Judge, 1885-08-15 · page 15 of 16
Judge — August 15, 1885 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertisements and filler content** rather than political satire. The main editorial content is two humorous anecdotes: ## "Couldn't Eat Corn from a Cob" A mild social comedy about dinner etiquette. A young man eats corn directly from the cob while others cut it first with a knife. When challenged, another guest admits he can't tell corn from his false teeth, embarrassing the original corn-eater. The joke targets vanity and social pretension around eating habits. ## "Love Sees No Faults" A sentimental piece (appears to be an advertisement for Dr. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription") arguing that disease makes women lose their beauty and charm, and only his patent medicine can restore them. This reflects period attitudes about female health and beauty being inseparable. The remaining content is commercial: book binding, pianos, printing inks, trusses, bicycles, and various patent medicines—typical of 19th-century magazine advertising. No significant political satire or caricature is evident on this page.
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NEAT AND ELEGANT BOOK BINDING. KPECIMENS ONE: BROOKLYN. LAFAYETTE AND BRANCH » PORTLAND AVENUES, BEHNING FIRST CLASS Grand Square éUpright PIANOS. Warerooms : 3 W. 44th St. & 129 B. 126th S¢ Factory, N. E-comer 124 st, and 1st avi cow York, GEORG MATHER'S SONS, 00 JOHN STREET, BY. Black and Colored Type and Lithographic | PRINTING ESTABLI: This Paper is Pr INKS. 1816 With Our Inks. Rew YORK_ ELAS- TiC TRUSS LCO.s aan also, Varicocele, open day and eve: RURTURES THE JUDGE. 15 hardly fecl justified in giving a diagn’ nor are to venture any suggestion as to treatment, but it might be well to calcimine the roof of Mr. Flannery’s mouth with gum arabic, white lime, and glue, in equal parts, There alreaby been some extray tions and a marked multiformity. I also noticed an inflamed and angry color to the stroma, with trimmings of the same. This might only indicate that Mr. mnery had kept his mouth open too much during the summer and sunburned the roof of his mouth, were it not that I also discovered traces of gumboil microbes of the squamovs variety. This leads me to fear the worst for Mr. Flannery. However, if the gentleman- | ly, courteous, and urbane members of the | Academy of Science of Erin Prairie to whom Tam already indebted for past favors, will kindly forward to me, prepaid, another scraping from the mansard roof of Mr Flannery’s month next week, I will open an- other keg of hard words, and trace this gum- boil theory to a suces 1 termination, if I have to use up the whole ceiling of the pa- tient’s mouth, Yours, with greatest sincerity, profundity, and verbosit, Binw Nye Microscopist, Lobulist, and Microbist. [Chicago Ledger. | Franklin Square Lithograph CO, ——STEAM LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTERS: —— 324, 326 and 328 Pearl St., YEW yorkK— COULDN'T EAT CORN FROM A COB. | ‘There was a little dinner party the other | night, and the fresh cobs of smiling corn yz. They were handed gentlemen started vig- it from the cob, Th as iround the table. There y about touching that corn. The young gentlemen kept enjoying it immensely. his went on fora long time, and finally one lady took a cob and “began | cutting it off. “Tike to cut it off first with a knife she said. “SodoI,” said nearly everybody else, and good humor imn ely reigt I think corn tastes much better,” said a man on one side of the table, “when you eut it. [never could cat corn from the cob. “Nor I,” was a little chorus, et Besides, it does not look nice.” orously in toe a kind of a lull was a little hh Ate ba teed) cs OR. WARD @ CO., LOUISIANA, wa, ANY LaDy | _ The young gentleman who had been eat ise it straight grew slightly uneasy. But a Moles, Moth, Mackheats and et fellow who was wayat the other end, : said inakind of a diving-bell voice can’t eat corn from the cob, either, because I've got two false tecth, and I can never tell the corn from the teeth.” And everybody got red in the face and laughed, ‘Ha, ha!” {San Francisco Chrenicle. CONEY ISLAWD STEREOPTICON. ADVERTISERS wil « bel muted oo the STEREOPTICON BULLETINS At the Coney Island trnital wa Reach the IW repre. faye “LOVE SEES NO FAULTS,” it has been said; but, when a woman is | dragged down, emaciated, wan, anda shadow | of her former self, with never a cheerful word, she can be no longer beautiful or lovable, Nature may have been generous in her gifts, and endowed her with all the charms of her sex, but disease has crept in unawares and stolen the roses from her cheeks, the lustre from hereye, and the sun shine from her heart. But to be well again NO.1S FIFTL AVE, NEW YORK CITY Wabash Chicago. lies in your power. ‘Take Dr. Pierce’s * vorite Prescription,” it will cure you; thou 5 ands have been cured by it. Nothing equals | PILES! PILES! PILES! it for all the painful maladies and weaknes- | Cured without Knife Powder or Salve. No charge until eured. Write for reference. Dr. Corkins, Tayton’s Horen., ses peculiar to women. Price reduced to one dollar. By druggists. ensey City comicbooks.com