Judge, 1918-07-27 · page 36 of 36
Judge — July 27, 1918 — page 36: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising, not satire**. It promotes Alois P. Swoboda's "Conscious Evolution" self-help system and two accompanying books. The content satirizes the **pseudoscientific self-improvement racket** of the early 20th century. The repetitive promise of "Energy Stressing" to intensify every human faculty—thinking, earning, scheming, health—parodies the grandiose claims typical of such programs. The phrase "Why Live the Feeble Life?" mocks the guilt-based marketing pitch common to dubious wellness schemes. Swoboda's advertisement claims his system has attracted prominent clients (Hughes, Wilson, Rockefeller, Vanderbilts), a typical strategy to lend false credibility. The page's breathless enumeration of benefits—more money, more energy, more joy—represents the exaggerated promises endemic to contemporary pseudoscience marketing. The satirical intent appears implicit rather than explicit—Judge is documenting and implicitly ridiculing contemporary hucksterism through the advertiser's own overwrought language.
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LE LIFE? ONSCI of © Ous », WHY LIVE THE FEE Intensify Your Thinking Power Through Energy Stressing. Intensify Your Scheming Power Through Energy Stressing. Intensify Your Learning Power Through Energy Stressing. Intensify Your Earning Power Through Energy Stressing. Intensify Your Memory Power Through Energy Stressing. Intensify Your Concentrating Power Through Energy Stressing. Intensify Your Sensing Power Through Energy Stressing. Intensify Your Reasoning Power Through Energy Stressing. Intensify Your Planning Power Through Energy Stressing. Intensify Your Mental Power Through Energy Stressing. Intensify Your Personal Power Through Energy Stressing. Intensify Your Health Power Through Energy Stressing. Amplify Your Every Physiological, Physical and Mental Power Through Energy Stressing. Become More Alive Through Energy Stressing. Get More Out of Life Through Energy Stressing. Make Yourself Worth More, to Yourself and to Your Future— Through Energy Stressing. main Half Alive Vhy Re I know that I can easily, quickly and pos- itively prove to you that you are only half as alive as you must be to realize the joys and benefits of living in full, and that you are only half as well as you should be, half as vigorous as you can be, half as ambitious as you may be, and only half as well develo; a further develop- ¢ characteristics. It of the body and greater ng faculty, and a you are, I can prove you are leading an nity to show way in whic onvenience health, v CONSCIOUS EVOLUTION MEANS MORE ne, eae ee : . MONEY FOR ‘YOU, MORE ENERGY FOR 1 11@SC Zing Books Are For You SUCCESS. FOR YOU, AND THUS MORE Swoboda has published for distribution two remarkable books which PLEASURE AND JOY FOR YOU. explain his system of Conscious Evolution and what it has already done. rite for these books—not because Conscious Evolutionhas | meant so much to 262,000 other men and women, not because there is scarcely Ha q a prominent family in the country that hasn’t at least one member a pupil of — ~ la, including Charles E. Hughes, Woodrow Wilson, Rockefeller, the Vanderbilts, the Goulds, € y ch the Huntingtons, the Cudahys, the Swifts, Dr. J. H. Jowett—but write for these books because they mean so much to YOU in multiplied living power, earning power and resisting power. They are big books filled from cover to cover with the vital facts about yourself and how you can acquire the degree of perfection in body and mind that you so much desire. They explain the dan- gers of excessive deep breathing, excessive exercise, and excessive muscular development. ‘Conscious Evolution’’ and ‘‘The Science of Life’’ will show you how you can increase the pleasures of life to a maximum—how to intensify them and how to make your life more profitable, pleasurable and joyous. ‘Conscious Evolution’’ and ‘‘The Science of Life’’ are the A, B, C of evolution and persistent youth. These books explain Conscious Evolution and the human body as it has never been explained before. They explain the Swoboda theory and the laws of mind and body. They startle, educate and enlighten. They explain as never before the reason for the evolution of the mind and body. dless of how young nt you may think you are i «2 may consider yourself regardiess of how tented you may pride yourself on bei o healthy, wi ccessfal you may be, in justice to yoursell, to miss the and instructive secrets explained for the first time in the: books. scich * will 00 fill you with enthusiasm and 7.1)! 24 jy ‘hind of health and energy by A S tem. Tear out the . card and mail it * Name thousand fold \ Swobods 2165 Berkeley Bide eticand ~f New York City City If what is claimed for Conscious Evolution. by my pupils and by myself, is true, then by all means, you cannot afford—no one can afford If what is claimed for Conscious Evolution, however, by my pupils and by myself, is not true Whether of not you are satisfied with Conscious Evoluti comicbooks.com