Judge, 1914-05-16 · page 20 of 24
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This page is primarily **advertising with some humor content**, typical of early 20th-century magazines. The main satirical elements are brief anecdotes ("Stories with Smiles") scattered among ads. These showcase period humor: - A father-daughter joke about marriage consent - An English-American comparison of Niagara Falls versus Victoria Falls, with the American dismissing the latter as mere "perspiration" - A Scottish horse trader's wordplay: selling a blind horse as "faultless," then claiming blindness is a "misfortune" not a fault - A prison superintendent's joke revealing three "vicious-looking" female inmates are actually his wife and daughters - A waiter's deadpan explanation for a dead fly in stew **The satire reflects:** - American boosterism and national pride - Scottish canny shrewdness/dishonesty (a common stereotype) - Class anxieties (prisoners, servants) - Gender assumptions (women criminals vs. respectable domesticity) The jokes rely on wordplay and ethnic/regional stereotypes common to the era. The advertisements (cruises, patents, hair tonic) indicate the magazine's middle-class audience.
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No hotel bills or transfers. You live on the ship. Send now for handsome booklet 0. Reduced Rates for superior accommodations in May and June. BOWRING & COMPANY 17 Battery Place New York Terms. 106-110 Seventh WHO CAN THINK OF SOME ‘ Protect your ideas, they may bring “How to jolph & Co, | a a i} Stories with Simifes The Good News—‘‘Paw.’* “Well?”” “*When I promise to marry him, do you want him to come and ask your consent?"" “‘No, not my consent; but I would like to have him trot in and tell me the good news, I sort of feel like I needed cheer- . ing up."’—Houston Post. Some S; kler—An Englishman and an American were standing before the won- ders of the Victorian Falls, in dark Af- rica, when the Englishman said, ‘Surely you must concede that these falls are far grander than your Niagara Falls."" “*What?"’ replied the American. ‘‘Com- pare th to our Niagara Falls? Why man alive, they are a mere perspiration !”’ —Argonaut. Faultless—Sandy McNab had the repu- tation of being a canny man ina trade. In fact, he was ‘‘gey cautious." He once sold a gentleman of little experience a horse which was described as being “perfectly without faults.’ Next day the buyer came back in high dudgeon. He had found the horse blind of an eye. “You said this horse was faultless!’’ he roared. ‘‘Look athim—look at that eye!"’ “Weel,” said Sandy quietly, ‘that’s no the puir beastie’s fau't; it’s only its misfortune.""—The Argonaut. Not Criminal—Mr. Amsbury, the super- intendent of the penitentiary, was escort- ing a party of women visitors through the building. They entered a room where three women were busily sewing. As they turned to leave the room, one of the visitors said, “What vicious-looking creatures! What are they in for? They really look capable of committing any crime.” “Well,’’ replied the superintendent, “you see, they have no other home. That is my private sitting-room, and they are my wife and two daughters. ""—Harper's Magazine. A Facetious Waiter—A customer in a French cafe in San Francisco summoned his waiter and demanded of him, ‘How is it that I find a dead fly in my stew?” “‘Monsieur,"’ the waiter is reported to have replied, ‘‘I regret that I cannot tell you. Perhaps the fly had not eaten for many days, and, throwing itself raven- ously on the stew, fed with too great heartiness, thereby contracting an in- flammation of the stomach severe enough to cause death. The poor little thing can never have beenstrong. When I brought the stew, it was dancing merrily and hum- ming on the surface. Perhaps—this idea has just presented itself to me—it en- deavored to swallow too large a piece of meat. The morsel stuck in its windpipe. A terrific coughing fit, inaudible to our gross ears, ensued. Alas! soon all was over. Ican account in no other way for the poor creature's death. ""—Lippincott's. 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