Judge, 1890-03-29 · page 25 of 28
Judge — March 29, 1890 — page 25: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page consists primarily of **product advertisements** rather than satirical cartoons. The top features a testimonial letter from Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher (wife of the famous preacher) endorsing Allcock's Porous Plasters—a common 19th-century medical product. The letter appears designed to lend authority through her prominent name. The right side advertises Scott's Emulsion (cod liver oil), marketed to parents of rapidly-growing children, emphasizing health benefits for respiratory ailments. The lower third reproduces "The Judgment of Paris"—a classical painting by Rubens from London's National Gallery—as an advertisement for Pears Soap. The caption jokes that in 1889, Pears won the "only gold medal for soap," cleverly appropriating the famous mythological judgment (where Paris chose among goddesses) to promote their product. These ads reflect late-Victorian marketing: leveraging celebrity endorsements, classical allusions, and health claims to sell patent medicines and consumer goods.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
JUDGE Fac-Simile of Letter from MRS. HENRY WARD BEECHER, Recommending ALLGOGK’S POROUS PLASTERS. 40 Orange Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. , Feb. 11, 1890. “TI have used Allcock’s Porous Plasters for some years for myself and family and, as far as able, for the many sufferers who come to us for assistance, and have found them a genuine relief for most of the aches and pains which flesh is heir to. I have used Allcock's Porous Plasters for all kind of lameness and acute pain and, by frequent experiments, find that they ean control many cases not noticed in your circulars.” : The above is the only testimonial I have ever given in favor of any plaster, and if my name has been used to recommend any other it is without my authority or sanction. Aes, Hy Face Bectcher SoME CHILDREN GROWING Too FAST | BECOME LISTLESS, FRETFUL, WITHOUT, ENERGY, THIN AND \. WEAK. BUT YOU CAN FORTIFY PURE COD LIVER OIL HYPOPHOSPHITES OF LIME AND SODA. PALATABLE AS MILK. ‘They will take it as readily as any food, and an improvement in Health, Strength and Fiesh is noticed immediately. As a remedy for COUGHS, COLDS, BRONCHITIS, CONSUMPTION, SCROFULA AND ALL THROAT AND LUNG AFFECTIONS, In both the old and the young it is unequalled, SOLD BY DRUGGISTS ALL OVER THE WORLD, SCOTT & BOWNE, Manufactusing Chemists, NEW YORK, LONDON, BELLEVILLE, MILAN, BARCELONA, OPORTO, From fhe original painting by RUBENS in the Dalional Gallery, London. “THE JUDGMENT OF PARIS” IN 1889. PEARS THE ONLY GOLD MEDAL FoR SOAP. comicbooks.com