Judge, 1914-06-20 · page 2 of 24
Judge — June 20, 1914 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The main cartoon shows a photographer and patient in a medical setting. The caption reads: "Photographer—Don't frown; smile! / Patient—I haven't smiled in years. / Photographer—(to assistant) Hurries. Come, bring the gentleman a copy of JUDGE." The joke relies on a common premise: that Judge magazine is so humorous it can make even the most persistently unhappy person smile. This was a standard self-promotional gag in satirical magazines of the era—asserting that their comedic content possessed almost medicinal value. The Millo cigarette advertisement below occupies substantial space, typical of magazine funding practices in 1914. The overall page emphasizes Judge's humor as entertainment with therapeutic properties.
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QUALITY’ Cork Tips in the Milo for a Quarter of a Century Yellow Label Box Photographer— Don’t frown ; smile t Patient—1 haven't stniled in ten years. Photographer (to assistant) — George, bring the gentleman a copy of JUDGE. JUDGE The Happy Medium Office at New Yorkas se dail matterCanle | addtess‘ ” Telephotie 6632Madisot Sonate Published weekly’ by the Lestie~ Judge Co.225 Fifth tve New York City . JoittA Steicher President Art Director A.E.Rollaser Treasurer Vol. LXVI. June 20, 1914 Cc O N T E N T Cover Desiga: The Girl Who Put the “Go” In Tango Charles Sarka Up and Down the Town Raymond (. Ewer Editorials: = Humor Women Vote June's in the Alr : Open Letters to Whom They May Concern Thirty Days Barcfooted Barnard Girls Uncle Fogy’s Philosophy The Heartbreaker Suggested Line of March for June Weddings Unskilled Labor Egg View Notes The Plowboy’s Triolet JUDGE'S Series of Picturesque Dances : French Ballet. Easing a Golf Grouch In Bad Nauheim . . . The Modern Woman: Curbside Comments Suffrage Snapshots From a Sloner’s Diary Exception Geo. na Morexvood About Diamond Stars Ed Goewey Oversea Humor, With the College Wits, Stories with Sones Passing the Mustard, Jest and Verse by JUDGE'S Humorists. The Comedy of Lifein Pictures by Grant E. Hamilton, Emil Flohri, H. A. Petersen, C. O. Woodbury, Edrop, Zim, Sanford Tousey, Charles S. Wright, J. Conacher, Bob Gordon, Barksdale Rogers, Ray Rohn, R. E. Snodgrass, C. W. Kahles, Frank Godwin, F. L. Fithian, J. K. Bryans, Harold Thomas Denison, Lou Rogers, aud others. SUBSCRIPT EOIN RATES ‘One year, or 62 numbers Six months, or 26 numbers ‘Thirteen weeke ‘Subscriptions payable in advance by “arate on New York, or by express or postal order, .,Bream's Buildings, London, Saarbach’s News kzchanoe, i6 Jobs Street, Adelphi, omen: 58 Tus Paris; 1 Clara Strasse, Mainz, Germany. ‘Subseriptions and advertising for all wbiications of Leslie-Judge Company wi be taken at regular rates at any of the above offices. Contributors must include a stamped and self-addressed envelope with all manuscripts otherwise return of the latter when found unavailable cannot be guaranteed. We receive tion, only on condition that we shall not be pel re sponsible for its loss or injury while in our hands or in transi If JuDGr cannot be found at any news-stand, the publi will be under obligations | {f chat fact be promptly reported on postal card or by letter. BACK NUMBERS: Present year, 10 cents per copy; 1913, 10 cents; 1912, 20 cents, ete, Brin? contents of JuDcE are protected by copyright in both the United States and Great tain. Postage free in the United States, its dependencies, and Mexico. To Canadian Prow 1 foreign countriesmdd $1.00 a year. uette Building, Chicago. Ill. Wyatt Building, Washington, D.C. It Probably Will When Clinton Scollard Horace Dedd Gastit Dixon Merritt William J. Lampton Tom P. Morgan Walt Mason Stuart B. Stone Blakeney Gray Leslie Van Every HL. Arma The Early + Charles Sarka Kate Masterson Stanley R. Hoffund Oreola W. Haskell Ida Husted Harper Lynette Freemire England ; uch material, submitted for publi inces add 60 cents a year for postage: to Westenw Apvertisino Orr WASHINGTON REPRESENTATIV! NEXT WEEK “Independence Day "—a Fourth of July cover by James Montgomery Flagg comicbooks.com