Judge, 1910-01-29 · page 15 of 16
Judge — January 29, 1910 — page 15: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily a **promotional page** for Judge magazine's upcoming "Waste Basket" issue—not a political cartoon. The page announces a special issue featuring rejected manuscript submissions from writers, presented humorously as their own self-assessments. The joke is satirical: prominent authors and humorists are quoted praising this "brilliant" idea of publishing their previously rejected work. Their quotes drip with irony—they admit their pieces were "turned down," "rejected," or "doomed," yet claim the issue will be exceptionally clever. Ellis O. Jones's quote is particularly pointed: he calls his own rejected poem "meaningless," admitting the fault lies with the writer, not the editor. This mocks the literary pretensions of the era's professional writers while gently ribbing the editorial process. The "Waste Basket" metaphor refers to rejected submissions literally thrown away. The remainder of the page contains product advertisements (Protone for weight gain, liqueurs, Old Oscar Pepper whiskey) typical of period magazines.
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