Judge, 1909-06-26 · page 18 of 21
Judge — June 26, 1909 — page 18: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and light humor**—typical of Judge magazine's format. The main content includes: 1. **Railroad advertisements** (Northern Pacific Railway) promoting tourist travel to Mt. Clemens mineral springs and Yellowstone, exploiting the era's "health spa" tourism trend. 2. **"No Place Like Home"** — A mild domestic humor piece about a wealthy New York hostess who ironically displays a "No Place Like Home" motto prominently in her guest bedroom, unaware guests find it humorous (suggesting her home is so grand guests never want to leave). 3. **"A Way Where There's a Will"** — A newlywed joke: a bride reforms her carousing husband by strategically placing armchairs by the radiator so he stays home—playing on contemporary anxieties about marital fidelity and gender dynamics. 4. **Personal letter about fishing** — A humorous reader response debating cork-and-bait fishing technique, written in mock-serious tone. The remaining content is **vintage patent medicine and product advertising** (Boston Garter, Blair's Pills, Marvel Douche, etc.), typical of early 1900s publications.
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Ganpisen cuttvaT TELUOWSTONE PARE Season Jane § to Sept 25 “Ex ba Sp I wt ALASta Tete ra HLsiTi08, SEATTLE dune Ht Oct 18 the Scenic Northwest 8 THE won coast Limite The summer rush to Mt. Clemens (Mich.) Mineral Springs has resumed, with more vigor than ever. The cura- tive baths, the fishing, boating, golfing, and every, other amusement, the woods, the Great Lakes—no won- . Eastman, Mt. Clemens, mails NEW PRINTS of attractive new subjects, on heavy plate paper. Most of them are printed in beautiful sey soft ‘warm, colors which make them. supremely suitable for framing. NOW READY. Send two-cent stamp for minia- ture cuts of new prints, of ten cents for complete catalog. JUDGE COMPANY 225 Filth Avenue New York “North Coast Limited ot ry “Pacific Express” These are the three electric lighted daily trans-continental trains via Northern Pacific th service between Chicago and Yellowstone National Park Everything planned to make this summer's trip to the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition and tho SUMMER TOURIST PARES to the North Pacitlc Coast, dally $62 trom Chicago; 8: to September 30 7.30 trom St. Louis; $50 from St. Paul. Minneapolis, Duluth, Superior, Omaha, Kaneas City. Round trip limit October 31. Corresponding fares from the East geberally. position ecial’ the Railway Highway Through the Land of Fortune. get Sound, service between St. and from the i lary of the pleasantest ever experienced. NO PLACE LIKE HOME. In New York City there lived recently a avery hospi lady, whose beautiful home was frequently filled with de- lighted guests, The guest room was very tastefully and beautifully arranged, but, strange to say, in the most promi nent position in the room, directly over the head of the bed, was this most sig- nificant motto, e Is No Place Like Home."* For many years the frequent guests saw this motto, wondéred, and laughed; but the humorous significance of it never dawned upon the hostess, NAUTI DAL NWA pehslang USE ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE ar shoes one size smaller after using: Itmakes Uitht or new shoes fect In answering PERSONAL. Brockton, Mass., May 13th, 1909. asking whether the cork was pl Dear Judge: I am surprised at your Hed |under by the fish more often than it is STYLE NEATNESS COMFORT THE IMPROVED | pulled out by. the fisherman—and you a too! entucky? Never! |fiention 1 would elucidate. attached to your bait. fish, two to one pull. get the fish! |cork out of t |wet your elucidator. one for you. | knowing the fish bait went on the first | | pull of ti Again the emergency cork becomes jarated from the ‘real reaso score is four to one in your favor. out comes the cork used on the use," and you rebait—just the hook. ‘core, five to one. Whistle wet once Score, six to one. thrown over. found to be empty. You pull out and row for home. The final score is se to one. Sincerely, “Tan Brown."” A WAY WHERE THERE'S A WILL. | ain tariff revision. “They won their point," he said, i “In winning it they exercised ble ingenuity, too. The Jed me of a young Foster bride. She married, this resourceful erea- ture, a young man of rather gay habits. Yet from the start all went well. The husband soon became the village model of domesticity. +«+Jim,’ said a girl friend to the brid nds his evenings at the re said the other, “I soon broke Jim of that.’ ““*How did you do it?’ asked the girl. “The young bride gave a low, con- tented laugh. “““Every night he went out,’ she ex- plained, ‘I'd put two armehaira side by side before the parlor radiator, and then I'd hold a match to a cigar till the room got a faint odor of smoke. | best remedy fo | woman's. *| Blactter, advertisements please mention Juncr Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's Soothing S; irchikiren. Ze. a Int EXPRE “ Going around the Horn.”* 4 BORN GROUCH, BUT “Is the old man always so glum “Ry no means! en the new —Fliegende fa year, spring and fall, wh in” hats come It will be appreciated. You are now one to the good on the You didn’t So you pull the emergency Bottle is Senator Aldrich was criticising, at a er in Washington, certain phases of | laughing. | laughs twice | A judge of what? Old For your own edi- First, you | pull the cork out of the bottle to hitch line to fish. Then, if the fish pulls it under, you pull it out to see | whether you have a bite that has become ‘“WAE The Name Is stamped on every loop— Be sure it's cusnion euTTON CLASP LIES FLAT TO THE LEO— WEVER SLIPS, TEARS, NOR UNFASTENS Worn All Over The World INSIST ON HAVING THE GENUINE REFUSE ALL SuBSTITUTES COLLEGE DEFINITIONS Night xhirt—Princess style of p: with sheath-skirt effeet,— Williams Par ple Cw, Easter Sunday—Decoration Harvard Lampoon, A stiff examination—An_ autopsy. University of Texas Coyote, Day. Homely girl—-One you” wish you'd s seen the last time first.— Michigan ¢ Gargoyle. Breech of etiquette—One's dress trou ser.—Columbia Speetato Breech of promise—Part of the vorce suit.— Columbia Spectator, FISHERMEN PORT HOOK will CATCH FISH di EVERY WOMAN is interested and should know about the won. “MARVEL WHIRLING SPRAY Ask your drug. for it. 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