Judge, 1915-04-17 · page 23 of 26
Judge — April 17, 1915 — page 23: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising with comedic filler content**. The cartoons are brief, internationally sourced jokes: **"The Detrimental"** plays on class anxieties: a mother values a suitor's £5,000 annual income, but her daughter counters that he's such a poor match he's actually a liability to the money itself—satirizing shallow matrimonial calculations. **"At the Village Inn"** is a German/Bavarian humor piece about flies in a rustic inn, where the solution involves a cow's tail swatting through a hole—crude but typical of early 20th-century international comic exchanges reprinted in American magazines. **"Boots, Madam"** shows someone selling waterproof boots labeled "for dogs in wet weather," which the customer naively interprets literally, asking for purchasing advice—a play on misunderstanding product marketing language. The bulk of the page comprises **period advertisements** for Chartreuse liqueur, Cuban cigars, Hotel Puritan in Boston, and notably, **Beeman's Pepsin Chewing Gum**, marketed for digestive health—a common early-1900s health claim for patent medicines and novelty products.
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