Judge, 1887-11-05 · page 11 of 16
Judge — November 5, 1887 — page 11: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertisements** interspersed with brief humorous snippets credited "DECISIONS HANDED UP"—short jokes extracted from various newspapers. The main satirical content consists of **one-liners** mocking social hypocrisy: - A Nashville preacher condemns dancing (moral contradiction) - A clergyman notices charity "gets cold" when controversy heats up (institutional hypocrisy) - A young man claims to love a woman but won't marry her (romantic absurdity) - Rain falls equally on "just" and "unjust," yet churchgoers still get wet on Sundays while missing baseball (religious inconsistency) The dominant visual is a large **Cherry Blossom perfume advertisement** featuring a woman in a bonnet, alongside a legal notice about trademark protection (Gosnell v. Durrant, 1887). The page reflects Judge's formula: light social commentary through jokes about romantic, religious, and moral pretense, surrounded by period product ads. No specific political figures or events are targeted—the satire is general and gentle.
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THANK YOU, SIR The JupGe in its last issue contains some very striking and suggestive cartoons. The paper is| improving at such a rate (largely owing to the eminent artists connected with it) that we may well offer our sincere congratulations to the Jvpoe Publishing Company on the constantly grow public favor with which their brilliant publication .is deservedly meeting.—American Lithographer. DECISIONS HANDED UP. shville preacher says dancing is not the New Orleans Pic 5 | p of joy is very full,” | it be. gentle one. Don't | places with thy cup.— Yonkers stutesma’ Awell-known clergyman of this city has noticed that charity always gets cold in the churches when contro gets hot.—Christian Union “You say that love me.” said tie ¢ young lady to the dude. “TI do,” he “Then why do you ask me to marry you Boston Courie. _ Politics and poetry are not supposed to assim: ilate, yet the politician and the poet are not so very different, One lays his pipes and the other pipes his lays.—Te.ras Siftings. The rain falls on the just as well as the unjust. Ona wet Sunday. however, the churchina gets wet going to ch man postpones the game and keep New Orleans Picayune. HYSTERIA EXEMPLIFIED, A job lot of the latest styles and shapes care- fully collated and ne: 1 in “Good Things e of works ess and qua derful.” FoR SALE RrwaeRt Business Principles HENRY SIEDE, THE FOURTEENTH STREET FURRIER,| Newest Designs. Excelle ont Workmanship, Perfect | Fitting, Moderate Prices. 14 WEST 14TH STREET, Between Sth and 6th Aves... N.Y. Established over 36 years JUDGE PRERK BLOSSOM TOILE PowDeR &SOAP DN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICR.—Gosnell v. Durrant—On Jan. 28, 1887, Mr. Justice Chitty granted « Perpetual Infarction with costa, restraining Mr. George Reynolds Durrant from Infringing Messrs Joha Geanell and Co's Rexistored Trade Mark, CHERRY BLOSSOM ‘The Royal Argand Oil Burner, 65 CANDLE. POWER, SillMe any ordinary lamp, Atmolutely safe: caunot explost ight. Automatic extinsut owing 61 1 Barclay St Dearborn St. Hill EB. € ESTABLISHED 1801, BENT & CO.’S Celebrated Hand-Made WATER CRACKERS. GUARAN D . Easy of Digestion, Absolutely Pare. | NEW ORK CHICAGO, ~ KING OF TABLE WATERS. UNDERWOOD SPRING WATER PUREST NATURAL WATER. HEALTHFUL, COOLING AND REFRESHING. PREVENTS BRIGHT'’S DISEASE. Send for Circular. THE UNDERWOOD COMPANY, General Office, 18 Vesey St, New York City comicbooks.com