Judge, 1915-08-07 · page 24 of 28
Judge — August 7, 1915 — page 24: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising**, with several small humorous anecdotes in the text columns. The main advertisement promotes the "Mandel-ette" camera, offering it on free trial with easy monthly payments ($1.00 on arrival, then $1.00/month until $5.00 is paid). The pitch emphasizes instant picture-taking without darkroom chemicals—appealing to early 20th-century consumers wanting simplified photography. The brief jokes scattered throughout include: - A father embarrassed when his son innocently suggests he lacks brains - A nephew negotiating with a rival army in a war game, offering payment for surrender - A very tall soldier (Private Doherty) unable to see eye-level with his short sergeant These are generic humor pieces typical of Judge's style—gentle observations about domestic life, military hierarchy, and children's logic—rather than political satire. The other advertisements promote PB ale, Funabout Fords (a humorous book), Coca-Cola, and legal services, reflecting commercial magazine content of the era.
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No Money In Advance This Marvelous CAMERA On FREE Trial! Only 10,000 of these marvelous, instan- taneous ‘picture-taking and making cam- eras to be sent out absolutely on approval without a penny in advance just to prove that it is the most wonderful invention— the camera sensation of the age. So you must send for itquick! Just think of it—the new Mandel-ette TAKES AND MAKES Finished Pictures Instantly! You prose the button, drop carg in developer and in one minute take ou fect, finished oto, 2x35 inches in. size, eras itself, te vabout akasaT laches. Loads in daylight 16 to 60 post card intone time. No Films—No Plates—No Dark Room Not a bit of the muss and bother of the ordinary kodak It is instantaneou Universal rerdevelop; results We Trust You No difference who you are or where you live we will send you the complete Mandel-ette outfit absolutely on approval and give you 10 days to test it. If not satisfactory return it. If you wish to keep it, simply pay $1.00 on arrival and 1.00 per month until our epecial price of oniy $5.00 is paid. When you, eee what elegant pictures it takes so quick, 40 easy, EASY PAYMENTS—NO REFERENCES No red tape of any kind. Monthly payments so small you'll not notice them. Lots of fun and big profits. NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED Plain instructions and everything complete with outfit eo you can begin taking pictures the moment it arrives. We guarantee that even a child can operate it. Mail coupon right now. No risk or obligation to keep camera. — The Chicago Ferrotype Co.,— | c (Deshi rrotype Bidg. Chicago, IIL, | Send tence one complete model Mandel-tte Camera outf Inctodina' ling ebb 0 of pe peat care ae eer etn iy i seeamiarien enna ah cereale | | SE aceiyainres arenes Promoter of health and happiness AL Bunker Hill Breweries, Boston Established 1821 Send for Booklet PARK & TILFORD New York Distribut Funabout Fords A regular book of side splitting funniest stories and poems about Ford autos. 64 pages, board cover, 2 colors. Only 23¢ Prepaid. THE HOWELL CO, 608 S. Dearborn St, Dep: C-247, Chicago eyes blazing fiercely. I thought he'd surely knock the other man’s brains out, and I stepped right in between them.’ The young son of the family had become so hugely interested in the narrative as it proceeded that he had stopped eating his pudding. So proud was he of his father’s valor, his eyes fairly shone, and he cried, “*He couldn't knock any brains out of you, could he, father?"’ Father looked at him long and earnestly, but the lad's countenance was frank and open. Prather gasped slightly and resumed his supper.—Philadelphia Ledger. A Compromise— Uncle (to nephew playing a war game with a chum)—If you take the fortress within a quarter of an hour, I'll give you a quarter. Youngster (a minute later)—Uncle, the fortress is taken. Now let me have the quarter. Uncle—How did you manage it so quickly? Youngster—I offered the besieged ten cents, and they capitulated. — Christian Register. "Way Up Out o’ Sight—Private Doherty was six feet four in his socks; the sergeant was much shorter. The sergeant looked along the line. ‘‘Head up, there, Doherty!’ he cried. Doherty raised his head. ‘‘Up higher!"’ said the little sergeant. ‘‘There, that’s better! Don’t let me see your head down again."” **Am I to be always like this?’’ asked Doherty, staring away above the little ser- geant’s head. “*You are.’” “Then I'll say good-by to ye, sergeant, for I'll never see yez again.''—Pittsburgh Chronicle- Telegraph. High Stakes—A well-known New Jersey doctor was playing golf with a well-known New Jersey minister. “Well, what are we playing for?'’ asked the doctor. “‘Why, it’s rather out of my line to put up anything,"’ replied the minister. “Well,” sted the doctor, ‘‘we ought to play for something; so I'll put up a pill, and you put up a prayer.’’ — Everybody's Magazine. Not the Same Joke BROwN and Hinton were out to luncheon. Brown asked Hinton, *‘If Jack John- son, Charlie Chaplin and Billy Sunday were coming down the street together, what would you say they looked like?’’ Hinton gave it up, and then Brown re- plied, ‘‘They would look like a chocolate nut sundae.’* Hinton, on arriving home that evening, told his wife of his luncheon with his friend and added, ‘Brown told me a good joke to-day."’ “‘What is it?'’ asked Mrs. Hinton, to which her husband glibly replied, ‘‘If Billy Johnson, De Wolf Hopper and Billy Sunday were coming down the street together, what would you have?"’ Mrs. Hinton puzzled a minute or two, then gave it up as she replied, ‘‘I don't know, I'm sure. 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