Judge, 1908-12-19 · page 14 of 16
Judge — December 19, 1908 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three anecdotal stories ("Stories About People") and period advertisements, rather than political cartoons. **The stories** are humor pieces: One jokes about a young man stealing a kiss from a sleeping girl and using "suspicious evidence" as excuse. Another describes American tourists' gullibility—a Swiss innkeeper's daughter deliberately serves warm milk to tourists, knowing they expect it. The third recounts Andrew Carnegie's golf caddie lamenting Scotland's poor weather for caddying work. **The humor** relies on mild sexism and ethnic stereotyping typical of early 20th-century American magazines. The jokes target romantic deception, tourist naïveté, and Scottish thriftiness—common comedic tropes of the era. **The advertisements** promote whiskey, cocktails, and printing services, reflecting Judge's target audience of prosperous businessmen. This appears to be a typical Judge page mixing light social satire with commercial content.
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= STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE Artists, Engravers (Continued) SUSPICIOUS EVIDENCE. GULLIBLE AMERICANS. and Catalog akers At the recent meeting of the Ameri-| Francis Wilson, the noted comedian, trained to produce neweffects—skilled }] can Bar Association, the subject under apropos of certain curios whereon he be in selling goods by printer's ink—are discussion was suspicious evidence and lieved he had been duped, said, with a * at your command, day and night. |)», light laugh, A Club Cocktail “The collector, as he pursues his president, Frederick W. Lehman, “‘re- hobby, grows in knowledge. Then, re- Is A Bottled Delight | minds me of the following incident: viewing his collection, he sadly finds 4) shicel tumeasutes blend “A pretty girl ina hammock slung in|many an instance where he has been A i 5 an apple orchard awoke suddenly and duped. of fine old liquors aged to a | frowned at the young man who stood be- | one drawback to knowledge 18 wonderful mellowness. that it reveals so many dupes and swin- | i chu a kiss while I wasjdles tous. O1 homer, tor instance, || [aot Cus was doing TAILS and you'll never want | stammered the young man, “In the neighborhood of Geneva, the guess-work kind again. ‘you were sleeping so soundly—you where the Swiss talk French, I climbed looked so pretty, so tempting, I—yes, I a little peak one fine morning, and on ' Martint (gin base) ond I did take one little one.’ my arrival at the chalet at the top I Ly Manhattan (whisky base) ““The girl smiled scornful |heard the pretty handmaiden call into | are the most popular. Get the kitchen in excellent French, a bottle from your dealer. “Quick, mother, quick! Here's a tourist! Put some milk on the fire. G. F. MEUBLEIN & BKO. - You know they always like it warm from Bf Barnes-Crosby Company makes three and four color process plates, half By (ones, zinc-etchings, photogravures, a wood-cuts and electrotypes for every Bi purpose, HARTFORD MEW YORK Lonoon OUT OF THE ORDINARY. Accose friend of Rear-Admiral Philip C. Cooper, the chief of the Asiatic sta- tion, recently received a long letter from the admiral. Part of the communication he has shared with his friends. To quote that part of the letter ABSOLUTELY Py : te 2 Z, 2 “I recently made a little excursion excuusive } \ i : into the country. After having slept ADAPTED be 5 . h over night at a certain inn, | asked for y = % i my bill, As soon fas it was handed to TO THE ‘ SMALL me, I took out my purse to settle it. 1 hy KNOT TIE ns —e . y |did not bother to verify the various we items. What would have been the use? meaner \s e SS “But my readiness to pay amazed the BAT’ Co. 5 : landlord. He thought a moment, and then he said uneasily, ***Will you let_ me have another look at that bill, sir? I think I have omitted HARD LUCK. ‘ * x something.’ ’” At the banquet of the St. Andrew's ; s Society, recently held in New York City, Andrew Carnegie told the following in his toast, ‘‘The Land 0’ Cakes"’: Golfing one day in the autumn on the St. Andrew's links, I said to my caddie, | “Angus, man, the leaves are falling. The green is turning red and brown. Winter will soon be upon us. And do you get much caddying to do in the win- ter, Angus?’ ngus frowned gl 5 ‘J : Z ps: ee i Anus frowned gloomily. | juin The Public Parks ‘Na, na,’ said he, blowin, ‘There's nae muckle caddyin’ in winter. Sf ¢ It it's no" snaw its frost, if its no! ; ; of San Antonio frost it's snaw; if er frost nor snaw it’s rain, an’ if it’s fine it’s sure to be the Sawbath,’"’ surpass, in number and acreage, those of any city of similar size in the world. Something of the old Spanish love of fountains, rar foliage and flowers is expressed “My good girl, take the child out !"" these parks and in the garden “That's all right, sir. We always does it this way!” squares, places and private grounds — Punch. throughout the city. But itis the climate that is by far the AN APPROPRIATE NAME. wot attractive feature of San Anto | i dry, of one of the White altitude and splendid. na Star line's boats, was explaining to some all combine to make a climate as nearly passengers that his company had con- perfect as can be. . eee pany be ‘Most of each day in the winter aidersble difteulty in finding names for HARPER months can be spent outdoors in health- —— e ships. ful recreation, FOR A HIGHBALL ] ,..0°ueentan Speen "2° f KENTUCKY cree d. iT HAS NO EQUAL A voyage $ pale and seedy, ted bot id, as he looked dismally at the rolling , ISKEY yous new lécu of : \ liveness.” Send for Sold Everywhere “For an appropriate name, I. would W. S. ST. GEORGE . suggest ‘Seasic.’ '” for Gentlemen Geo'l Pass, Agu. M.K.& T. Ry. who cherish $00 Wainwright Bldg. Most things that are bought go to the Quatity. i ST. Louis buyer—except coal, and that goes to the Special Winter Fares now to Texas. cellar, Ask any agent for particulars. comicbooks.com