Judge, 1908-07-11 · page 13 of 16
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This page from **Judge** magazine features a satirical advice column titled "Judge's Women's Department," edited by "Mr. Hik Hok" (likely a pseudonym or joke name). The content parodies advice columns popular in women's magazines of the era. The main piece presents humorous letters about romantic and matrimonial matters. One prominent letter concerns a woman seeking advice on accepting a leap-year proposal—referencing the tradition where women could propose to men on leap day. The letter humorously catalogs the "barriers" preventing her acceptance: first her shyness, then her poverty, both now removed by an inheritance from a relative. The satire mocks both the earnest sentimentality of genuine women's advice columns and the anxieties of Edwardian-era courtship conventions. The exaggerated formality and overwrought emotional language parody the self-serious tone of contemporary relationship advice literature. The page is primarily advertising—including cigarettes, hotels, and hair products—with the satirical advice column serving as editorial content to attract female readers.
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| ‘Free $14 Package No matter how much or how little you smoke, no brand what- ever its price affords It Removes Dandruff. Stops Falling Hair | JUDGE’S WOMEN’S DEPARTMENT. such complete smoking ‘and Itching Scalp. Grows New | For the benefit of our women readers in the myriad homes where Jupce isa| © Enjoyment as - Hair and Changes Gray or favorite, we have entered into an arrangement with the famous editor of “* The vei ceaal Colac Perfect Ladies’ Companion," Mr. Hik Hok. Any perfect lady among our readers 3 who has troubles of household or heart may go in perfect confidence to Mr. Hok, PHILIP MORRIS ‘ hese hair or beards are straexling or al! who will at intervals convey through these pages advice or comfort, as the case hair falling out requiring the use of may demand, ORIGINAL LONDON t itle children, boys and girls whose hair freare and unruly, all find in this great remedy | Miss Antoinette Eloise Jones, whose rather to suffer in silence than have even CIGARETTES book, os he relief that they want. | appeal for a model leap-year proposal we you know my secret. | turned into a prize contest, is beginning Now things have changed. One of | to receive aid from our readers. We ap- the barriers was removed with the dawn pend the following: of 1908, when, by a time-honored custom, | CAMBRIDGE Aumnssinoe | the girl is permitted to express her re A SUDD! LEAP. Dear Jim: No orphan ever could have gard for the man of her choice and ask) 25 35¢ had a better friend his in return. ‘ Than you, on whom, since dolly days, 1 More recently still the other has been always could depend. removed. I speak of the barrier of pov- So, as of yore, I come once more, to ask erty. . your wise advice By the death of a distant relative I am Impartial quite, I know you'll write and in receipt of a small fortune, which, if send it in a trice. you accept my proposal, will permit’ us The gladsome Fourth comes on apace, to spend our days in peace and unconcern but brings no joy to me, as to the future. This, together with For what are ail the fireworks worth ™y love and undying devotion, I will without your special H bestow upon you if you will only let me, I'm unattached, my heart’s unlatched, — You huve long been my ideal, and for but, oh, dear! I'm so shy! years I have worshiped you as a child When suitors come I just sit mum, and Would a star, considering you far out of The Above Illustration Plainly Shows What Foso from proposals fly. my reach, Doe retro) ermal Dear, queer, old aunt has breathed her _ Nodoubt you will appreciate the trust for You. Try # $1.00 Packa: rs ; rows haie, thickens eycun and lenath~|_ last, but left a will, to state Tam placing in you to send such a mes- ens eyrlashes, changes gray or fated hair to its I get no money if unwed that patriotic S#g¢ over my signature, and I will hum- natural coir reverts thin hair, ste date. bly ask that if you can’t make me the the hair of any man, womal "Plain truth to tell, I'd like real well to happiest of girls you will please return tilky art beautifully glossy. be a happy wi this note, And I’ve a plan to get a man, but don’t — Anxiously awaiting a rey tell, on your life! fot mail tna. I cannot live alone, and, then, I really in boxes of tea the after-dianer size I am, Memphis, Tenn. When I last saw you, you will nber, | think, of our discussing: matrimony in general, and proposals in purti I need hardly With no one near I'd ha tell you that it was the first time I had course, you 8 I'd write. talked on those sul ts with a man, and AN OLD MA’ I know a'certain spriglet from a self- you may have thought me rather prudish 1 as important isl in my attituc Thosonra ere 6 seni 152 100: Give fall addrina write plainly The girls are wild with envy that he — To convince you that, on the contrary, | _ deigns on me to smile. Tam quite the reverse from narrow in chiece My folks-in-law would call me‘ raw"; my vi ng you this, wy, basa 1 b and, oh! the snubs I'd bear! Nodoubt you have heard the reports) Juvce Co, 25 Fifth Aven ao girl's portrait to boost 4 Coronet, though, would be set upon current among my friends concerning the ae a my dusky hair! terms of my great-aunt's will. They a Yes, 1 knows id ihe manufac And there's a nice Chicago man who true in every detail, and you may be rer. * Now, what type of girl do you “says I'm dear to him able to apprect eacy of my |sont”* think: would go Last ity ee rand Of Sans just one thing, 1 that I could position when I tell you that, having I spent the evening with you, old 1"—Pittaburgh Post. love him with a vim. called only last week, you have shown chap.’’—Tatler, In him "tis bred to oft rewed; thus in a me more attention than the other men of NEW AMSTERDAM Or eee his love might sour— EU gir eae rsation of the other HOTEL then what would Ido, pray? night, I gather the following data con. 4th Ave. and 21st St., New York | T° +, though, will be grabbed cerning your ideals of a desirable girl: do not know How I can make my daily bread if 1 don’t have the ** dough.” Now, just suppose I should propose—so gentle, so polite! no fear—of Copyright, 1907, by Judge Co. DARLING. Send 8 cents Veautifl lostrated New York MISTY EVENING. “* What became of you last night, Wil- " HOTEL MARTINIQUE BROADWAY AND 33D STRERT, TY TY. by managing mammas, First, she must have a sense of humor. For both are d Well, I suppose I Second, soundness and sincerity rather haven't any cause than beauty. To thus object, so please reflect and tell — Third, toleration for all masculine me which you'd choose frailties. My mind’s, at last, quite hard and fast, — Now, Mr. Ecks, I am bold enough—on made up to * win or lose,"" paper—to lay claim to these three ¢ On second thoughts, to mate with sirable qualities. The first we will dis- cither might be rash miss with a word—this letter speaks for y, don’t you want to just take care of itself. AG, Ei faey oth me and all this cash? ‘As for the second, I have never re- ‘pete TE MARTINIQUE early days you've quired the services of a physician in my Cae im liked me well; then, too, 2 life—and am not a Christian Scientist. ‘St. Deoie Hotel, From callow youth, since my first tooth, My sincerity cannot b doubted. I ad-| I've strongly fancied you! mit I am not a beauty what further Antoinette proof needed? (er Flora } radueah, Ky.) Third, I am a girl unaccustomed to My dear Mr. Blank: No doubt you but you'll find possibilities of a will be surprised at receiving this note good fellow. I like beer, and have from me, but I hope that if you cannot smoked tly, of course. Rooms with use cf teak $1.00 and wp. with | #€cePt my proposal you will at least bi . I shall be well remembered in my great- Private Bath $2.00 fer ene, $2.50 for two and | lieve me sir nt's will if marry by July 4th, upwar For 9 ch other, will be 5 NEW BATHS and PLUMBING although our lir . Mest Convenient toes! i, owing on my part to the fact that busy vening. Bel most red for you in no common w yours, izing that more than one se Antoinet’ barrier separated us, I chose 4 ‘York hotels) fo Collars + Cuffs GS BARKER BRAND © Eurdpean Plan known ¢ sizes Sizes ENRY LINDENMEYR & SONS PAPER WAREHOUSE Me s From 23rd Street Grand’ Central Station, take cars direct to hotel, no transfer SPECIAL RATES MADE i ! i « comicbooks.com