Judge, 1910-11-26 · page 8 of 24
Judge — November 26, 1910 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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This is primarily **promotional and editorial content** for Judge's 1910 Christmas issue, not political satire. The page features: **Main content:** Self-promotion for the upcoming holiday edition, listing contributing writers (Ellis Parker Butler, Edmund Vance Cooke, Carolyn Wells) and highlighting cover art by Grant E. Hamilton showing "Love Directs Santa Claus." **Political commentary:** A section titled "Democracy's Promise" critiques the Democratic party's campaign pledge to reduce living costs. The satirist argues this is impossible—that high wages and high prices are linked, and lowering prices would simply mean people have less money. The accompanying illustration shows a figure labeled "Prosperity Tree" looking confused about which direction to move. **Brief humor items:** Short aphorisms about money, bachelors, and foolishness fill the remainder. The satire targets Democratic economic promises as naive or contradictory, suggesting their "good" intentions cannot overcome basic economic laws.
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NCE a year Jupce and the attorneys who plead at “His Honor’s’? bar prepare a special holiday num- ber which far surpasses any other issue of the year. The Christmas Jupce is to America what the great English annuals are to England. If the press agent were writing this arti- cle, he would use all sorts of superlatives about the 1910 Christ- mas Number; but naturally ‘‘His Honor’’ is a little modest and prefers to let people find out for themselves just what it is like. Filled to the brim and running over with Yule-tide fun, no Christmas will be com- plete without it. The cover, by Grant E. Hamilton, shows how ‘Love Directs Santa Claus.’’ Nervy Nat, so popular with all, returns as the wayward son who reaches home on Christmas morn. No creation of James Montgomery Flagg has been more cordially received by the American public than his Nervy Nat. Ellis Parker S3utler, author of ‘‘Pigs Is Pigs,”’ tells of the time in Fictionland when the celebration of Christmas becomes a state function. A charming essay, full of quiet humor, is con- tributed by Charles Battell Loomis. ‘The Gifts of Wise Men," by Edmund Vance Cooke, is a poem that one will want to read over again. Carolyn Wells is the one who tells—the rhyme is unintentional —of Christmas without Santa Claus. But why tell all the good things in the number when Santa Claus is going to put the Christmas Jupce in your stocking—provided you give an early order for the same to your news- dealer. Santa Claus does not agree to fill orders except those received in advance. Order now. PUBLISHED WEEKLY ey LESLIE-JUDGE COMPANY Baunswick Buona, 225 Firtm Avenue, New Yous. 8 Tas. 0822 Wasson $0. John A. Sleicher, President. Reuben P. Sleicher, Secretary. Arthur Terry, Treasurer. James Melvin Lee, > Managing Editor. Grant E. Hamilton, - - Art Editor. Came Aovares, “*avee Democracy’s Promise. HE Democratic party is going to have a hard time to ‘‘make good”’ its cam- paign promise to reduce the cost of living. The market basket, empty because of the price charged for foodstuffs, figured more prominent- ly in the cartoons in Democratic papers than anything else. High wages and high prices go hand in hand. If there is any reduction in cost of living, it will be because the people have less money and can't pay the price. A low price for the necessities of life always means that people have little money. Economic laws are like those of the Medes and Persians, that alter not. If goods cannot be sold for a high price, they must drop to one that the people can pay. But to keep the pay envelope full and at the same time to reduce the cost of living is the unsolvable problem that now con- fronts the Democratic party. Let it make good its promise. Brief Decisions from the Bench. oe IS HONOR” wonders whether there is any association in celebrating Thanks- giving at the close of the football season. (AC Loose ways always j Si lead to tight places. ee) & The open season for buying Christmas presents has arrived. A mighty lot of cussedness is looked over nowadays by excusing it off as somebody’s “way.” A man feels good with money in his pocket if he doesn’t feel too much of the money. The trouble with the fool is not so much ae Va NO FEAR FOR A HARD WINTER. BACKWARD To ° YESTERDAY (—_ WHICH WAY IS SHE MOVING? that he and his money are soon parted, but that after it has gone he does not seem to have much trouble in parting with a lot more that he never had. Frequently the bachelor isn’t as confirmed as he appears to be. It is a good thing that Love is blind; otherwise it would see too much. Might often makes wrong. Some men have been wrecked by ambi- tion; ten times more have been wrecked by the lack of it. Faint heart ne'er yet finished smoking a gift cigar. comicbooks.com