Judge, 1916-03-25 · page 23 of 28
Judge — March 25, 1916 — page 23: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **humor and advertising** rather than political satire. The left side features "With the College Wits"—a collection of brief college-oriented jokes typical of Judge's regular humor section. These jokes play on romantic misunderstandings, wooing attempts gone wrong, and campus social anxieties ("What She Feared" mocks girls worried about being perceived as "co-eds"). The main content is a **Leslie's Weekly advertisement** featuring Howard Chandler Christy's illustration titled "Spring in Europe"—a sorrowful young woman representing Europe's wartime suffering (likely WWI era, though undated). The ad argues Leslie's illustrated weekly newspaper conveys war news and international events more effectively than text alone, boasting 410,000 circulation. The **Egyptian Deities cigarette advertisement** is incidental. This page reflects early 20th-century American magazine culture: light collegiate humor, romantic sentimentality, and visual journalism's growing importance.
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