Judge, 1914-02-07 · page 18 of 24
Judge — February 7, 1914 — page 18: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. The dominant content features a large Hartman Furniture & Carpet Company advertisement promoting home furnishings with extremely lenient credit terms—"No References," "No Advance Payment," "30 Days Free Examination." The satirical angle appears subtle: Hartman's boasts of trusting customers unconditionally ("I will trust you. Just as I am trusting a million others"), which likely mocks the aggressive, predatory credit practices emerging in early 20th-century consumer culture. The company explicitly assures customers their neighbors won't know about purchases—suggesting shame around installment buying was common. The right page contains a sentimental Irish poem titled "Heartsease" about lost love, unrelated to the advertisements. **Context for moderns:** This reflects an era when consumer credit was novel and carried social stigma, yet companies exploited it aggressively. The "no questions asked" approach would have seemed both liberating and vaguely disreputable to contemporary readers.
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Never before has this great > é ‘ . lartman's Establishment,from which millions of orders areshipped, Ah, that was in me youthtime, when th been ableto equal these present values. heart leaps like a hound = Better Home Furnishings For YOU : And maids grew thick as bushes, anj Hartman's has brought the necessities, the comforts and even "tw: d pluck y luxuries, here-to-fore found only in the homes of the rich and ||| e-———=4 WES CODE BOC: PINCK: YOUF Foe progperous. within the Feach ot even those of very limited means BD, Convenient sotid And ye'd tread the greensward blithely D re kal low prices and very liberal Defer: Pa: nt i ¢ ewe 2) vais! be Plan, Send today forthe Die, Special FREE Hartman Credit bar: |[| Soseq ess h an arm her waist around, tl gain Book, showing everything in home-furnishings, colors, pat- board wi And shed your care and trouble as the terns and designs photographed from the original, It will be like |] J drever,sqte bs 7 d bird sheds his clothes bringing into your home an enormous etock of home furnishings, rh iene + alia ey a many times the size of the largest city store including— But now, faith, they’re all married, anj Furniture Rewiecmete? bare) Jewelry "tis me that walks alone; ilverware Go-Carts Mattresse: And some of them have children sweet, ee, wi Springs Bedding x and some of them have tears, H Noemie ts Eve: vone 2 ve For life holds many sorrows that we lartman Trus' ry See Z ver dre 1 Asks No Reference—Send No Money on any of these ba ;never dream ourown, gains, ‘To the millions of home-lovers, everywhere, who find it : Till we find them waiting for us dow renient or necessary to pay in sn ments 4 e white vithered yi : “I will trust you. Just as I am trusting a million the white and withered Bh) ‘ing their entire house-hold needs f1 ’. : eal ‘order any of these special 5 Ochone, I’ve had me pick of them, for! sactions with you mre srtictiy confdcatial, 0 re- > was once w lad ferences are asked—no embarrassment, Your neighbors need not eee ci, ‘ Bold, flashing-eyed and _slender-hipped, tj KNOW your business—you'll like the Hartman plan when you know a with legs to leap aditch; all about it. Send for Big FREE Bargain Book and full particulars. groan bore .w' And divil a saucy answer would I take Hartman Makes Easiest Terms from good or bad, No matter who you are or where youlive, your credit is good ‘ : at Hartman's. No matter how small your income And many a man full twice me weight f Hartman meets your requirements without any red Ry Coin Porcelain I've turfed without a hitch. tape whatever. "No extra charges, no mortgage, £ = eR \ ‘ no security, The Hartman modern credit sys- Ve S Ky ner Set. But sorra luck I had with her, for, wher tem Is free from ALL objectionable features. i Beg tos, the spring-lush came, ‘With long time credit as easy to get asit is trom Sarransed per 4 Hartman there is no reason for anyone to live in She married a young buckeen that a meagerly furnished home. = : z strolled up from Cloghaun way; 30 Days Free Examination = ester i And, faith, I’m thanking all the powers Ever; Bargain must actually sell = SS e e e, itself onltsownmerits,atteryouseeit in your eS ‘Mon me tongue can find te name, own home. Atthe end of a month youare privil- — For ’tis fire on earth, they tell me, for egedto return the articles if you do not find rice t9 Piece s the likes of him to-day. them perfectly satisfactory. Hartman has made Set #46 Gordon Joh £004 millions of times under such tests, Rondon Jokneten Half-way Relief ‘You must see this Mammoth Hartm: com Little Laura, who insists on getting up with her father and mother early in the morning, was complaining because ber feet were cold. “Drink a nice cup of cocoa,’’ sug gested her mother, ‘‘and that will make you warm all over.’” Laura sipped in silence for a moment, then she protested, “But it doesn’t make me warm all over, mamma; it only goes down to the middle."” offerings —nothfog else I dSrens today on postal—It's Free. For Liquor and Drug Users A scientific treatment which has been successfully administered in half a million cases during the past ‘ thirty-four years, and the one treatment which has ing falsified, was being reproved by bis stood the severe test of time. Administered by mother, who said, medical experts, at the Keeley Institutes only. “I do hope, my son, that when yoo For full particulars write grow up to manhood, you will never Ample Protection Tommy Shimmerpate, suspected of hav- To the Following Keeley Institutes: never tell a barefaced lie. ; “Indeed, I will not!’? declared the youngster. ‘‘I intend to raise whiskers.” In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. It will be appreciated. comicbooks.com