Judge, 1908-08-22 · page 13 of 16
Judge — August 22, 1908 — page 13: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several humorous short stories and advertisements typical of Judge magazine's satirical approach. The main cartoons mock everyday social situations: **"Not a Miracle"** depicts a clergyman's embarrassment when a beggar woman's suggestion that he search his pockets yields money he'd forgotten—undermining his pious claim of poverty. **"The Big Smile"** satirizes Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft during the 1908 election. The elephant (Republican mascot) and references to "Taft" and "Donkey" suggest political commentary on campaign enthusiasm. **"He Was the Parents"** mocks middle-class parenting—a boy gets toy animals instead of live pets due to apartment living constraints. Other vignettes ridicule landlords, naive charity-givers, and linguistic pretension. The advertisements (Dawson's whiskey, Philip Morris cigarettes, hotels) represent period consumer culture. The overall tone reflects Judge's middle-class, somewhat conservative sensibility—gently mocking social pretension, foolishness, and misadventure rather than attacking systemic issues.
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NOT A MIRACLE. In a provincial town two curates lodged together. One day one of them was returning home after a round of parochial calls, and encountered a beg- gar woman in the street. The poor creature asked the good man for alms, but, as he knew that he had left home, he told her that he could not help her. “Oh, ** pleaded the woman, ‘just see if you haven't a stray copper in one of your pocke In order to satisfy her he searched, and, to his ami half « Appotntment ORIGINAL LONDON CIGARETTES made their reputation over | fifty years ago THE BIG SMILE. ©. P. Elepha and have made ® The ident the Billy ‘Taft * Avaldort- ar the Dem. Donkey ran good with par- Importation Co- © Elep ° * Cos the people for Taft have gone daft.” ticular smokers Just say to your Stuffed Teildy Re | ever since. “Go sit nj take a seat ORDER WHAT YOU WANT. a Wanny Fatt jude Diner ‘Here, waiter! this egy isn’t THEACARDS“ARESOUT: ‘That can laugh and say" Fudge! CAMBRIDGE AMBASSADOR half cooked."" ou think you could learn And a BIG SMILE you all next in boxes of ten the after-dinner size he waiter “Well, you didn’t want year INRICK, ROW Nt. Sc it half cooked, did you?” Evehange, i On, Moltroverss 25e 35e x ‘ ° THRIET: EE 9 Kansas City danrual, | he 8 he Sunday HE WAS THE PARENTS. sessed of th LOOKING AHEAD. Little Bertram had always snged for mote thrift a “T thought you had money enough for alive pet, but as he lived in - had given Bill and Johnny sixpence your dash to the . ment building, he had to be isfi work for him. I have lied th ctie exp! oe . with toy animals. | to hear, when we meet “IUs the expedition for my relief we're The goodness in 2. Later his parents m uhave used the money asking funds for now." Piladelphia . . . . ‘y, and Rertram Ledger. Soap is an antidote for all . kitte t, Till pro- ——— eer cl + duced two sixpe bad complexions. i céenturut®? Well dom for goodness sake use THE LARGEST GIVER. I want to tell you of an inquiry of my iN Worla’s Best litt old Helen 0 Jn America aml elsewhere regular of . Bitters HENRY LINDENMEYR & SONS: + she A: PAPER WAREHOUSE ery Sunday the man r . vorites, . Brana Chi Tonic Cordial ie i eee on favor through. fl Rives. mite out Europe for over must be rich om E mamma?" - Bechange sixty years. Enjoy- NEW AMSTERDAM | th ae cok ee and better for you. E STING IN. HOTEL ces ane ° TINCTIO} dee 4th Ave. and 21st St., New York Ww real buy things HARD TO UNDERSTAND. va Press, an’t under- THE LANDLORD'S FIX, not live but a low mother and the girls ¢ out you © so heartily of mys “Really, duk broken English, and be so terribly on as noyed at my oceasional mistakes in Seaery yrammar.”? Washington Star, ous and Cuffs i] i a sc EP oa ace yom Best Illustrated History | “i MADE OF LINEN A: 152.00 for one, $2.50 for two and 4 two of 1908 ss 15¢ R25< sizes NEW BATHS and PLUMBING Most Convenient Location in City “< Is a bound volume of LESLI WEEKLY. We are offering our subscribers an excellent and very prac- tical binder for only $1.50, postpaid. We also have a similar binder for JUDGE. for $1.25, postpaid. Each binder holds a year's sub- scription—52 numbers. Addr The Judge Company i east 225 Fifth Avenue NEW YORK Fuantionat te UTATION tel comicbooks.com