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Judge — May 26, 1917 — page 28: Judge, 1917-05-26

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This page is primarily **advertising and humor columns**, not political cartoons. The content reflects early 1900s American consumer culture and gender dynamics. **Key Elements:** The advertisements (champagne, cleaning fluid, art prints) target affluent households. The "Current Jests" humor section contains lightweight jokes about marriage, domestic life, and class relations—typical period fare. **Notable Social Context:** The lengthy dialogue about a woman shopping and using a charge account satirizes emerging consumer culture and women's expanding economic independence. The joke hinges on her casually accumulating purchases through credit, suggesting both the novelty and mild social anxiety around female spending power at the time. Other jokes reflect contemporary attitudes: men's superiority in adversity, servants' incompetence, marital deception as normal. The humor assumes a leisured, upper-class audience with household staff. **No clear political satire** appears on this page—it's entertainment for Judge's wealthy readership.

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Great West tern | = Champagne | “Brut Special 1903” “Special Reserve” (absolutely brut) (very dry) “*Sparkling Red “Extra Dry” Burgundy” (medium) Produced by the old French slow method of fermentation | in the bottle taking from six to seven years of time. Great Western is the Only American Champagneever awarded a Gold Medal at Foreign Expositions. Paris Expositic Paris Expositiv Bruxelles Expo 1910, Belgium Vienna Exposition, Aust Bruxetles Exposition, 1897, Belgi Paris Exposition, 1867, France Write for our free Hiustrated Kooklet, | Pleasant Valley Wine Company | Rheims, N. Y. } Oldest and largest producers of Champagne in America That ex- quisitely gowned woman —would not look half so exquisite if there were a spot or streak of soil to mar the beauty of her costume. Five drops of— CARBUNA Cleaning Fluid and a white cloth will eliminate a spot. Keep a bottle on your dyessing table. It is perfectly safe because Carbona will not explode -30c.—$1.00 bottles. At all druggists “Somebody's Mother” By DAVID ROBINSON 15¢.—25¢. This clever picture, in full 1x14, mounted on “avy mat, ready for the sent prepaid for twenty-five cents. JUDGE ART PRINT DEPARTMENT M 225 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK CITY WANTED—AN IDEA! WHO CAN THINK OF SOME to patent? Protect your ideas, they may bring Write for « ns” and “How to ur} Patent eye. Dept. 129. Washington, is what I shall do. Forget the bill and be happy. Come down-stairs, Edith, and help me choose some lingeri Now I have the lingerie and a peignoir. I am glad I saw the peignoir. 1 needed another, but had forgotten it in the press of larger things. O——! I've forgotten the face-powder! And it is so late that I shall have to let that go until another day. But J am satis- fied. I have everything a woman could reasonably expect to get in one day’s shop- ping. Good-by, Edith! I'm going to give you three kisses for thinking of that charge- account. It is so easy to charge that I shall get all that I want at any time. Good-by, dearest! You've helped me so much, and I have had a glorious day.” - — a |Current, Jests | one nr net een oe 4 Like a Man—" Did Fussleigh take his misfortune like a man?” Precisely. He blamed it —London Tit-Bits. all on his His Resolve—Mrs. Hubb—Oh, John, you say that if you lost me you would take to drinking, neglect your personal appear- ance, and go to the bad in every way Hubb (firmly)—Yes, my dear; you can bet I'd fix it so I'd never be an inducement to a woman again.—New Haven Register. Less Complicated—The muster—You look worried. What's the matter’ The housekeeper—The nurse has just left, and there is nobody to wash the baby. The master—Have the chauffeur do it. There isn’t as much mechanism about a baby as there is about a car, anyway.—WWit and Humor. His Private Advices—“ You seem indif- ferent to criticism in the newspapers. “IT don’t have time to keep up with it,” replied Senator Sorghum. “You ought to see what my constituents send me direct through the m Washington Star. One Woman to Another—Editi—Jack told me I was so interesting and so beautiful. Marie—And yet you will trust: yourself for life with a man who begins deceiving you so early?—-Boston Transcript. Couldn't Help It—Father backward. There’s Norman Smithers, the same age as you, and he’s two forms higher Aren't you ashamed? Hopeful—No. He can't help hereditary.—London Punch. it—it's His Theory—“Why don’t you marry me?” “Because I don’t love you?” “Why need that matter? We'd simply have a art on half the people in our set.” —Louisville Courier-Journal. Father’s Suspicion—Jack—I told your father that I would give you every luxury. Bess—And what did he say? Jack id he would withdraw his money from the bank where I work.—Boston Globe. Salesmanship— The Life of Industry ORE than 3,000 sales- men and _ executives attended the first World’s Salesmanship Con- gress. They went away fired with enthusiasm for Better Busi- ness through Better Sales- manship. They have recruited an army of over 15,000, in 45 clubs, to this cause. The idea—the ideal — has gripped American industry as no idea ever gripped it before. The second World’s Sales- manship Congress will be held at Detroit June 10-14. It will be even better than the first. It will master even greater sales experience. It will be even more practical in the exposition of sales methods—the very life-blood of industry. It will have the same active support from master minds of selling that made the first Congress possible. It will be even more valuable to any man in any line of selling. Arrange now to attend. Muster as many other sales- men as you can. Send the coupon now. 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