Judge, 1911-08-05 · page 24 of 27
Judge — August 5, 1911 — page 24: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** with several small satirical items interspersed. The main cartoons mock contemporary social attitudes: 1. **"Vacation Money"** jokes about working-class penny-pinching—saving for two weeks' vacation by eliminating small expenses. 2. **"Prosperity"** satirizes rural economic inequality: farmers buy automobiles but must keep horses for hired hands, suggesting farmers adopt new technology while maintaining exploitative labor practices. 3. **"Foreign Waiter"** (Punch cartoon) depicts a waiter abandoning his post, playing on class tensions and servant frustrations—likely referencing post-WWI social upheaval when traditional service roles faced disruption. 4. **"Economy"** shows a wife's pragmatic thriftiness: buying silk for her husband's necktie, then repurposing scraps into her own skirt. The page otherwise features period advertisements: White Rock beverages, railroad services, a tobacco-cessation product, and High Life beer. The ads and content reflect early 20th-century American concerns: transportation, health remedies, and consumer goods.
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Cooler Juice of lorange | egg. o7 Shake well. VA teaspoon- ful sugar. tle of White Rock. Vacation Money. By stopping all the little leaks ‘And having pleasures few, I save enough in fifty weeks To last me two. —Louisville Courier-Journal. Prosperity. —‘‘All you farmers out this way must be prosperous. I see ten automobiles to one horse.’’ “Yes; the farmers all use automobiles themselves, but they have to keep a hi sin! YoU FORGET YoURSELP f° horse for the hired man.""—-Buffalo Ex- | —London Opinion. Between CHICAGO ST. LOUIS KANSAS CITY via the Electric Lighted Trains Unexcelled Dining Service Double Track Railroad Tobacco Habit Banished DR. ELDERS’ TOBACCO BOON BANISHES all forms of Tobacco Habit in 72 to 120 hours. A pos!- tive, quick and permanent relief. Easy No eraving for Tobacco after the frat 4 pelt gggpcodinr peng mey pl Forcign waiter (WHO HAS PORGOTTEN THE RIGHT PORMULA POR THE USUAL HINT, “1 AM LEAVING for our free booklet giving full Information, YOU NOW, SIR,” TO STARTLED GUEST)—“ YOU WILL NEVARE SEE ME NO MORE, 81R.”—London Punch. Eiders’ Sanatartum, Dept. 43 St Joseph. Mo ROMEIKE’S Press Catting Bareaw will vend you Economy.— Wife—‘‘I’ve just bought Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's Scothing Syrup the all ne wspaper clippings which may such anice piece of silk for a tie for | Det remedy for their children, 2c. 8 bottle. you; if there is anything left over, I can make a skirt for myself out of it.’’ —Paris Pele Mele. Nearly every business proposition looks like a sure winner—on paper.— Denver Republican. "Hit LIFE A BREWED BY MILLER AT MILWAUKEE Avenue, New York. 1 te il In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. It will be appreciated. comicbooks.com