Judge, 1917-06-16 · page 22 of 28
Judge — June 16, 1917 — page 22: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and literary content** rather than political cartoons. The main elements: **Advertisements:** - Cascade Pure Whisky announces relocation from Nashville to Louisville - Eugene Zimmerman's cartooning instruction book ("Cartoons and Caricatures") **Literary Content:** The bulk of the page features "A Poet's Love Letter" by Douglas Malloch—a humorous poem about struggling poets who write romantic verses for pittance (fifty cents per line). The satire targets the economics of poetry: poets spend intellectual labor on romantic compositions for pittance while claiming such work is laborious drudgery they "really hate." The irony is explicit—the poet calculates his earnings (twenty to forty dollars monthly) while romanticizing artistic suffering. **Brief Humorous Anecdotes:** - "One Only": A philanthropist questions an elderly Black woman about adopted children; she mentions one "shot me" (dark humor about ingratitude) - "A Poor Shot" / "Think What You Say": Simple rural jokes about tree productivity The page reflects early 20th-century Judge magazine's mix of advertising, verse, and light humor targeting educated, middle-class readers.
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CASCADE PURE WHISKY Our New Address We have removed’ from Nashville,Tenn., and are now located permanently in Louisville, Ky. Though the location is different, Cascade remains as ever the same pure product — mellow as moonlight. Gro. A. DICKEL & Co. Distillers Address all communications to > 827 W. Main Street MELLOW LOUISVILLE, KY. AS MOONLIGHT If you can draw a little and an opportunity to learn at small. expense to yourself. EUGENE ZIMMER- MAN has an established reputation as a toonist. car- He has put some of the a book, CARICATURES” bound neatly in 34 mo- to you prepaid on receipt of $1.00. ZIM BOOK =D aS tricks of his trade into | “CARTOONS and | 6-19 Brunswick Building, 225 Fifth Ave., New York City | want to draw more, you have | rocco, which will be sent | JUDGE A Poet’s Love Letter HEY pay me fifty cents a line for this (Though sometimes it is only ten or twenty), But I would write a thousand for a kiss, And think that that was compensation plenty A poet always loves to love in rime; To woo in prose is always too prosaic. And so I’m very glad to take the time To tell the story ancient and archaic. commu! His | It needs a rime to give you proper praise, spring | To sing of eyes that shine beneath a bonnet One glance from eyes so lovely amply pays For all the labor of a song or sonnet. day What better effort of the poet's art, How What inspiration than yourself is better? happe And so I gladly bare the poet's heart “Wh And send to you in rime a poet’s letter careful. ‘Thus Shakespeare wrote to Mistress Hathaway, ron Thus Bobby Burns and Byron loved a lady, : Thus put in rime the things they had to say And for one charmer or another made a Tknow, Refrain or triolet or villanelle, For I And never thought of other compensation Dancin; ‘Than that their lady love should love it well Do And of her love give lovely demonstration. Theard And yet T hope that you appreciate Murr How Shakespeare, Byron, Burns and I, in writing, Were spending rimes to waste we really hate, When lines like this to lady loves inditing. A dictionary is our pocketbook, Our only source of wealth is our thesaurus; We have to make a quatrain pay the cook, And often buy a capon with a chorus We often send a lady love a line For which some fifty cents we might be getting; (I often get as much as that for mine, In spite of editorial regretting.) Some twenty dollars this one figures up, And, if I write some more, some thirty, forty, Enough a month or more to let me sup; It’s really quite expensive work to court a Fair lady with examples of our skill I fear, my love, you never thought about it— When every couplet means a dollar bill, When we can’t well afford to go without it T guess I shall not send the letter, Miss. T love you, but some other way I'll tell it They pay me fifty cents a line for this— And so I think instead I better sell it. dhed —Douglas Malloch One Only \ | DISTINGUISHED philanthropist, traveling through the South, be came interested in the case of a cheerful-hearted old colored woman, I who, it was claimed, had been the adopted mother of twenty-five children “Aunt questioned the philanthropist, “has any of your adopted children ever done anything for you?” qT Aunt Nancy considered: “Naw, suh,” she replied, “none ‘ceptin’ d | toe one what shot me.” “y the y A Poor Shot to be Urbanite—Does this tree produce a lot of peaches? fectl Farmer—Nary a one. ¥ Urbanite—Well, what's the idea of keeping it? Fred Farmer—Because I get a great many bushels of pears from it ish} visit | Think What You Say iy “Don’t you believe a person should say what she thinks?” Pric | “Yes, but not all of it.” comichookssa