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This page is primarily a **commercial advertisement** rather than political satire. It promotes a portrait illustration by James Montgomery Flagg titled "A Spring Chicken"—a pin-up style drawing of an attractive young woman in a bathing suit. The illustration depicts a conventionally beautiful woman in 1910s-era beachwear. "Spring chicken" was period slang for an attractive young woman. The ad uses flattering language ("peaches and cream complexion") to entice male readers to purchase the colored print for 25 cents, marketed as suitable decoration for dens or bungalows. The page also contains unrelated humor columns ("Paradoxical," "High Finance," "Another on Her," "Evidence") typical of Judge's content. This represents early-20th-century consumer culture targeting men with idealized female imagery—a precursor to modern advertising aesthetics.

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SL meee A SPRING CHICKEN : , A SPRING CHICKEN By James Montgomery Flagg Double Mounted on Heavy White Mat, II x 1+ Twenty-five Cents ‘A Spring Chicken We Simply Can’t Help Crowing About Her The above illustration gives you an idea of how nice she is, but the colored picture is a perfect | peach. Just figure it out in your own mind—a red bathing cap, dark blue and white bathing | suit, peaches and cream complexion, black eyes and hair—well, taken all in all, she’s a very | attractive piece of femininity. Do you think you’d take a second look if you met her on the beach? You no doubt would. Here’s a chance for you. For 25 Cents We will send you this picture in full color, mounted for framing—just the thing for your den and you'll not find a more attractive picture for your bungalow. We have printed up a good supply, but the orders are coming in so rapidly that the first issue is already more than half gone. If you send your order at once, we will fill it the same day. If you delay sending for a copy, you may be disappointed. Order NOW before you forget it. . ~~~ COUPON LESLIEJUDGE CO. 225 Fifth Avenue, New York In Color, 9 x 12, The Judge Art Print Catalog, containing 62 repro- | | ductions in miniature, b tifully printed in sepia on India tint paper, will be sent to you for 10c. It shows many pictures which will appeal to you, Encl find | 25° ¢ hich please send me octne ind} 55 | fOr which please send me eggs THE ATTACHED COUPON IS X Spring Chicken. | FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE } A Spring Chicken and Catalog. | Enclose stamps, money order or currency. Name...-- Leslie-Judge Co. 225 Fifth Avenue New York AIAreRRsiscsiecesssnssscrsesnnescssssoesncoreseen sdeoesenen livin’ in the suburbs, an’ we are hayig a little discussion at home this even; an’ I want to refer the question to You, she says. ‘‘Do baby elephants nurse or do they eat grass right away?” she sayy An’, land sakes! you just oughter hear, the choking sound in that telephone! The man t’other end gives a gulp I could hey myself, an’ he catches at his breath, a” he says, ‘* You have one on me, madam!" he says. ‘But wait a minute.” An’ then Sal keeps her ear to th "phone, an’ she hears him call to t’othe men where he was settin’, ‘Here's woman who wants to know if baby ek phants nurse!’’ An’ then she hears ther all roar at t’other end, an’ one of ‘en answers back, ‘‘You're just kiddin!” An’ that one takes the hook off, says, deep an’ solemn an’ short an’ quick, “*Hello!’’ he says. An’ then our Sal gets mad, an’ she don’t care what she says nor who ty, “I'm just waitin’ to get an answer tony question!”” she snaps. “‘What is the question, madam?” be asks; an’ she says, desperate-like this time, ‘‘Do baby elephants nurse; an’, if they do, do they take it through tl trunks, or how do ‘they take it?” then this man rattles in his throat, a’ then he says, ‘‘Wait a minute.”” An’ Sal waits five minutes, an’ ther is an awful silence in that telephone, a’ Joe an’ the boys is all havin’ convulsicss on the floor, an’ I am a-settin’ by the mouthpiece blushin’ for her. An’ the that man says from t’other end, “Yes, madam, baby elephants do nurse," be says, ‘fan’ they take it with their trunks!"" he says. Our Sal "lows he must ‘a’ called » the zoo, ‘ Paradoxical Speech differentiates the man and brute— I hold this as a truth, beyond dispute; And yet how very frequently, alas! Speech merely serves to prove a manw ass! High Finance A man sent his neighbor’s little boy the drug store to buy five postage stamps. He handed him two dimes, the extra one being for himself. Some time afterwart the boy came back blubbering and said be had lost one of the dimes. “But why didn’t you buy me th stamps?"’ asked the man. “Because, mister,’’ replied the boy, it was your dime I lost.’" Another on Her Grocer—Wouldn’t you like some hore radish? Mrs. Newlywed—Mercy, no! keep a horse! We don't Evidence **What makes you think be is a foreig? nobleman?”’ “I overheard him say he owed every thing to his wife."" In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. It will be appreciated. comicbooks.com