Judge, 1912-10-05 · page 20 of 26
Judge — October 5, 1912 — page 20: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from *Judge* (a major American satirical weekly) is primarily **advertising and promotional content** rather than political cartoons. The main editorial content is "The Campaign Number" announcement—*Judge* is promoting an upcoming special issue mocking political campaign speakers, whom the editor considers inherently ridiculous and ripe for satire. The promise is humorous coverage of campaign season absurdities. The bulk of the page contains period advertisements (Blackstone Water Power Vacuum Massage Machine, Sunny Brook whiskey, Hotel Earlington, Club Cocktails by Heublein & Bros.) and two essay columns: one about Boston baked beans being challenged by a French chef who claims they're undercooked, and another about sailors' colorful slang vocabulary. The page reflects early 20th-century American consumer culture and *Judge*'s role as a humor magazine mixing political commentary with lifestyle and product advertising—a common magazine format of that era.
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ayers AGENTS SALESMAN MANAGERS YOUNG OR OL NEW BUSINESS The Campaign Number Judge T'S coming. Look out for it. | The greatest out. You know yourself how ridicu- lous the average campaign speaker is and can readily ap- preciate the great opportunities campaigns offer for a side-split- ting, fun-making number. This number will contain, but— the editor says we must not give him away. Just keep an eye out for the number. You'll be satisfied. JUDGE, 225 Fifth Ave., New York NEW BUSINESS JUST OUT INDER AGENTS GENERAL AGENTS ROAD MEN MAKE MONEY HERE START NOW—TODAY As A Pleasant Beveraye ind 4 Pure. Wholesome Tonic It Has No Equal. CIRCULATION 100,000 CoP RATE, FIFTY CENTS A LI HOTEL EARLINGTON (FIRE-PROOF) 27th Street, West of Broadway NEW YORK EUROPEAN PLAN RATES $1.00 Single. $2.00 Parlor, Bedroom and Bath Within Five Minutes of Shopping and Theatre Districts. Absolute Quiet at Night LARGE SAMPLE ROOMS NEW MANAGEMENT E. W. WARFIELD, MANAGER The aging of a cocktail is as necessary to perfect flavor as the aging of wine or whisky. The delicious flavor and aroma of Club Cocktails is due not alone to the precise blending of the choicest liquors obtainable, but to the fact that they are softened to mellowness by aging before bottling. Manhattan, Martini and other standard blends, bottled, ready to serve through cracked ice. Refuse Substitutes. AT ALL DEALERS. G. F, HEUBLEIN & BRO., Sov Props, Hartford New York In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. It will be appreciated. Beans. ONE BY one what are assumed to be fixed facts vanish into the Ny man’s Land of illusion. One by om the most cherished traditions are tacked. Established systems of govern ment, of philosophy and of science a assailed as crude and inexact. In sed an iconoclastic age as this, not ery Boston baked beans can escape, (y Boston assurance the world has belierej that beans prepared for food in thateity were the acme of cooked luxuries fe those who liked them. The world vy challenged to produce their equal ss: Sunday morning dish, and, so fer » known, the challenge has never ber accepted, Now comes a French chef, who bold declares that Boston does not know ber to cook its beans properly. He ares that they are not cooked long enoog and that they are not rightly seasoned One crumb—or bean—of comfort is tix, the innovator does not condemn te beans themselves. They are all rigit, he admits, and only man is vile in bs mode of preparing them for the table. In addition to the salt pork and nm lasses, there should go, says the Free chef, into the bean pot, salt, pepper, tomato catsup and salt pickles; orp sibly he means that the latter should te served on the side. Boston baked bess, crude as they seem to be to this exper, have produced and sustained grat statesmen, scientists, baseball plsyes and pugilists. It is a daring sol & this late day that would attack thes. No American who has veneratioa fr the traditions that cling to the cy founded by the Puritans as a bebe skirt clings to the summer girl wall care to make heavy the hearts of t# present denizens of that city by ss? ing constituents of the disk that bs been a staple from the days of Jb Hancock to those of John L. Sullirs, and before and after. A Bunch of Soup. Probably there is no class of Ame cans better equipped with slang aod ol expressions of all sorts than your typi bluejacket, unless the average hae counter waiter be included. Sometics Fg even the Bowery waiter learns s"s* one.”” The other day one of the sailors {na a man-of-war in the bay climbed @4 w seat in a ‘quick lunch’’ place of he cheap order in New York and gave 8 : order to the waiter with all pos™ yh sang-froid: a “Hey, gimme a bunch ‘0’ soup!” a got it. s comicbooks.com