Judge, 1910-08-27 · page 16 of 20
Judge — August 27, 1910 — page 16: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising disguised as editorial content**. The main feature is Jacob Ruppert's Knickerbocker Beer advertisement, which dominates the left side with a cartoon of a man in colonial dress holding a beer bottle. The right side contains a humorous article titled "Coney Island, and How To Recognize It"—a satirical guide mocking tourists visiting the famous amusement park. The satire targets: - **Gullible visitors** falling for carnival games and barker tricks - **Cheap souvenirs** (the sticky cane won from ball-toss games) - **Dangerous amusement rides** that cause injury and embarrassment - **Working-class tourism**, implied through references to frankfurters and modest spending The tone is **condescending mockery** of ordinary people's entertainment choices, typical of Judge magazine's upper-class perspective. The scattered jokes (the "English Fish Story," "The Fluent Speaker") are unrelated fillers common in period magazines. **Context:** This reflects early 1900s class attitudes toward mass entertainment and commercialized leisure.
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ccomplishments will cause it! which people lose their tempers—you to vanish, and you may as well have will beat a hasty exit to the door and the benefit of it. |breathe freely. You will also remark It is a mistake to suppose that Coney Jen the variety of hose you have geen. Island has any peculiar breed of island-| Having thus moralized, you will cross JACOB R UPPERT'S ers. The only one approaching savagery to Luna Park, deposit more cents and is a delightful gentleman clad in a mor- | sink exhausted into a chair which will K n s Cc kk ) b k B sel of skin and a pleasant suit of black | probably tip you out. It is then time paint. Still, as he has blue eyes and | to pick up the fragments of your anat- The Beer That Satisfies comes from Brooklyn no apprehension | omy and run to the station. You will need be entertained. Still, keep out! recognize the train by the fact that you of his reach. The paint may come off. | have to hang yourself by your eyelids could not be the best beer without the best hops. As the final You will recognize Dreamland by the to a strap while a small boy caresses seal of healthfulness and purity, every drop of beer is sterilized fact that you must be very wide-awake | your best pants with a sticky hand. and uatomatically conveyed from glass tanks to glass bottles, Bottled Only at the Brewery We import our hops from Germany for Knickerbocker Beer. It is necessary to have the best hops that grow in order to make the best beer that’s brewed. |to avoid going into anything there. It] When you crawl out at Brooklyn is unwise to lay bets on this as you are | Bridge you will have the intense sa sure to lose. Before you know you will | tion ofknowing that you could now recog- be assisting at creation or any of the | nize Coney Islanda hundred miles away. THE BEER THAT SATISFIES = THE ENGLISH FISH STORY. ‘Angler (who is telling his ‘' big fish"’ story)—"* What weight was be? Well, they hadn't right weights at the inn, bat he weighed exactly a flat-iron, two eggs, and 2 bit of soap." London Punch. Coney Island, and How To Recognize It. (Concluded from a preceding page) yourself understood above the bay of|in the right Coney Island spirit. You the barker and the melody of the organs, | might also get some buttonhole tickets and will consequently refrain from pro-|or buttons with “I love my dog, but testing against anything. ob, you frankfurter,” or ‘‘Has anybody The first thing to do is to provide|here got a nickel. Don’t shout,’ or yourself with a small piece of wood|‘‘If you love me, tickle me under the covered with excessively sticky colors. | chin." Those are useful as giving you This is called a cane. The mode of ob-' free entrée to feminine society—sup- taining this choice gift is simple. It| plying a convenient opening to con- may be done in two ways. By throwing | versation. either a ball or a ring. This is not} As noone can be said to know Coney The Fluent Speaker. “Pa, what's a fluent speaker?” “One of the kind you are glad to hear because the things he says never cause you to change your opinion.""— Chicago Record-Herald. things which attempt to lick creation, bumping the chutes or shooting the bumps—which may or may not be im- pressed upon you the next morning. You will also have bought popcorn, and had your photo on a postcard—both of which are productive of much misery, according as you take it or are taken. You will then pass on to Steeplechase Park, where you will be pleasantly sur- prised by having your hat blown off or some auch playful tribute to your pres- Every lever of a good cocktail should call for Abbott's Bitters. Makes the best Experienced Operators. As model aviators To skyward guide our ships, We recommend the waiters, 80 difficult as it seems and is unat- tended by any eventful episode, pro- vided you are careful to get away at once. When you have the cane in hand, its magnetic touch will put you Island till he has spent at least fifty cents, it might be well to have that amount within reasonable reach. There is no sense in having it stitched to the bottom of your pocket, as any barker of ence. You will also gape at the various means of affording a lucrative job to the tailor and the doctor. | examined all things which spin and Because they're used to tips. —Youngstown Telegram, Having | Human Nature. A fool and his money are soon parted; revolve, all things with lumps, bumps, but you never call him a fool till the and dumps—all holes in the ground in: money is gone.—Cleveland Leader. Ae 1 1 ee fe I IT ee THE ORIGINAL AND GENUINE CHARTREUSE has always been and still is made by the Carthusian Monks (Péres Char- treux), who, since their expulsion from France, have been located at Tarragona, Spain; and, although the old labels and insignia originated by the Monks have been adjudged by the Federal Courts of this country to be still the exclusive property of the Monks, their world-renowned product is Liqueur Peres Chartreux Green Axo veLLow— \t first-class Wi 145 Broadway, New Vork, N. ¥., Sole Agents for United States. — eo ees eee ee ee Tectotal traveler (anconscious of the railway notice in front of him) ¢ Merchants, Grocers, Hotels, Cafés, —"* What on earth are all these fools laughing at, I wonder ?"* —Lendon Punch, | Bitjer & Co {il emee il e ei iiie ii S In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. It will be appreciated.