Judge, 1914-08-22 · page 19 of 24
Judge — August 22, 1914 — page 19: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page primarily contains **advertisements** rather than editorial cartoons. The dominant ad features Basch diamonds at $97.50 per carat, with multiple ring designs shown and a "money-back guarantee" pitch. The text at top left appears to be a **satirical article** mocking U.S. senators' formal attire—specifically Vice-President Marshall and Senator Ollie James of Kentucky. The satire uses exaggerated, flowery fashion description typically applied to women's clothing to ridicule the senators' ceremonial Senate garb, suggesting they're absurdly overdressed or effeminate. This is political humor targeting these specific officials. Below that is a brief illustrated piece titled "Not Numerous" about boats on matrimonial seas—apparently a mild social commentary on marriage, though its specific point is unclear from this excerpt. The remainder consists of hotel and chewing gum advertisements typical of early 20th-century magazine pages.
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jn bis delicately framed fawn -colored Eton jacket, with braided collar and cuffs, that half conceals and half reveals a won- derfal blouse of creamy white chiffon, embroidered with tiny silk carnations of red. . . It would be impossible to tell a waiting world the mysterious details of the garb of Vice-President Marshall, as he presides over the dignified sessions of the Senate, did we not have access to the records of his modiste. There we discover that he is wearing an “informal luncheon frock of black satin, almost covered by an over- dress in pleated white bryk bryk, start- ing under a pistache-green ribbon girdle, whose sash ends are drawn forward to be- low the left hip and there bow-knotted; frills of white lace trim the loose elbow sleeve, and a wired lace Medici col- lar outlines the slightly pointed neck of the pleated blouse. ’” How they ever got that delicate speci- men of humanity, Senator Ollie James, of Kentucky, and his three hundred pounds into his costume, nobody knows. But he does look so daintily charming in the disphanous contraption that has sup- planted his ancient and considerably more roluminous garb! To the practiced eye, there is a mere band of rose-white taffeta, searcely shown below an overdress in crape, deeply hand embroidered from the waist down. Above it, there is the sketchiest sort of a basque in taffeta, trimmed with lines of small buttons. By means of these the fronts are held to- gether, while the general effect is merely puckered to the figure under the arms. And what a figure it is! We might r il more of the sartorial secrets of the Senate, but we haven't the beart. Not Numerous rimonial seas I kinds take the breeze; But I've noticed—haven't you? Jolly boats are rather few. Only from BASCH can you get ¢ DIAMOND‘ DS Tn Pe Gat 9 ‘OT. 5 Mounting. $3.75 “earetcba, 43.00 seming,, $37: a ‘ Complete: $101.28 Complet $40.78 Complete $71.25 We Import rig Hie within? years fante of carat BOOK, FREE! weight, quality a 128 Page De Luxe BASCH DIAM , HOTEL EARLINGTON 27th Street, West of Broadway, NEW YORK Q Quiet as a Village at Night. @ Absolutely Fireproof. Your Comfort Our Aim Always. SINGLE ROOMS, $1.00 Parlor, Bedroom and Bath, front of house, one person, $2.00; two people, $3.50; Why pay more when our service is equalled’ only by the best? EUROPEAN PLAN E. W. WARFIELD, Man: QA Step from Broadway. comicbooks.com