Judge, 1912-11-02 · page 18 of 24
Judge — November 2, 1912 — page 18: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertisements** interspersed with humor columns, typical of Judge magazine's format. **Key content:** The **"Trusses Like These Are a Crime"** illustration (center-right) is the main satirical cartoon. It depicts a man hawking a medical truss (a support device for hernias/rupture) with exaggerated medical claims—a common fraudulent medical device of the era. Judge satirizes quack medicine and false advertising that exploited desperate patients. The lengthy ad copy's promises of "guaranteed" cures and "60-day trials" parody the manipulative marketing language endemic to early 1900s medical fraud. **Humor columns** recount anecdotes mocking: - A verbose actor bragging about his country estate - Japanese diplomats, playing on contemporary American stereotypes and xenophobia regarding Japanese immigration and education The ads for Apollinaris water, Cuticura soap, and Hotel Imperial represent typical period advertising—promoting "wholesome" products and luxury accommodations to middle-class readers. This reflects early-1900s concerns: health-care fraud, immigration anxiety, and consumer culture marketing.
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For High Balls take “THE QUEEN OF TABLE WATERS.” Apollinaris It blends perfectly with all Whiskies _ Hotel Imperial NEW YORK CITY Broadway at Thirty-first and Thirty-second Streets For convenience of location. For excellence of cuisine and effi- cient yet unobtrusive service. For comfortable and luxurious surroundings, not bizarre but elegant. For its atmosphere of hospitality and a desire to cater to the comfort of our patrons. Imperial Cannot Be Excelled And in addition rates surprisingly reasonable should induce you to select the Imperial as your stopping place while in New York. Hotel Imperial offers unusual attractions and ad- vantages to those desiring a convenient city residence. Rates for suites by season or year quoted on appli- cation to the Manager. Booklet with rates upon request ROBERT STAFFORD Proprietor COPELAND TONED It makes them more wholesome HY not have a clear skin, soft white hands, clean scalp and good hair? your birthright. It is Cutcura Soap with occasional use of Cuticura Ointment will bring about these cov- eted conditions in most cases when all else fails. Although sold everywhere, you need not bay them until you try them. Liberal samples with 32-page Skin Book free. Address “Cuticura,” Dept. 93, Boston AS A Pleasant Beverage ana A Pure. Wholesome Tonic It Has No Equal. Trusses Like These Are a Crime is ‘Here's something absolutely guaranteed to heep your rupture from coming out.” Test from it on 60 days trial and see. If it doesn’t hold at ‘all times, then it won't cost you a single cent. Has wee a Doel —made them entirely well. 3 = who now of it recommend inared of r narape, bo springs. fe wetey-prod— ‘oles, " Free BOOK aed fod out all about it. Bock i full of facts never before put in print. Cloth-bound. % peges. Explains why elas- te and spring trumes cannot help you. Shows dangers of operation. Ex- the humbug "appliances," "methods." "plasters,® ete. Will save you Eee wasting money. ‘Shows why 60 days tral we allow is the oaly safe srr pet enn fr rrr and Bog we oer you teeny Wane trod Coouth to stand such a long and thorough test. _ ; Baook ives over 5,000 vehuntary endarecments. Write fort today—it tells you things you could never find out by going to doctors or drug-stores. Address: Box 126—Cluthe Co., 125 E. 23rd St., New York City Amusing Stories About Well-known Persons, Get Up, Fido! A certain leading man, now playing the legitimate, met Richard Carle in the Auditorium Annex, Chicago, The leading man threw in his conver. sational clutch and opened up his cut-og about his country place and the trouble he was put to in getting a force of twenty carpenters to fix up the house as he wanted it. “How soon will they be through?” asked Carle, in solemn tones, “‘Oh, it will be a month yet, I sup. pose. Why do you ask?”’ said the heavy, “T want to know,’’ said Carle, “s that when they get through with your place they can fix up a chair in mine.” The Wily Japanese. Baron Uchida, late Japanese ambassa- dor to the United States, often repeated with great glee to his American friends a conversation touching his nation he had overheard between two Washington women, “The Japanese,’’ one of them said, “‘ought to be excluded from this country. Their young men come here to school, ZF; and no sooner do they arrive than they begin a systematic course of cheating.” “Cheating?” exclaimed the other woman, “*Yes,’’ was the response. ‘‘They pay in each case tuition for only one, and each student learns enough for two or three.”’ Two Experiences. During the Palm Beach season a re ception was given to Dr. Grenfell, the surgeon-missionary who has accom- plished such wonders for the poor, ig- norant fisher folk of Labrador during the past twenty years. “How very strange it must seem to you, doctor,’? said one lady, wishing to make conversation, ‘‘to be standing out on this terrace, in soft, warm air, looking at orange trees and hibiscos blossoms and lazy alligators in the sun!” “"Yes,’? he said, mopping his heated In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. It will be appreciated. comicbooks.com