Judge, 1915-09-18 · page 21 of 28
Judge — September 18, 1915 — page 21: what you’re looking at
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This page combines sports anecdotes with advertising, typical of Judge magazine's format. **The Baseball Content:** "Yarns of the Ball Players" features Sherwood Magee (Boston Nationals player) recounting clever plays from recent games involving Cardinals, Quakers, and Cubs. The anecdotes illustrate quick thinking—players exploiting umpire confusion, injured players persevering. This celebrates baseball strategy and humor from the early 20th-century game. **The Satire:** The page's title, "A Survival of the Fittest," ironically connects Darwin's evolutionary concept to beer bottle design. Schlitz beer argues that competitors using light bottles are "unfit" because light damages beer—only brown bottles ensure product quality. This anthropomorphizes commercial competition as natural selection. **The Gender Joke (top left):** A man tells his companion a woman still enjoys dolls at 40, with "just as much fun"—implying women remain childish. The closing snark about women getting voting rights despite this supposed frivolousness reflects anti-suffrage sentiment common in 1910s satirical magazines. The page is primarily **advertising disguised as editorial content**.
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