Judge, 1911-05-13 · page 19 of 24
Judge — May 13, 1911 — page 19: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and light humor**, not political satire. The dominant content is a **Remington typewriter advertisement** claiming superiority through recent innovations: the first column selector, built-in decimal tabulator, key-set tabulator, and adding/subtracting capability. The ad features a woman at a typewriter. The page also includes **brief humorous anecdotes** with no political content—a Sunday school boy avoiding prayers, jokes about French accents and restaurant terminology, and a clergyman's testimonial about Grape-Nuts cereal improving his digestion and sermon-writing ability. A secondary ad promotes **Milo Egyptian Cigarettes** as a quality product. The scattered jokes ("Hopelessly Outclassed," "A Prize Winner") are generic period humor about travel, ambitious writers, and elocution—unrelated to current events or politics. **No political cartoons or meaningful satire appear on this page.** It represents typical early-20th-century magazine filler: product advertisements mixed with mild, timeless jokes.
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Circumstances Alter Cases. “Why, Tommy,’’ exclaimed the Sun- day-school teacher, ‘‘don’t you say your prayers every night before you go to bed?”” **Not any more,’’ replied Tommy. ‘I uster when I slept in a folding bed, though. ’'—Philadelphia Record. A Talker—Jack—I kissed Madge in a quiet spot. Tom—Then in the mouth you kissed her not.—Boston Transcript. The True Test.—‘‘I understand you speak French like a native.’” “*No,”’ replied the student. ‘I've got the grammar and the accent down pretty fine, but it’s hard to learn the gestures. "’— Washington Star. “‘Haven’t you any table d’hote, Clarice?’’ “Not unless it’s on the bill of fare, Smarty.""—Princeton Tiger. Food in Sermons FEED THE DOMINIE RIGHT AND THE § MONS ARE BRILLIAN A conscientious, hard-working and successful clergyman writes: “I am glad to bear testimony to the pleasure and increased measure of efficiency and health that have come to me from adopt- ing Grape-Nuts food as one of my arti- cles of diet. “For several years I was much dis- tressed during the early part of each day by indigestion. My breakfast seemed to turn sour and failed to digest. After dinner the headache and other symptoms following the breakfast would wear away, only to return, however, next morning. “Having heard of Grape-Nuts food, I finally concluded to give it a trial. I made my breakfasts of Grape-Nuts with cream, toast and Postum. The result was surprising in improved health and total absence of the distress that had, for so long a time, followed the morn- ing meal. “*My digestion became once more sat- isfactory, the headaches ceased, and the old ing of energy returned. Since that time I have always had Grape-Nuts food on my breakfast table. “I was delighted to find, also, that whereas before I began to.use Grape- Nuts food I was quite nervous and be- came easily wearied in the work of pre- paring sermons and in study, a marke improvement in this respect resulted from the change in my diet. “Lam convinced that Grape-Nuts food produced this result and helped me to a sturdy condition of mental and physical strength, “T have known of several persons who were formerly troubled as I was, and who have been helped as I have been, by the use of Grape-Nuts food, on my rec- ommendation.’’ Name given by Postum Company, Battle Creek, Mich. “There's a reason.” Read the little book, ‘‘The Road to Wellville,”’ in packages. Ever read the above letter? A mew one appears trom time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human interest. | All Recent Typewriter Progress is Remington Progress Remington-Wahl Adding-and Subtracting Typewriter Visible Writing and Adding The first column selector. The first built-in decimal tabulator. The first key-set tabulator. The first adding and subtracting type- writer. All these are recent developments of the REMINGTON Remington Typewriter Company (Incorporated) New York and Everywhere Hopelessly Outclassed. Caswell, while did you’ see the “Mrs, Venice Sighs?” “Oh, y I saw what they called that; but, my land! I’ve seen bridges ten times its size without ever going out of Pennsylvania!"’—Chicago Tribune. you were in Bridge of A Prize Winner.—Ambitious author— “Hurray! Five dollars for my latest story, ‘The Call of the Lure’!"" Fast friend—*Whom from Ambitious author—‘‘The express com- pany. They lost it. Woman's Home Companion. Only One More.—Elocutionist—‘‘Strike for your altars and your fires! Strike! Till the last armed foe Fan—'‘Dat’s two stri One more an’ yer out. w World. mister! York Explained.—‘‘Why is it,’ queried the fair widow, “that they always say a man ‘pines’ for a woman?" “T suppose,’ jed the fussy bache- | lor, *tit’s becau: s about the soft- | est wood there is.””—Chicago News. The Egyptian Cigarette of Quality AROMATIC DELICACY MILDNESS PURITY 2 at your Club or Dealer's THE SURBRUG CO., Makers, New York. | In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. It will be appreciated. comicbooks.com