Judge, 1883-10-20 · page 15 of 17
Judge — October 20, 1883 — page 15: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** from Judge magazine, not a political cartoon. The page contains multiple commercial advertisements (grain provisions, insurance bonds, pens, medical remedies) interspersed with brief humorous poems and social commentary. The literary pieces include "The Student After Vacation" (about academic lethargy), "To a Beautiful Stranger" (a romantic poem about meeting someone on a train), and several short satirical observations. One notably mocks the *London Lancet* medical journal's advice about child education. Another jokes about the annoyance of anonymous telephone calls. The content reflects **late 19th-century American concerns**: workplace exhaustion, romantic encounters, parenting theories, and the new technology of the telephone as a social irritant. The page demonstrates Judge's format: mixing paid advertisements with light satirical verse to entertain middle-class readers while generating revenue.
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THE JUDGE. D. B. CANOLL, The Student After Vacation. FIVE SOLLARS COMMISSION Dun, dull the toil, | Grain and Provisions, Dor topiary Ducal Brunswick 76 Broadway and 9 New Street, X. 4. And boi GOV 1D} R N ME N' r BON D, uaa i] ZES AMOUNT TO. And lo! » 150, on, 90,000, and 60,000 Reichsmarks, A flower of hectic glow. ONE. REICHSMAR The next drawing takes place on the CENTS GOLD, GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1878. rystal brig Ist of Novernber, TSS BAKER'S Orton and light— I] yee Cort. Then tete-a-tete in shade. | IN TIONAL, || Warreted iakestntely, pare “Phe flooding bliss returns: = oe Teannot e The} (Adjourns soiled and dog-eared Burns). —Witkesharre Union Leader, The “Waited States To a Beautiful ce MUTUAL | «ou ings ACCIDENT | that all the whi 320 and 322 Broadway, Insures against Accidents at half | _® BAKER & 1, Dorchester, Mass. | ¢ Tonly know t Awoke in me ast Which, basking in their warmer blaze, Perhaps might kindle to devotion, the rates of Stock Companies, $70,000,000 Insurance in force. Ah! many a heart as staune By stniling lips allured fre | Has sunk in passion’s de Not One Dollar of Indebtedness. | * Wrecked on the CHAS. B. PEET, . | Kil co biawoll-therGrain’ | (Of Rogers. Pect & Co.), President, | 1 | That bore away my ¢ JAS. R. PITCHER, i Took her—God bless her : Secretary, ~ i | And me as quickly out of dan | ets -mun Heute aut Nena Cuca Tal | Wiex the London Lancet say aaa Minebma | | ing child hould be kept at one task more | (ae ate Pinca, || | | 1 three quarters of an hour, pelle | | we don’t mind pes of the pricking of amg London Lancet was | never the father of growing child. —Phil. | mecas, OFFI SUNSET compaxy | | News. | A MAGNIFICENT CAST OF CHARACTERS A MAGHIFICEST CART Of CHARACT ra Ip you wish to make a man perfeetly mis- Jerable send him an important: message by 5 telepho Tell him to be sure to meet you THE MOST POPULARIN USE | at a hotel ata certain hour, say. But when Leading Nos.: 48,14, 190,333, 161. who you are, don’t understand him 81 ce don't give him your name. He'll fret off a pound. of flesh an hour trying to make out who it is telephoned him.—Foston Post. A Positive Cure is | ELY'S You remember Johnny Lepine, who made | y rriages nay he ordered at 102 CREAM BALM ten thonsand dollars before br simply |X cana row by marking up his goods! Somehow we im stevors and | | Rose Cold, can’t help thinking of the eccentric old man KIRALFY Hike PECTACLE || CATARRH lon Toaberin THE GREATEST, SUCCESS PX I don't object to ‘omfort to wer fall etn the comicbooks.com