Judge, 1910-11-19 · page 21 of 24
Judge — November 19, 1910 — page 21: what you’re looking at
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This page from *Judge* magazine combines humorous anecdotes with period advertisements. The left side features short satirical pieces about gender and class, typical of early 20th-century humor: **"The Ways of Woman"** cartoons mock wives through visual gags—a woman unable to walk in a new dress, unable to see in a new hat—playing on stereotypes about female vanity and impracticality. **The textual jokes** satirize working-class speech ("Bricklayer"), mock women's judgment and materialism ("judged by their cars," "harness"), and play on linguistic ambiguities ("raise" vs. "lift" chickens—the neighbor steals them). **The advertisements**—Karo syrup, Hudson's Bay tobacco, Abbott's Bitters—represent period consumer products pitched to middle-class households. Overall, the humor reflects early 1900s attitudes: patronizing toward women, class-conscious, and reliant on wordplay and domestic scenarios familiar to *Judge's* educated male readership.
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Vehicles for Rhymes. Some women are judged by their ‘‘bodies,’’ And others are judged by their heel: Quite often they’re judged by the ‘‘car- Sometimes we can size up a woman, But often we're fearfully stung; We judge her too oft by her ‘‘harness,"” When really the test is her ‘‘tongue."’ —Yonkers Statesman. Dead Game. Bricklayer (to mate, who had just had a hodful of bricks fall on his fee ‘em on yer toe! That’s nothii seen a bloke get killed stone dead, an’ 'e never made such a bloomin’ fuss as you're doin’.’’"—Tit-Bits. Some Difference. “I don’t believe any two words in the English language are synonymous.”’ “Oh, I don’t know. What's the matter ‘raise’ and ‘lift’?”’ There’s a big difference. I ‘raise’ chickens and have a neighbor who has been known to ‘lift’ them.’’—Vhiladelphia Ledger. THE WAYS OF WOMAN, “Last summer I bought my wife a new dress and she could hardly walk.’ gions “This winter I bought her a new hat and now she can’t see." —Fliegende Blactter. Ready at your Grocer’s —the new Karo (Extra Quality) with the red label. delicate flavor. Clear as strained honey—a more “~—7. You will surely want some for griddle cakes and to spread on bread for the children’s Karo eee Cans, 10c. & 15c. Karo Cook-Book—fifty pages, in-' recipe.”” yaa thirty perfect recipes for home candy making—Free. Send your name on a post card, today, to CORN PRODUCTS REFINING CO. Dept. F. F. NEW YORK P.O. Box 16. Hudson’s Bay Company (Incorporated 1670) “IMPERIAL MIXTURE” SMOKING TOBACCO — Imported Rich in flavor—perfect in quality —cool—fragrant—delightfal If you cannot ret it from ul ch 70c. Full Eight Ounce Tins. each $1.40. supply you direct, our regular dealer send us his name and we will ‘72, Ouace Tins, each 3Se.| Full Four Qunce Tins, ‘Sent postpaid on receipt of price. 225 E. Minois Street ILLINOIS Packed tn Patent Humidor REX TRADING COMPANY Ziicido: References—First National Bank, Chicago— Du: Bradstreet’s Nerve. Lady—**Why do you give me this bit of | paper? | Tramp—* Madam, I do not like to criti- cise your soup, but it is not like mother used to make. Allow me to give you her —Fliegende Blaetter. Forty Cents a Pound. “Say, what is a microtome?”’ “A delicate scientific instrument with which shavings one-one-thousandth of an inch thick can be cut.’’ “Oh, yes! The fellow I buy my bacon of has one.’’—Cleveland Leader. They Didn't. A Denver woman, going from home for the day, locked everything up well and, for the grocer’s benefit, wrote on a card: ‘‘All out. Don’t leave anything."” This she stuck on the front door. On her return home she found the house ransacked and all her choicest possessions gone. To the card on the door was added: ‘‘Thanks! We | haven’t left much.""—Kansas City Star. Too Honest. His business sense was very dense, He could not rise above it; For every blessed time he failed He made a failure of it. —Catholic Times. Wine Jelly when flavored with Abbott's Bitters made more delightful and healthful. Sample by mail, B eta. in stamps. C. W. Abbott & Co., Baltimore The Copper’s Obtuseness. “Why did you let that thief get away with the automobile right under your 2"" demanded the chief. He acted as if he were the owner,’’ ex- plained the patrolman. ‘‘He took it uncon- cernedly and had as pleasant a face as if there were no doubt of his ownership.” “‘A pleasant face!"’ roared the chief. “Don’t you know yet what a worried look the automobile owner wears?’’"—Buffalo Ex- press. An Out-all-nighter. She (reading novel )— must have been awful for those poor soldiers to hear the | sentence, ‘To be shot at sunrise’ !”” He—‘I don’t know. I’ve been half shot at sunrise and it wasn’t so bad.""—Boston Transcript. Life’s Little Tragedies. Such a trim and dainty maiden Ambled down my way; 'Neath her hat I glanced so shyly— Sixty if a day! —Cleveland Plain Dealer, Happy Mr. Brown. “Mr. Brown's in good spirits,’’ they said; and we knew There was cause for his not feeling down. | 'Twould have been rather queer if he hadn’t felt glad, When the best of good spirits were in Mr. Brown. —Canadian Courier. In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. It will be a>preciatea comicbooks.com