Judge, 1909-09-25 · page 12 of 16
Judge — September 25, 1909 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from Judge (1909 jubilee issue) is primarily **advertising with satirical humor pieces**, not a political cartoon. The main cartoon shows a well-dressed man in a top hat greeting a small boy, captioned "MISREADING THE SIGNS," with the joke being the boy mistakes loafers sleeping on grass for a suffragette meeting—a topical reference to women's suffrage activism of the era. Other humor pieces mock contemporary social concerns: rigid corseting ("Wordsworth Up to Date"), excessive drinking, and hypochondria. One piece jokes about a boy thinking he has symptoms of love after smoking a cigar. The page is dominated by **advertisements** for champagne, wine, hotels, collars, and patent medicines—typical Judge content. The humor reflects early 1900s anxieties about women's fashion, feminism, modern medicine, and social propriety rather than partisan politics.
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Jubilee 1859-1909 The Truth Can be told about Great Western the ont: receives MEDAL.” PLEASANT VALLEY WINE CO., SINTON CINCINNATI, O. European Plan. 400 Rooms. Fireproof Construction. Cuisine the Best. Rooms $2.00 and Upward. Large Convention Hall and Assembly Hall on Ninth Floor. ‘ EDWARD N. ROTH, Managing Director. i ee aN. Es OF LINEN J it) 15 18225¢ AM, Sizes WORDSWORTH UP TO DATE. She was a Phantom of a Fright When first she gleamed upon my sight! | A shapeless shape in scanty dress To haunt, to startle, to distress. I saw her upon nearer view; The things that woman had to do! She had to breathe a certain way, And walk and walk for miles each day. She couldn’t eat a thing that’s good For human nature's daily food, But just some hygienic stuff, And stop before she'd had enough! You'd think no one, however thin, Her sheathlike garments could get in; E’en if you understood the cult You'd be surprised at the result! A perfect woman nobly gowned, With hips scarce thirty inches round! A slotlike form, a halting gait, And something like an angel's weight! —Carolyn Wells in Harper's Magazine. POSTERITY WOULD SHUDDER. like. our peculiar customs. “Then why not include one of the current hats?’’—Houston Chronicle, WHY THE TEARS CAME. She offered an ful mood. I've been to a wedding, “TL always ery more Ido at a funeral uncertal New she said. It's so much more ‘ork Press, AS BAD AS ALL THAT. The doctor—* Nona got acancer. Booze is what You must stop drinking at one do they put under the corner-| “Oh, current coins, literature, and the We want posterity to know about | d explanation of her, at a wedding that | nse! You haven't js you, HAD ALL THE SYMPTOMS. | When Bloggins, senior, on the occa-| sion of his annual party, was obliging his guests with ‘* "Tis Love That Makes the World Go Round," Master William Bloggins seized the opportunity to retire | for a few minutes behind the Japanese screen with his sire’s half-smoked cigar. The applause subsiding, Master Blog- gins was observed by one of the company to be looking far from well. His face had taken on the hue of putty and his eyes stood out | "Good gracious, Willie! matter?” cried Mrs, Bloggins in ““L believe you've been smokin, Willie shook his head. ““"Tain’t that,’ he declared untruth- fully. “If it’s true what father’s been singing about, I—I re-reckon I'm in love !""—Tit-Hits, | SAUCY BOY! She—" Waste is sinful.” He—“Not always, 1 know a waist which is angelie!""— Jugend. MISREADING THE SIGNS. Little Arthur (as he sees the many loafers sleeping on the grassy —'*Gran'pa, has there been a suffragette meeting here?” —London Sketch. | COMPENSATION. First girl (looking at statue of the Venus de Milo)—‘*What terribly thick |waists girls must have had in those gentlemen's arms were longer. man Life. cond girl—"Yes; but perhaps the "Hue THE ETERNAL FEMININE. He—'For a week you have had the |dressmakers in the house. Is anything unusual going on?” She--""Of course, you know that I am going to take part in the international swimming contest for women.”” AND MODERN SCIENCE STILL TRIUMPHS. “Do you believe surgery can ward off Is it that serious? | old age? Doe, I thought it was some "—Cleveland Leader, In | tion.” ring advertisem: simple thing that could be helped by an opera- | dies under an operation.” “Oh, the patient | Public Ledger. Delight Club Cocktails | Ever wanted a cocktail, and found that gin, ver- & mouth or whiskey had run out? This never happens with % Crus CockTal_s in the house, Keepa bottle on hand and have the best cocktail in the world always ready for serving Martini (gin base) Mea- hattan (whiskey base) are al- ways popular, C.F. HEUBLEN & BRO. Maguiticent New Hofinan House MAWSON STATE NEW Vetch Absolutely Fireproot o SANTAL CAPSULES « iy rau will send 5O° ROMEIKE rings whch appear aboot 5 Nets witch you may went to be Bewspaper and pertoical ted States and Europe is searches. 100 notices. Henry Romeixe, 11 i Streek: New York: HENRY LINDENMEYR & SONS PAPER WAREHO Street usE