Judge, 1889-08-17 · page 13 of 16
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This page is primarily **advertisements and commercial content** with one substantial humorous article titled "Found by the Way." The main article is a **lighthearted anecdote** without political satire. It describes a businessman who hires a new typewriter-girl from St. Louis. When he asks her to mail letters, she mistakes a mail chute (a modern building convenience) for a mailbox and drops them down it into the cellar. The joke relies on the girl's unfamiliarity with urban infrastructure—a common theme of turn-of-the-century humor about rural or provincial newcomers encountering city life. The surrounding content consists entirely of **period advertisements**: dress-making services, bicycles, lawn tennis equipment, cocoa, cigars, photographic equipment, and pianos. There are no political cartoons or satirical illustrations visible on this page. The humor is gentle and domestic rather than political or socially critical.
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JUDGE vening and Reception Costumes, Mountain, Seashore, Lawn ‘Tenni » and Tra 5. Dresses made to order. Ladies’ Riding Habits, Coats, Wraps, and orders receive prompt attention. 126%1128 Cheol Str Philadelphia A Chicago Druggist Retailed 2,000,000 of T ANSILLS NBs y HIGHEST GRADE ONLY. F COLUMBIA Bicyoles, Tricycles, Tandems, Safetles. Catalogue free, POPE MFG. CO., Boston, New York, Chicago, WRIGHT & DITSON, FINE LAWN TENNIS. OUR SPECIALTIES: 8. National, Intercollegiate and Southern Associations for 1839. Sears’ Special,’ $34 Portable Marking Tapes, Co- | lumbia Marker, Taylor's Patent Poles, Pettitt’ Shoes, Tennis Clothing, etc. 580 Washington Street, - BOSTON, MASS. | SEND FOR COMPLETE CATALOGUE, GRATEFUL—COMFORTING. EPPS'$ COCOA BREAKFAST. “ By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern | the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful ap- lication of the fine properties of well-sclected Cocoa, Mr. Epps ‘provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavored beverage which may save us many heavy doctor's bills, It is by the judicious use of such articles of diet that a constitution may be gradually built up until strong enough to resist every tendency to disease. Hundreds of subtle maladies are floating Around Us ready to attack wherever there isa weak point, We may escape many a fatal shaft by kecping ourselves well fortic Red with'pure biood abd @ properly nourished trame=="* Crow | Service Gazette.” : A Bade simply with boiling water or milk, Scld ont pound tins, by Grocers, labelled thus: JAMES EPPS & Co., Homoopathic Chemists, London, England. FOUND BY THE WAY. I found a gentleman who has offices in the Exchange building standing at the junction and gazing upon the Evening News bulletin-board this morning and laugh- ing quietly to himself. ‘There was nothing peculiarly funny in the bulletin, so I asked him what affected his risibles. “Funniest thing you ever heard of,” said he, as he pulled me two doors down Delaware and bathed his fin- gers in the foam of the beer breaking over the bar. ‘I hired a new typewriter-girl yesterday ; a regular pink- and-white beauty, Well, this morning I dictated some letters to her, and after’ they were signed told her to mail them, while I went to gaze on the quotations. When I came back she was in tears ;’ and again he laughed his quiet laugh. ** Mean to make fun of a pretty girl's tears," I said, “Don't be too previous with your comments. Of course I tried to soothe her. * What is it, daughter?’ I asked.‘ Dry your tears and tell me all about it.’ ir," she sobbed, ‘those letters—I lost them all, ‘They can be replaced, can’t they ? *+ «Certainly, my dear, 1 said soothingly, with a kind of general-goodness-to-all-the-world-and-not-too-per- sonal-to-you accent on the ‘my dear.’ ‘Certainly, my dear ; but tell me, how did you lose them ? “Well, you see, sir, I went out into the hall and found something I thought was a mail-box, and I dropped them into the slot. Well, sir, they fell clear through into the cellar, and I tried and tried to fish them out with a string and piece of gum, but I couldn't. You can replace them, can’t you?” Well, I told her ‘it was all right, and then I came down here to rest my face. You see the girl came from St, Louis, and hadn't seen such modern improvements as the mail-chute."—Detroit N ‘The Sohmer Pianos are recommended to the public for their power, purity, richness, and quality of tone, and are considered the most durable and reliable pianos | ever made, IN QUARANTINE, One short week since T had not thought ‘That I could ever be by aught So sore afilicted. I pass the house within whose walls She is, and may not stop ; my calls Are interdicted. Mas! how fitful is our bliss. I may not go to her, and this By her own order. Here is the note she wrote it in— ‘Tell me!—to me, who long have been Her heart's sole warder. The grand stone steps I mount no more, I may not enter as before And clasp her to me. re for a dim light in her room he house is silent, wrapped in gloom ; 1, too, am gloomy. Not that she loves me less, although I'm exiled to my studio And long-shunned easels, But her small brother (poor, dear lad) Mas got what I have never had, Hang it! the measles, —Drake's M Kimball's Premidre Q not a low-priced article, SCRAPS. Rejected suitor —"* Alas what worse fate thar fired with love?” Ejected suitor (sadly) without love Mrs, Livermore is hard at work upon a new address, the title of which will be, ** Twent lecture-platform. “The women five years on the re the ones to settle this storage-battery, question, Men don’t know anything about preserving, currants. — Topeka Capital, A New York man has invented an electrical switch, and somebody suggests that it is about time for the small boy to begin to behave himself. Professors of artificial complexions sigh for cool cli- mates at this time of year. Paint and perspiration some- how never did get on well together. One of the tallest young ladies in Virginia City Enterprise, resides in Reno. youngest of nine sisters, is 22 years old, weighs-218 pounds, and stands 6 feet 1 inch high in her stockings. She is still growing. Mrs, Filigree—* Oh, Johnny, why do you persist in losi L never did when Twas little.” John. ny—" W If you dressed the c does you You used pins to keep yout clothes on."—Lazerence American, MAVE YOU A CAMERA? 1F NOT, CALL ON E. &H. T. ANTHONY & Co., 591 Broadway, - - - NEW YORK, Manufacturers and Importers of PHOTOGRAPHIC Instruments, APPARATUS AND SUPPLIES. Detective and View Cameras in Great Variety. Books of Instruction. All the latest Novelties, Amateur couthia in great variety, from $9 upwards, Send for catalogue, More than Foxry-rivi: Vicars established in this line of busi- THE CLEMENTS SAFE Is a wrought-iron, fire-proot, combina. ton lock safe; is made in all sizes, and sells from 5.00 upward, Including cost of delivery at any railroad station east of Rocky Mountains. Send for lilus- trated catalogue. M. CLEMENTS, CL ‘ablished 1639, In many cities and towns agents are wanted to sell the Clements Safe to business and profes: sional men, farmers & private families EVERY QOTHE AGE? ave IT, FAMILY sHoUL® HAVStin CARS. Pot ata gneP Ove peReAN. | STEPHEN F. WHITMAN & SON, i-Inventors ano Sove Manes. -i- PHILADELPHIA.i- ONEITA Asa solvent of gouty diathesis it has no equal in the county. Cases of gouty bronchitis, which have fexisted uther treatments, fave found mom ree from the use of Oneita Water, it has produced a permanent absorption. of the ek table water it isa most refreshing drink. Itis a Wuable Sddition to the list of American mineral waters. ONEITA SPRING COMPANY, UTICA, N.Y. J.M. BELL & CO., 31 Broadway, New York. THE CORRECT THING For Smokers susie anthesis’ 7 BUY THEIR CICARS DIRECT from the manufacturer. To all fashionable smokers we would heanily recommend the “‘La flor de Espana Defina,’”’ (the latest and best blend of tobaccos). 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