Judge, 1912-12-28 · page 2 of 25
Judge — December 28, 1912 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising for Judge calendars**, not political satire. The left side features an ad for "Judge Calendars—Twelve masterpieces by Flagg, Both, Armstrong, Hamilton, Sarka, Taffs, Crawford." The calendar image shows a silhouetted figure in formal dress (appears to be a New Year's themed illustration). The ad emphasizes the calendars as appropriate gifts—"useful, as well as beautiful" and "a constant reminder of your thoughtfulness throughout the year." Priced at $2.00, with limited supply. The right page shows the magazine's table of contents and subscription rates ($5.00 yearly). There's a brief editor's note promoting the Winter Travel issue. **This is fundamentally a commercial page**, not satirical commentary, typical of magazines' self-promotion before the modern advertising industry developed.
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Judge Calendars Twelve masterpieces by Flagg, Both, Arm- strong, Hamilton, Sarka, Taffs, Crawford AAll artists’ colored proofs on heavy coated « paper, substantially mounted. This is a very appropriate present. It is useful, as well as beautiful. It will be a con- stant reminder of your thought- fulness throughout the year. We have a limited supply and while they last they will be sold to Judge readers at $2.00 each. Judge 225 Fifth Ave. York Judge 225 Fifth Ave. New York Enclosed please find 2.00 e send me answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. It will be appreciated. J ud & e Vol. LXIlI. December 28, 1912. No. 1628 Copyright 1912, by Leslie-Judge Company. Entered at the Post-office at New York as second-class mail matter. Cable address, *‘Judgavk.”’ Telephone 6632 Madison Square. Published weekly by Lestie-Judge Company, Brunswick Building, 225 Fifth Avenue, New York. John A. Steicher, F President. Reuben P. Sleicher, Secretary E. Rollauer, Assistant Treasurer. Grant E. Hamlttor: Art Director. J. A. Waldron, Editor. Cc ON T EN Cover Design—Happy New Year : James Montgomery Flagg Judge's Revue . . ‘ . Raymond Crawford Ewer Editorials: Humor Invention What Man Wouldo't? . . . «WE, Smyth I A New Year Song Charles C. Jones | Cynicism : . L. A. Browne | Waiting Out the Old Vear 3 ® John Gruelle Near the End of Their Romancc—The Feast of New Year's Eve . . . J. A, Waldron Judge's Birthday Book . . . + Horace Dodd Gastit Don't Dynamite This Monument! . . Grant Hamilton The Inbora Trait . . . . Terrell Love Holliday The Gossip, the Doodle, et al + Byron Williams Four Ages of the Kiss . 7 a + Melandburgh Wilson Broadway Platitudes . ‘ Charles Harding Divine Egg View Notes . . Leslie Van Every The Modern Woman— Suttrage | Snapshots With Foreiga Fuamakers Amusing Stories about Well-known Persons With the College Wits, Stories with Smiles, Passing the Mustard, and Up- to-date Humor and Verse by Judge's Jesters Other Mlustrations by Fellows, Sanders, Zim, Forbell, Tousey, Ray Rohn, Charles Sarka, Maybelle, Conacher, Young, Kahle, Laura Foster, | Johann Hult, Calvert Smith, Manning, and others, Ida Husted Harper SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year, of 62 numbers 3 + $5.00 ‘or postal order. 2, Chancery onal News Company. . Bream's Hu « Lo Avenue de UOpera, Faris; Saarbach’s News Exehanoe, | taJohn Street. Adelphi, London; i6 Ruo de la Victoire, fur; 1 Clara Strasse, Mains, Germany. Subscriptions and adverti | be taken at recular Contributors must inelude otherwise return of the latter w for all the publications of Leslie-Judge Company will ‘of the above offices imped and relf-addressed envelope with all manuscripts ind unavailable eannot be guaranteed. We receive only on conditio all not be held re- hands or in tran sponsible for its loss or injury while in ou: If JupGr cannot be found at any new: id, the publishera will be under obligations if that fact be promptly reported on postal card or by letter. BACK NUMBERS: Present year, 10 cents per copy; 1911, 20 cents; 1910, 20 cents, maine contents of Judae are protected by copyright in both the United States and Great tain. Postage free in the United States, its dependencies, and Mexico, To Canadian Prov- inces add SO cents a year for postage: to all foreign countries add $1.00 a year. ete. wi Apvextisine Orrice: Marquette Building, Chicago, Ill. OOK OUT for the Winter Travel Num- ber of JUDGE. It’s going to be chock full of jokes on Winter travel—Florida, West Indies, California, and the Mediterranean. Take a trip for ten cents. Tell your newsdealer to be sure to save a copy of the January 18th JUDGE. The Editor. . } comicbooks.com