Judge, 1914-01-10 · page 2 of 24
Judge — January 10, 1914 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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The main cartoon depicts **George Henry Brown**, a high-class swindler who "sloughed away two dollars and a half, for a six-bits seat." The joke references Brown's recent conviction—he had spent money on a theater ticket, then listened to a common streetcar conductor's spiel about consecutive "wheeze" jokes, all of which he'd previously read in Judge magazine eleven months prior. The satire mocks both Brown's pretensions to wealth and sophistication (spending money on expensive seats) and the repetitive, recycled nature of popular entertainment and jokes circulating in the era. It's a meta-joke about predictable humor and social climbing that backfires when supposedly "new" entertainment proves painfully familiar.
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Office at New York as se address'‘Judgark” ) Telephorte 6632MadisotSpuate Published weekly by the Lestie Judge Co.225 Fifttus New York City) President Art Director , A.E.Rollater Treasurer Vol. LXVI. January 10, 1914 c oO N T E N Cover Design: The End of the Rainbow . Albert Hencke La Mode . . . . . + Laura E. Foster Editorials: = Where the Laugh Comes In Artifice Brief Decisions. . . Before the Mirror . Helen A, Spafford Taste . . George Taggart Being a picture of Mr. George Henry Intuitions of an Idler. Ted Robinson " ig! vawd-ve: , Good Advice . . Walt Mason Brown at high-class vawd-veal, where A New Year's Alphabet . Nathan M.. Ley he sloughed away two dollars and a half, Autofriendship j ‘ Harry Hamilton for a six-bits seat. He has just listened te a Lost Handbas xa : : . Kate Masterson di : iy cing the Thousandth Man . ‘ Artemus Ward Uti to the comedian pull seven consecutive Dismissing a Dilemma (I/lustration » Fellows). J. A. Waldron a? wheezes, all of which he remembers hav- A Fool There Was. . . Anne Gardner ing read in “Judge,” eleven months ago. Rail Fence Thoughts. : . George Bingham A Bargain, : : 3 Susie M. Best JUDGE'S Motion Pictures: The Wrong Coats . George Carlion The Rube's Soliloquy 5 3 ‘ Strickland Gillilan P. S.— And one year’s subscription Egg View Notes . . " . Leslie Van Every “ % ze “His Daughter. 0. o 4 Madison Carwein to “Judge” costs: only Five Dallars. From a Sinner’s Diary . . . Lynette Freemire The Modera Woman: Curbside Comments . —— Oreola W.. Haskell Watching Our Funay World Go By Homer Croy Passing the Mustard, With the College Wits, Storles with Smiles, With Foreiga Funmakers, Twice Told Tales, and Jest and Verse by JUDGE'S Humorists. Ju d e The Human Comedy in Pictures by O. Schmidt, Zim, F. L. Fithian, Wright, g Manning, Barksdale Rogers, Ray Rohn, Frank Godavin, A. T. Mer~ ° rick, R. E. Snodgrass, Walt Kuhn, Sanford Tousey, W. Smithson 225 Fifth Broadhead, Lou Rogers, Craruford Young, Charles H. Wright, R. B. Avenue Fuller, Held, and others. New York SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year, or 62 numbers Six months, or 26 numbers ‘Thirteen weeks . : Subscriptions payable in advance by draft on New York, or by express or postal orée Avenue de COpera, Paris; Saartach’s News Exehange, 16 Street, Adelphi, London; 56 Rue de la Victoire, Paris; 1 Clara Strasse, Mainz, Germany. Subseriptions and advertising for all the publications of Leslie Judge Company be taken at regular rates at any of the above offices. THREE FOR ONE Contributcra must include @ stamped and self. otherwise return of the latter when found unavai such material, submitted for publication, only on condition that we shall not be held me JUDGE ‘hree Months sponsible for its loss or injury while in our hands or in transit. send, JUDGE. for thn If Jupce cannot be found at any news-stand, the publishers will be under obligat Enclosed find One Dollar if that fact be promptly reported on postal card or by letter. . BACK NUMBERS: Present year, 10 cents per copy ; 1812, 10 cents; 1911, 20 cents, ¢ The contents of JuDGE are protected by copyright in both the United States and Gre Britain, Postage free in the United States, its dependencies, and Mexico, To Canadian Pre} inces add 60 cents a year for postage: to all foreign countries add $1.00 a year. . Westen Apventisinc Orric Building, Chicago, Il. Judge, 225 Fifth Ave., New York WASHINGTON REPRESENTATIVE: Wyatt Building, Washington, D.C. LESLIE -JUDGE COMPANY | TWO TWENTY-FIVE FIFTH AVENUE, N. ¥ In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. It will be appreciated. comicbooks.com