Judge, 1909-05-22 · page 15 of 16
Judge — May 22, 1909 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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This is a **humor and satire page** from Judge magazine featuring several short comedic pieces: **"Louis Cross-Eye"**: A joke about a museum curator who claims to have a chair belonging to "Louis Cross-Eye, King of France." The humor lies in the absurd conflation—there was no such king; the curator appears to be either ignorant or pulling the visitor's leg with an obviously fabricated historical "fact." **Other sections** include light domestic humor: a newspaper editor's son explaining why editors call themselves "we," a joke about poets discussing "aching voids," and a woman consulting a doctor about a cold. The **Hunter Baltimore Rye advertisement** occupies the right column, promoting whiskey as "yachting comfort." **Lower sections** contain brief anecdotes about feminine finance, relationship misunderstandings, and baseball—typical Judge magazine fare of gentle, family-appropriate satire poking fun at social conventions, gender relations, and everyday absurdities rather than political topics. The page represents early-20th-century American magazine humor: observational, sometimes silly, occasionally mildly risqué.
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Buys 4 YACHTING COMFORTS : <3 LOUIS CROSS-EYE. | A PRECAUTION. gh From the wide deep’s placid bosom comes a breath of A doctor, visiting a small country ‘Ma,’ said a newspaper man’s son, S32 salt sea air. Under canopies on the decks yachting town, went over the local museum, ‘I know why editors call themselves | {2 parties of merrymakers seck refreshment in the Julep, After admiring one or tws of the ex-|‘we.’” | as the High Ball of any mild form of stimulint. hibits, the curator, who was ar cld man, “*Why?2”” x said, “So's the man that doesn’t like the) S42 Ah, but we hi chair here that erticle will think there too many §2 to Louis Cross-Eye.’ people for him to tackle."’—Christian | & “who was he?” Work and Evangelist. F “Don’t you know, sir? Why, he was % one of the kings of France. | A READY EXAMPLE. if “King of France? Louis Cross-Eye?| _ Sapleigh—"‘Queer fellahs, these pocts. ‘There must be some mistake. Show |There’s the one, for instance, who me the chair.” | speaks on ‘an aching void.’ Now, how The old man promptly complied, and can there be an aching void?” pointed with conscious pride toa ticket) Mixx Blunt—"*Have you never had a inscribed headache, Mr. Sapleigh?"* — [oston » property of Louis XI." | Transcript. will make the best because it is a pure whiskey old at all first-class cafes WA" LANATIAN & NON, Ia EN ay CS SC Sh eS ae anaraNy oe AACA aA | HIS ADVICE. THE ENGAGEMENT IS OFF. There was a woman living inacoun- Marie (to her fiancé, who has just called in a doctor if called) try- you danced with that girl HI last nig *“Eh—why, who try town who ne she could h b . y, nulferingg from a slight cold, | told you? ruff, middle-aged medico | Marie—"Nobody. I guessed it. The of the old school, and, after a little pre- chiropodist has just called at her house, |liminary conversation, asked tenta- jonni "Le Rire, By the way, doctor, what do you do| BASEBALL. F eal I they cull a brutal game. ght in the face for inst baseball they never ray ute, and answered, without divi ot game pitchers are so wild, moving. a musi | They have to have baseball in a ea “Tough, madam,"* | Purple Ce ARE YOU LOOKING FOR ME? ‘THE WAY OF A WOMAN. “Lassure you, madam, the effect is charming—most absurd and yrotesque.”” Oh, very well, if you're sure it’s all that, PI decide on this Vutim- FEMININE FINANCE. | A GREEN GIRL, “Some time to write a Miss r, the editor of book on ‘Feminine that will Patna , tells an odd story just knock the spots off the fr of a gre v divid have a the U. MoT in fifty trans: dollars, Tele nd, and a Brooklyn woman engaged A bell hung in the gir! the morning after her a 1 to get her up. id did not get up, though Finally, there- and slip- * argued th would have cost at least ten cents more fore, the mist if she hadn't bought before the new ping on a dressing. seer ote sercents =| ODD FELLOWS: HERE I AM! she got two new pairs of glove th are you laughing at, | Copyright, 1st, Judes Cor reckoned up the probable future duty on tl and found she was in ON HEAVY PLA’ E PAPER. dollars more, Still¢ mistres: bug, she annexed th N answered, PRICE, 25 CENTS. ed on a net custom-house ‘O ighin’ at that bell. e cents. By that sec—it's waggin’ yit. $o1 told her she really | | Catalog of Attractive Prints Sent upon Receipt of 10 Cents. With my in-| WHY THE LICKING. “Father, what are you licking me rn jou for?" whack JUDGE COMPANY to go out and squander that last seventy-‘* What am I lickir nts on a pound of chocolates that — ‘you young thie! k didn't shouldn't be so scrimping. ing to go up toadollar in the I rll the boy next door that 225 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK and I tell you I thought I during the ball same this morning’’— was getting out of it easy."—New York whack—"tyou stole the third bag and Whalen te Times, [ran home?’'—Independent, it comicbooks.com