Judge, 1886-12-25 · page 14 of 27
Judge — December 25, 1886 — page 14: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This Judge magazine page contains several short humorous pieces and advertisements, primarily aimed at holiday gift-giving. **Main Content:** The page features a romantic poem titled "One Year Ago" about lost love, alongside domestic humor pieces—one about a child doctoring his father's coffee with beans to "test" Mr. Merritt (who supposedly "doesn't know beans"), and another about a man who dines nightly at the Sturtevant House restaurant. **"The Night Before Christmas" Illustration:** Shows a child preparing an oversized stocking, joking he'll "spring something new on Santa Claus"—a visual pun suggesting physical tricks rather than gift surprises. **Advertisements dominate the right side,** promoting New Haven Clock Company (with specialized clocks for yachts and tourists), cigarettes for Christmas gifts, and a "Judge's Cash Puzzle" promoting the Grant Monument Fund—a fundraising competition readers could enter. The page is typical holiday-season Judge content: light sentiment mixed with gentle domestic satire and commercial promotion, aimed at middle-class readers seeking gift ideas and entertainment.
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Midge: of down- cast eyes | Blue as the azure of the skies ; A mass of dark brown | waving hair, | A skin 80 matchless, white and fair, | With a most sweet | and lovely face, Asylph-like form en- dowed with grace. Such was the maid, | I'll ne'er forget, A year ago to-day I met. But far away from here she's gone; ‘And first when I was left alone I yowed that none were half so sweet, More perfect beauty none could meet: But then, ah me, before I knew A love for some one else there grew ‘And took my heart—I can't tell how— But someone better love I now. FLAVEL 8. MINES. WELL WHAT OF IT? Af this season of the year every merchant is advertising his stock as holiday presents, no matter what class of goods he sells. And it is undeniable that a stove or a barrel of flour or a dozen new brooms make a useful present, but what most people try to do is to combine a good deal of the useful with some of the beau- tiful in a Christmas gift. Allen & iter don’t suy much about it, but it 1s true just the same that the public are buy- ing quantities of Virginia Brights Cigarettes for presentation to the men on December 25th. Dr. Campbell, of 146 West 16th street. Ar- senic Complexion Waters are endorsed by all. See his advertiseanents on margins of inside front cover. RATHER t MBARRASSING. “ Have you been doctoring this coffee, John- ” asked old Brown, smacking his lips in a “Yes,” confessed little Johnny, looking across the table at Merritt ; ‘‘I heard Cora say that Mr. Merritt didn’t know beans, so I put a few in the coffee-pot just to test him.” ‘A PROSPECTIVE MATCH, “I'd like to see a bout between you and WHERE HE WAS AND WHY. Gva—" Why, Jack, where have you kept yourself for the past month? I haven't seen you dining in any of your old haunte.” Jack—" No ; I dine regularly now at the Sturtevant House, where, since the new management, I get the best dinner in the city, with the nicest sort of service. Youcan always find me there from six to eight every night."" Pure Tokay Wine Possesses peculiar medicinal qualities and bas attracted the attention of the medical fraternity the world over. $7 per case (12 bottles) securely pecked. D. RICH & CO., 735 Broadway, New York. THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS. Bry Brass—‘‘ That stocking game ain't large enongh for me; I guess I'll spring something new on Santa Claus.” NEW HAVEN CLOCK CO, 16 and 18 PARK PLACE. NOVELTIES IN Clocks for Yachts. Clocks for Tourists. LANTERN CLOCKS For Gateways and Verandas. CLOCKS ror HALL, BOUDOIR, PARLOR, LIBRARY, DINING-ROOM. Wedding and Holiday Presents. THE JUDGE'S CASH PUZZLE In Behalf of the GRANT MONUMENT FUND. Use your Brains and Make Money. MEN, WOMEN, CHILDREN, EVERYBODY, to assist the Grant Monument ‘The Judge proposes Fund grand ition rord~ Hiding (cnaking the iafgest num ber of vrords fro! Iven sentence by folate the De Fund. The remaining twenty-five cents, after deducting the legitimate expenses OF euvertliny panes wi their ‘answers, etc., etc., will be placed in equally divided Bamber of conn the fc ‘This is not a new thi have been who have “Grant Fond,” THE JUDGE PUBLISHING CO., Potter Building, Now York City ARKELL & SMITHS, MANUPACTURERS OF FLOUR SACKS CANAJOHARIE, N. Y.