Judge, 1916-12-30 · page 24 of 29
Judge — December 30, 1916 — page 24: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is **primarily advertising**, not political satire. It contains a substantial paid advertisement for *House & Garden* magazine (left side) and what appears to be advice columns or reader letters (right side, titled "Passing the Mustard"). ## The Advertisement The *House & Garden* ad targets middle-class homeowners with a promotional offer: six issues for $1 (half price). It promises that expert interior design advice will save readers $100-$1,000 on home decoration mistakes. The ad emphasizes that professional guidance ensures good taste in furnishings, colors, and landscaping—suggesting that without expert help, ordinary people might make costly errors. ## The Column (Right Side) "Passing the Mustard" contains humorous reader letters and responses about neighborly annoyances—speeding cars, alarm clocks, etc. This is gentle social humor rather than political satire, focusing on everyday domestic complaints. **Overall:** This is a consumer-oriented magazine page reflecting early 20th-century aspirations for middle-class home improvement and domestic advice.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
Everything for the Grounds Special Offer—Six Issues for $1 ‘0 CONVINCE YOU that House & Garden is personally valuable to you, we will send you the next six num- bers for only $l—you see, you save 50 cents, for the annual subscription is $3 —if you fill out and mail us the coupon now. ‘These six numbers comprise: Interior Decoration Spring Furnishing Garden Furnishing Motor Number Jlouse Building Spring Garden Guide If you have a garden, or are going to have a garden; if you own a house, or are going to build a house, you will find these six numbers full of positively invaluable advice and suggestion. One trifling dollar invested in them now will save you $100—perhaps $1,000. Mail the coupon now—before you forget or mislay this offer. For Your Interior Decorating Problems Read House & Garden In a few short weeks you will be spending hundreds of dollars on your spring decorating. You cannot leave important questions to chance, or trust to instinct. You need expert advice not merely the advice of one expert who knows rugs, or pictures, or land- scape gardening, but of a whole corps of experts in their respective fields. House & Garden's expert advice makes your problems simple. Our task is to observe, to discover, to price, to compare, to select all the things that go to make up the gracious and charming home. $1 Invested in House & Garden a tiny fraction of your loss on one ill-chosen chair Will Save You $100— Perhaps $1000 Not only does House & Garden show you how to achieve the effects pro- duced by the professional interior decorator, but it tells you where, from whom, and for about how much you can actually purchase the wall-papers, draperies, and furniture necessary to work out your color scheme for your entire house. Consider, then, that by the simple act of mailing the coupon below and at your con- vience forwardit 1—a tiny fraction of your money loss on a ill-chosen chair or dis- carded set of hangings—you insure your having-expert advice on all your house and garden problems just at the time when you are planning your most important house ex- penditures of the year. No matter what your income, House & Garden will tell you how to expend it most wisely, BECAUSE: Itfcovers house, gar- Its Information Ser- den, grounds. | Every vice is at the command of all department of the home— readers. one on every~ interior, exterior, garden, thing relating to the home are bined stable, grounds—is answered without charge. Its Shopping Service pa ig | ght ra maintained for, these too far cougar toe bay to top for themeelves, It assures absolute good taste. Trained ex- petts and artists edit House Carden. Its artistic: au- therky 6 enquet Hes artistic quality, is It appeals to all ins equal to that ‘which has pene lemily with mode Vogue aad Vanity Fai celebrated eve among. people of good taste. Its staff of consulting experts is at. your service, Connouseur, architect, Eennel $1000 year for house ex- penditures and the family with $100,000 alike find it 2 responsible guide. It saves mistakes and money. ‘Throvgh its expert jvice you save mone saving mistaker—end Howse mistakes are often very costly. It gives prices and ualities, so that you can termine the value to you of everything in its pages. ed between the covers of House & Garden. Te costs only $1 for 6 months — a tiny traction ‘of your loss on one ill-<! rug or chair. Passing the Mustard A Waming I'd love my neighbor better far, And would not feel inclined to. shoot, If, when he’s speeding in his car. He would not splash my ice-cream suit, —Voung teen Telegram, I'd love my neighbor more than that, And would commit no awful crime, If his alarm clock and his cat Would not disturb my sleep sublime, Erie Dispatch I'd love my neighbor better far And him I surely would not scom, es out in his car 1 mufiler on his hom. —Painesville Telegraph-Re publicen, I'd love my neighbor as a friend, And would consider him as such, If through the year, from end to end, He would not fiddle quite so much. —Vonkers Statesmen | I'd love my neighbor more than that Nor reach for shotgun and for saber To kill his clock, his horn, his If—well, if he were not my Michigan for a month. at’s right. ion, I suppose? Dix—Yes; the congregation decided tha we were entitled to one.—ZJndianu polis Ste n Willie has stared k How is he getting on! Fond Mother—Splendidly! He already knows who ought to be discharged, and & merely waiting to get promoted so that k can attend to it.—Pitlsburg Chronide Telegraph. “1’'m thinking seriously of starting a mor ing-picture theatre.” “Well, there’s good moncy in that bus ness.” “Tt isn’t the money I'm after. But would like to sce my wife and children 00 in awhile.”—New York World. ‘5 Hokus—That fellow know what it means to be ser can’t hurt his feelings. Pokus—Did you ever try pinching hi the pocketbook?—-Town Topics. ||| Uncle Josh—Here’s a letter from Nepht Harry, that’s gone to Africa, and says te within twenty rods 0’ his house there family o’ laughing hyenas. His Wife—Well, am glad he’s got ple ant neighbors, anyway — that’s somethi ~—Tit-Bits. _ 2 Facts Versus Fancy—‘I am s% Maggie,” said the mildly critical mother- law, “that any woman ought to be sat with what John says he gi 2 “So would I be with what a nickel’s worth of nails, asking to have! package delivered. ‘The merchant, abe comicbooks Gom