Judge — September 19, 1908 — page 4: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page combines humor with advertising. The top cartoon shows a car hitting a lamppost with the caption "Gee! I never thought the business would ever come to this" — satirizing early automobile dangers and the novelty of motorized vehicles causing accidents. The main illustrated story, "The Sentimental Song as It Ought to Be," mocks overly romantic poetry by contrasting flowery Victorian sentimentality with crude rural reality: a lover expecting pastoral romance instead finds "a full of grass seed" and "contracted hay fever," ending in a comic collision with a cow. "Beware the Bumble Bee" appears to be another humorous anecdote about household mishaps. The Big Crop Fertilizer advertisement occupies the lower right, typical of Judge's mixed editorial-commercial format.