Judge, 1916-10-21 · page 22 of 32
Judge — October 21, 1916 — page 22: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and editorial content** rather than political cartoons. The main items are: 1. **Book advertisement** for Owen Johnson's novel "The Woman Gives"—a romance set in bohemian New York about a selfless woman redeeming an artist. 2. **"With the College Wits" section**—a collection of campus humor jokes from various college publications (Punch Bowl, Froth, Record), including mild racial dialect humor typical of the era ("Mistah Bones" minstrel-style joke). 3. **Leslie's magazine advertisement** highlighting B.C. Forbes's article about Paul Warburg and the controversial origins of the Federal Reserve Act—suggesting the bill was written secretly by financiers away from public scrutiny. 4. **Hotel Powhatan advertisement** for a Washington D.C. luxury hotel. The page reflects early 20th-century satirical magazine content: light collegiate humor, literary promotion, and advertising mixed with occasional pointed commentary (the Federal Reserve article implies financial conspiracy).
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The New Novel by the Author of ‘The Salamander”’ THE WOMAN GIVES By OWEN JOHNSON Here is a big story that Owen Johnson has written, a story of real throbbing life in the heart of New York, with a heroine so resolute that she gives herself unselfishly to redeem a talented man. Mr. Johnson trans- ports you to a veritable Bohemia where youth and joy reign, and in those surroundings Inga Sonderson gives, and gives freely, to regenerate a fellow artist. “The Woman Gives” is ,un- questionably Mr. Johnson’s most ma- ture and enduring novel. Pictures by Howard Chandler Christy 458 Pages $1.40 Net At all Booksellers Little, Brown & Company Publishers Boston Hotel Powhatan WASHINGTON, D. C. Pennsylvania Avenue, H and Eighteenth Sts., N. W. } Overlooking the White House, offers every comfort and luxury, alsoa superior service. European Plan. | bath, $2. and up Write for Sor Booklet ans Map E. C. OWEN Showing the Hotel Powhatan tho "completion ‘of Its new addit Manager With the College Wits ak in at night, it by the fentz, And when they make love the noise is intentz. Punch Bowl. True!—Fair one—Where are women’s girdles? Floorwalker—Anywhere between the neck- wear and the hosiery, madam.—Froth. Gentlemen, Be Seated—*Mistah Bones, why am a joke like a egg?” * don’t know, Mistah Tambo. Why amit Well, Mistah Bones, it’s got be cracked befo’ it can be absorbed, don’ = Froth. Desiderato Scientiae Mary Murphy was desirous, nce she was Phi Beta Kappa, Po interpret a papyrus Of some king of Lappa-lappa. She disclosed its content shocking (Should we tell you, you would fire us) Did she stop? Nay, now she’s hocking Petticoats to buy papytus.—Rerord The Latest—Bi//—Here’s the latest out. Bing—What Biff —A married man when his wife’s at her mother’s. Briaonian, Justifiable Curiosity—He was an old darkey. He wore no overcoat, and the icy wind twisted his threadbare clothes about his shriveled body. “Wind,” he demanded — whimsically, “‘whar wuz yoo dis time las’ July?” There Are Reasons and Reasons Spude—I never lie to my wife. Spud—Model husband Spade—Yes; involuntarily. Spud—You love her too much to deceive High Love—and Finance—Dundreary ‘The moment Miss Rollingold entered the The Truth About the Federal Reserve Act. Who really wrote the Aldrich currency bill How it was written on an island, miles from New York, and how the great financiers who did the work were smuggled away in absolute secrecy is all told by B. C. FORBES in this week’s Leslie’s. The story comes out in the life of Paul Warburg, which isthe the thirteenth of the series “The Men Who Are Making America.” This remarkable series is the greatest history of modern Ameri- can enterprise ever written. Besides the Forbes article, are news pictures and the depart- ments on travel, trade, finance, motors, and current events. AT ALL THE NEWSSTANDS Leslie's Mlustrated Weekly Newspaper * 225 Fifth Ave., New York City comicbooks.