Judge, 1910-01-08 · page 15 of 16
Judge — January 8, 1910 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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This is primarily a publication masthead and notices page, but it includes one notable political cartoon and several satirical items. **The Main Cartoon ("Plan of a New Theater"):** Shows a skull as a theater floor plan—a darkly humorous visual pun on "theatrical deaths" or failed theatrical ventures. **Political Reference:** The text mentions a "masked band of thirty suffragettes" allegedly accosting "the Hon. Spencer Churchill" on the street and spanking him. This references Winston Churchill and the pre-WWI women's suffrage movement in Britain, which indeed engaged in militant tactics. The article sarcastically notes that despite this alleged attack, an order to arrest women on London streets after 6 a.m. "would seem to indicate that something has happened." **The Humor:** Judge ridicules both the suffragettes' methods and the British government's absurdly draconian response, while simultaneously mocking the newspaper sensationalism around the incident. The page otherwise contains routine subscription information and satirical notices about other publications.
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JUDGE ia Published Weekly by the LESLIE-JUDGE COMPANY, 225 Fifth Avenue, New York City Western Apvertisina Orrice, 1136-7 Marquette Building, Chicago, Ill. One year, or 62 numbers <2 ‘Six months, or 26 numbers a re t) Thirteenweeks =. St Subscriptions payable in advance by draft on New York, or by express or postal order, not by local checks which are af a discount in New York Ci . i spendencien, and Mexica, To Canadian Province add £0 centa a year for postage ; to all foreign countries add $1.00 8 year. : EUROreAN SALES-ACENTS~ International News Company, Bream's Building, Chancery Lane, E.C., London: Brentano's, Avenue de (Opera, Paris, Saarback's News buchange, Mainz, Germany. ‘The contenta of Jubcw are protected by copyright in both the United States aod Great Briain. Corraimurons must inclade a stamped and. self-addressed envelope with all manuscripts, otherwise return of the latter when found unavallable cannot be guaranteed. Tf Jupce cannot be found at any news-stand, the publishers will be under obligations if that fact be prompily reported rn postal card or by letter. BACK NUMBERS: Present year, 10 cents per copy ; 1908, 20 centa; 1907, 30 cents, ete. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Subscribers when ordering a change of address should give the old as well as the new address, ledger number on thelr wrapper. Prom two to three weeks must necessarily ‘lapse before the change can be made, and before the fret copy of JUDGE will reach any new subscriber. WEATHER TO-DAY | Promising to C2 CIRCULATION Normal Toe Rew Pork Daily Wutsbell “The Bury Man's Delight” Vol. I. JANUARY 8, 1910. ACES ERM Rize at Coctinteds (Oy Fable o Netbal) The report that a masked band of thirty suffra- gettes caught the Hon. Spencer Churchill on the street the other night and, taking him to a secret meeting- place out near St. John’s Wood, treated him to a good, sound spank- ing with a hai brush has not yet Nutahel! Secures reat Beat. Colonel Roose- velt has just sent a wireless from Umpazuzza to the Daily Nutshell, stating that he has sent us a ten- thousand-word ar- ticle proving that it is impossible that a woman could have a ser- pent’s tongue. Owing to our lim- ited circulation and the fact that we carry so little advertising, cannot afford to publish the article in its entirety in a single number, and it will there- fore be printed in these columns serially, one word to each issue. The first word is “‘I.'’ For the next installment, see next issue of the Daily Nutshell. though the latest order from Down- ing Street, order- ing the immediate arrest of all wom- en found on the streets of London after six o'clock in the morning, would seem to indicate that something has happened to shake the government to its base. PLAN OF A NEW THEATER. DIVORCED AND MARRIED AGAIN IN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS. One of the grave evils of secret di- vorces was brought to light in Chicago the other day, when two persons who IMPORTANT NOTICE. Read the Daily Nutshell, Save your eyes. Save your time. All the views that’s fit to squint. Known the world i over as‘ The Vest Pocket Thunderer."” have been happily married for twenty- Aj] information guaranteed strictly seven years read in the morning papers fresh. Remember” our mot 0 that they had been divorced. They | there’s no news, make it yourself. called a minister and were immediately | remarried. Practical jokers are sus-| Peced of having brut abut the ep: | STPIGNG,SMUET-EAIT SORE aration, which fortunately has not been| 4 wen ynown sociologist has suggest- attended by serious results, ed a solution for the striking shirteeaist GUASSIPIED ADVERTISING! makers’ difficulties by advising them to —— ——_—|set up in business for themselves: for OST, strayed, or stolen, from my|the manufacture of striking shirt- ‘apartments at 1216 West Chester | waists. The president of Peekaboo Avenue, my mother-in- Finder| Union Number Four has promised to please keep out of the ‘‘ FOUND’? | bring the matter before the union at its column. | next meeting. Announcement Extraordinary Announcement Extraordinary Why Pay Rent —— OWN YOUR OWN HOME! —— Why Pay Rent POLEHURST-ON-THE-ICE ‘THE promoters of the POLEHURST SUBURBAN HOMES CO. beg to inform the public that they have secured contro! of 8,000,000 ACRES, all corner lots in the newly discovered SUBURB of POLEHURST. Suitable for retired business men, free from noises, no mosquitoes, ‘and guaranteed to be cool on the hottest days of summer, Only two years from Broadway. Transportation by special yacht. No gossip. Ice free. Sun shining all night. Polar bear shooting in season. Two mails each decade. No reasonable oMfcr refused. Do you want a quiet suburban home? Write at once, THE POLEHURST SUBURBAN HOMES COMPANY S. KEY MAU, Agent, Greenland, LM. QMENTION TIS PAPER WHEN YOU waite) Winston! been confirmed, | M other good says: To make vy, thicken with Kingsford’s Corn Starch, not flour — flour makes lumpy gravy and that raw taste. \ Kings ford’s Corn Starch is the best thickening for all gtavies, soups and sauces. Send a post card today, and we will mail without charge our remarkable little Cook Book “BP, F."—"What a cook ought to know aboutcor starch.”” It contains one hundr and ataiy-eignt of the ber recipes you ever tried. T. Kingstord & Son Oswego, W. Y. National Starch Co., Seccessored AFRICANS DESIRE “SQUEAKY” SHOES. ‘The east-coast African buying shoes is less concerned.with fit or style than with a quality the white man ignores of, at worst, wishes to, if he cannot. ‘That Is, the equeak, says The Youth's Companion, “Do they talk proper loud?” inquires the {ngenuous native first of all, and if they do not talk” he will not buy. SQUEAK, squeak, squeak, On the coal-black fout, oh, shoe! For unless you are very squeaky The African says you won't do. | Ob, well for the African youth - If he'd rather have shoes that way! | But how do ex-Presidents bear Such unmusical feet for a day? Oh, better the lion to face, ‘And better the bongoe to kill, |Than to listen all day to the passing | shoes That squeak and never are still! ‘The popularity of Abbott's Bitters as @ tonic is country wide. MORE PRESS RUMORS. By RW. T IS rumored that: Leslie's Weekly is going strorg. Automobile is running well. Pacific Monthly is still calm, Modern Woman has several features. The Literary Digest absorbs every- | thing. The Saturday Evening Post has a standing reputation. - The Youth's Companion keeps good. The Delineator needs no model. The Telegram is not likely to be wire- less. The Rudder sternly steers clear of fiction. | new The Billboard hates im-posters. The Wide World is open to all con-| tributors, Harper's Bazar is selling well. The Bohemian is welcomed in societv The Argosy keeps its aaizs . ONOMOTOPAEIA. | “T)O YOU remember your first smoke?” | “Yes, indeed. It was a sick-arette.”| In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. It will be appreciated. i [nderbers [be World's Best & Bitters fe or cordial. Ap- jj petizes, prevents indigestion and ben- efits every one. Sold Everywhere, BROTHERS, U.S. Agents, New York. comicbooks.co