Judge, 1914-08-15 · page 20 of 24
Judge — August 15, 1914 — page 20: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a **subscription advertisement** for Judge magazine's special German-language edition (published September 12, unclear which year, but likely early 1900s based on style). The ad uses **musical puns** as its central conceit: TONE, TUNE, HARMONY, BEATS, PITCH, SCALES, SOUND, KEY, SYMPHONY, DISCORD, and NOTE are all emphasized to encourage subscriptions. The cartoons at top show band musicians in exaggerated style. The phrase "Nationality no BAR to membership" suggests Judge was marketing this German edition to American readers of German descent—a significant immigrant population. The text includes actual German language ("Die deutsche Nummer des JUDGE..."), reinforcing the ethnic appeal. The satire appears gentle: it's simply promoting the magazine's humor and wit to German-American audiences during a period when such ethnic-specific publications were common. The "Deaf & Dumb Asylum" cartoon in the lower right is unclear in meaning without more context.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
Join the German Band Everybody of TONE is doing it. Nationality no BAR to membership. Get yourself in TUNE with things; Don’t be out of HARMONY with the world. If your heart BU ATS sadly, PITCH sorrow to the winds! Weighed in the SCALES there’s nothing SOUND in worrying. THE GERMAN NUMBER of JUDGE is in the right A/V A SYMPHONY of wit and humor without a single DISCORD in all its many pages. As an HY PRESSION of your approval attach a Dollar NOTE to the coupon and mail it to-day. Die deutsche Nummer des DEAF Dun JUDGE erscheint am 12 ASYLUM September. — Man verfehle = > nicht sie su lesen. He =r ear E The Happy Medium 225 Fifth Avenue, New York comicbooks.com