Judge, 1914-03-14 · page 17 of 24
Judge — March 14, 1914 — page 17: what you’re looking at
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This page from *Judge* magazine contains two distinct sections: **Left side:** Humorous essays about "Home" and brief jokes. The anecdotes use exaggeration for comedic effect—a cattle rancher announcing triplets by comparing it to a carnival game, a wife who switched from losing money at bridge to poker. These are gentle domestic humor typical of early 20th-century magazines, poking fun at marriage, spending habits, and social conventions. **Right side:** An advertisement disguised as an article promoting Sanford Bennett's youth-restoration methods. The piece claims Bennett, a San Francisco businessman, discovered a way to reverse aging—at 50 he regained hair, vision, and vigor. The accompanying photographs show him at different ages. This is classic early-1900s patent-medicine-style promotion: dubious health claims wrapped in scientific language (referencing Dr. Osler's theories) and testimonials, designed to sell Bennett's instructional book on "health and youth-building methods." The satire lies in *Judge* printing obvious commercial propaganda alongside genuine humor—showing the blurred line between editorial and advertising in period magazines.
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Home OME is 8 man’s castle commanded by H his better half. As aids in govern- ing, Miladi employs her mother, the cook, ie cnildren, the Ladies’ Home Journal, oe coasts page, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, the family lawyer, the minister and the ighbors. br may consist of a collection of igeonholes called an apartment, a lodg- ing with the old folks, a seat or so ata ally respectable boarding-house, a part ent on a plumber’s bill, or the prin- {ipal consideration in an automobile mort- Shad be uses of a home are varied and humorous. It may serve as a lecture hall, a battleground, a rolling-pin alley, temporary lodging for cooks and a permanent one for poor relations, the terminus of the Owl-Car Line, a post- graduate cooking-school experiment sta- tion, or a storehouse for pipes, dogs, a wife, heirs, liberty, hobbies and grouches, Home may be started with a marriage license, a credit slip with a furniture in- stallment house, some sentiment, a few wall mottoes and a lot of grease, sugar and spices. It may be broken up by a rent ejectment suit, a family friend, a bad habit, a fiery temper or an uncon- trollable longing for a sixty-horse-power motor car. Some people endeavor to buy and own a home, while others prefer to move whenever the rent day and the furniture van come around, —Stuart B. Stone. Announcing the Stork A Kansas cattle king in {the old days woke up one morning to learn that he was the father of triplets. Immensely pleased with what the gods had done for him, he raced to the village, eager to tell the news toall his friends and fellow-rangers. This is the way he broached the subject to the crowd at the country store. “Fellows, you remember the doll rack at the county fair last summer, where you threw three baseballs for a nickel? The fellow kept holloing, ‘One baby, one cigar! Two babies, two cigars! Three babies, six cigars!’ Well, I’m passing out the cigars to-day in honor of a stork party at my house last night. Congratu- late me! And, by George! everybody gets six cigars, or you can shoot me for liar!” Some Spender Crawford—So your wife has stopped Playing bridge. Did she give you any reason? Crabshaw—No; but apparently it’s be- cause she found she could lose more at poker, Explained “Mrs. Flighty was married to-day for the fourth time.’” “I understand, now, what the news- Papers meant when they referred to her 4s ‘well groomed.’ ’? An Old Man at Fifty —A Young Man at Seventy The Remarkable Story of Sanford Bennett, a San Francisco Business Man, Who Has Solved the Problem of Perpetual Youth By C. E. PAGE, M. D. Author of ‘Natural Cure for Consumption,"* “Mow to Feed the Baby," etc. HERE is no longer any occasion to go hunting for the Spring of Eternal Youth. What Ponce de Leon failed to discover in his world famous mission, ages ago, has been brought to light right here in staid, pro- saic America, by Sanford Bennett, a San Francisco business man. He can prove it toc, right in his own person. At 50 he was partially bald. To-day he has a thick head of hair, although it is white. At 50 his eyes were weak. To- day they are as strong as when he was a child. At 50 he wasa worn-out broken- down, de- ten, entitled “Old Age—Its Cause and Prevention.’ This book is a complete history of himself and his experiences, and contains complete instructions for those who wish to put his health and youth-building methods to their own use. It is a wonderful book. It is a book that every man and woman who is desirous of remaining young after passing the fiftieth, sixtieth, seventieth, and as Mr. Bennett firmly believes, the one hundredth mile- stone of life, should read. . For the purpose of spreading broadcast the methods of promoting health and longevity de- crepit old veloped by man. To- Mr. Bennett day he is in an interesting perfect eight - page health, a booklet good deal of which is, in an athlete effect, a sum- and as young mary of his as the aver- system, has age man of been pre- 35. pared by the All this he publishers has accom- of Mr. Ben- plished by nett’s _inter- some very esting book simple and Sanford Bennett Sanford Bennett —the Physi- gentle exer- at 50 at 72 cal Culture cises which Publishing he practises for about ten minutes before Company, 4903 Flatiron Building, New arising in the morning. Yes, the exercises are taken in bed, peculiar as this may seem. As Mr. Bennett explains, his case was not one of preserving good health, but one of rejuvenating a weak middle-aged body into a robust old one, and he says what he has accomplished, anyone can accomplish by the application of . the same methods, and so it would seem. All of which puts the Dr. Osler theory to shame. I haven’t room in this article to go into a lengthy description of Mr. Bennett's methods for the restoration of youth and the prevention of old age. All of this he tells himself in a book which he has writ- In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. It will be appreciated. York City. This booklet they will send free to any- one sufficiently interested to write for it. The grandest thing in the world is Youth, and it is one of the really great hardships of life that “its beauteous morn’’ should pass so swiftly and give place to old age. For having solved the problem of retain- ing youth during life, the world owes San- ford Bennett a vote of thanks. Of course there are those who will scoff at the idea, but the real wise men and women among those who hear of Sanford Bennett and his return to youth, will most certainly investi- gate further, and at least acquire a knowl- edge of his methods. (apvr.) comicbooks.com