Judge, 1911-09-30 · page 23 of 23
Judge — September 30, 1911 — page 23: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from *Judge* magazine contains multiple short humorous anecdotes and advertisements, typical of early 20th-century satirical publications. **The cartoons/jokes** mock social conventions and gender relations of the era. "A Natural Mistake" satirizes women's scanty bathing costumes—a youth mistakes one for a dropped glove, highlighting how revealing these garments were considered. Other brief jokes poke fun at fast-living youths, marital dynamics (wives' "cold glances" before marriage versus husbands' complaints after), and nouveau-riche pretension (a woman unaware that "old masters" were deceased artists, not living people). **The advertisements** promote beer (*Blatz*, *Red Raven*), bitters, and eye remedy—common products of the period. The satire targets social anxieties about modernity, changing gender roles, and class aspirations rather than specific political figures or events. The humor relies on wordplay and gentle mockery of everyday life.
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A NATURAL MISTAKE. Short-sighted youth (handing the article in question to the lady)—' Pardon me, madam, you've dropped your glove."” . Lady—"* Six, that’s my bathing costume."’—London Opinion. Ask the Sphinx. Since the beginning of time, the hu- man brain has never succeeded in defin- ing, with the necessary exactitude, what really constitutes a perfect woman. — Outlook. A Revival Song. Sinner, don’t you all complain W’en rain is roun’ about; Some day dey’ll never be no rain Ter put de fire out! —Atlanta Constitution. Natural Inference.—'‘I’m surprised to hear of Maud heing engaged to that Mr. Gayman; he’s so awfully fast.”’ “Then Maud must be fast, too, for she caught him.’’—Christian Advocate. Not That Way.—‘‘Then I’m to tell the firm,’’ the bill collector said, making a memorandum in his notebook, ‘‘that you'll probably settle this account next week ?"" “Well, I'd hardly put it that way,’’ hesitatingly an- swered the other. “*Probably’ is a pretty strong wor better make it ‘po: ibly.’"? — Chicago Tribune. Saw Two Keyholes.—Dubleigh—‘‘ Was that you I heard fambling at your door this morning at one o’clock? Clubleigh —‘*At one? I guess so. My wife declares I got in about three.""—Red Hen. Before and After. —Mrs. Romance— Approva!. -‘‘Those é 4: “In this novel, be- ocean liners are yj fore they marry, splendid affairs !"’ ite Rae “ she tells him not “Yes,’’ answered 7S i to give her those the woman who had cold glances."’ been to a summer Husband (very resort. ‘It is a brutal)—‘‘And, af- splendid idea to ter they marry, he build boats so large asks her not to give that nobody can him those cold din- rock them.”— 3 ners.’’— Pittsburgh Washington Star. . } PAK. <2 = Sun. Marie —“I al- ways think these bathing costumes make people look shorter.”” Karl—‘Well, they also certainly make people long longer.”--Berlin Witzige Blaetter. Heard at a Re- ception. — Mrs. Cul- chaw —*Did you see any of the old masters while you were abroad?” Mrs. Newrich— “Mercy, no! They are’ all dead!"’— * woutb you RECOGNIZE THE BAND THI8 MORNING, SIR?” Red Hen, “No; 18 IT ONE?”—London Punch. ‘Try Marine Eye Remedy for Red, Weak, Watery Eyes and Granulated Eyelids. No Smarting—Just Eye Comfort. Every lover of a good cocktail should call for Abbott's Bitters, Makes the best. C. W, Abbot Co, Baltimore, Md @ No matter how hard the day, how rough the night— Red Raven in the moming puts you right try a bottle for that sleeping-car feeling Always the same _good old TZ Can’t Beat I —because you can’t equal it. The bottles bear the triangular label. q “The Finest Boer Ever Brewed’”” Ask, for it at the Clab, Cafe er Baffet.. Insist on Blats. Correspondence invited direct. BR In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. It will be appreciated. comicbooks.com