Judge, 1917-05-19 · page 30 of 32
Judge — May 19, 1917 — page 30: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains **two distinct advertisements/content pieces**, not political satire: 1. **Nujol Advertisement** (left/bottom): A Standard Oil Company pitch for Nujol, a laxative marketed to athletes and mothers. The ad emphasizes "keeping the system clean" and claims the product prevents constipation without being habit-forming. The imagery shows a classical athlete figure, invoking health and vigor. 2. **"The Pleasures of Travel" essay** (right): A humorous short story by Pauline Eggleston Mandigo featuring Aunt Susan Maria discussing her travel experiences with her niece Marella. The humor derives from the aunt's trivial observations—counting telegraph poles, watching people walk aisles, collecting different drinking cup designs—rather than appreciating actual destinations. She famously refuses to leave train stations, fearing she'll get lost. **For modern readers**: This reflects early 20th-century attitudes: the Nujol ad exploits health anxieties through pseudoscience, while the travel piece gently mocks elderly women's supposed lack of sophistication and adventurous spirit.
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The Athlete’s First Principle Is To Keep His System Clean He doesn’t allow food to ferment in his intestines. He doesn’t give his body a chance to absorb poisons. He knows—and your doctor will tell you— that anything from a headache to the most serious illness may result from such absorption. Nujol removes poisons from the system, and gives the tissues of the body a chance to build up and resist disease. Nujol is not habit-forming. Nujol does not gripe. It relieves you of straining, does not weaken nor upset the stomach, is absolutely pure and harmless, and is delightful to take. It is especially fine for young mothers, as it is not absorbed into the system, and therefore in no way affects the child. Nujol is the only remedy for constipation we manufacture; the genuine is sold only in pint bottles, bearing Nujol trade-mark. All bottles are filled at our absolutely modern and sanitary Nujol plant. The Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) has used all its world-wide resources in producing Nujol, and its reputation is behind the product. Nujol is absolutely distinctive and individual. There is no other product on the market like it. Write todayto Dept. 13 on coupon and margin be- low for instructive booklet on Nujol and its uses. STANDARD OIL COMPANY (New Jersey) Bayonne New Jersey Visas send [ue booniet_on the, freatinent of sonsnipation wie os Sour name and address plany bed ___City. Name —___ Address __ JUDGE THE PLEASURES OF TRAVEL By PAULINE EGGLESTON MANDIGO Y, but you love to go, don’t you, Aunt Susan Maria?” asked Marella Hodges as the old lady was busy looking over rail- road maps the other afternoon, while entertaining a caller. “Yes, I've been going all my life, and I intend to keep it up, lame knees, Aunt Susan Maria said firmly as she traced a red line from Vermont go and set pins on all the towns she wanted to stop off in. “Travel is so dreadful educating, I think everybody should get all they can buy of it. I just love to sit in the cars and watch the people walk up and down in the aisles, and when they get tired of walking, why, I watch out the window and count the telegraph poles. If you'd been all the places I have, Marella, you'd be surprised to learn how many telegraph poles there are in the world.” “When we go any place Uncle Hiram watches out the window all the and looks at the crops and buildings and things, but as for me, give me people to look at any day, no matter how homely they be, and that failing—4 san Maria continued, sitting back firmly in her ou’d be surprised if you knew all I do about drinking cups on I don’t suppose Uncle Hiram ever notices them, but Ido. There's trains. kinds fold up like envelopes, and others that flatten out, and others that ent roads have. collapse. It’s real interesting to see what kind the diff cup “But, what about the cities you've stopped in? Marella Hodges said earnestly. “T couldn’t tell you a mite about most of them. You see, we usually stop off about three or four hours in a city and then go on, and I never lea station for fear I'll mislay it and won't be able to find it again. Tell me about them,” Hiram wanders around ‘till I feel as though I was sittin’ on pins and needles, wait- I sat in the station in Buffalo four hours once ing for him to come back. and watched the people. there was a robber at the ice cream stand who wanted to charge me tea cents for an ice cream cone, but I fooled him, I told him I could go without eating a ten-cent cone jus! well ‘ould go without selling it. I’m like a camel. I can go for a long time without something to cool my throat, but all the same I’m glad I’m not a camel. “For the most part I like to travel in the daytime, for those sleepers are a sign sa it doesn’t “T don't ne’ I get what I want just the same. road if they don’t treat me right help me off with my bag one time man, I'll tell the President of the road on you. ys, impudent, ‘Tell, and be darned!’ “T seys, ‘No, you'll be the one to be darned,’ and everybody laughed and he helped me off good and proper. I've found out one thing. You've got to have plenty of repartee to get ahead in this world. It will carry you further than any of these here mileage books.” ys to keep your head and arms inside the window, thing about feet, I suppose it appli er give no tips when I’m traveling, I don’t believe in it, but I tell ’em I'll tell the president of the works. One man didn’t Savings SAVIN are small, usually infinitely small, amounts which people have left after spending more money than they need to, and less than they want to. Savings, like rubbers and umbrellas, are put away for rainy ys, and like rubbers and umbrellas, it is easy to make a hole in them. ‘ings are put in rusty tin boxes, in wildcat schemes, in banks, in secret holes in the walls and in stockings. Since it has been stylish to weat skirts so short, many young ladies seem to put all. their savings into sik stockings. But one cannot find it in his heart to blame them, since sik stockings seem to draw the most interest. Savings are a handy thing to have around the house. Sometimes they grow to very large proportions and makea man extremely popular with his relatives. Savings, relatively speaking, increase one’s popularity as they increase. There are, besides relatives, other individuals greatly interested in one’s savings. These people are generally known as promoters, though they are not always called by the names which would most accurately describe them.—Stuart W. Knight. d, S. The station’s homelier than any I ever see, and | | ener | ever weal : Co exub for y | telling m “Wore “It re comicbooks.com