Judge, 1907-10-26 · page 11 of 16
Judge — October 26, 1907 — page 11: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and light humor**, not political satire. The dominant feature is a **Miller High Life beer advertisement** featuring an ornate Art Nouveau design with a jester-like figure. The ad claims Miller shows "greater percentage of increase in sales than any other beer in America" and boasts the beer is "absolutely pure and properly aged"—typical marketing claims of the era. Below are several brief **humorous anecdotes**: - "Reckless Ruralities" depicts a farmer's grange discussing whether oyster shells strengthen hen eggshells (a folk remedy debate). - "The Modern Play" jokes that theatrical producers just string together seventeen specialty acts. - Other brief gags play on racial dialect humor and marriage complications. A **Williams Shaving Soap advertisement** appears at the bottom. The page reflects early 20th-century American consumer culture and period humor conventions—largely innocent agricultural comedy and product promotion rather than sharp social or political commentary.
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AGH LAE | The Champagne of Bottle BEER Shows a greater percentage of increase in sales than any other beer in America. We were compelled to double our capacity to meet the demand. High Life Beer leaves no after effect because it is absolutely pure and properly aged. You certainly will like it. Henry C. Botjer, Distributor, 353 Broadway, Long Island City, New York. MILWAUKEE RECKLESS RURALITIES. des editing that excellent publica- tion, the Fredonia Censor, the Hon. Louis McKinstry looks after a nice big garden filled with flowers, asparagus and all sorts of good things, raises chickens, and takes lively interest in agricultural topics. Many of his subscribers are farmers, and in order to keep in close touch with them he joined Fredonia grange No. 1 several years ago. It was by practicing on the agriculturists that the versatile editor learned to be such a famous orator, At the last meeting of the grange, in the lecturer's question-box, was an. inquiry how to treat the bugs that destroy cucumber and squash vines, and any number of remedies came forth. Brother McKinstry said he could not afford to buy calomel for them, as recommended by a sister at Casadaga, but a neighbor had kindly treated his vines with a weak solu- tion of soap-suds and kerosene oil and it proved effective, Others recommended slaked lime, ashes, etc. Brother Skinner said there was one kind that yielded only when caught and pinched. Brother McKinstry inquired if oyster shells fed to hens really thickened the egg-shells, or if the theory was only a pop- ular delusion. Oyster. shells never dis- solve in water ; why should they dissolve in a hen? He had a hen laying soft- shell eggs, and on recommendation .of Brother Shannon had bought a bag of crushed oyster shells of Brother Paschke, but he had never seen the hen eat any. However, she quit laying soft-shell eggs before he had opened the bag. Brother Phillips said that it was the effect on the hen’s mind, and the ten cents spent for shells was well invested. Brother Phillips is professor of chemistry in the normal school, and he was ap- pealed to for a scientific decision. He did not seem very positive, but said that hydrochloric acid will dissolve oyster shells, and if there is hydrochloric acid in ahen’s crop, and he thought there was, though he had never analyzed that kind of a crop, no doubt the lime from the shells would be separated and go into the hen's system and finally be deposited around the eggs. This is important in- formation, and it was suggested Brother Phillips ought to analyze a crop for the beneht of the grange. Another sugges- Williams “The only kind that won't smart or dry on the face” Shaving Soap tion was that if it is found that the thick- ness of egg-shells depends upon the quan- tity of oyster shells introduced, maybe eggs could be produced with shells so thick that they could be shipped without boxing—just shovel them into bags like potatoes.— The Amsterdam Recorder. THE MODERN PLAY. «T want you to write me a play.” “What sort of a play ?” “Well, we have seventeen specialties, Get me up enough stuff to wedge ‘em apart."—Kansas Cily Fournal. WHAT ELSE? Eph—*" What were de mattah wit Sal an’ dat druggist ?” Rufus—* Why, she wanted some com- plexion powdah an’ he gib her powdahd charcoal."—Jilustrated Bits. THE REALITY. Knicker—“So they married in haste and repented at leisure 2” Bocker—" Yes ; ceremony in New York and went to live in Philadelphia.”"—New York Sun. ALL EXPLAINED. “How long were you in your last place ?” asked the housekeeper. “Jisht a month, ma'am,” replied the applicant. “Indeed ?_ What was the trouble ?” “The trouble was, ma’am, that I got sick an’ couldn't l'ave no sooner.”— Philadelphia Press. 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, Judge Company, 225 Fourth Avenue, New York. DISCRIMINATING. Tessie—+1 suppose you won't marry until you find the one girl in a million 2" Tom —* No; with a million,"—£x- . change. Shaving Soap should soften the beard, even if it is very wiry, and soothe the irritated skin. Williams’ Shaving Soap became famous by doing these two things. form of Shaving Sticks or Shaving Tablets. May be had in the @ CINCINNATI AND ST. LOUIS—NEW YORK CENTRAL LINES. comicbooks.com