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This page from *Judge* (a 19th-century American satirical magazine) contains primarily **poetry, humor columns, and advertisements** rather than political cartoons. The main content includes: - **"The Maiden's Lament"**: A humorous poem poking fun at melodramatic poetry conventions—a girl weeps dramatically, but her "tragedy" is merely that her mother burned her chewing gum. - **"Carl Pretzel's Philosophy"**: Ethnic humor featuring a German-accented character offering folksy wisdom (common in period humor). - **A story about a congressman's daughter** attempting to write poetry, satirizing both pretentious literary ambitions and the forced recitation exercises of schoolchildren. - **Charitable note**: Stockholm Depot, New York donated $12.50 to Johnstown flood sufferers (likely the 1889 Johnstown, Pennsylvania disaster). - **Multiple product advertisements**: Including Castoria (children's medicine), Packer's Tar Soap (hair/skin treatment), and Sohmer pianos. The page reflects period values: sentimental humor, ethnic comedy, and the integration of advertising with editorial content typical of late-19th-century magazines.

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JUDGE THE MAIDEN'S LAMENT. I found a maiden weeping. “Now wherefore weep?" said I. “The fountains bright are leaping In gladness to the sky ; ‘The fruitful earth is weaving For thee a wreath of flowers ; ‘Thou shouldst not thus with grieving Becloud the sunny hours.” ‘The maiden wept. I wondered “That one so fair should weep. Had loving ties been sundered Had sorrow cut her deep? Had lover, friend, or mother Been cursed with sudden doom? Tt must be so. What other Distress could bring such gloom? All this T asked her, tearful Myself to see her grief. Her agony was fearful, She trembled as a leaf, But not a word she uttered Until she saw me glum ; And then she sobbed and spluttered, “Ma burned my chewing-gum !" —Chicago Herald, When Babs was sick, we gave her Castoria, When she was a Child, sho cried for Castoria, When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria. When she bad Children, she gave them Castoria, CARL PRBTZEL'S PHILOSOPHY. Der day-times dot vas efery time all der vhile prite don'd vas made for eny of us fellers. Id vas a sure t'ing dot berfection don’d hafe plossoms on efery human shrub. Der ear-marks of a yackass don’d cood teach der sen- dimendts of his heels. Dots besser efery mans vas keeb pooty goot his brin- cibles, und on a leetle vhile dhey vhill keeb him. Nothing contributes more towards a sound digestion | than the use of the genuine Angostura Bitters of Dr. iegert & Sons. Ask your druggist. A very bright young girl, the daughter of a congress- d well known in Washington society during the past winter, is a great reader of poetry. ‘The Critic tells the following story of her poetic fancy and what it led to: T love poetry,” she said the other day, ‘and would give anything if I could write it Did you ever try?” asked her companion. ‘ever but once,” she said hesitatingly, and with a poetic blush; ‘never but once, and that ended my muse’s career forever. I was in’ school then, and the teacher insisted on every girl in the rhetoric class writ- ing a poem for next recitation-day. I couldn't do it, and vowed 1 wouldn't; but she insisted, and finally i just had to.” ** What was the poem?" asked her friend cautiously. ‘The caution was of no avail and she refused to divulge for some time, but at last gave up. “Well, if I must I must, I suppose, so here goes: “* Now fancy my delight, For lam arked to write A poem for the rhetoric class to-day, ‘My only hesitation To do this for recitation Is that I haven't thought of one darned wor. :0 say." “Wasn't it awful?" she continued ; “*but the worst of it was, the teacher made me recite it before the whole school. "But it brought down the house,” and a very satisfied expression fell over her face. “DANDRUFF is the most frequent cause of prema- ture BALDNESS.” “ITCHING is peace-ce- stroying and exhausting to the vital powers, and breeds pro- fanity. SCRATCHING slike paying a debt with a note. SHAMPOOING witb PACKER’S TAR SOAP isa hygienic luzury, promoting a clear, smooth skin, healthful scalp, and vigorous hair. Tnvaluable for irritations of the skin incident to summer, 25 cents, Druggists. Sample (} cake), roccents, stam cents a Mention Juvcs. THE PACKER MFG, CO., 100 Fulton Bt, 2il 7 FOR THE JOHNSTOWN SUFFERERS. | The little village of Stockholm Depot, N. Y., sends | to the Jupce, through Mr. S. A. Worden, the sum of 812.50 for the Johnstown sufferers. The money has been sent to General Hastings. TALE OF AN ESQUIMAU. An Esquimau sat on a chunk of ice In the land of the northern pole ; He cracked his heels and he whistled thrice Ata sight that alarmed his soul. For a stranger came over the fields of snow, ‘Ata speed that was fearful quite ; His cheeks were pallid and thin with woe, ‘And the frost on his beard was white. “Oh, prithee, pause,” cried the Esquimau ; “From whence do you come so fast ?” “T come from a land weary leagues below This realm with its storm and blast. “‘T come from a land in the far-off south, And I've traveled ten thousand miles Since last the sun like a beaming mouth ‘Turned loose on the earth his smiles." “But tell me, friend,” quoth the Esquimau, Why now in terror you fly From the sunny land where the bean-trees grow— What's the cause of your misery?” “Tumpired a game in Boston town, And Kelly he smiled on me. But his smile soon changed to a fearful frown, ‘A hideous sight to see. “T have scaled great peaks in my headlong flight, And on ocean been rolled and tossed, But Kelly has always kept me in sight Since the day that the home team lost."* And the stranger beat on his breast and wept, ‘And the Esquimau tore his hair ; For they knew that Kelly his vengeance kept, And they felt he would soon be there. —Adapted from the Nebraska State Journal by the Evening. Sun, Mrs, Wixstow's Soorinc Svar for Children ‘Teething ; soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind colic and diarthera, 25 cents a bottle. Aunt (to niece, seated in the parlor “Why do you both talk so low?" has a cold, and I think I must have York Sun. jh her beau)— Herbert aught it,"—Vew THE SONG OF THE SURFEITED. Oh, give me a cave or a hole in the ground, ‘Or a roost on a tree, like the primitive man, Somehow I'm abased and I cannot abound In this fol-de-rol house of the style of Queen Ann Queen Anne—as I trace her all over the nation I feel my gorge rising, I cry, ** The deuce take her I'm terribly tired of house-decoration, And I fong for a home that is plain as a Quaker. I'm yearning for ceilings that ornament lack, For walls without fresco or dado or frieze, For tables not littered with smart bric-a-brac, For mantles a good deal less eager to please, For rooms and for halls where there's not such a clutter (im Knocking down something whenever I'm turn- ing)— In fine, for a shelter less utterly utter From the depths of a surfeited heart I am yearning. Less pomp would I see where I'm bidden to dine, Would have fewer courses to drink and to eat ; If the feasting were not so exquisitely fine T could easier feel that the life's more than meat. As ‘tis, heaven help us, we mis'rable sinners ! And pardon such thoughtless xesthetic behaving ; So complex, so grand, so momentous our dinners, Not the soul, but’ the stomach, seems really worth saving. I'm weary of dwellings that strive to surpass, Of boudoirs ecstatic in white and in gold, Of logs on the hearth burning nothing but gas, Of furniture ugly but awfully old. In the past, not the house, but the mortal that builded, ‘Most worthy of honor was commonly reckoned ; But now, in an age that is known as the gilded, ‘The house has the honor—the builder is second. A queen truly good may be sure that she'll gain ‘Only treatment chivalric from worshiping man, But my feelings I cannot, I shall not restrain— My temper grows hot'as I ponder on Anne; Queen Anne—as I trace her all over the nation I feel my gorge rising, I cry,“ The deuce take her !” Oh, I'm terribly tired of house-decoration, ‘And I long for a home that is plain as a Quaker. Richard Scudder in New York Tribune, And what does Colonel Elliott F, Shepard get? Isn't this government going to send any minister to the heathen? —Minneapolis Journal. New-Vorkers who live in the vicinity of the new Junce building complain that the JuDGE never sleeps, and that the thirty-seven presses, kept running day and night, will not let them sleep. ‘The Jupcr has been a wide-awake paper ever since Mr. Arkell became its proprietor, and this is the first time we have heard of a complaint against a paper because it was wide- awake.—Chicago Inter-Ocean, ~The Kodak. A WARNIN ED parties are advertising a Camera which they claim 1s similar to the Kodak, loaded with our film, (We are the only manufacturers of continuous films in the world.) We warn the public that the said Camera is entirely unsuitable for using our films and we decline to be responsible for any failures resulting from its use. that is sent out loaded with 100 Eastman’s films, and that is the Kodak. ‘The patents on the Kodak and film are all owned by us and infringers will be prosecuted. 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