Judge, 1918-01-12 · page 24 of 28
Judge — January 12, 1918 — page 24: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertisements and filler content** rather than political cartoons. The main items are: **Advertisements:** Bunion relief, sexual education books, press clipping services, and hotels—typical early 20th-century periodical ads. **Substantive content:** "The Merry Muse" features "The Wicked Grocer," a poem satirizing dishonest grocery merchants. The verse—written in the style of G.K. Chesterton (credited at bottom)—contrasts the grocer's hypocrisy and exploitation with the honesty of tavern-keepers. It criticizes underpaid workers, overpriced goods, and sale of adulterated products (sand sold as sugar, poisoned meat). The satire reflects **working-class concerns about food safety and merchant fraud**—genuine issues in early 20th-century retail before modern food regulation. The comparison to innkeepers suggests nostalgia for older, more "honest" commerce. The lighter "Passing the Mustard" section contains brief humor about summer boarders and freedom of speech.
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HENRY ROMEIKE 106-110 Seventh Avenue NEW YORK >) 0D) DD 0 ED COLEMAN HOUSE Asbury Park, New Jersey A magnificent Hotel with an unobstructed view of the Boardw: ind Ocean. Commending itself to people of refinement. American and European. For booklet and rates write to A. M. Sexton, Proprietor NEW HOTEL BINGHAM, Philadelphia In the center of everything. Large. well lighted and com- fortable rooms. Hot and cold running water in every room Only hotel having direct Subway connection with all. rail- road stations and ferries, Roof garden. Club breakfast. Special lunche Rooms without bath, $1.50; with ba $2.00 per day and up. FRANK KIMBLE, Manager. Service ACTIVE SERVICE The ONLY perfect, non-leakatle th Agents Wanted. Big Profits. J. J. ULLRICH & CO., 27 Thames St., New York HENRY LINDENMEYR & SONS PAPER WAREHOUSE Nos. 32. 34 and 36 Bleecker Street Branch Warehouses : 20 Beekman Street, New York, and 32 Clinton Street, Newark, NJ. ALL KINDS OF PAPER MADE TO ORDER Passing the Mustard (Continued from second preceding page) when we have summer boarders around. Then we've simply got to take somethin’ with a sportin’ page into it.”—IWashington Star. Freedom of Speech—‘ You believe in freedom of speech?” “Yes, but I don’t let people insult me or use objectionable language in my own home if I can help it.” —Detroit Free Press. Qualification—“Have you a good cook?” “She’s so good that you might call her pious, but her cooking’s diabolical.""—Balti- more American. THE MERRY MUSE The Wicked Grocer d made the wicked Grocer For a mystery and a sign, That man should shun the awful shops And go to inns to dine, Where the bacon’s on the rafter, And the wine is in the wood, And God that made good laughter Has seen that they are good. The evil-hearted Grocer Would call his mother “ma'am,” And bow at her and bob at her Her aged son to damn, And rub his horrid hands and ask What article was next— Though mortis in articula Should be her proper text. His props are not his children, But pert lads underpaid, Who call out “Cash!” and bang about To work his wicked trade; He keeps a lady in a cage Most cruelly all « And makes her count and calls her “miss” Until she fades away. The righteous minds of innkeepers. Induce them, now and then, To crack a bottle with a friend Or treat unmoneyed men; But who hath seen the Grocer Treat housemaids to his teas, Or crack a bottle of fish-sauce, Or stand a man a cheese? He sells us sands of Araby, As sugar for cash down, He sweeps his shop and sells the dust, The purest salt in town; He crams with cans of poisoned meat Poor subjects of the king, die by thousands, Why, he laughs like anything. The wicked Grocer groces In spirits and in wine— Not frankly and in fellowship As men in inns do din But packed with soap and sardines, And carried off by grooms, For to be snatched by Duchesses And drunk in dressing-rooms. The hell-instructed Grocer Has a temple made of tin, And the ruin of good innkeepers Is loudly urged therein; But now the sands are running out —From sugar of a sort— The Grocer trembles, for his time, Just like his weight, is short. —G. K. Chesterton, in London New Witness. To Stimulate Happiness You Must . Get Next Week's JUDGE A stunning cover by James Montgomery Flagg is entitled “JUDGE FOR YOURSELF” Other illustrations by ORSON LOWELL L. FELLOWS HAMILTON WILLIAMS POWER O'MALLEY Cc. W. KAHLES RODNEY THOMSON J. CONACHER C. BERTRAM HARTMAN NORMAN ANTHONY MACHEFERT MAUDE TOUSEY FANGEL |. PALMER SASS W. K. STARRET and others The Text is by WALT MASON TOM P. MORGAN ROY K. MOULTON ELLIS O. JONES J. A. WALDRON JANE BURR NED _F. NOBLE . JONES GEORGE CECIL COWING LISLE BELL KENNETH L. ROBERTS And others who make JUDGE “The Happy Medium” | Vol. LXXIV January 12, 1918 No. 1891 LeslieSudge Company. few York as second-class Telephone 6632 Madivo y by Leslie Judge C P. Sleicher, See’y Waldron, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year, 5? numbers - Six months, of 26 numb hirteen weeks = 1.25 le in advance or by draft York, of by express of contents of JUDGE are protected by copyright in both the J States, and Great Britain. If JUL cannot be found at any newsstand, the publishers will he under obligations if that fact be promptly reported on. postal card = by letter. BACK NUMBERS: Present year, 10 cents per copy; 1917, ts dependencies, and Mexico. Postage free in the U 150 cents a year for postage; to all F. iadian Provinces foreign countries add $1.00 Judge is printed by the Schweialer Press. comicbooks.com