Judge, 1908-02-29 · page 12 of 16
Judge — February 29, 1908 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily a **page of advertisements** with some light humor pieces interspersed—typical of Judge magazine's format. **Key content:** The ads reflect early-20th-century concerns: patent medicines (blood poison cures, asthma treatments), alcoholic beverages (liqueurs, whiskeys, bitters—heavily advertised despite Prohibition-era tensions), and home-building guides. **The humor pieces** include: - "Something on the Way": A domestic joke about a wife wiring her husband about arriving with "lares and penates" (Roman household gods), which the telegraph mistranslates, creating wordplay confusion. - Verse about wishing to do various jobs "if 'tweren't for the working"—satirizing people's lazy fantasies. - "What Some People Should Wear": Light social satire assigning ironic clothing to professions (the butcher in a "cutaway," John D. Rockefeller in "oil skins"). The **George Palliser advertisement** for house-plan books suggests middle-class aspiration to home ownership. Overall, this reflects genteel, upper-middle-class humor and consumer culture of the period.
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