Judge, 1890-04-26 · page 15 of 16
Judge — April 26, 1890 — page 15: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not satire or political commentary. It features: **Main Advertisement:** Van Houten's Cocoa dominates the top, claiming to be "the foremost cocoa of Europe, the coming one of America" with highest awards. The tagline promises it "goes farthest" with largest worldwide sales. **Secondary Ads:** - "Anti-Kum-Off" window shade product - Pleasant Valley Wine Co. champagne - College/school shade offer **Editorial Content:** "The China-Closet" is a sentimental poem about household breakage—dishes breaking in a china cabinet—likely playing on domestic anxiety and the expense of household goods. It's gentle humor about everyday domestic life rather than political satire. **Bottom Image:** A candid street photograph (unclear caption) showing what appears to be working-class people. The page reflects *Judge* magazine's mix of advertising revenue, light domestic humor, and consumer products marketed to middle-class readers.
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> im CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARAARAAAAA! PURE, THE FOREMOST COCOA OF EUROPE, HIGHEST AWARDS AT SOLUBLE, THE COMING ONE OF AMERICA. THE PRINCIPAL EXHIBITIONS. Delicious. _ Easily Digested—Made Instantly. F The Original—Take no other. “Best & Goes Farthest—Largest Sale in the World—Once Tried, Always Used.” S i> VV VV VVVVVV VV VV VV VV VV VV VV VV VY VO, NVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVo | OAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Some of the Maine papers are advocating a ‘* Maine ha PLEASANT VALLEY WINE CO. car” to traverse the country and advertise the products of the pine-tree state, The idea is a good one. The > A lttie accident frontispiece of the exhibit should be a big cake of gal- RHEIMS, which has occurred } vanized ice.—Augusta (Me.) Journal. ‘millions of times, and : pis ESE aUe: af STEUBEN CO., which happens now | and then in every THE CHINA-CLOSET. i house. - Sing a sorig of china, a closet deep and wide— WEW YORK. | Rows and rows of dishes setting side by side ; R When the door is open ‘tis goodly to behold Dainty shining crystal—the tea-set white and gold. | Grandma's blue-sprigged china on the upper shelf (Grandma used to wash it and dry each piece herself), oh nyIS ie ie dacs Cas | Hoping, poor old lady, if living not to see, ‘That future generations might from the cups drink tea. pagne produced in Sing a song of breakage, a closet deep and wide— | America, 208 compares. fa Cracked and broken dishes setting side by side ; vorably with European When the door stands open ‘tis awful to behold ! vies Fragmentary crystal—the tea-set minus gold. uy Grandma’s blue-sprigged china—search well the upper A. Natural, Genuine shelf ; | ‘ Not a piece to tell the tale of its shattered self. Champagne, fermented in Well is it for grandma she has not lived to see! the bottle, two years being Those ‘quaintly-fashioned teacups wiil never more hold oe NN : : . Wine. Sing a song of Bridget—of Mary Ann, of Kate— new chades, They only cost « trifle. The coming, going, restless tide who form the family Our Sweet and Dry Ca- House Canvasscrs Wanted in fate, i Ni wh where the shade makers are not Heaps of sea-washed wreckage strewn along the shore 2 jusands of families buy them for sbades Tell of devastating storms when the [ury's o'er. | ON ae BY] our Wines, made from se- iready Up. For outfit and terms address Ly - > d Softly close the closet door—shattered treasures hide; | : pret yep eens ‘Tux Paterson Novetty MANUPACTURING Compan, ‘There's no balm to heal these wounds, though we search RS z Sole Manufactarers, Paterson, N. J. iid. wide. : I) Wines. ibe “ScHOOL. GearNia) z Balm will not heal china-ware, nor the sad heart rent ; WIOLLEGE, AND SCHOOL, Utica, NV. Ella Wheeler | Nothing now remains to do but to try cement ! Trial order: 6 montts, 23 cents, Specimen free.” = —Good Housekeeping. Apove. tawba and Port are, like all Fox Pricks, Avpumss as comicbooks.com