Judge, 1916-04-08 · page 22 of 28
Judge — April 8, 1916 — page 22: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page mixes **advertisements and editorial content** typical of early 20th-century Judge magazine. The main feature is an **O. Henry story promotion**—a serialized fiction piece readers are invited to "finish yourself." The narrative involves a woman reuniting with an old sweetheart who's become a railroad president, creating a moral dilemma between love and financial security. O. Henry was marketed as "the great American Humanist" for writing sympathetically about working-class struggles and urban life. The **political satire** appears in the right column under "Preparedness," which references Wyoming's women's suffrage. The piece mocks Wyoming's "pioneer suffrage state" status (women could vote there since 1869) by sardonically noting that despite 47 years of female voting power, Wyoming merely accumulated a budget surplus—implying women voters haven't revolutionized politics as suffrage advocates claimed. This represents **anti-suffrage satire**, dismissing women's political participation as ineffectual. The page also advertises a bundled book offer: purchasing O. Henry's complete works includes free Kipling volumes.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
The Best HIGH BALL Visitors to Boston should know about the Hotel Ouritan onwealth Ave. near Massachusetts Ave. toa, four minutes to theatres and shops itan is am especially comfortable house with reasonable rates. Globe trotters call it one of the most comfortable and homelike hotels im the world. Your Inquiries gladly answered. E. P. Costello. Mer. Finish this Story for Yourself— Secretly and half-afraid she came to the city to find him. They had been sweet- hearts in the long ago—before he had gone into the world to make his fortune—to become at least the president of a railroad. But as the years slipped by he failed to come back to claim her. Bruised to the soul, she had promised to marry that other one, the man of wealth of the country town where she lived. But her heart was filled with a greater love, so she came to the city to find him. What she found ~ . Well, if you were a wreck in life, and had to choose between giving the woman you adore your love alone, or the love of another, honorable and wealthy, what would you do? With that deep insight into the heart's depths of every man and woman— ut, let O. Henry tell you in his kindly, sympathetic way, in this noblest story of sacrifice and devotion. O. HENRY Send the coupon at Send it and get his 274 stories; 274 enap-shots of life taken from 274 different angles; thousands of aniffles, smiles and sobs, 0. Henry was the great American Humanist. 110,000 Now Own Sets Ho looked on life ‘a serious face, but Send the coupon at once. with a merry twinkle tn the comer cf his then to find out w eve. With a touch that brings « lu: the throat and a stifted sob, be tells 7 e of those underrald drudges—tbe future moth- . : ef ‘distinction Ai ers of America—who suffer rather than bo this low-priced edition 90 bad—and of tho others. He shows you that writers: to find cu the pile of shirtwaists Is sister to the rory erature include his stor debutante smothered tn the cushions of ber Dig Hmousine, with the same desires, im- pulees, little vices. the same tr . jors. He ‘though be met you. ways to bring forth something new unexpected. It won't take long to real- © ize that to know this great Ai Hama’ to know the Teo ( mandments better. KIPLING GIVEN ‘This offer ts passing. So to get you to act at onco we vill eive to you fra. with sour set of O. Henry, a 6 volume set ef the works of Ripling: 17% greatest bo ever wroto—stories of bloody fights lu yudan, and sw Bend for the books at unce—for the 12 ve the 6 volumes of Kipling. If they're o, inating, the best you ever saw oF read, send thi back They will cost you not a cent. forthe 0. Beary Better than moring pleturee—for these are permanent, nd retain the Kivting eek Teal moving pictures of life. Better than classics. fot Saree Othereis 1 will thes ary the lting sof to-day, from M: wets ad Ray to S4th Street and Wroadway, and from jexican border ranch. Send the coupon before It 1s too lata Get both sets shipped at once free on approval. the dangling bag and the absent pocket New Zealand 1s so far away that one might as well discuss the finances of Mars. But what is this we hear about Wyoming the pioneer suffrage state, where for forty. seven years women have had the chance through the suffrage to bring financial chaos? Listen: When Wyoming opened her fiscal eyes on the first of January, she found such a surplus after her debts were paid that she practically made up her mind to play again the réle of pioneer, She is scheduled to be the first state in the union to omit entirely any direct tax to support her state government. Preparedness ‘AN it be the women wear their skirts so short, Because they hope the ballot to acquire, And they've always heard how awful it would be To trail them in our politics’ deep mire? —Oreola W. Haskell CELLULOID SONNETS ETHEL BARRYMORE waite Fair lady, here's a poet's gratitude! Though haltingly and awkwardly confessed, Tt wells up like a gusher, from a breast With admiration for your art imbued. Perchance financial themes should be eschewed (According to a strict poetic test) From lyrics to a lady fair addressed, And I am loath to pull a line that's crude; But still. to make my thankfulness quite plain, I take a poet's license to admit That. years and years | hankered all in vain To see you in some high-priced Broadway hit: Your contract with the movies is my, gain— Now I behold you daily for a wit.” = Ambiguous Hokus—He married her for money. Pokus—Well, he deserves all coming to him. that’s comicbooks.com