Judge, 1908-01-25 · page 12 of 16
Judge — January 25, 1908 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three distinct elements: **Literary Content:** Two humorous short stories from Judge magazine—"The Blue Spell" (a sentimental poem about a man wanting comfort) and "A Courteous Repulse" (a Lincoln anecdote about an unqualified job applicant). These illustrate period humor and social attitudes. **The Cartoons:** "He Understood Her" depicts a marriage proposal rejection played for laughs—the man calmly accepts dismissal and pivots to finishing their dance, subverting romantic expectations. **Historical Context:** The advertisements (whiskey, asthma treatments, "blood poison" cures) reflect turn-of-the-century patent medicine marketing and social attitudes toward alcohol. The house-plans advertisement represents progressive architectural design marketing. **Point:** Judge presented genteel, middle-class humor mixing sentiment, courtship comedy, and practical advice—reflecting Gilded Age anxieties about courtship, careers, and self-improvement through consumption.
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.THE BLUE SPELL. Lam blue to-day and weary, I will rest me for a while: “ome and soothe me, Sophy dearie, Try 10 tempt me to a smile. | e Is my curls and smooth my fore- | head, | Lure away my loud of irk; | . | You'd not see your true love surrewed?— Then to work THE FACT THAT THE ve LK OF THE WHISKEY He: THROUGHOUT Ms dep PROVES Ease my head with yon soft pillow, POPULARITY Shoo the midges with your fan, FOR! OF WHISKEY D Sin ) TH loll beneath the willow— y me comfy as you can “The World’s Best Table Water” me songs and chant me di Read me tomes without a balk, Spin me yarns—but, oh, for pity’s A COURTEOUS REPULSE. “Have you conversed with any one f Sake, don't talk? There was an ignorant man who once] Who has read such a book 277 applied to President Lineoln for the post sir; ['m afraid not, sir. Bal , ore Feed me chicken soup and muffins, [of doorkeeper to the House, “Thisman] “Well, then, my friend, don’t you sce ies, —— Brew me lemonade and had no right to ask Lincoln for anything. you haven't a single qualification for Make me entrées, sauces, stufli It was necessary to repulse him. But| this important post?” said Lincoln, in a . Fix a table d'hote for me. Lincoln repulsed him gently and whim-| Feproachful tone. ; BH |L need cheer, and you'll not shirk for | ically, without hurting his feclings, in] “Yes, Ido,” said the applicant, and he ; You adore too much to pine; ihissways took leave humbly, almost gratefully. jAnd a girl expects to work for “So you want to be doorkeeper to the] —Tit-Bits. 1s A BLEND or mary- $% | Love like mine. House, eh?” Do you get up tired and feel tired all day? LAND'S PUREST STRAIGHT —Kichmond Times-Dispatch. “Yes, Mr. Ph RYE WHISKIES OF UNI- i a Saori FORM EXCELLENCE AND IS THE PERFECTION OF QUALITY AND FLAVOR ‘Try a tablespoonful of Abbott's Bitters in “Well, have you fever been a door-! sweetened water before meals. At grocers’ Jkeeper? Have you ever had any ex-| OF drusmists’. - perience of doorkeeping?” NATURAL ABILITY. “Well, no—no actual experience, sir.”| Ata party recently they were playing “Any theoretical experience? Any in-] ame which consisted in everybody in the structions in the duties and ethics off room making a face, and the one who HE UNDERSTOOD HER. They were alone in the conservatory. He turned to her. His v« © was low, but passionate. = Yea know,” he suid, “why 1 have) d2orkeening? made the worst face was awarded a prize ished jou lo tome hers’ Wik'yus be| (Ue ; They all did their level best and then my wife?” Have you ever attended lectures on] yentleman went up to one of the ladies | doorkeeping? _ [and sai She looked at him intently. “No,” she answered, and she uttered | the monosyllable as if she loved it | No doubt she expected him to reel and. cluteh at something, but he did nothing of the sort. Very well,” he briskly stid, “that’s all T want to know. Shall we gs finish our dance 2” She stared at him in wonder, ‘ "t you hurt by my refu metiing, des- “Well, madam, I think you have won C] the prize.” “Oh, she said, eth Don't you I YOU are thinking about Building a House an in- peratte ASTHMAS==2 rc SN erate? 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Now she one way to get even with him, “George,” she said, “TE have rn “ sidered my decision. “1 will be your OATARRH $ | ile.” of the And the two scrawny rubber phints e BEADDER, $F } 1.3 thie three yellow palms quivered with SANTAL gelenes all suppressed Liughter,—Cleveland Plain Deale CAPSULES yHAi ANS aler ‘Fach enpesie bare ube PILES CURED EN eameey | pazo OINTMENT § Beware of case of Ite Winn counterfeits Piles in 6 to 14 day ‘ail by al draggin, BLOOD POISON FOR MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS We have made the cure of Blood Poison a specialty, in Permanently Cured, We DAYS, THE MEASURE OF “Haven't P seen yor some where?” “Maybe. 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