Judge, 1914-12-05 · page 32 of 36
Judge — December 5, 1914 — page 32: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** from Judge magazine, with small humor pieces interspersed. The main content consists of Christmas gift advertisements (Evans' Ale, watches, ink pencils, diamonds, coffee sets, cigars) typical of early 20th-century magazine monetization. The humor comes from **college newspaper reprints** (Columbia Jester, Stanford Chaparral, Wisconsin Sphinx, etc.): - A clerk distracted by a beautiful woman customer can't process her film order - A husband misunderstands his wife's rejection ("turn you down") as romantic rather than literal (she means the parlor light) - Freshman hazing jokes about filling bathtubs with enthusiastic yelling These are light, mostly innocuous jokes about courtship confusion, college life, and gender dynamics—reflecting early 1900s campus humor without sharp satirical bite. The cartoon's central image shows a stork hanging by a thread, accompanying a Princeton Tiger joke about life's precariousness. The page demonstrates how Judge blended advertising revenue with mild, collegiate humor for a middle-class audience.
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The Happiest Thought For Christmas is how to do the greatest good to the greatest number for the longest time. To make the deed worthy of the thought order for friead or friends a barrel containing 10 dozen bottles of Evans’ It will prolong the good cheer of the season over a good part of the year, and promote real fireside comfort, kindly remembrance and appreciation. Apply to Nearest Dealer or C. H. EVANS & SONS, Hedsoa, N. Y. Wa nt e d Write Men and Women |! Photoplays To Write Photoplays »50 A Month The master. = pice of watch manufacture—adjusted to tu the exquisite new watch 119 Jewel Burlington Aitvizes for both A GIFT THAT IS SURE TO PLEASE Fotis «) wle right fo write right. Lasts nh The “VULCAN” INK PENCIL CANTERBURY COPPER STEIN SET} For Xmas Gifts Send for description and. if you wish, include @ for small copper bowl with your monogram in brass, | CLEWELL STUDIOS | ISt, Canton, Ohio FOR p MI ME OF BRAINS AGARS “MADE AT KEY WEST== With The College Wits Stumped “Three dozen films!'’ Her face was fair; Her orders, she did trill ’em. Her voice, it so entranced the clerk, He really couldn't film. —Columbia Jester. Woof!—Hubby—How do you like my new stenographer? Wife—I can’t say that I like her type. —Stanford Chaparral. His Life is Hanging by a Thread —Princeton Tiger. A Little Pep—Senior—Give your high- school yell! Rotten! Now give the Var- sity locomotive! Frosh—I don’t know it. Senior—Fill the tub! Frosh (struggling) — Rah— er—er— rah, blub, blubb! (Splash.)— Wisconsin Sphinz. What She Meant “I'm going to turn you down,’ He had an awful fright. But she didn’t mean what he thought she meant, For she meant the parlor light. —Pennsylvania Punch Bowl. she said, Some Sob Sister Story—Judge—Officer, what's the matter with the prisoner? Tell her to stop that crying. She’s been at it fifteen minutes, (More sobs.) Officer—Please, sir, I'm a-thinking she wants to be bailed out.—Nebraska Aw- gwan. . Quaint, Historic NEW ORLEANS “The Paris of America.” Offers delichtful variation from the winter abroad, with all the at- tractions of a Continental city. The StCharles est all year hotel in the South, Perfectly appointed and accom: modating 1.000 guests. } Alfred S. Amer & Co., Ltd., Props. Under Same Management, Tb Edgewood, Greenwich.Conn, “New York's ideal suburban jotel.’ MAY TO OCTOBER. DIAMONDS ON CREDIT Let us send you any Diamond you oar select from our catalog 0 you may com our Values with those offered by other dealers : be convinced that our IMPORTER'S PRICES offer you a great saving. 20% DOWN 10% MONTHLY We furnish a guarantee certificate with every Diamond and allow the full purchase price on allexchanges. We will send express prepaid any Diamond or other article, for ex- mination and approval, you to be the scle jurige as to whether you keep it or return it ‘at our expense. Write today for our FREE catalog de luxe No. 22, and see how easy itis for you to own and wear a beautiful Diamond. '« SWEET & CO.,Inc., 2 and 4 Maiden Lane New York City The. Best Xmas Gift Moth-Proof 1b Dart Free Trak ied eal Bowe LIQUID PISTOL | Will stop the most vicious dog (or man) without permanent injury. 1 of leabaze. AUTOMATIC ‘ADDER ") ately accurate seokteies ‘durable. taste te SSD, ne cemress J. UL BASSETT & € 9C Press Cutting Bureau ROMEIKE’S Prssrcung.2ess sect ish may, aprear boat You, 12 friends, or any subject on which you may wan' to date.” Every newspaper and periodical of importance in the United States and Europe is search “4 $5.00 for 100 notices. HENRY ROMEIKE, 106-110 Seve Avenue, New York.