Judge, 1909-09-04 · page 15 of 16
Judge — September 4, 1909 — page 15: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** from Judge magazine, with small satirical cartoons interspersed. The main advertisements include **White Rock table water** (claiming to be "The World's Best") and **Leslie-Judge Company** prints for college dorm decoration. The cartoons are brief, humorous vignettes: - **"The Mistaken Beehives"** and **"Prevention of Cruelty to Animals"** mock both overly sentimental animal protection and servant stupidity—a servant fails to understand a dog urgently needs the bathroom. - **"Worth Going to Jail For"** jokes about a prisoner's wife misunderstanding legal proceedings as romantic. - **"Birthday Celebration"** depicts absurd servant logic: allowing a boy to shave a man as a birthday "treat." - **"The Poet at the Breakfast Table"** compares a cook's pancakes to great art. These cartoons, reprinted from European sources (Fliegende Blätter, Meggendorfer Blätter), reflect early 20th-century class humor mocking servants' incompetence and genteel anxieties about propriety.
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