Judge, 1912-05-04 · page 19 of 23
Judge — May 4, 1912 — page 19: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising with one satirical poem**. The poem mocks a contemporary cooking fad: frying food in paper bags, apparently a real trendy method of the era. The poet Quincy Kilby ridicules this as absurd—the food tastes like the bag itself, nutrition escapes through the paper, and the bags themselves become unexpectedly animated (a surreal joke about overheating). The poem's excessive alliteration throughout is intentional parody of bombastic food-trend language. The Central America anecdote is a dark joke about colonial-era labor recruitment: a military officer jokes about needing "ropes" to return volunteer workers, implying coercion or suicide. The rest comprises period advertisements: Remington typewriters ("a machine a minute"), Solar lamps for cars, Murine eye remedy, and other products. These reveal what affluent early-20th-century consumers purchased. No political figures or events are referenced on this page.
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Paper Bag Cookery. By QUINCY KILBY. H \VE you learned to like the latest, Uncontested, up-to-datest, Final form of fickle fashion—frying food in paper bags? By its means the merest messes Seem superlative successes, While its bigoted believers bore our brains by blatant brags. You will realize from reading That the process of proceeding Is to beg a biggish bag and slickly salve its seamy side, Chuck a chop or chicken in it For a metaphoric minute, Then produce the promised provender with pardonable pride. You can fry familiar fishe: Do desserts and dainty dishes, By preparing. proper paper sacks of serviceable size; Do your basting, baking, boiling, Braizing, brewing or your broiling; You can soak and simmer, steep and stew, or steam and sterilize. While in finer fleeting flavors, Or in sweet, seductive savors, The result is really rather reminiscent of a rag, Caused by chemical condition, All the natural nutrition Percolates the paper package. Pru- dent people eat the bag. When I saw that, to my sorrow, I could neither beg nor borrow Any bag whose bulk wa3 big enough to roast a rooster raw, I conceived a clever caper, So procured a penny paper, Wrapped him round and round and clamped the cover closely with his claw. After rather reckless roasting And terrific, torrid toasting, His agility assured me I had made a marked mistake; That unhealthy heat unheeding, In his wrapper he'd been reading, And its wails of woe and want and war had worked him wide awake! In Central America. From a note written by a recruiting officer to a captain: ‘‘I am sending you eleven volunteers; if you want any more, please return the ropes.’’ Money makes the mare go—and puts a touring car in her place. When Your Eyes Need Care Try Murine Eye Remedy No Smaning—Peels Fine—Acts Quickly. Try it for Red, Weak Watery Eyes and Grannlated Eyelids. Ilastrated Book Practice ft many years, Now dedicated to the public sold by Druggists at 2S and S0c pet Bottle, Morine Eve Salve in Aseptic Tubes, 2S¢ and $0¢ MURINE EYE REMEDY CO., CHICAGO | Lamps offer a greater range of service than | the Standard Lamps on quality cars which We are making and selling a MACHINE A MINUTE Frequently many more NEVER any less Remington Typewriter Company’ (Incorporated) New York and Everywhere HOLDS SHIRT DOWN DOES NOT BIND TBE LEG hh The Solarclipse Backed by over 14 years’ experience, Solar | any other Motor Lamps made. They are most brilliant— most easily cared | for—most economically kept up. They are carry more Solars than all other makes of lamps combined. Solars offer many astonishing advantages. You should investigate. All explained in catalog. Send for it today. The Badger Brass Mfg. Co., Kenosha, Wis. New York City We manufacture a complete line of motor lamps for all purposes. Gas, Electricity, or both combined. dealers, or a4 peal kaha oi : : 19 In answering advertisements pleace mention JUDGE. It will be uppreciated. comicbooks.com