Judge, 1915-08-21 · page 26 of 28
Judge — August 21, 1915 — page 26: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising** for travel, whiskey, garters, and art instruction, interspersed with brief humor items typical of Judge's "comic shorts" format. The main content includes: **Top**: Red Cross Line cruise advertisement promoting a 12-day Northern Cruise ($60) to Halifax and Newfoundland, emphasizing comfort and novelty for tourists seeking escape from hay fever (a common complaint among wealthy Americans). **Left side**: Cascade Whiskey and Neverbind Boston Garter ads (men's undergarments). **Center-bottom**: Studio of Pictorial Art instruction advertisement, discussing proper technique for comic art and caricature. **Right column**: Brief humorous anecdotes with titles like "The Scientific Child," "What She Did with It," and "His Only Possibility"—light domestic humor involving children's innocent misunderstandings and wordplay, typical of early-20th-century family magazine fare. The overall page reflects Judge's mixed editorial-advertising model and period preoccupations: leisure travel, masculine comfort products, and genteel domestic comedy.
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Maaniricent Cumate— Hay Fever UnkNown — Sc eran All Expense Northern Cruise $60 ie including. all essential expenses for travel, berth and board, is offered by the RED CROSS LINE Visiting HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, and ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND ‘This most unique, healthful and desirable vacation cruise from New k combines novelty, grandeur, delightful climate and a charming sea voyage with absolute comfort and remarkable economy, No hotel bills, changes or transfers, you live on the ship—it is your home for the entire cruise. A foreign tour costing four times as much could not be more delightful. Excellent Fishing and Shooting New tourist steamshipe—"*Stephano™ and “Flori a ted with e ice for Comfort and safety — full boat equipment for pessen- gers and crew — wireless, bilge heels, oubé ine belis, etc.— 7 day sa, Sdaysin port, Orchestra, Sea Sports. Reduced rates for superior accommodations during September and October Bend for illustrated booklet 12, giving full particulars, BOWRING & CO., 17 Battery Pioce, New York MeLLow as MoonticHT ._PURE / WHISKY We do not claim to be exclusive Lin our desire to produce extra- P cedinaiy” whisky “chet ‘oosaioes RBIND CANT CHOKE YOUR LEG, «results seen to have credited ws ‘Try it for hot weather COMFORT—you'll with thet exelustvencis. never again wear any other kind of garter, ‘ever: nak or ey winter or summer, GEORGE A. DICKEL & CO., Soeex'g yen a% Single or double grip, & J Per, Sera Oe Deotte George Frost Company ‘Grp ___ Makers _Boston, Mass. You can’t sell your drawings unless they are technically correct and you can only acquire this technique under skilful guidance. In comic art, particularly, the clever caricature depends altogether on a proper understanding of what to emphasize and what to omit, and this knowledge can only be had through instruction. You cannot become a skilled artist without instruction any more than you could bea finished musician and play only by ear. Men are born with genius, but art isthe practical and skilful application Weight One HALF- OUNCE ta anicaesée pons CAde = NASHVILLE, TENN. of natural ability. We send you this instruction by mail and y t under the personal direction of Me artist of tablished io of Pictorial Art, Ine. passes or AST 19" STREET New York Passing the Mustard The Scientific Child—Robert, the four. year-old son of a scientific man, had lived in the country most of his short life. Ong day a caller, wishing to make friends with the little fellow, took him on his knee and asked, ‘‘ Are there any fairies in your w here, Robert?"" Sweats **No,"' responded Robert promptly: * ptly; there are plenty of edible fungi. — Yount Companion, ‘ What She Did with It—"Oh, mother," cried Edith, “I found a little flea on kitty and I caught it!”* , “What did you do with it?" asked her mother. “Why, I put it back on kitty again, of course. It her flea."" — Lippincott’s Magazine. His Only Possibility—''I believe,” said the impatient man, as he put aside the tele. phone, *‘that I'll go fishing."* **Didn’t know you cared for fishing." “T don’t ordinari But it's the only chance I have of finding mvself at the end of a line that isn’t busy.''— Washington Star, All Wrong —‘*The spelling book's all wrong, mamma!"’ **Why so, Ethel?’* **Because it don't look right fora little thing like a kitten to have six letters anda big cat to only have three."’ — Yonkers Statesman, If—‘‘So you honestly think you have the smartest boy on earth?"’ **Maybe he isn’t yet; but he will be if he keeps on making me answer all the ques- tions he can think up."'—Philadelphia Led- ger. Almost Enough—'‘ How did you come out with your lawsuit?’ ““T won it."" “Get damages?"’ “S I got almost enough to pay my lawyer."'—Chicago News, Her Guess—Paticnco—Why did Wagner write such terribly loud music, do you sup- pose? Patrice—Oh, 1 guess his wife was deaf, and he did it to annoy her.— } onkers Stats: man, Some Day—'‘Some day we'll be tele- phoning through the air without wires." “*Maybe. But won't it seem queer fo have an operator call back to you and say, ‘The air is busy now'?"'—Washington Star Her Sex's Subtlety—Aiss Vine—Do you favor women proposing Mrs. Oaks — Certainly not! When a woman picks out a man, she should make him propose.—Houston Chronicle. Ready To Promise—‘‘Do you promise to love, honor and cherish this woman?” “Yes, id the politician. ‘* Whatever the platform is, I subscribe to it."’—Lows: ville Courier-Journal. Pessimism—'‘ There's something in this world besides money. *Yes,"’ said the cynic; ‘‘there’s the poor house."’—Detroit Free Press. UREAT HEAT S “Ite purity