Judge, 1912-05-11 · page 20 of 26
Judge — May 11, 1912 — page 20: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertisements and filler content** rather than political satire. The left side features a mail-order promotion for "First National Bank" pictures (25 cents), showing what appears to be a photograph of a person in formal dress—typical of Judge's revenue-generating schemes. The poetry piece "Springaiyat" (a parody of Omar Khayyam's "Rubaiyat") satirizes **spring in urban America**: the season brings mud, overcrowded parks with "Keep off the grass" signs, and commercialized romance (pills, sweets, dentist visits). The cop keeping people off grass is a mild jab at **urban restrictions on public enjoyment**. The remaining content consists entirely of period advertisements: I.W. Harper Whiskey, the Navarre Hotel, and varicose vein treatments. One brief story, "A Thrilling Adventure," offers pulp-fiction parody—the "torture" and "fiendish grip" turn out to be a dentist's visit, mocking melodramatic magazine fiction. Overall: a typical Judge issue mixing light humor with commercials.
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Copyright Judes OU MUST send 25e. Yon These pictures are selling fast. This picture is an eye catcher---you can't resist it. It is captivating. Upon receipt of 25c. we will send you the First National heavy enameled paper, Bank in colors handsomely mounted. Judge 225 Fifth Ave., New York ‘Trade supplied by Close, Graham & Sealy, N. ¥. COUPON JUDGE, New York. ‘nclosed find 25c, for which please send me First National Bank, postage paid. Name. Address. STILL THE BEST. Note style 2% bottling This is the Guaranteed To get solid with the steady drinkers in your place, give them the old standby— “I. W. HARPER” BERNHEIM DISTILLING CO. WHEN New York 72? THE NEW FIRE-PROOF NAVARRE Seventh Ave, & 38th Street BUSINESS MEN FAMILIES TOURISTS Maximum of Luxury at Minunum of Cont, ACCESSIBLE—QUIET—ELEGANT wi eg eS Jem =a New the City, Electric Oa Se ream EUROPEAN PLAN $1.50 per Day $2.00 per Day WITHOUT BATH WITH BATH Suites, $3.50 and upwards SEND FOR COLORED MAP OF NEW YORK EDGAR T. SMITH, Managing Director Plaza Hotel, Chicago, under same management. VARICOSE VEINS, ®433265- sre pyomptty relieved with Inexpensive home oa ing. tiredness and dinenen on Wp. Vanes Pe Pais Tem 18 ‘Springtield, Maen Springaiyat. Of Omar Kherchoo. 'AKE! For the Sun who scattereq into flight The snows that garbed old Winter in his white Drives Winter on, and leaves us ankle deep In slush and mud until we are a sight! Now the new Spring, reviving old de. sires, The eager soul to vantage point retires, To watch the ladies tripping through the mud— (In Spring the soul to Nature so as. pires!) Come, fill the cup with tonic—that’s the thing !— Nor undergarments in the furnace fling! A bird or two may flutter here and there, But just a robin doesn't make a Spring! With me, along the strip of parkway strown That just divides the pavement from the sown, This is no joy; a few pale tulips blow, But there’s the cop, who says, ‘Let 'em alone!"" And this reviving strip of green we pass— What use is it to us, poor boobs, alas? For would we venture on it, there's the sign Which sternly reads to all, ‘*Keep of the grass!"’ A book of verses underneath the bough, A flask of pills, a box of sweets and thou Beside me, getting chilled quite through and through— Oh, gendle Sprig! Oh, gendle Sprig- ker—chow! A Thrilling Adventure. Helplessly she lay back, looking up into his glistening eyes, She could not speak, she could not move. She could see the handle of that shining instre- ment of torture, held in his firm, unre- lenting grip. She beheld him gazing into the yawning cavern before him, with a look of fiendish satisfaction oo his face. Horrors! He had taken an- other instrument from the hand of his accomplice. What was he about to do? “Open your mouth! Wider! Wider!” he hissed. She could not swallow. Would the end never come? She closed her . She heard him breathing deeply. She steadied herself, ready for the worst. Was he about to speak again? She listened in horrible suspense for the words that were to decide all. Ah! At last! ‘Madam, you need two white fillings and a gold crown. The cost will be fourteen dollars."” A Fashion Note. “Trousers will be fuller,’’ reads an item in my sheet; But here’s the thing I'm mighty keen t? know— If the swelling will take place In that now quite vacant place Where I am wont to carry all my doug? In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. It will be appreciated. comicbooks.c om