Judge, 1888-01-21 · page 12 of 16
Judge — January 21, 1888 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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This is primarily an **advertising page** from Judge magazine, with one satirical article titled "Judge and the Play." The main content is **"Judge and the Play,"** a humorous anecdote by Stuart Robson (a contemporary theater actor) describing an awkward encounter at Grand Central depot. Robson went to meet a Wisconsin relative's son he'd never seen, but the young man had grown into an adult. Confusing him with a con artist ("bunco steerer"), a police officer intervened. The satire mocks rural Midwestern manners and speech patterns—the "Wisconsin look" and stuttering are presented as comedic regional characteristics. The piece also jokes about theater schedules and opening nights. The page is otherwise filled with **period advertisements**: Brandreth's Pills (patent medicine), seal skin garments, S.S. Sleeper cigars, Egyptian cigarettes, and tailoring services. These ads are typical of 1880s commercial publications, reflecting contemporary consumer goods and health-remedy marketing practices.
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12 18385—1888. BRANDRETH'S PILLS are thesafest and most effective remedy for Indiges- tion, Irregularity of the Bowels, Con- stipation, Biliousness, Headache, Diz- ziness, from an impure state of the blood. They have been in use in this country | for over fifty years, and the thousands of unimpeachable testimonials from those who have used them, and their constantly increasing sale is incontro- vertible evidence that they perform all | that is claimed for them. BRANDRETH'’S PILLS are purely |! vegetable, absolutely harmless and bes safe to take at any time. Sold in every drug and medicine | « store, either plain or Sugar-coated. SEAL SKIN GARMENTS. Business Principles HENRY SIEDE, THE FOURTEENTH STREET FURRIER, Fitting, Moderate Pr at WEST . 14TH STREET, ¥, Batabllabed over 86 rears | FOR AN 00 Si, eS « RDS. A Robert Sceider. Engraver, 96--98 ‘Fat "Stet New York. FASHION «» PRICE Out of the question. S. S. Sleeper & Co.’s N. & S. 10c. Cigar te the best ‘ntleman, ar possible for any eS ; s.S. SLEEPER & CO., Boston.| Franklin ae a & Co., hicago.; ———_ CIHARETTES. “SPECIAL FAVOURS, Club size.) EGPPTIAN seh wana, ‘A rare blend of Yenidge. SPECIAL In Full, Dress, Latest Englah and pack: KINNEY ToBacco » to, Successor, New York. — Dont be a Clam Straight cUuT | The gorgeous revi Malaria, or any disease arising t j unless I could ma! | the natui JUDGE JUDGE AND THE PLAY. It is said that the charmiug Miss Annie Rohe will shortly Wright Sanford as her terminal cognomen, 1 of the Ravel pantomime azulm,” at the Academy of Music, is drawing immense houses. Jepae’s recommendations for the coming wee “Elaine” at the Madison-square Railroad | al “Thad a great thi night.” said Stuart Robson of the comps 1 was a tives out in Wisconsin to meet their son, whom ul amp ped to New York to be cured of st had never seen the boy, but had ad no hesitation in under boy was to arrive on th ng the Grand Central depot at on hand at that hour, and so was the y- @ boy didn't seem to materia I waited until all the passengers havi gone through in hopes that my stuttering relative d up in the rear of the y with a Wisconsin look or a distric er impediment in his speech showed up. was beginning to feel annoyed and profane, f« was due at the ion with that * and I would be strangers for the first act. [had said ‘damn* three times and_pucl ps for the fourth Attempt, when I'spied a long section of Wiscon. sin manhood, looking travel-worn and helpless, t the other end of the depot. He wasn’t a bo: at a well-developed specimen of the bucoli looked he ples about as though ‘he we the lost chord or the pointed in not finding e conviction dawned upon me that m urse of ev y had in nts_ grown to be a ma i ul come to in- etropolis, No men- ngth or breadth of the stutterer in my advice of shipment, but 1 imagined from the solicitude shown re ing his safe arriv he was a young and jtender piece of bucolic architecture. if Taddressed him and he stuttered th | Fi my man, I hastened to known ‘Henrietta’ tongue. tap way of preparation, ‘tapped’ him [was astounded by grasped by an officer in uniform, who h ing us both, and who ac wacherwant with this man? I attempted explain, but th n of the pe: consin requested me to shut up, saying. chap do the talking, and you stand the till 'm through with Lora! exclaimed, ‘taken for a bunco ste only chance tion of ar many hours. 8 begging him to go whence he had it didn't dovetail with He went over, and I could see * commence to stutter. seemed 10 be ten feet apart and to be preceded by jan in epileptic fit ‘ptic fit. tw 780, and I was and ask the countryma and w THE CELEBRATED PIANOS | ARE AT PRESENT THE MOST POPULAR AND PREFERRED by LEADING ARTISTS: WAREROOMS ; 149 151, 153. 155 EAST 14TH STREET N. Y. SOEIMERE & Co., PHILADELPHIA, PA., 1119 Ch SHEGACO: FEL, 208 nbasts Ase Axe isco. 10 b Bullding. BALTIMORE. Sa ? 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