Judge, 1914-07-25 · page 20 of 24
Judge — July 25, 1914 — page 20: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily a **commercial advertisement** for the Leslie-Judge Company promoting "Poster-Stamp Collecting"—a European fad the publisher describes as educational and artistic. The left side displays sample decorative stamps featuring scenes from fairy tales and travel imagery. The advertisement frames stamp collecting as refined and intellectually superior to typical "frivolous" crazes, appealing to both children and adults through instruction in "art, printing, color and advertising." The right side contains **humor fillers**—brief joke columns typical of Judge magazine—covering unrelated topics like marriage, women's fashion rivalry, and an elevator operator's death-bed anxiety about "going up or down." These are standard satirical observations on daily life and social customs, not commentary on the stamps themselves. The page represents early 20th-century magazine advertising blended with light social satire, characteristic of Judge's format.
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‘Begin Your Poster-Stamp Collection! The new fad—Poster-Stamp Collecting—is all the rage in Europe. It is an educational delight with all the charm of novelty, and none of the frivolity attached to the average craze. Old and young will find both knowledge and amusement in Poster-Stamp collecting because it opens an avenue of instruction in art, printing, color and advertising. Here is your opportunity to start a collec- tion. Read the editorial in this number and learn how the Germans have developed the fad. Special Offer 6 FAIRY TALES STAMPS 5c (12 sets of 5 dilfereat Stamps) 37 TRAVEL STAMPS. . . 5c (Views of Europe) 62 ADVERTISING STAMPS 5c (American aod European) 15 ADVERTISING STAMPS 5c (Rare Subjects) STAMPS SHOWN ON THE 12 Cover oF JUDGE . . . 10c 1 STAMP ALBUM « 5c Extra Special Offer With each order for 25c or over we 1 cK will send the STAMP ALBUM for oC The Coupon is attached for your convenience. Leslie-Judge Company 225 Fifth Avenue New York COUPON LESLIE-JUDGE COMPANY, 25 Fifth Avenue, New Y With The Cotlege wis An Interested Party—‘‘Can I git of day, boss?’’ What for’ “A weddin’."" “Do you have to go?"’ i “I'd like to, sir—I’m the bridegroom’ —Cornell Widow. The Mouth of Babes— Precocious chilé |) Mamma, when people get suffrage, és it just come for two or three days a then go away, or does it last a long tin, like whooping cough and measles?—x~, vard Lampoon. A Socialist—Enter the nurse. “Please, ’m, will you come in mf speak to Master Wi He won't me bathe him. He says he’s a socialist” | —Texas Coyote. Why—‘‘Messalina, why is a poor base ball player like one who picketh roe buds?"" “T know it not, dear Sappho." “*Because he goeth from bush to bush” —Harvard Lampoon. “All women are rivals when it coms to clothes."’ each one tries to outstrip the !""—Harvard Lampoon. But—A baby may not know much, bt you will notice that it never cries fori father when it is hungry.— Williams Pr ple Cow. About This Time of Year—Father—Hot Jo you mean your check book is crazy! Son—It’s unbalanced, that's all.—Yels Record. Anxious The elevator chauffeur lay dying in bis bed. “Oh, doctor, just one question,’’ the Pr tient softly said. “I want to know my finish, so do not fos and frown. ; Give me my final order—going up or goin’ down?”" —Williams Purple Cow. Every lover of a Ritters be used in’ bert CW. Abbott & comicbooks.com aniiiw me =a.