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This page from *Judge* magazine combines household advice with advertisements and product endorsements typical of early 20th-century women's magazines. **Main Content:** The "Judge's Women's Department" offers satirical domestic advice under the guise of helpful hints. The humor lies in absurd suggestions presented seriously—like an "aquarium that will not leak" (which contains no water), or encouraging children to slide down banisters to polish them with their shoes. **Key Advertisements:** - **Karo Corn Syrup**: Features an illustration of a man enthusiastically using syrup, with testimonials about wholesome nutrition - **Postum**: A coffee substitute advertised through a banker's testimonial claiming coffee caused nerve damage and trembling, while Postum restored his health - **Parker's Tar Soap**: Promises to prevent baldness and dandruff **The Satire:** The page satirizes both domestic "expertise" and patent medicine culture, mocking the earnest self-help advice columns and dubious health claims that dominated early 1900s publications. The juxtaposition of absurd household tips with serious-toned product testimonials amplifies the satire.

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JUDGE'S of our women reade nt wi Any perfect lady a Mr. Hik Hok. case may demand. advice or comfort, ast inventions recently de aquarium that will not leak. moved, No water should be placed in this under any circumstance: servance of which rule is the its waterproof qualities. ere pered herring and canned sardines. your receipted ice bills, tastefully ar ranged along the wall betw: ing molding and the picture rod. If your bills are paid promptly and pasted upon the wall immediately after they the work arduous, and it will, in fact, afford you pleasant occupation for an idle moment every month throughout the year, your stair banisters always ina highly children to slide down them wheneve' they come to the lower floors for their stair carpets, but insures a greater de- their hobnail shoes. If your clock loses thirty-five minutes to. thing soak in kerosene oil for twenty- If You Want Hair When Old PACKER’S TAR SOAP Its regular use keeps the scalp clean, anti- septic and well-ventilated, and brings refresh- ing stimulus to the underlying glands. These are prime ensentials in the control dandruf, growth of the hair and prevention of ature baldness. Our booklet, “ Dandrufl: {ts Causation and Control,” free on request. ‘THE PACKER MFG CO. Dept 81 8, 81.88 Patten Stret, New Yor. SY. WOMEN'S 7S; our readers who has troubles of household or heart may go in perfect confidence to Mr. Hok, who will at intervals convey through these pages HOUSEHOLD HINTS. One of the most ingenious household four hours is no longer consid is a patent ive. Itis very forty minutes in e simple in construction, being made of method of stopping it is to hit it on the an old music-box with the works re-| face with a hatchet or a rolling pin. the ob- pointed at the International Congress of of | Domestic Science has reported that the| The best kind most effecti of fish for such an aquarium are kip-| maid from hiding the accumulations of A picturesque and highly suggestive and beneath the piano is to make it a frieze for a sitting-room can be made of rule that this shall be done. n the ceil- will now and then forget to do it. haye been receipted, you will not find| BROKEN RY COFFEE AND RESTORED BY A cheap and easy method of keeping | dition: polished condition is to encourage the | lowed to drink co! | Rot out into the world I began to use it| meals or other purposes. An additional | use, but in tim advantage of this method is that it not unfavorably. only saves the wear and tear on your | muscl gree of quiet in the household than if These conditions grew so bad at last the children pounded up and down in that I had to give up coffee altogether. | in every hour, the chances are that it is | ¢, running slow and it should be attended | cious beverage; like it j The old method of letting the whole did coffee, and during t iad homes where Junce is a favorite, editor of The Perfect Ladis’ Companion, ed effect- On the other hand, if it runs ahead y hour an easy! The housemaid committee recently ap- way to prevent a parlor dust and other s' ngs under the rugs In this way the committee believes the maids A BANKER'S NERVE PosTuM. A banker needs perfect control of the quick, accurate A prominent banker of Chatta- nooga tells how he keeps himself in con- “Up to 17 years of age I was not al- but as soon as I and grew very fond of For some ears I noticed no bad effects from its it began to affect me My hands trembled, the of my face twitched, my men- tal processes seemed slow and in other ays my system got out of order. “My attention having been drawn to | Postum, I began its use on leaving off the coffee, and it gives me pleasure to patify to its value. I find it a deli- tas well as I years that I have used Postum I have been free from the distre y symptoms that accom- panied the use of coffee. The nervous- ness has entirely disappeared, and [am as steady of hand as a boy of 25, though n more than 92 years old, I owe all this to Postum."” There's a Reason’* Read the little book, ‘The Road to Wellville,”” in packages. Grocers sell. UP TO DATE. ARY, Mary, quite contrary, Who is your latest beau? “A millionaire, with diamonds fair And autos in a row!” Mothers will tind Mrs. Winslon best remedy for their chikiren. Soothing Syrup the ‘a bottle, A GOOD RULE. “* How do you always manage to pick out the hotels with the best cuisine when you are traveling 2”? “When I get to a certain place I lect the hotel at which the tramps b for food.”* HILDREN love bread and Karo. Give them all they want. It’s the most wholesome thing they can eat—Karo is pure, nourishing, higher in food value than other syrups—and more digestible. Folks who find that other syrups do not agree with them, can eat Karo freely. Eat it on Use it for | Griddle Cakes “ ] O Ginger Bread Hot Biscuit Cookies Waffles CORN SYRUP Candy Karo is delicious on buckwheat cakes—It is the best and purest syrup in the world for all table uses, for cooking and home candy-making. ‘Send your name on a post card for Karo Cook Book—fifty pages including thirty per- fect recipes for home candy-making—Fudge, Taffy, Caramels, Butter Scotch, and especial- ly “Karo Sweet Divinity’’—the book tells. CORN PRODUCTS REFINING CO., Dept. F.F., New York ."* the oyster said, and sighed, That when they made the alphabet ‘They had remembered me and tried Some letter for that *R’ to get.”” comichooks.cogy In answering advertisements please mention “JUDGE” It will be appreciated.