Judge, 1921-06-04 · page 30 of 36
Judge — June 4, 1921 — page 30: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising for Leslie's Magazine**, promoting it as America's best weekly publication. The left column announces contributing writers including Arthur Ruhl (timely subjects), Hereward Carrington (science), W.E. Hill (cartoonist of "Among Us Mortals"), and Albert Rosenthal (portrait painter). The tagline "Your Dad Always Reads It" encourages newsstand reservations at fifteen cents per copy. The right side contains **three satirical pieces**: 1. **"Have They Ever Rented Your Cottage?"** catalogues annoying tenant types—spirituelle ladies who damage kitchens, fussy complainers, destructive families, and slovenly guests who leave windows open during storms. 2. **"A Night of Terror"** jokes about a would-be author whose scenarios put the dreamer to sleep. 3. **A cartoon** showing a portly man stuck in a small automobile after eating sandwiches—visual humor about gluttony and mechanical constraint. The humor targets middle-class property anxieties and social embarrassment typical of 1910s American satire.
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LESLIE'S Now on Sale Printed in an easy-to- read size and contain- ing the work of the best authors obtain- able. Every subject new and timely. No money will be spared in making this Magazine the best Weekly in America. LESLIE'S will have the following for fre- quent contributors: Arthur Ruhl who is well known for Special Articles on Timely Subjects. Hereward Carrington, Ph.D. famous writer on Science. W. E. Hill known everywhere for his Newspaper Illustrated fea- ture “Among Us Mortals.” Albert Rosenthal of Philadelphia, who is painting a series of portraits of famous Americans, ex- clusively for LESLIE'S. “Your Dad Always Reads It” and you had better ask your Newsdealer to reserve your copy, Now on Sale Every Tuesday by all Live Wire Newsdealers Fifteen Cents a Copy Drawn by Causenr Surrne Tuem Ioracs Have They Ever Rented Your Cottage? By Coninxe Rocnwett Swain HE tenants who send the S. O. S. for the pl are unable to gi tem of the stove? The sweet, spirituelle lady with a line of uplift conversation, who uses the cooking dishes over a smoky wood fire, and leaves ver twice a week, and who isp the selective draft sys. their coating of sooty fur for some one else to clean off? The fussy person with the daily budget of complaints and requests for extras; she usually breaks t ly really lampshade in the house and forget | tion it? The man who leaves all the furniture changed around, nails up weird, amateur shelves everywhere, and puts clam-shells around all the flower bed: The baby with a penchant for bread and syrup, who has apparently spent the sum mer learning to tell the furniture from the walls by the touch system? Drawn by Pace Reaey “Waar’s © MATTER, Mister?” Strug Fat Man The cheery soul who leaves a lot of little things behind him, to be sent home parce! post, and who moves out just before a northeast storm. leaving two windows open and a veneered rocker on the porch? The family of dear, healthy boys, who cut initials all over the porch railings, and chop down the one surviving sapling? Language Lessons Teacher—Let each member of the class write a sentence u: the word “peruke” in its correct sense. And this is the sentence Tommy Tucker produced “My cousin clerks in a music store and sells Hawaiian musical instruments at ten dollars per uke. A Night of Terror Miss Debut—I dreamed last night, Mr Scribbler, that I wa Mr highly, I am sure. Miss Debt—1 don’t know about that I remember that I tried with all my might to wake up and couldn't reading your scenarios. Scribbler—Indeed! you flatter me I Was Foot Exoucn to Eat a Covrte or Sanpwicues ix Tus Lirtie Crock anv Now I C-c-can’t G-c-cet Out!