art" in which one can have CASH RETURNS when pro- Write me. GRANT HAMILTON STUDIOS sas City Journal. 712 Flatiron Building, New York WANTED—Young men who wish a good practical Art gj Education, no frills or foolishness. An education that makes your drawings of commercial value. A full year’s course by correspondence at a moderate cost. 1 teach Comic Drawing, Illustration, Cartooning, Caricaturing, etc.; in fact, all branches Grant E. Hamilton, Flatiron Building, New York City. 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