Judge, 1909-12-04 · page 46 of 48
Judge — December 4, 1909 — page 46: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising**, with satirical content interspersed. The main features are travel ads for the Old Dominion steamship line and various patent medicines/liquor products typical of early 1900s publications. The satirical pieces are brief humor columns: - **"Making a Man While You Wait"** critiques overscheduling of children—a Progressive Era concern about childhood being rushed away through constant education and work pressure, ultimately leading to "nervous prostration and death." - **"The Advantage"** is a joke about a husband approving women's suffrage because it keeps his wife occupied at meetings, so she won't nag him about smoking at home—satirizing both women's activism and marital dynamics of the era. - **"Can He Do It?"** references Luther Burbank, the famous plant breeder, joking about training Christmas trees to grow presents—light absurdist humor. The page reflects early 1900s social anxieties: childhood overscheduling, marital tension, and women's rights.
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DELIGHTFUL SHORT SEA TRIPS -To- OLD POINT COMFORT, NORFOLK, RICHMOND OR WASHINCTON, D.C. (All the Year Round) Attording Pleasure and Rest. Rewnd trip tickets, incloding meals and aateroom berth oa Old Domision Steamers, NEW YORK Round trip tickets, including meals and ‘ateroom berth en Old Dominion Steamers, NEW YORK 10 ; . 10 NORFOLK Lee! . aoe a RICHMOND on on OLD POINT Washington, D.C. AND RETURN $14.00 $15.00 OLD DOMINION LINE INCLUDING ACCOMMODATIONS AT HOTEL CHAMBERLIN 4 5 Days’ outing, ine cluding transporta- tion, meals and ttateroom berth, and hotel accom- modation, $22 THE ONLY eineer LINE TO OLD POINT COMFORT AND NORFOLK WITHOUT CHANCE ers are all equipped with the United Wireless Telegraph System STEAMERS SAIL EVERY WEEKDAY AT 3 P. M. Tickets and Stateroom Reservations, Pier 26, North River, Foot of Beach Street, New York SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED PAMPHLET, Desk “3” W. L. WOODROW, Traffic Manager General Offices, 81-85 Beach Street, New York Days’ outing, ia- cluding transporta- tion, meals and stateroom berth, and hotel accom- modation, J. J. BROWN, General Passenger Agent OLD FASHION HAND MADE SOUR MASH BOTTLED IN BOND IF YOUR DEALER CAN NOT SUPPLY YOU WRITE TO THE STAR DISTILLERY CO, (WCWNAtI.O. FOR OME WHO CAN. For Liquor and Drug Using A scientific remedy which has been skilfully and succesfully edministered by medical specialists for the past 30. years. At the following Keeley Institutes : White Paina 8. Peetland, Ore Phitadetphia, Pa. 2 N, Broad St Winnipeg. Manitoba, Grand Raplda, Mich, Buffalo. N. ¥. London, England. “That was the second wife of the | third husband of my first wife.” gende Blaetter. CHRISTMAS SPIRIT. Looks like a game Of give and take. —Detroit Free Press. ECONOMY. let pa smoke in the house.’* Mother—"I should like to know why?”” Daughter—* Every Christmas we have trouble trying to find a present for him —everything is so expensive, you know; but we can always get very pretty ash trays at thirty cents."—Los Angeles Times, THE ADVANTAGE. Friend—*Why do you encourage these woman-suffrage meetings? Surely | you don’t approve of them?” Husband—"Approve? With all my! heart! I can come home as lat, like now without finding home to ask questions Blaetter. the United States are respect CANADIANS fuiy° Vecccsted “to create demand for Gooderham & Worts Canadian Whiskey. Stock carried in the Warehouses of Wakem & MeLaughlin, C Daughter—'*Ma, I think you'd better | MAKING A MAN WHILE YOU WAIT. Hurry the baby as fast as you can, Hurry him, worry him, make him a man. Off with his baby clothes, get him in pants, Feed him on brain foods and make him advance. Hustle him, soon as he’s uble to walk, Into a grammar school; cram him with talk, Fill his poor head full of figures and facts, Keep on a-jamming them in till it cracks. Once boys grew up at a rational rat Now we develop a man while you wai! Rush him through college, compel him to grab Of every known subject adip and adab; Get him in business and after the cash, All by the time he can grow a mustache. Let him forget he a bo: | Make gold his god and jingle his joy. Keep him a-hustling and clear out of | breath, Until he wins—nervous prostration and death. —Southwestern’s Book, A CHRISTMAS JINGLE. The sleighbells soon will jingle, | And nose and ears will tingle, | And arms and waists will mingle— | What a picnic to be single! | —Red Hen. CAN HE DO IT? “Here's a job for Burbank.’ | “What “Training a Christmas tree to sprout its own presents. "’—Louisville Courier Journal, Fireproof. Tampa, Florida Management of | Fifth David Lauber | Ye Winter Season December 1st, 1909 to April roth, rgto. In the midst of = most wonder- ful tropical park. i No Storms or Fogs on the West Coast and Booklet for the asking. Address Tampa, Bay Hotel, ny Agent Seaboard Alr Line, Allgatie Coast Line, Souths ‘also, ines. Inform: Mallory, Savannah and In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. It will be appreciated. comicbooks.com