Judge, 1910-02-05 · page 15 of 16
Judge — February 5, 1910 — page 15: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and light satirical content** rather than political cartooning. The main satirical piece is "A Fogy's Complaint" by Tudor Jenks—a humorous lament about modern literature. An elderly reader complains that old novels featured simple romantic plots with clear heroes, villains, and happy endings. Modern books (circa 1908), by contrast, feature morally ambiguous characters, psychological complexity, and focus on analyzing vice rather than telling coherent stories. The fogy yearns for classic tales of "Bread and Cheese and Kisses" instead of contemporary "Sophisticated Misses." The page otherwise consists of **product advertisements**: Apenta natural aperient water, Karo corn syrup, The Keeley Cure (a treatment institute for alcohol/drug addiction), and Leslie-Judge Company's Valentine photogravures. A brief joke called "Carried in Their Heads" uses the pun that country doctors carry medicine bags while city doctors supposedly carry their knowledge in their heads. The satire targets **changing literary tastes and modernist complexity**, not politics.
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is published weekly by the | LESLIE-JUDGE COMPANY | | BETTER than honey on hot biscuit—delicious on buckwheat cakes. The best and purest syrup in the world for all uses —agrees with everybody. Karo WESTERN AbvERTISING ©: 1136-7 Marquette Building, Chicago, Ill. Qre year, or 2 mumbers = = $5.00 Six months, or 25 numbers - + tw | Thirteen weeks see to ts Genenencien and Mexico. To Canadian Provinces aid 0 intries add yeai CORN SYRUP Entit on Use it for ven | Griddle Cakes Ginger-Bread ve dune Liiinic'bs found at any newseetar, the publishers will be under oblixations if that fact be} Hot Biscuit Cookies Princ 10 cents per copy : 1918, 20 centa:; 1907, 30 cents, ete. Waffles Candy 0 rs when ordering a change of address should give the old as well as the new address. and the ledicer number on their wrapper. From two to three weeks must necessarily 4% Send your name on a Slapse before the change can be made, and before the fret copy of JUDGE will reach any new subscriber, post card for Karo Cook 7 inclu ing thirty pe reci for home candy-makin A FOGY’S COMPLAINT. CORN PRODUCTS REFINING CO., Dept. FF, New York ). Bex 161 By TUDOR JENKS HEN I was young, our novels ran But, now! I seek a modern book, In very simple fashion: And scarcely turn a page Each told of some romantic youth Before the volume’s flung away — a - - —- Inspired by noble p: In puritanic rage! He loved a maiden, fai The heroes—grizzled married men; And sought her for The heroines are--what? To gain her pink and dimpled hand, ‘Their “‘ characters "’ (7) so studied ‘Through volumes three he tried. There is no room for plot. Of course there was a Villain, too, The items of the Decalogue e With deep and dark designs, sof th Who move ni tangled’web spony, ust. each in turn be broken. A Sa V al en t Ine The well-known crooked lines. cea eee eaten ‘The Villajn-al aya hed 6 dupe, Is one part sneer and one part whine, | jer father or her brother, pi or bead yeah And prospered while the Hero roamed That one finds what was once called nm some far Tand oF other. “crime” Q Why not a beautiful photogravure — artistic in But when Sir Hero filled his purse Ingeniously defended. * . we : weal ‘And came galumphing back, execution, delicate in its meaning to the recipient? Twas‘ Jack, dear Jack! My own! My Should perseverance bear you through lov. This dreary stuff they utter, a And Villain got the sack. You'll find the heroine insane, . 5 — ewigheupate her & mt Bl then joyful village bells would ring, The hero on a shutter, q Asa starter only - — for once she gets her first The Happy Pair would wed; ive us back the ancient tales JUDGE QUALITY PRINT, she'll eschew And ‘Chapter Last: They Dwelt in Bread and Cheese and Kisses ''! candy and flowers till she’s gone clean through the Bliss "— We tire of diagnosing your Till Jack and Jill were dead. Sophisticated Misses! catalog —we suggest the following. We deliver rf a A a Your psper creatures simper vice— them framed for very little extra, but framing me ves gutted, re neither saints: nor sinne orders must be placed considerably in advance. These are not men who love their wi | ‘or thieves who steal their dinners. Come! If we must hold clinics o'er True diabolic revels, Welcome a modern Rabelais To annalize these devils! James Mooteomery Flee James Montgomery Flare CARRIED IN THEIR HEADS. Every lover of a good cocktail should call for Ab- bott's Bitters. Makes the best. tnd “ Doctor. why is it that in the — country the physicians carry FRUITLESS RESEARCH. i. ‘h large medicine bags, while oucity «THAT scientist spent_many hours of his life in fruitless re- jows use only insignificant one: —] }) “I'lltelt you. What those country search |) doctors lug around in their bags, we ‘In what line?”” a ware cue eee | city physicians carry in our heads.”” “Trousers. You see, his wife always . , — an [} “I see; you're dope-heads, eh? went through them the night before!” THE HYPNOTIST: Any Orange Would Be Relished Charles Co CoM “Now you both believe you can't live Served This Way—Try It! ee - | without each other.” y ° Nané-colered, $2.00 Mena-alore, 8.08 For Liquor and e . Catalog containing many other suitable Drug Using Valentine prints sent for ten cents A ccientibe remedy which has been skilfully] and succesfully administered by medical || ‘ specialists for the past 30 years. | J d g Cc i A i keer mie: | LUeSlie- Judge Company comieMe: Slaao mannbare 225 Fifth Avenue - - New York ‘on tecocett. Portland Ore. Providence, Wel cers i. Pailadelptve, Pa. Wianiyog. Manitoba, Sj Grama Rapid tet, a SUN broadSt Landon England. In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. It will be appreciated. comicbooks.com