Judge, 1916-09-09 · page 24 of 32
Judge — September 9, 1916 — page 24: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertisements and humorous college content**, not political satire. The left side features whiskey and consumer product ads (Cascade Highball, Evans Ale, patent services). The right side showcases "College Wits"—humor pieces from university publications like *Lampoon*, *Gargoyle*, and *Punch Bowl*. These are lightweight jokes about student life: a pedantic student obsessed with footnotes, a drunk unable to see in darkness, and wordplay about "Heads and Tails" (coin terminology). The page also advertises Judge magazine's art prints—illustrations by Montgomery Flagg and Mary Lane McMillan titled "Wallnuts" and "Reddy Maid Suits," available for 50 cents or separate purchase at 25 cents. **No significant political content appears here.** This is a typical Judge page mixing advertisements with reprinted college humor, reflecting early 20th-century magazine publishing practices.
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MELLOW AS MOONLIGHT HIGHBALL made with Cascade Pure Whisky wins the praise of connoisseurs and the approval of all for its rich, smooth mellowness. Original Botiling Has Old Gold Label GEO. A. DICKEL & CO., Disti Nashville, Tenn. The Commonsense Beverages of persons who seek to live long and well Bottles wed Splitn, All Cond Desiers, CH. EVANS & SONS Esta 1786 HUDSON, N. ¥. EE Trial 4 Cedar Chests with reduced prices. you. Piedmont Red Cedar Chest Co., Dept. 65. Statesville, N. C. fnow boys a carzling Sans nal cots amd HENRY LINDENMYR & SONS PAPER WAREHOUSE Nos. 32, 34 and 34 Biee-"er Street Braneb W wes. 20 Beekman Street, New Yor \ NDS OF PAP WANTED—AN IDEA! WHO CAN THINK OF SOME simple thing to patent? Protect your ideas, they may bring you wealth. Write for “Neeled Inventions” and “How to Get Your Patent and Your \ Randolph & Co., Patent Attorneys, Dept. 129, Washing nC, a 32 Cl MADE. TO With the College Wits Infected There once said a fellow named Gage, Who lived in this tea-dancing age, “My feet won't keep still For in hist’ry they thrill At the footnotes on each little page.” Lampoon. Indirect Vision—* What color dress did ie have on last night?” dunno, but—" But what?” f it matched her stockings—” “Yeah?” “It was dark blue.”"—Gargoyle. Oh, what a relief!—Cha parral. You Win!—Soph.—Say, it was so dark out last night that you couldn't sce your hand three inches from your eyes. Fresh—Huh! that’s nothing. It was so ht before last that the coal-pile in our back-yard looked like a snow-drift!— Burr. Fine!—Sweet Young Thing—And how are you fellows located down there? Stude—Oh! fine—fine; a’ suite of four rooms—a bedroom and three wardrobes. Punch Bowl. Squirrel Food—The fellow who sitsdown to a ham sandwich and a glass of beer and says it’s as good as squab and champagne isn’t. an optimist—he’s an unadulterated NUT.—Punch Bowl. A Thought—/gnorance—Why do they call t and “Tails Bliss—Oh, I suppose they coined those expressions. —Purple Cow. of pieces of money “Heads” Class in History—J/nstructor—What jurisdiction was reserved to the Ecclesiastical Courts after the Constitution of Clarendon? Student (unwittingly — misogynistical) Oh, jurisdiction over matrimony and other petty offenses!—Gargoyle, Out of the Mouths of Babes—Teacher Tommy, what is the possessive form of Mr. Vail? Tommy—Mrs. Vail.—Record. Speaking of Fashions or Art—The old order changeth, yielding place to nude.— California Pelican. gomery Flagg, and “Reddy Maid Suits,” by Mary Lane McMillan, are two Judge covers that our readers have been asking for. A number have been made up into At Prints, mounted on a_ heavy mut 10 x 12, ready for framing. Both pictures are printed in full colors, exactly as they appeared on the coves of Judge, and they make an attractive decoration for any room. Fifty cents brings both the prints, pos free, or if desired, either will be sold separately for 25c apiece. Judge Art Print Department 225 Fifth Ave., New York City Enclosed find soc, (2sc), please send me “Keddy Maid Suits.” Name comicbooks.com