ComicBooks.com Register / Loginit's free!

Judge, 1908-10-24 · page 9 of 24

Judge — October 24, 1908 — page 9: what you’re looking at

📖 Open the full issue in the page-flip reader →
Judge — October 24, 1908 — page 9: Judge, 1908-10-24

What you’re looking at

This page is a mixed collection of brief satirical pieces and advertisements typical of Judge magazine. **Key content:** The lead item, "A Pathetic Appeal," mocks a man's desperate 20-year quest for hair restoration using numerous ineffective remedies—a satire on the prevalence of fraudulent patent medicine advertising. His hair has turned multiple colors and he's suffered ailments from the treatments. "The Better Way" gently ridicules men chasing rainbows (pursuing futile goals) while suggesting outdoor walks offer better health returns—typical self-improvement humor. The scattered short jokes target predictable targets: vanity (women's appearance), superstitions (broken mirrors), marital discord, and social pretense (the grouch club member). **Advertising:** Packer's Tar Soap dominates the lower left, claiming to cure baldness and dandruff. **The illustrations** show a cat in a pitcher ("The Last Lap") and two men in conversation—generic cartoon style supporting the brief jokes above them. The page reflects early 20th-century American anxieties about aging, appearance, and the booming snake-oil medicine industry.

📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

from an old man and explains itself. “Dear Mr. Epitor: Will you help an old man to get back his hair? It started to come out about twenty years ago, and I began putting medicine on it, until now I am all tired out and will soon lose faith in all hair restorers, I put on seventeen kinds of ‘hair growers’ (they called them), and have had water on the brain three times, cold in the head for a total of three years and one month, rheu- matism of the neck for a total of eighteen months, and everything else pretty near. I have been sick a grand total of seven yeat nine months, and twenty-one days, have bl tered my fingers rubbing, and have worn furrows in my head, The different tonics (2) have dyed my hair so that of the one hun- dred and thirty-two sprouts left, about half are yellow, forty-eight are blue, pinkish, and the rest are black, brown, and white. Can't any of you help me? “Yours truly, ANDREW D. Hare.” ten are PROTECTED. ER features lack beauty and gra "Tis true, but don’t pity her case; For that's her salvation Not even starvation Would dare to stare her in the face. PICK-UPS. BOUT the most aggravatin’ thing that can happen to a woman is to fall and cut a gash in her cheek, and then have the doctor js unconscious. sew her mouth up by mistake while she A PATHETIC APPEAL. AN ANY of our readers help this case, one of the most pathetic C in its despair of any we have ever heard of? The letter is WANTED THE CHANCE. 66 PRRIDGET,” ordered the mistress, from the flour above, * when dinner is ready call me down. “Oi will, mum, Oi've been here only three days, and Oi'm glad iv th’ opportunity to tell ye what Oi think iv ye, mum!"* “y “No. When a lookin’ glass falls and breaks, it is a sign of bad luck, egpecially if it has got one of them heavy gilt frames and happens to hit you on the h “Happy is the bride that the sun shines on"’ is an old sa; but, by ginger! no bride is happy without a ‘TIS TRUE. HERE is a young man of the West Who can’t help adorning his vest With soup and spaghetti At dinner, and yet he Refuses to dine while undressed. THE BETTER WAY. HASING rai futile pursuit, but, after all, the fel- low who will walk five or six miles a day in the open country, trying to locate the end of this are of promise, will win large dividends in health. pows is thought to be a If You Want Hair When Old PACKER’S TAR SOAP PURE AS THE PINES Its routine use insures cleanly vigor of the Redbeak—"* Well, | know a Pinkbill- Redbeak—"* No; my wife A RACING ‘TERM, NOT GREGARIOUS. Grouch a club man?” The only thing he is a member of is the human race, and he’s not in very good standing with that.” F A man refuses to believe in the truth of the old maxim that a bird in hand is worth two in the bush, try him on the later sage few showers, DIFFERENT VIEW-POIN’ *« Whose—your WE WONDER WHY? Ts say death loves a shining mark— ‘Tis true, and sa But when death loves a mining shark We're somewhat glad, DIDN'T WANT IT STRONG. In union there is strength."" Bobhy Father “What's ‘an idle jest,’ pa?" “There's no such thing, my boy. good mother-in-law, anyway.” ive me non-union butter, every time."” |; They're observation that a pane in the window is worth two in the stomach. He will not deny that. NOT A MIRACLE JUST PLAIN CAUSE AND EI |,, There are some quite remarkable things happening every day, which seem almost miraculous. Some persons would not believe that a man could suffer from coffee drinking |so severely as to cause spells of uncon- And to find complete relief in changing from coffee to Postum is well worth recording. | Lused to be a great coffee drinker, so much so that it was killing me by inches. My heart became so weak I would fall and lie unconscious for an hour at a ti The spells caught me sometimes two or three times a day. | ‘My friends, and even the doctor, told me it was drinking coffee that caused the trouble, I would not believe it, and still drank coffee until I could not leave my room. |‘ Then my doctor, who drinks Postum himself, persuaded me to stop coffee and try Postum. After much hesitation I concluded to try it. That was eight months ago. Since then I have had but few of those spells, none for more than four months. “T feel better, sleep better, and am better every way. I now drink nothing | but Postum and touch no coffee, and as 1 | am seventy years of age all my friends think the improvement quite remark- able."" “* There's a Reason, Name given by Postum Co., Battle ek, Mich ead ** The Road to Well- ville,” in packages, Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human interest. comicbooks.com