Judge, 1909-10-02 · page 12 of 16
Judge — October 2, 1909 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and advice columns** rather than political satire. The layout features: **Main Content:** - "Judge's Women's Department" — etiquette advice for female readers, addressing letters about proper behavior (fork usage, watermelon eating, husband management). The tone is humorous but reflects genuine early 20th-century social anxieties about feminine propriety. - "Wit and Wisdom of the Nursery" — lighthearted children's anecdotes, including one about a boy's "proof" of bathing and another about a banker keeping his son's borrowed money in the family. **Advertisements:** Multiple product ads (Philip Morris cigarettes, Pears' soap, Sunny Brook whiskey, Hoffman House hotel, Cortez cigars) occupy significant space. **The Satire:** Minimal political content. The humor derives from exaggerated domestic situations—wives throwing dinner plates at critical husbands, children's innocent logic—rather than current events or public figures. This reflects Judge's evolution toward lifestyle magazine content by this era.
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S.—You ask eaten from on in a dainty manner, right, but safety and good that both hands be used. persons manage a slice with one hand, although they commonly do it for effect ; al woman must always use If you refer to a carbonated newest and to use a plati- answer to A. G. W.) if watermelon nd if held Some gifted most recherehé num straw. ( Rosebud adébutante at a dinner party ought 70 for j This is too much marbles for keeps or like J both of which sports are frown: among the elect, It is consi over, 1 upon ‘ed much SOME PERSONAL POINTE! When your husband biscuits made by your own fair hands, even though it was un-| fair of him, it was a waste of muscle and good victuals to throw the whole plate of them at his head. alone would have been suffici Bawn th Mollie criticised |best plan is always to remove the eat- ables before heaving any of the dishes at a husband who has the t a ity and impoliteness to find fault with Wit and Wisdom of the Nursery (WITH APOLOGIES To THE DELINEATOR.) THE BEST PROOF. | Little Ted, seven years old, was sent to the bathroom for a ‘*good serub’’ b fore dinner, but returned so quickly | that his mother declared he couldn't possibly have washed himself, He re- plied, ‘Truly Tdid, mother; and if you don't bel: p it, you can just go to the bathroom and lunie at the towel. itt’ Ritterdatd greatly to nic effect of a easel wine, 1 A few the ap HIS RECEIPT. | A Southern banker recently told the | following about his eight-year-old son, The boy had been invited to sp little friends in the country. ‘Stay and keep me company, Jack,"? said his mother. traveling this week, and I shall be all alone, Here isa five-dollar bill for you instead of the visi Jack promptly closed with the offer, 1 the banker as promptly borrowed the five dollars, at current interest, thereby keeping, as he observed when telling the story, both the boy and the money in the family. Some two months later Jack wanted to recall the loan. In answering advertisements please mention Juvar. e/toeat later on, perhaps, when things “Father goes | the myriad homes where Jun is a favorite, t with the famouseditor of The Perfect Ladies’ Companion, troubles of hic vals convey th readers who hh etl tt Is impossible to art!- ficially produce the rare flavor, delicate mellowness and bouquet of ih these pages ‘3 AND HINTS. nt to use a fork, as more wiring ri-| time can th poise anc enced girl with a e might cause untold havoc among the guests if sudd to, and this is the rea. son for fashion’s afork. A girl before her début should use a spoon, Never point a knife at | any one, even though you feel sure it is not loaded. C. B. C.—He is trifling with your af- ions. He should not have kissed the other girl more than three times in your prese rhe isa flirt. ALK. F. nothing better than to tal Ttisall natural whiskey di and axed in the good old Iv est Kentucky way. Each bettle 3 the Government itive assurance of vot apd Quanity, Sunny Brook Distillery Co, Jetterson Co. ky. MORE IMPORTANT THAN EYES. The pretty young teacher was strug. the hair and, gling to impart spelling-book lore toa gently, but firmly, m ¢ it for sev- small Italian boy. ‘Chief’? was the pral minutes with radium extract. word under consideration, ‘“C-b-e-f,” Then, after carcfully placing it in an spelled Tony laboriously. upright position, rap it sharply between ‘Oh, now, Tony," she said, “you've three and four times with an ordinary left out one letter, Can't you think tack hammer, This has the effect of what it is?” hecking the hair's inclination to grow ‘Tony shook his shiny, black bead. nit assumes the plump, — ‘Its name is just the same as some chubby appeara: much to be desired thing you have,’ she went on, looking at present, in place of the scant, direc- straight into his “Lean see then toire mode of last week, [looking at me this minute, right out two big, brown ones.” * shouted Tony triumy hantly For thin hair we know of RS ON ETIQUETTE, ETC. your cooking. The empty platter will make just as much of an impression on him, and even more in most cases, as it Wizard Repeating can be thrown considerably harder when mpty than when filled; and the biscuits LIQUID PISTOL will come in handy as paper weights or Bu at epehieotym Ring Ferteet a recharges by pale have simmered down and the white- PE ge Rn see, winged dove of peace begin’ to COO) Geatcrn or by mail, Se, Rubbercovered Blot, 2k and hovers over your household once | With Pistol, $Sc. Money-order of U. S. stamps. No cast ae W. S. G, | Parker Stesrns ® Co,2H Shetteld Ave, Deptt, BnyR ¥1, ‘WELL DESCRIBED. Three-year-old_ Louise, when on a rapidly moving elect Jintently out of the windo »/ moments, then exclaimed, just look at the sticks [telephone poles] running, home!"" idirg “What five dollars do you mean? asked the banker. “Why, the five I gave you.” “Thaven’t any five dollar: “But I gave it to you. Mother, didn’t I give him five dollars? You saw me.”" INFERRED. The journals give too little space To one plain fact, forsooth; arctic zone is not the place reh for frozen truth. Philadelphia Ledger. she replied. y pt, then?” d manded his father. “Do you m ay you've been lending money getting black and white to show for i “Mammy,” said the boy, appe: to his nurse, “didn’t I give papa five| dollars?"" | " uu poh’ little lamb “4 the old woma ib it to him, hor There, papa,”” said the budding law- er triumphantly, ‘‘there’s the black and white of it. indignantly “Co'se you OF BRAINS IGARS “MADE AT KEY WEST* i RY LINDENMEYR & SONS £ PAPER WAREHOUS! FOR g MEN SWEET LIBERTY. Little Egbert one day observed his mother making tea. ‘What kind of, tea is that, Mamma? aan = i “Why, I don’t recall the name. Why | ROMEIKE’S Ps cattiog Ber | anger atout zou, pout Foes do you ask?” whiel ou may want to be “up to date - “1 was just wondering whether it! "uch? Wocralical of impartance Mat was the Libby tea we sing about at| tq) States a rope is nearest oie West school. Street, New York, Tt will be appreciated.