Judge, 1913-03-08 · page 20 of 24
Judge — March 8, 1913 — page 20: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising with humorous sidebar content**, typical of Judge magazine's format. The main advertisements promote luxury consumer goods—Cook's champagne (emphasizing quality over price), Allen's Foot-Ease powder, and Durbar Gems (synthetic diamonds). These ads target affluent readers. The "Stories with Smiles" section contains three brief, genteel humor pieces playing on wordplay and social embarrassment: 1. A man fears his wife because he forgot what excuse he gave for staying out 2. A sentimental city girl hears trees "groaning" with cherries; a boy responds he knows how it feels to be "full of green cherries" 3. A reverend gives three reasons for refusing a drink—the punchline being he's already had one These jokes reflect early 20th-century middle-class anxieties (marital discord, rural/urban pretension, temperance politics) and rely on gentle irony rather than sharp satire. The overall page demonstrates Judge's dual role: satirical commentary vehicle and advertiser to wealthy readers.
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Quality determines the buying choice of connoisseurs — they consider price only in so far as it may buy super- iorit —they uniteon Cook’s. Be coldly criti- cal Sp) As you drink it, compare it with all the other cham- pagnes you ever liked— point for point—purity, life, bouquet, flavor; and you will decide in favor of Cook's, irrespective of price. And remem- ber, thisdifferencein price is due onlyto duty (60%) and ocean freight (40) —Cook’s cost goes into quality. The Man Who Put the EE’s in FEET Look for this Trade-Mark Picture on the Label when buying ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE The Antiseptic Powder for Tender. Aching Feet, Trade-Mark. Sold everywhere. Sample FREE. Address. ALLEN S. OLMSTED, Le Roy, N. Y. Wooderfelly brilliant. Pure white. Constrocted by the Oxy-Hydrogen Pureace. Will cut glass, stand acid and fre texts like real diamonds. Have no foil of backing. Set only jk Gold Mountings. Brilliancy eaten! 25 year en Approval or by reristered mail on receipt of price. Money cheerfully refunded it not satistace tory. Send for booklet. Dept. B. MAIDEN LANE SALES CO. 48-50 Maiden Lane, New York fo] m UT Stories. with Smifes His Awful Dilemma.—Midnight, and in the smoking-room of the club sat a young man huddled in a chair. A friend en- tered. ‘Hello, Smith,”’ he asked cheerfully, “not going home yet?”” “‘No,’’ muttered the despairing one. “I—I daren’t!"” “Why, what’s the matter? “Matter? It’s the end of everything! It means ruin, grief and spoiled life!”” The friend looked frightened. “Here, Smith, tell me what's up. Per- haps I can help you." Smith clinched his fists till the knuckles showed white. “No one can help me!’’ he cried in agony. ‘‘I have come to the end of all things! At eight o'clock I telephoned to my wife and gave her a perfectly good excuse for not coming straight home, and’’—his voice sank to a whisper—‘'I've forgotten what I said!’’—Philadelphia Record. He Could Sympathize.—The conversa- tion turned to the fads and fancies of the sweetsome sex, and Justice McKenna told of the sentimental city girl who was spending some time in the country. So full of sentiment and so imaginative was she, said the justice, that she could hear the trees whisper, the bushes sigh and the plants sing. One day in June she was sitting be- neath a cherry tree with several children, one of whom was a ten-year-old boy. Overhead a gentle breeze softly purred through the quivering leaves. isten!'’ suddenly exclaimed the young lady. ‘‘Can't you hear this poor tree groaning, Johnny?” “No, I don’t hear it groan,’ replied Johnny, assuming a listening attitude; “but I know how it feels to be full of green cherries.’ — Philadelphia Tele- graph, - Three Good Reasons.—The Rev. John K, Sawyer, author of ‘*As Ye Sow," which ran at the Majestic Theater in Boston for some time, was traveling from this State to Scotland. A raw and thick fog came up, which penetrated to the marrow of the passengers on the deck. An acquaint- ance of Mr. Sawyer’s spoke to him and asked, ‘‘Wouldn’t you like to join me in a little drink?” “No,” answered Sawyer. ‘I’m sorry, but there are two good reasons why | can- not take a drink with you. The first one is that I don’t drink. The second reason is that I have just signed the pledge. A third and most important reason is that I have just had one.’’—Boston Traveler. oa Taking No Chances.—-Ollie James, Sen- ator-elect from Kentucky, weighs some- where near four hundred pounds and hates to ride in an upper berth. Once, travel- ing back to his home from the capital, he could not get a lower berth for love or money. The man who. had bought the lower berth beneath the bunk on which Ollie was to sleep weighed about one REG. U.S. PAT. OFFICE Celebrated HATS Spring Styles Now on Sale NEW YORK Chicago Philadelphia Agencies in All Principal Cities _ ITH STREET & UNIVERSITY PLACE One Block West of Broadway NEW YORK CITY + = Send for free ltestrated Culde and Map of New Yor know that its delicious flavor ond comparison. Find out for yourself. BERNHEIM DISTILLING CO. Louisville, Ky. MO In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. It will be appreciated. comicbooks.com