Judge, 1909-08-21 · page 3 of 16
Judge — August 21, 1909 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon ("A Pause for Information"):** A man in a gondola asks his gondolier: "Say, Bill, are you towing a boat, or running an elevator?" The joke satirizes the gondolier's steep angle—he's nearly vertical in the water. This likely mocks either Venice's canal conditions or a specific contemporary incident involving gondolas. **Bottom Section ("The Book Agents' Bazoo"):** This is primarily **advertising copy** for books, not political satire. It discusses household books like "Mother, Home, and Heaven" and remedies for various ailments. The right-side illustration ("A Literal Rain of Words") shows words literally falling like rain on a person, mocking the excessive promotional language typical of book-selling advertisements of the era. The page is mainly commercial rather than politically satirical.
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A PAUSE FOR INFORMATION, “Say, Bill, are you rowing a boat, or running an elevator 2” THE BOOK AGENTS’ BAZOO. ROM experience I have learned that the atten- tion of the housewife can always be gained by some such prelimi- nary statement. as, , your husband, ah, has bursted a blood ve: or, “A large, unkind, mad dog hing. the the first daze continues, you may lead her gently into the darkened par- lor and begin the siren lull of the standard remedies for apoplex ies, grip, pneumonia, phthisis, and mumps, on page 383 of * The Golden Compendium."” A sale for the morocco-bound, twelve-dollar edition. is i a sure to follow. | toot % To obviate the continual necessity of patching and /ogh | salve applying, many members of the profession are | learning to hypnotize watch-dogs. Full instructions on page 276 of “The Universal Educator and Instruct- or,’” between the plate of colored sailors’ parrots and the rules for bandanna-handkerchief flirtation. A seductive Iowa book agent reports that in one household he sold ‘‘ Mother, Home, and Heaven’? to the goodwife, ‘999 Facts about Work Mules’ to the father, “ How To Be Beautiful though Sunburned ”* to the daughter home fro:n boarding school, and ‘ The | Swedish-American Letter Writer"? to the cook. | a I; ] i | bentae’s TH fy A good way to escape from a vicious bulidog is to i iy a ana | jump straight at the animal, clearing his back and land- | / 4 | j nen pynk? } {] ing on your head upon the greensward. ‘This will sur- / i prise the brute and allow you time to slip “ The Royal Encyclopedia" across the threatened part. Then re- cite the ‘ Famous Prayers in History,"* to be found on page 811, while you endeavor to recall as rapidly as possible the number of the chapter that contains the remedies for hydrophobia. By the time the animal has A LITERAL RAIN OF WORDS. ie