Judge, 1886-10-23 · page 12 of 19
Judge — October 23, 1886 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** from Judge magazine, with one small cartoon at top-left titled "No More Baggy Knees." ## The Cartoon The cartoon depicts a man before and after wearing an "English Trousers Stretcher"—a device marketed to prevent the sagging knees that plagued Victorian men's trousers. The humor is straightforward: it mocks the common wardrobe problem and the inventors' solution. The before/after format was a standard advertising trope. ## The Advertisements The page is dominated by patent medicines (Liebig's Coca Beef Tonic, cure-for-deafness tonics), baby formula (Lactafed Food), beauty creams (Recamier Cream by Harriet Hubbard Ayer—a famous cosmetics entrepreneur), firearms, and theatrical supplies. These ads reveal period consumer concerns: infant nutrition, deafness "cures," women's complexion products, and personal grooming challenges. The magazine's readership was urban, middle-to-upper class, and concerned with modern conveniences and self-improvement products typical of the **Gilded Age**.
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Siape: NO MORE BAGGY KNEES. BEFORE, AFTER. wants she | be to be te | sea-serpent.—Proe * GIS TROUSERS STRETCHER.” sevrex trouble ant expense E. O. THOMPSON, 245 Broadway, NEW YORK. 97 STERUNG-AMERICAN, BULL DOG, Seat $3.50, THE ALFORD & BERKELE CO 37 CHAMH ro THE BEST EDITION PUBLISHED. PLAYS ! ato Wigs, Beards, Face Preparations, and all articles: PLAYS [oestet for Antone and Parlor Theatricals Car Alege set free on application to PLAYS ! DE WITT, Publisher, 1 Rowe Street, New York HENRY C. SQUIRES, 178 Broadway, N. Y. GouUNsS, FISHING TACKLE, BOATS, CANOES, LAWN TENNIS, and everything for forest, field and stream. Send 10 cents for large Illustrated clr cular, Gun of the 14th Century. Professor James H. Ayhurst, M. D., Member Royal College of Surgeons, Licentiate Royal College of Physi- cians, Surgeon to the Royal Naval Hospital at Plymouth, writes: LIENIG CO!S COCA BEEF TONIC L have prescribed it is certainly a most superior preparation, very extensively UDSONSencuist MarkingINKericezsers. |. porcinte’ “Cannt teased out fee Hi has once dried. hia Call. The stage is afl |and the audience | Hotell Citizen, everything else gets his hand in.—Hartford Sunday Journal. porter whoc Washington Ci that should b but red.— DECISIONS HANDED UP. { d Yo vd The Physician’s Favorite FOR INFANTS AND INVALIDS. Leading Physicians of all Schools, and sections voluntarily testily to its superior merit as The Most NOURISHING, Most PALATABLE, Most ECONOMICAL, of all Prepared Foods. 450 MEALS for an Infant for $1.00. EASILY PREPARED. At Drugzists $1.09, of Infants one thing that quicker than another an to drink it ts thirst man is ready to i her rth.” —Boston Bulletin. got plenty of money or a wife San Franciseo wants the Unies a man’ A-conductor ean be poli ame time knock ies and at Philadel- cted with people with big heads, with people with big hats— It is not so absolutely convincing as it might 1 that Dai Webster once saw the p Journal. application. MARDSON & iT ISOUR, AIM to furnish everything In ul cenalt It is in pocket-picking about the same as in A man never succeeds until he It is reported that Wiggins learned to bea t by guesing what his wife would say pme home late at night.— Philadelphia Sent y editor offers a reward for a re. nnotdiscover “* death-likestillne uirtrooin when a priwoner iy sentenced. ONE CENT PAYS FOR A send to THE ist says that fullness under the The phrenologist must have Postal Cant 1 who had told somebody else he FREE PRESS CO., Detre FREE sample copy of that FAMOUS NEWSPAPER THE WEEKLY DETROIT FREE VI By sending TWENTY you can have THE FR mailed to any address for FOUR MONTHS on TRIAL. Bay « + Brown ‘ative chestnut es are not brown, a is is especially —Pittsburg Dispatch. We have accident asociations, and benefit as- "DEAF | THE ee PRESS: Sul Mention thts Paper AMUSEMENTS. 8 PAMK THEATHE. Proprietor. Sole Manager. ‘original local eo in thre Mr. DAVE BRATAM has composed Five New Songs for this production, Matinee Wednesday and Saturday Broadway, ) LADIES, READ THIS. HARRIET HUBBARD AYER, ‘Manufacturer and Proprietor of Positively “bs Mrs. AYE! uty Mrs. AYER has the honor to en Rev. Dr. and ) Hon. ROB! ¢ well-known names among Rev. ROBERT COL Miss CLARA Li Inindrsd others, JOB LOT GUNS. the world, top le ©. D. When full ai furnished free of charge. the order—small, $1.00: n fosure answer and catalog Draft. P.O. Box 1114