Judge, 1916-12-30 · page 26 of 29
Judge — December 30, 1916 — page 26: what you’re looking at
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The page contains two unrelated pieces: **Left side:** A Nujol advertisement promoting mineral oil as a digestive aid for constipation in elderly people. This reflects early-20th-century anxieties about aging and digestive health, positioning Nujol as a "natural" lubricant (not a stimulant laxative). **Right side:** A satirical poem titled "The Boastful Bul Bul and the Nightingale" by Kate Masterson. A male bird (bul bul) courts a nightingale by boasting of modern conveniences—a house with "pink cement," "aluminum perches," a "chirponometer," sterilized food, and a "solarium." He dismisses old-fashioned nests and poetry. After they marry, rowdy wedding guests mock traditional values. However, a "wise old stork" stands at the door, croaking ominously—suggesting the boastful modernist's marriage will end in misfortune despite his progressive promises. The satire targets masculine braggadocio and empty technological optimism, defending older values.
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GROWING OLD GRACEFULLY The key to health in old age is the prevention of bowel disorder. Constipation, which becomes more and more chronic with advancing years, frequent! makes the burden of old seem heavy indeed. Yet in most cases constipation can be entirely prevented by a little care in the matter of diet and by) supplying in Nujol an efficient substitute for the mucus which exhaust- ed nature no longer provides. Nujol is not a bowel stimu- lant. It acts as an internal lubricant, softening the con- tents of the intestines and so promoting normal evacu- ations. NUJOL is bottled at the refinery and is sold only In pint bottles bearing the name NUJOL and the Imprint of the Oil Company (New Jersey). e substitutes—be sure you get the genuine. STAN Bayonne ,DARD OIL (New Jersey) COMPANY New Jersey {Send for booklet “THE RATIONAL TREATMENT OF CONSTIPATION." address plainly below. Address Write yoar aime and MAD The Boastful Bul Bul and the Nightingale BOASTFUL Bul Bul wished to wed a most attractive night- ingale, Living in an oleander glade, convenient to the sea. He wooed her and he sued her, while she listened in the moonlight pale And filled the fragrant forest with her moonlight melody. “T'll have a modern home for you,” he chanted from the willow Beneath the branching boudoir where she made her virgin nest, With honeysuckle round her and a dew bud for a pillow, Lovely stars to light the twilit music trembling from her rest. “We must observe the dictums of domestic economics, According to the blue prints and eradicate the waste. We must cease to live in spiral blobs, suggesting ancient comics, And build the dwelling beautiful of architecture chaste. “These old-time roosts are only for the ordinary twitters. I’ve a plan for one of pink cement and antiseptic lime ‘The perches are aluminum with porous breeze transmitters And a swinging chirponometer to indicate the time. “T'll reconstruct the forest as a settlement foundation A mammoth bird solarium with a Social Service bough. L'll sterilize the breakfast worms by germless equitation And furnish moving pictures of the way we do it now!" It was May time when the Bul Bul won the nightingale in marriage Round the lily pool they fluttered in a gay flamingo fling ‘Then with flufliness ecstatical he led her to the carriage Spangled cobwebs, reined with woodbine, drawn by buttertlies, a-wing! ‘Then the ushers, rowdy Jackdaws, wished them happiness cugenic Jeered at dew bud nests, old fashioned, poetry and lovers’ lore Drank to the bridal bungalow with all its crimps hygienic But a wise old stork stood croaking with a raven at the door! —Kate Masterson Judge & CSorgut 1016 by Lestie-JudGeCokutered at the Post- Office at New York as nid ttiail matter.Cable address‘Judgas! ") Telephotie 6632MadisonSouate Published weekly by the Lestie Judge Co. 225 Fifth Ave 7 ow York City) jReudenP, Steicher Secretary TAWaldton Editor JohnA Sleicher President Grant E Matniiton Art Director A.E.Rollauer Treasurer No. 1837 Vol. LXXI. December 30, 1916 SUBSCRIPTION RATES - 85.00 tk, of by expre ams Buildings, change, 16 John ke - - = in advance by draft i'm, Dawson & Sons, Weratuns Ap. New Exotas' Wasmieros