Judge, 1929-05-11 · page 30 of 36
Judge — May 11, 1929 — page 30: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertisements** with humorous filler content typical of early 20th-century magazines. The main cartoon shows a man watching a boxing match, captioning it as "Relativity" with a Goblin quote about "can and sock the big fat stiff"—likely satirizing Einstein's then-recent theory of relativity by reducing it to prizefighting vernacular. The short jokes below mock domestic life: a wife's complaint about mixing vacuum and wireless plugs destroying wallpaper; marital uncertainty about a wife's hair color (she's at the beauty parlor); and dining anxiety about whether to order dessert based on check totals. **The ads** promote now-obsolete products: Herpicide (hair loss treatment), Vittel Water (mineral water), Abbott's Bitters, and Dragon Smokers (decorative ashtrays). This reflects early 1900s consumer culture, domestic anxieties, and attempts to sell solutions to invented problems—marriage tensions and personal grooming concerns being primary targets.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
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