Judge, 1910-10-22 · page 13 of 16
Judge — October 22, 1910 — page 13: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from *Judge* magazine contains mostly **humor shorts and advertisements** rather than political cartoons. The content reflects early 20th-century American sensibilities: **The humor pieces** are brief jokes about contemporary life—marriage agencies, business inefficiency, and social awkwardness. "Perplexing" mocks difficulty distinguishing between similar names ("Ollinger & Hollinger"), a common vaudeville-style joke. **Baseball reference**: The alphabet entry for "U" celebrates Robert Unglaub, a Washington Senators player, using light sports humor typical of the era. **The dominant advertisement** is a lengthy **Postum testimonial**—a caffeine-free grain beverage marketed as a health alternative to coffee. This reflects genuine early-1900s health anxieties about coffee's effects on "nerves" and overall vigor, common in period advertising. **Evans Ale advertisement** uses period-typical marketing ("Everybody who has tried" it). The **Pennsylvania Railroad bulletin** announces the new Manhattan station opening, representing the era's pride in modern infrastructure.
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JUDGE JUDGE'S ALPHABET FOR BASEBALL FANS. Recent Importations! A Silent Partner. | “So you and Meyer have set up a marriage agency? What capital have you?”” “I put two hundred dollars in the business and Meyer hie six unmarried daughters." —Meggendorfer Blaetter. A Weighted Existence. The pig—'Yes, my dear Medor, they | kill us when we weigh two hundred pounds. I have still forty-five pounds to live.""—Pele Mele. | Why Business Lags. Gloomy party—‘I bought a revolver from you yesterday. I wish you'd take it back. I've changed my mind.”"—| Fliegende Blae Coffee Was It. PEOPLE SLOWLY LEARN THE FACTS. “All my life I have been such a slave | to coffee that the very aroma of it was) enough to set my nerves quivering. I |kept gradually losing my health, but I jused to say, ‘Nonsense! It don’t hurt | me!” “Slowly I was forced to admit the truth, and the final result was that my whole nervous force was shattered. “My heart became weak and uncer- tain in its action, and that frightened |me. Finally my physician told me, about a year ago, that I must stop) drinking coffee or I could never expect to be well again, To Make Sure. “I was in despair, for the very “How do you know when your hus- thought of the medicines I had tried so band forgets to mail the letters you many times nauseated me. I thought give him?”” of Postum, but could hardly bring my- “I always put a card addressed to/ self to give up the coffee. myself among ’em. If I don’t get it| ‘*Finally I concluded that I owed it thenextday, I know. And it only costs to myself to give Postum atrial. So I acent."'—Cleveland Leader. got a package and carefully followed the directions, and what a delicious, nour- Perplexing. ishing, rich drink it was! Do you know Salina, Kan., has a new business firm I found it very easy to shift from coffee | with the euphonious name of Ollinger & to Postum and not mind the change at Hollinger. Now, how would a genuine all? Englishman ever be able to make him-, ‘‘Almost immediately after I made self understood as to which of the two) the change I found myself better, and | he was talking about?—Kansas City|as the days went by I kept on improv- Journal, ing. My nerves grew sound and steady, |I slept well, and felt strong and weil- balanced all the time. “Now I am completely cured, with the old nervousness and sickness all gone. In every way I am well once) ROBERT UNGLAUB. OF THE WASHINGTON AMERICANS. IS FOR Unglaub, A name that looks queer, Althoagh we've seen it For many a year. But Unglaud is still In Washington’ pay, ‘And guards their first sack Ina nifty way That pleases the fans Who turn out each day To cheer the Senators’ New style of play. The Barber's Latest. “Egg shampoo?” inquired the barber. “Nope.’* | “Egg on the mustache? Gives you the appearance of having had eggs for| breakfast. Only fifty cents."* “Go ahead.’’ — Louisville Journal. Courier- Incidental Expenses at College. “Seems to me you need a good deal of expense money, my son “Yes, dad; our crowd is a very ex- pensive one,” more. “But I don’t see why you should sup-| _It pays to give up the drink that acts port the whole crowd, my son.’’—Buffalo on some like a poison, for health is the Express. greatest fortune one can have. . | Read the little book, “‘The Road to Especially the Salary. Wellville,”” in packages. ‘‘There’s a “I don't see any difference between | Reason.” you and a trained nurse except the uni-| yer read the above letter? A form,” said her sick husband. mew one appears from) time: to “And the salary,"’ she added thought-|time. They are genuine, true, fally.—Harper’s Bazar, and full of human interest. | = | The Crowning Joy. | “Young man, you ought tomarry. A cozy home, blooming children—there is [nothing happier in the world! And, | above all, you have the sweet recollec- tion of the time you were a bachelor."” —Fliegende Blaeiter. | Brave Man. She—“But, colonel, don’t you love Wagner's music?” He—"*Well, T actly afraid of it. nfess I am not ex- —Simplicissimus, Stupid People. Traveler—"‘Haven’t you a time- Station agent—'‘We used to have one, | until the people began to think the trains were supposed to keep to it.”"— Fliegende Blaetter. “Who was it kissed you in the arbor last evening?” | “What time?”"—Simplicissimus, | PACKER’S TAR SOAP The cleansing, ic and tonic properties | of its pure pine-tar, glycerine and sweet vege table els have given i an exclusive characte, with unvarying results, for over 35 years, THE PACKER MFG. CO., New York DIANE OSTE_IN “THE GIRL IN THE TRAIN.” any time at all to get his hand in.’” soup.’ wax bullets.’” struck him in the head.’’ American, Abbott's Bitters, Makes the PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD © JUDGE'S FAVORITE. |Who Likes Ale? Answer---Everybody Evans Ale To drink it Is to like It None try it but to praise Simply cause and effect Caton Chaba, Retaarante, Chop Havre ©, HL. EVANS & SONS, Hudson, X. ¥ Comforting Prognostication. Uncle Biff says, “Benny Sourflour says we're goin’ to have an open win- Th’ hair is beginnin’ to fall out of his toothbrush.’’—Cleveland Plain Dealer, AT THE GLOBE THEATER. The Globe becomes a big depot To which the want to go, For you and the rest do entertain | All those who see ‘The Girl in the Train.”” Getting His Hand In. “How is the new waiter getting on?”’| “Very nicely. It didn’t take him Not Yet, But Soon, ‘Your father ain’t a real doctor yet."” “Yes, he is.’ “Nope. He's just practicing medi- cine.""—Woman’s Home Companion, The Exception. Pa—When I say a thing I mean it.’* Ma—"Even the things you tell me when you get home late?”’—Toledo Blade. “T noticed that his thumb was in my "Youngstown Telegram. Still Danger. “Cholly fought a duel lately with “You take the armchair, “Oh, dear me! I hope none of them '—Baltimore Stoode- Pearline. Maid—‘ No; you take it, Chester."” ‘Stoode— Well, suppose we both take jit"—Cornell Widow, Every lover of a good cocktail should call for Bulletin. OPENING OF THE GREAT PENN- SYLVANIA STATION IN NEW YORK. On Sunday, November 27, full train service will be inau- gurated by the Pennsylvania Railroad to and from its new station at Seventh Avenue and Thirty-second Street, New York City. The location of the Pennsylvania Station, one block from Broadway, two blocks from Fifth Avenue, is in the heart of the hotel, club, and theatre district of Manhattan. Within a short radius are located the majority of the big retail stores and restaurants. The Seventh Avenue surface cars and the Eighth Avenue surface cars pass its doors; the Thirty-fourth Street surface cars (crosstown) pass its Thirty-fourth Street entrance, and stations of the Sixth Avenue Elevated and Hudson and Manhattan Tubes are a short block from its main entrance. Time tables showing the service to and from the Penn- sylvania Station are now being arranged, and may be obtained at Ticket Offices before the opening of the Station. Connections will be made at Manhattan Transfer (near Newark) with local trains to and from the downtown stations by way of Jersey City, so that downtown New York passengers who desire may continue to use the Cortlandt and Desbrosses Street Stations and the Hudson Terminal Station of the Hudson and Manhattan Tubes. In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. It will be appreciated. comicbooks.com