Judge, 1908-04-04 · page 14 of 16
Judge — April 4, 1908 — page 14: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising-heavy**, with minimal cartoon content. The main satirical piece is a brief, untitled comic strip (upper center) depicting an old man negotiating dowries for his daughters—a social commentary on marriage as a financial transaction. The joke turns on the father's escalating demands: each daughter requires increasingly larger dowries, and when asked about a final daughter, he's "willing to go higher," suggesting her unmarriageability makes her an even greater financial burden. This mocks Victorian-era marriage customs where fathers essentially sold daughters to husbands. The rest of the page consists of period advertisements for cocktails, collars, hotels, investment advice, and architectural house plans—typical Judge magazine filler. The magazine itself was a humor and satire publication for educated, middle-class readers interested in current events and social commentary.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
COMFORT MEN A Bottled Delight T! RE is always comething lack- fin the flavor of a made-by- gu sework cocktail Cus Cock- TAILS are the only perfect cocktails. A mixed-to-mearure blend of rare old liquors aged in wood—always uniform in flavor, fragrant, delicious, appetizing. a CLUB COCKTAIL is a vastly better drink than any chance-mixed cocktail possibly could be. 7 At all good dealers. Man= in (whishey base) and Martini (gin base) are universal favorites, GEHeubleinE Bro | HARTFORD = NEW YORK LONDON 1 story iy told of eb declare th built the ark Mlewate, WILLING TO GO HIGHER. “Yes,"" said the old man, ad- dressing his visitor, ** | am proud Is, and should like tos comfortably married and as I" de a little money, they won't go to their husbands TI 's Margaret, oF ‘old, and ar 1 give her fiv lars when she mar- Then comes Bet, who won't | irty-five a in, and she'll ten 3 and EVERY MAN’S _NECESSITY forty, will have fifteen thousand dollars with nd the ment or so, inquired, en’tone about fifty, Home Herald, ‘es; said it was hea “Did he really say that “Well, not exactly; but he probably meant that, He said unearthly.""—Melhourne Dept. 26,7 Waverly Place, New Yorks ns when it is left hehind. PERHAPS SHE DID. Punch it was Weekly Times. ** Did your daughter inherit her talent for drawing?" icket-ptate | HENRY LINDENMEYR & SONS “Well, I never thought of it by i PAPER WAREHOUSE ‘but it may be that she did. On brothe Bronz News, of my | HE WAS READY. i lady (on s Jo you know wh vr of the hotel has taken HOTEL MARTINIQUE | * Yes, mu inshoored for tw Western Christian 3 he has the p wot it’s worth, dvocate, HE KNEW IT. 4 congressman ldress te r says in in an piel Webst A “You ought to TRADE-MARK. home,” said the h who wrote the di red a colleague who sat t aker. vised th of them hi tom Herald. xtern Chriss rplied the sy We Jasper’s Hints to Money-makers @. Do you ever make investments ia Wail Street securities? Do you ever 2 It s0, do Hints to sitding siocks 20d bonds are boneslly and conservatively answered, and hints given as to the outlook in the stock market from week to weeks ‘This is the most reliable financial de= | partment published in the United States, and thousands have testified ia writing that it has either made or aved them money. Address +225 JUDGE COMPANY, Fifth Avenue, New York. | @ 20th Century Limited LEAVE CHICAGO 1:30 P. M., CINCINNATI 2:00 P.M. pf BLFORE YOU BLO YOUR NEW HOME ai] SEND FOR THIS BEAUTIFUL $1 BOOK FREE thi as The most liberal offer ever made by a publishing ° . th company for an Architect's book of plans ws fol The 1907 Edition Just Out book will save you from $100 to $500 on By | your new house if you build after one of | Glenn Lyle Saxton’s Orginal Plans HOW TO GET THE BOOK FREE END $1 to-day for this beautiful and it is a gift that you will be proud 7 | S book “ American Dwellings,” con- to. make room for on your library table. 3 taining hundreds of beautiful homes Send for this famous “ American Dwell- —the only practical, useful and com- ings” the only book of plans that has plete book of plans ever published. The an intrinsic value and will save you plans are sold at a very moderate fig- money. Published by Glenn L. Sax- ure, and will save you the cost of an ton, The Practical Architect, whose architect's. service. Select_ your plan, beautiful and original houses are built send Judge Co., 225 Sth Ave., in every country, even in the most re- New York, a certified check for the mote parts of the world. We have for cot of ‘plane. aller deducting the $1 sale by the same architect Suolement ta which you paid for the book. “American Dwellings,” containing house Your book will not cost you one cent, plans, 25 cts. Chicago or Cincinnati to New York Over Night ARRIVE NEW YORK 9:30 NEXT MORNING VIA NEW YORK CENTRAL LINES. comicbooks.com