Judge, 1908-11-28 · page 11 of 16
Judge — November 28, 1908 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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This page contains short humorous anecdotes typical of early 20th-century American humor magazines, plus advertisements. **The Cartoons/Jokes:** The top illustration depicts a child being scolded—likely illustrating "A Mean Trick," where a boy insults his teacher's ability to change expressions. The humor relies on childhood impertinence. Other brief jokes include: - A teacher who can change smiling faces to sad ones (implying stern discipline) - A child who "screamed" rather than "murmured" at the dentist - Wordplay about "pure-art dancing" (Salome and Leda dances, likely referencing early 20th-century exotic dances that scandalized society by revealing bodies) - A deaf-mute man who "spoke" by lifting a bicycle wheel—pun-based humor **Context for Modern Readers:** These are genteel, pun-dependent jokes reflecting Victorian/Edwardian sensibilities. The "pure-art dancing" reference suggests contemporary moral anxiety about modern dance. The page also features testimonial advertising for Grape-Nuts cereal and Abbott's Bitters—patent medicines disguised as food products—reflecting an era before FDA regulations.
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A MEAN TRICK. “What's the matter, my little man?" “That boy has go NOT SO WONDERFUL. “My grandfather,” said the new ighbor, who was making a duty call, was @ great portrait-painter. With one stroke he could change a smiling) face into a sad one.’ “Huh!” exclaimed small Johnny, who | happened to be in the parlor. ‘Our teacher can do that."’—Chicago News. SAWING WOOD. Guest—*You Why, I hear a sawmill Proprietor’s w my husband taking a naj dorfer Blaetter. A SLIGHT MISTAKE. “Margaret, it was very naughty of | you to make such a f You said if I'd buy you that new dollie, you’d go to the dentist's without a murmur."” “1 didn’t murmur, screamed,"’—Lippincott’s. muvver, I NEW LIFE FOUND IN CHANGE TO RIGHT FOOD. After one suffers from acid dyspep- sia, sour stomach, for months, and then finds the remedy is in getting the right hind of food, it is something to speak out about. ‘A New York lady and her young son had such an experience, and she wants others to know how to get relief. She ‘For about fifteen months my little | boy and myself had suffered with sour stomach. We were unable to retain much of anything we ate. “After suffering in this way for so long, I decided to consult a specialist in stomach diseases. Instead of prescrib- ing drugs, he put us both on Grape-Nuts and we began to improve immediately. a the key to a new life. I found had been eating too much heavy food which we could not digest. In a few weeks after commencing pe-Nuts I was able to do my house- work. I wake in the morning with a clear head and feel rested and have no pur stomach. My boy sleeps well and swith a laugh. ‘We have regained our lost weight and continue to eat Grape-Nuts for both the morning and evening meals, We are well and happy, und owe it to Grape- Nuts." + a Reason." ‘ame wiven by Postum Co., Battle wk, Mich. Read ‘The Road to Wellville,”” in packages, Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to They are genuine, true, and full ot human interest. I this a quiet, place? | by."” t my kite!” —London Punch. OFF AND ON. In the smoke-room of the Mauretania the returning tourists talked of ‘‘pure-| rt dancing’’—that is to say, the Salome dance, the Leda dance, and those other| |dances which offer little if any en- couragement to the clothing trade. | “Yes,” said Austin W. Boyd, the | well-known Toledo Assyriologist, ‘Lon- |don is overrun with pure-art dancing now.”” “I saw none of it,” hastily. ‘Describe it to me. it like?” Pure-art dancing,” said Mr. Boyd, “is like this—the more you take off the more you ‘get on.’ '— Washington Star. said a Chicagoan What is A teaspoonful of Abbott's Bitters adds greatly to the deliciousness of grape fruit. | HIS BUSINESS. ked the judge. replied the witness. “Name: “Skoviteh, “Age? “Thirty-eight.”” “Where born?”” Business?’ king up. I didn't ask you how business is, but what your business is? “And I said picking up; I’m a rag- picker!”"— Yonkers Statesman. SPOKE WITHOUT WORDS. “Dear, dear!" an old gentleman ex- claimed, in amazement; and dumb man—deaf ‘and dumb from his birth—entered a shop and spoke? Impossible ! “Well,” remarked his i nephew, preparing for flight, * into the bicycle shop while I'was there, and lifted up a wheel and spoke!”— Philippines Gossip. ACCORDING TO CONTRACT. House owner—" You failed to pay your rent last month. What are you going to do about it?” . Tenant—"Oh, 1 suppose I'll do as you said when I rented it. House owner—What did I say?” Tenant—'*You said 1 must pay in ad- vance or not at all.""—Chicago News. IT HAD A PULL. ‘The nerves of the vietim in the chair! were working overti | “Excuse me, sir," said the alleged tonsorial artist; “but you'd better keep still. Aren't you afraid J’ll cut you?” **N-not with that r-razor,"’ gasped the nervous victim.—Chicago News. The Great Spread for Bread Use it instead of other sweets; you'll enjoy the flavor and be benefited by its purity. A@ipo is a sweet with a food value. J . ta airtight tins, 100, 280, 80s. A book of coobleg and candy-makig recipes seat free on request. YOUTHFUL INGENUITY. A CHEAP BLOWOUT. “I want another box of pills like IA canny old Scotchman, MacDougal, got for mother yesterday.”” Who, like all of his people, was frugal, “Did your mother say they were| — Whene’er he felt fine, good?” | ‘Stead of ordering wine, “‘No—but they just fit my air-gun.””) Would go blow himself on a bugle! —Fliegende Blaetter, ! —Suecess, AN EASY STUNT. PERFECTLY SAFE. “I see a premiere danseuse is adver-| ‘‘It seems to me that you trust that tised to dance with five snakes twined | convict beyond the bounds of prudence." about her.’” | “Oh, he wouldn't dare to escape!"’ “Should think she would. If a snake “Why not?”’ got on me, I'll bet I'd dance." “Two wives are waiting for him to delphia Ledger. PALLISER’S UP.TO- DATE HOUSE PLANS By GEORGE A. PALLISER. 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