Judge, 1912-11-30 · page 20 of 26
Judge — November 30, 1912 — page 20: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page consists primarily of **period advertisements** rather than satirical cartoons. The main content includes: **Advertisements:** - Judge magazine promoting "The Bugville Book" (children's entertainment) - A men's clothing company offering made-to-measure suits with extended payment plans ("Pay as You Are Able") - A Behning player piano marketed as a Christmas investment **Story Continuation:** "Charles, the Child Chauffeur" is a serialized melodrama about a chauffeur revealed to be an heir to the Van Wheeler estate, who wins the hand of Mercedes. This appears to be **parody or satire of overwrought romantic serials** popular in period magazines—the purple prose ("scorch down the boulevard of life") and absurd plot twists mock cheap serialized fiction. **Brief Story Items:** Short humor pieces about actresses worrying over gray hair and romantic entanglements. The page reflects early 1900s consumer culture: installment buying, player pianos as status symbols, and the magazine's dual function as both satirical publication and advertising vehicle.
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Do you know a little baby just like this? Its jolly little laugh is always sweet to hear. The Bugville Book is the very thing for it. Make this baby happy with a copy. There are over 70 pages of the Ad- ventures of the In- habitants of Bug- ville—an endless source of entertain- ment. Even grown- ups will like it. We'll send this to you for just 10c. Judge 225 Fifth Ave. New York Pay as You Are Able | ous ‘pedal touch.” |B) you, where in your town you can see and hear Send us a postal NOW, for your FREE COPY of our magnificent new Encyclopedia of Fashions, which shows samples and illustratesand describes hundreds of up-to-the-min= ute styles in Men's Fall and Winter Suits and Overcoats. It shows exact- ly what the very swelleat men Mare wearing, and helps you Dress Like the Best You can buy the finest ¥ made-to-measure clothes and take your time pay- ing for them. YOUR CRED- IT IS GOOD. Your deal- ings with us are strictly confidential. Do not hesi- tate. Remember,we GUAR= ANTEE satisfaction and fit. We give you long liberal cred- it. There is no red ta to our method of selling. We charge you no interest or extras. We ask no securi~ ty. Our prices are lower than those asked by cash houses. Made - To- Measure You take no risk. Your own eyes jndge our values. Make <try it on—compare it with those for which you have paid twice the amou! nd after you are thoroughly satisfied you will have Over 6 Months To Pay Lose no time in getting our book and samples— you will be pleased, interested, amazed at the valucs shown therein. Do it now, write to-day—a postal will do, STANLEY-ROCERS CO. 3916-3022 La Salle St. The Worl’ CAUTION: —We ET YOUR CHRISTMAS purchase be a permanent in- vestment, if you want an educa- tor, an entertainer, a musical in- terpreter—the key to universal enjoyment in every home, the BHebning <=> IANO With the tone you can't forget” is the only player-piano that will satisfy your | musical demands. Its pulse is in the marvel- If you are interested, write us and we will notify the Behning. Style No. 10—$750 Style No. 24—$800 Style No. 28—S850 Style No, 32—-$900 Cash or convenient terms. Liberal allow- ance on old pianus, Booklet on request. 425 Fifth Avenue, N. Y. Entrance 38th St. = BEHNING PIANO CO. In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. It will be ¢pprociated. Charles, the Child Chauffeur, (Concluded from a preceding page.) “Charles, the Chauffeur, is the rightful heir to the Van Wheeler estates, and you are but a gy dis maid!” om do “Say not so, Vashti, the Venge. | ful!’" exclaimed Charles, the bie Chauffeur, entering as he spoke, wt “‘Let Mercedes be my bride, and none | ™ shall know our secret save our merry band and the afternoon newspapers; “ you the wrong of many years shall be rightly righted then, and we shall scorch down the boulevard of life together, a pair that’s hard to beat!” Mercedes let him fold her tohis J ™* breast. the “I shall be prouder to be the bride We of the only man who can be de § pended on to take a machine out ‘i every morning and bring it back a under its own power every night than pe even tobe the rightful Van Wheeler!” J '° she says. who Outside, with many cheers, the ff 4 gypsies, led by grizzled Manuel, drisk J 7% the health of the rightful heir, come JF to his own, and his bonny bride, in real old Romany Rye! 4 gard come Prematurely Gray. Tr A New York dramatic writer tells J judg of an actress of great popularity who is just beginning to be obsessed with F the notion that the public holds her A: to be older than she really is. boy 1 © The writer was assigned to inter JF oo, view this player. He wished to ob of th tain her views with reference to the Alit state of the drama, a topic wheres Kis the actress did not seem particularly memt anxious to descant. “y “It does not seem to me,”’ gently rack suggested the interviewer, with’ “4 smile, ‘‘that I am really ascertaining “A youropinion. You ought to be frank, ow since your eyes are gray and'’—— cond “‘Prematurely so, my dear boy, prematurely so,”’ the actress hastened j to assure him. “Br Out. ~ oe eaver “Jimmy engaged to Gladys? Why, towels I thought he and Mabel had bee on, keeping company ever since the ef Ide went to school together!’” ‘ anew “Quite right; but she threw bit down hard, and Gladys caught hime Ref the first bounce.”* Isome It's Up to You. dg If you don’t like your bed, 62° B the g¢, lie in it. Get up and make it sgo® comicbooks.com