Judge, 1912-12-28 · page 22 of 25
Judge — December 28, 1912 — page 22: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. The dominant content is a Sunny Brook Whiskey ad featuring a mustachioed man in a porter's cap—a generic "working man" figure used to sell whiskey as an "energy-builder" and tonic. The page includes small comedic anecdotes in "Stories with Smiles" (right column)—lighthearted tales mocking a pompous New York salesman and describing a doctor distributing thermometers. These represent mild, non-political humor typical of Judge's lighter content. Below are ads for Leslie-Judge Company's original artwork for sale, a press-clipping bureau, and a paper warehouse. **Context for moderns:** The whiskey ad reflects early 20th-century marketing normalizing alcohol as medicinal. The New York salesman joke reflects regional stereotypes about big-city smugness versus rural practicality—a recurring American theme.
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The great tonic and stimulating properties of Sunny Brook have had much to do toward making us the largest distillers of fixe old whiskey in the world, For nearly 50 years Sunny Brook has proved of real value to thos: who now and then require an energy- uilder. When energy is I-cking efficiency is lacking. Rare, old and rook, acts as a great up-builder; and mellow whiskey like Sunny B makes life worth living. Sunny Brook is Bottled in Bond—every bottle is sealed with the vernment Stamp showing that the contents are genuine, straight natural whiskey, US. Standard (100%) proof. This stamp however, oaly assures purity, but not quality. Any whiskey Bottled In Bond is genuine straight whiskey, but not all straight whiskies are good whiskies, When you select Sunny Brook—The Pure Food Whiskey— then you know that in addition to the assurance of Absolute Purity th By the freest dstifors of Fin wtiakey Ye tho rong tse Of Uneseed Quen elnspector Is Back of Every Bottle” Extraordinary Picture Bargains— WHILE THEY LAST The LESLIE-JUDGE COMPANY has a number of original drawings in black and white and in colors. These pictures have been used for illustrations in JUDGE. They are the work of some of the best known artists. Some of the drawings are comic, some social, some political, but all are clever. They cost us from $10 to $10 each. You could not buy them from an artist for less. They range in size from about one foot square to two feet or more. Next to an expensive oil painting, an expensive drawing is most suitable for the decoration of your home, your office, your library, or your den, These drawings, having served their purposes as illustrations for JUDGE, are offered as originals at only a small per cent of what we paid the artists for them. You can get these original drawings by popular artists from $1 upwards. Bear in mind that these are originals The buyer has the only one ever made. There are no duplicates, and never will be. ON SALE AT R. H. MACY & CO., NEW YORK Press Cutting Bureau | willsend you all newspaper clippings which may appear wt you, your friends, or any subject on which you may want to be “up to date” Every newspaper and periodical of importance in the States and Europe is searched. $5.00 for'400 notices, Henny Romnxe, Avenue, New York. HENRY LINDENMEYR & SONS | PAPER WAREHOUSE Nos. 32, 34 and 36 Bleecker Street Branch Warehouse, 20 Beekman Street, New York ALL KINDS OF PAPER MADE TO ORDER Terms, 106-110 Seventh In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. it will be appreciaced. Boronic’ witht Srles Took Him Downa ‘A tra ing salesman blew into Little Roc! Ark., and, going to the leading mer- chant, said pompously, ‘I’m from New York. I want to show you the newest line of’’—— “Where did you say you were from?" asked the merchant, getting ready to do some ‘‘kidding.’”” The swell-headed manner of the New Yorker had ruffled him. The sales- man seemed to think the fact that he was from New York was some- thing to make rural merchants’ jaws drop open. He was what we West- ern people call a ‘‘New York fool’ —the one kind that’s hopeless. “Why, I'm from New York,’’ re- peated the gingery, swell-up geek. “Who runs the hotel in that town?”" asked the merchant in a friendly man- ner.—Philadelphia Telegraph. Thoughtful Woman.—A _ physician tells a story of a philanthropic doc- tor in a Pennsylvania coal-mining town who presented each household with a nice, new thermometer and told the people the necessity of main- taining proper temperature. When making his rounds one day, he ob- served his thermometer hanging in the room. He inquired of the woman of the house if ‘she had remembered his instructions. “Indeed, sir, I do!’* was the re- sponse. ‘I hang the thing right up there and I watch it carefully to see it does not get too high."” “Good!'’ exclaimed the doctor. “And what do you do when the tem- perature rises above seventy de- grees?” “Why, sir”? answered the woman, with the air of one faithful to a trust, ‘‘when it gets too high, I take it down and put it outside until it cools off.""—Newark Star. Impressed Them.—One of those stop, look and listen political orators was holding forth in a local hall. His theme was ‘‘The Danger That Confronts Us,’’ and the handbills an- nounced that his revelations would “strike terror to the soul of every patriot.’’ A young couple, evidently lost or strayed from’ Berea, stopped in front of the hall, read the an- nouncement, found out that no ad- mission fee was charged and timidly entered. The spellbinder talked loud and fast. He recited strings of tigures, used words six feet long, and glibly chattered about unearned increment, economic determinism and things like that. Finally the rural stranger leaned over and whispered to his companion, “‘Mary, are you a-payin’ attention to this here lecture?’ “As good as I kin,’’ she answered meekly. “Are you skeered?”’ “I'm skeered as much as I kin un- derstand.’’—Cleveland Plain Dealer. A girl going up the aisle to be mar- ried looks as confident as a man lay- ing down four aces.—N. Y. Press.