Judge, 1908-08-22 · page 11 of 16
Judge — August 22, 1908 — page 11: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a humor and advertising page from *Judge* magazine. The main cartoons are brief, text-heavy jokes typical of early-20th-century publications: **"His Rival Wore Whiskers"** jokes about competition between two butchers using puns on "close shave" and barber products. **"The Great Wonder"** satirizes large families—a man with 17 children wants to see elk, and the keeper sardonically offers to show the elk the man's family instead. This reflects period anxieties about overpopulation and poverty among working-class families. **"Glad He Stopped Praying"** presents dark humor: a boy prays for a baby brother but stops after twins arrive, joking he prevented a third birth. Other brief jokes involve business consolidation, courtship, and romantic mishaps. The page is heavily laden with period **advertisements** for whiskey, ale, and other products—the real revenue source for such magazines. The cartoons are relatively simple moralizing humor, now somewhat difficult to parse without historical context about family size anxieties and advertising culture.
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f At a country fair a man went up to a tent where some elk were on exhibition, and_ stared wistfully up at the sign- board. “I'd like to go in there,’ he said to the |keeper, “but I cannot afford to pay for my wife and seventeen chil dre The keeper stared at him in astonishment. | ‘Are all those your |children?” he gasped. | ‘Every one,” said the , man. f “You wait a minute,” said the keeper. “I'm going to bring the elk out ‘and let them se you all."—Pearson' Weekly. GOD SAVE THE KING! In a certain small vil- lage there were two butchers who were sau- ers living in HIS RIVAL WORE WHISKERS He—" So L beat out my rival by a close shave, did 1, tone shilling per dearer é pound, and the rival She—" Ves, sweethearts andy speaking of the “close Hromptly placed eight shave,” your "Gillette ‘was responsible for it. pente-on his card. then 1 IN THE COURSE OF BUSINESS. ing, t campaigen r pound could + in makings to this was the an- “1 understand," answered the vice ve supplied saus: president andi “1 pent King years in building up this little popularity — This miy ave yyarded as the C7] enterprise, and now [ve got to be abs last word, but it wasn't, “In the oppo rbed by the big interests.” Washing- Site window the following, morning: fin Stars peared an extra large card, bearing the words, + the King. Hitters ads sereatly ter " fran GLAD HE STOPPED PRAYING. ‘i Little Hob, who for some months had BREAKING IT GENTLY. ly ended his evenings prayer with “Tunderstand, sir, that you axe send mea baby brother, or of a swollen fortun ‘od to his mother that he was tir ° yruflly a praying for what he did 5 ther, that he did not be God had ly thought that 1 would yi ¢ little boys to send. tice of my intention to Not long afterward he was. 1 welling out of it. Myrth into his mother’s room very carly in the are going to be married.” Chicago morning + twin boys, wh sf Keeord-Herald, rived during, the night. Bob looked at the two babies eritieally, and then re- Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup the , It's a good thing 1 stopped Let remealy for their chibtren, 2. @ Lath 4, or there'd been three of them.”? DIPLOMACY. : : Tom (six in barrack-room) GARINIBALISM: ‘lave you will?” I picked up a popular novel, 7 tomakes you think Which 1 t some frivolous wii skits il, P heard you singing last L was looking for something: liyght-man » and 1 the might nered ‘ shot ‘em Trarson's And gentle, to cheer me a bit, Weekly, For Picnics, For Fishing, For Golfing, For Camping, For Yachting, For Tramping, | For Motoring, = rays jef in dis jorie ent h his eye: nM voured her wi Nashville THE GREAT WONDER. | gz, IN THE FRET AND SWELTER 0 OF SUMMER HEAT ll and its consequent depression, exhaustion, prostration, i HUNTER RYE — THE FAMOUS, FAULTLESS, FAVORITE WHISKEY ty is a superior tonical stimulant. old at all He Ee a Lo z= fy _— a | NAMING HIM. is the person called who ontact with the spirit AVOIDING THE RUSH. A Mormon’s wife, coming dow: morning, met the physic ing her husband, Is he very ill?” she asked “He replied the physic end ix not far off, ou think,” she asked h jo you think it. prope at his bedside dui “Papa, wh brings you in world?”" MA Houston Post, nder, 80 fear that th “1 USELESS ALONE. ing to spend: the summer should bi nts’? x. But [advise you n. The best places are ken. Bveryholy's, nT fe Why not? “Well, E have hut the summer, r 1 wouldn't enjoy myself. to hurry, nything, to spend Nashville American, By Jame Montoomery Place Pictures By James Montgomery Flage ANOTHER BRIDGE SCANDAL, Send cents for our illuarated catalogue of beautiful prints 6, by Julge Cor HOLDING HANDS Copy Photogravure in sepia, 14.49 JUDGE COMPANY, 225 Fifth Avenue, New York “Tint ae Trot supplint by the Anderson Publishing Company, comicbooks.com