Judge, 1909-03-27 · page 19 of 24
Judge — March 27, 1909 — page 19: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, with brief humorous content interspersed. The main satirical piece is "The Genial Philosopher on Clubs," which defends gentlemen's clubs against suffragette criticism. The writer argues clubs serve as "safe deposit" for husbands while wives pursue political activism—a joking defense of male social spaces during the women's suffrage era. The shorter humor pieces ("In a Strange Land," "For Obvious Reasons") are mild workplace/domestic jokes typical of early 20th-century magazines. The "Psalm of Wife" is sentimental verse about wives' sacrifices. The page is otherwise filled with advertisements for whiskey (John Jameson, Old Forster), the F&M Schaefer Brewing Company, and patent medicines (Santal Capsules for catarrh). These ads reflect common Judge magazine content—alcohol and dubious health products marketed to male readers. The cartoons accompanying ads are generic illustrations with no specific political reference beyond period gender stereotypes and class assumptions about club-going gentlemen.
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THE GENIAL PHILOSOPHER } Don’t Wear a Truss on clon (Continwed from text scetion.) The F.&M. Schaefer Brewing Co. all they wish to keep them at home. After Thirty Years Experience I Have The club, for a woman like Mrs. Flap- Made a New Discovery for Men, doodle, fulfills the function of a Hus-| Wones of Chiltres That band Safe Deposit Company. When mares Neptare. she is off stumping the State for the - suffragettes, she knows just as well Ceste You Nothing To Try It. where her husband is as she Would if she had checked him in some convenient cloak-room, or stowed him away in a ". safe-deposit vault, which she wouldn't know if we had no club, Without the Hyperion to pass his evenings in, you'd probably find old Flapsy in the front < row of ‘The Girl with the Golden Thirst,’ or some other chaste comic jopera of the day, up to eleven o'clock, and the Lord only knows where after- ward, provided he could heliograph an invitation to supper to a chorus girl, with his bald head. “No, sir; nobody can understand women’s objections to clubs, and as for | elf, 1 don’t often try, and when I me to drink. Before we ject, what will you have? | =| Three dry martinis in a tall glass will do for mine."" JOUN KENDRICK BANGS. A PSALM OF WIFE. Wives of some men all remind us Shear Humor! Address Bottled at the Brewery Mareted tile ray be For Hotels, Restaurants and Family Trade i IN A STRANGE LAND. a But thee we leave Supplied by Leading Dealers and Grocers behind us about three o'clock the other morning. The street was dark except for a single k= ground-glass globe that blazed in front of an apartment house. One of the in- ebriqtes, spying this lone light, observed, “dh, look at zhe moonsh! ‘The other seriously contradicted him, | Would inherit scarce adime. Park Ave., 50th to 5ist Sts., New York ‘hat ain’t no moonsh; zash sun."* This started an argument, which lasted for several minutes, as to wheth globe was the moon or the sun, Finally they decided to leave it to the first » who happe entleman, and pointing to the globs “an argument, old pal; is that the moon or the sun’ ‘The third party stared knowingly at) the globe for s ral minutes before he I'm a stranger in this town, delphia Keeurd. FOR OBVIOUS REASONS. The old gentleman, who was always reat beast rightin front of me. Twasum essary 10 terrify him into submission, What did Ido? 1" — a, €2ae OTIN AMESON [declaring that boys were not what they used to be, stopped in front of the smart s heard about the power of the human eyel—1 know, You— child. xk * “Well, Tommy,” greeted the old gen-, OU I-l-looked at him !"— Punch. W H | S K EY tleman, ‘‘how are you to-day?"" = ————— —____ - “Very well, sir,”’ responded the smart ar child shyly. : : * Jo Arddo you ever think what you are|] ff Genuine merit alone has made it a fa- going to do wheh you are a greatbig)} —F''4 —_-vorite. Thirty-five years on the mar- “N-no, sir.’" I knew it. Children are so 3 these times, And why don’t t any though ause I am a little girl, sir. old gentleman, he was making long Weekly. | SOLD BY OUR DISTRIBUTORS ket and its purity never questioned. op cticee Hes Ro ‘Street. New York. me Relieves CATARRH of the SANTAL CAPSULES es, care 4 Full Quarts, $6.00. - - Express Prepaid ESTABLISHED 1874 BROWN-FORMAN CO., Distillers, Louisville, Ky. rary seco (any) counter ‘eld by ait roe gina. comicbooks.com