Judge, 1916-10-21 · page 24 of 32
Judge — October 21, 1916 — page 24: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not satire or political commentary. The top half promotes a magazine subscription bundle: two publications (*St. Nicholas* for children, *The Century* literary magazine) sold together for $5 instead of their combined $7 value. The appeal emphasizes family entertainment and character-building for youngsters. Below is an advertisement for Rudyard Kipling's "Lotus Edition" — an imported, six-volume set priced at $1.70, highlighting Kipling's unflinching style and the scarcity caused by wartime publishing disruptions. At bottom right is a brief domestic fiction excerpt titled "The Last Stand for His Riches" about a wife pressuring her husband to resign from his clubs to economize. It illustrates early 20th-century gender dynamics regarding household finances and leisure spending. None of this constitutes political cartooning or satire — it's standard magazine advertising and serialized fiction typical of *Judge*'s commercial pages.
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You Can Get Both For $5.00 Now St. Nicholas The favorite magazine for boys and girls $3.00 a Year One subscription must be new) | The Century The leading literary magazine $4.00 a Year It’s the big magazine bargain of the year—here’s WHY— You get $7.00 worth of magazines for $5.00. You get both publications for $1.00 more than one costs. In The Century you will get— Herbert Adams Gibbons’ “Reconstruction of Europe.” Gertrude Hall's novel, “Aurora, the Magnificent.” Over 100 stories and articles. 1920 pages of interesting, entertaining reading matter. St. Nicholas will make that youngster happy. It will entertain him, and at the same time help round his character out right—that'’s the big idea behind St. Nicholas. There will be 1152 pages of the kind of reading that a youngster enjoys. In all, you will get two magazines for the next 12 months that will be a source of constant entertainment to you and every member of your family. Order At Once Before The Offer Expires This Special Offer to the readers of Judge is time-limited. Take advantage of if it is inconvenient right now to get a money order, mail the order anyway- — check book is not handy, and without a remittance—and we will send you a bill t Desk G immediately. If your first of next month. The Century, 353 Fourth Avenue, New York THE UNCONVENTIONALITY OF KIPLING — his habit of stripping off the veneers and penetrating the shams of civilization, of putting the naked facts before you just as they are, is the secret of the unmistakable intensity of the relish «New York City ceo" 284,81.70 for the six-voturre se’ of Kipling. s carriase prepaid. Also mail list of other Imported Nets of all mail readers for Rudyard Kipling who is seen at his best, in that wonderful fresnness and vigor of style that electrified the English reading world, in the LOTUS EDITION (Imported) which the misfortunes of war in the publishing trade abroad have made it possible for us to of- fer, while they last, at A Real Bargain Only $ 1 -4O os Each Volume 6!s x 4!< inches Big Bold Type Attractive Cloth Binding Gold Decorations Six volumes cont the Jungle, of Orie British Soldier in Pe which once read are usually found in 10-v 0 prepay carriage, but you must ORDER NOW before the small supply Is usted. ure to send for your set To-Day and learn about the other Imported Sets in the Great Authors Library Series, DU LE SPIO NBT The Last Stand for is Riches 3 "she said, “I want ” iq to give up your clubs. We q ( afford to belong to clubs. I resigned fn» aw the Woman's Club today, although it «. me only $10 a year. Since the d are becoming old enough to go to school the need so many things that we must lan: deny ourselves. I suppose we could by kept on paying my dues in the Wom Club, but I felt that it wouldn't be fair “B me to ask you to give up your clubs unless! gave up mine.” | “Oh, very well,” he replied, “if make you any happier, I'll resign from alc) °M them tomorrow. I've explained to you my: as times that I kept up my club member: “Ww for business reasons only.” “Yes, Eknow, dear; but I'm sure yu! find after you have dropped them that y were mistaken about the good they did jx in a business way. I don’t believe you trace a single bit of business that ever as to you through any of your clubs.” “Allright. I'm perfectly willing to rep from all of them. If you think it better for me to hide myself in my of and never get out where I can meet mee: affairs and have the recreation one needs be at one’s best 1 will crawl into my sk and stay there. Others may have to su if L lose my health or get out of touc , “SM ¢ doing things, but-——" foolish of you to talk that George. If you have the wit and the will » succeed you will succeed without the be Ser of any club. Can you name any promise: ce man who gives his clubs credit for Bor success?” ! “There’s no use arguing the matter. Thes are things women never can undersias anyhow. I'll resign from my clubs. Des worry for another minute about thats Fi I'm darned if I’m going to quit entetas U ing business men from out of tor U occasional —S. E. Kise. B, Je Identifying Him H Mr. Gap Johnson, of Rumpus Ris p) - Ark., was roaming around the streets (f) St Tumlinville. “My least boy, Bear P four years old, has turned up q R some'rs in this yur burg,” he said t citizen. “If you happen to see him yee reckernize him by his appetite. TP little cuss eats as much as a Presid Elder, right now. “Dj ner—y The Ancient Couple “He N anc ient couple fished af a bo 4 setting With their heads bound round en, b bandannas pay And their old hands ready to bait a boo, (Anna fed Benjamin's, Benjamin Ann's ‘Then if they landed a gleam that shook— “Be It shook them with unheard hosannas By the Milky Way sit you and I ‘And, with one umbrella from the thunde, By We manage somehow to keep dry; a And, sharing a basket for the plunder, oe We fish for shiners in the sky, fF We And catching one, we shake with wl promi Witter Bs any | comicbooks.Gom