Judge, 1890-06-21 · page 15 of 16
Judge — June 21, 1890 — page 15: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertisements** with short humorous filler content typical of Judge magazine. The main satirical pieces are brief: 1. **"Consider the lilies"** joke: A Boston Herald quote about expensive lilies becomes a segue to advertise inexpensive wall plaster—the humor is in the abrupt commercial pivot. 2. **Three short jokes**: One mocks racing "tip" sellers who profit by selling advice rather than using it themselves; another features a rural Vermont woman shocked by a Colonel Ingersoll lecture (likely referencing the famous atheist lecturer's controversial views); a third jokes about milking cows. 4. **"Oldest inhabitant" verse**: Plays on the cliché figure of small-town folklore. 5. **Side-whiskers observation**: Suggests that well-groomed, dignified men with side-whiskers must be wealthy and leisured—busy working men can't maintain them. The page is overwhelmingly **product advertisements** (cocoa, wall plaster, shutters, soap) with minimal editorial cartooning.
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JUDGE PURE, SOLUBLE, Delicious. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA THE FOREMOST COCOA OF EUROPE, THE COMING ONE OF AMERICA. Easily Digested—Made Instantly. QUTEN'S | GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA |THE PRINCIPAL EXHIBITIONS, ‘The Original—Take no other. “Best & Goes Farthest—Largest Sale in the World—Once Tried, Always Used.” HIGHEST AWARDS AT VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVO Svvvvivvvvv VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV VV VV VV VWe Consider the lilies—how very expensive they are.— Boston Herald, [TIS ECONOMY to do a thing well ia the first place anc avoid baving todo it over, therefore plaster your house with ESTRUCTIBLE ADAMANT. WALL PLASTER. IT SAVES CONSTANT REPAIRING. DAVIS Shape ADJUsTeR ano WINDOW LOCK HAD JUSTS SHADE TO -ANY POSITION! | " yicnlY ATTACHE, TO SHADES ALREADY IN" USE OPENED Of CLOSED Price Only $1.00. For Sale Eediyaners. ordering always sta ensions of upper sash ‘and Tength of Shade-Roll from up to tp. Sent free on receipt of price. DAVIS ADJUSTABLE SHADE CO. ow York. The T. and |, SHUTTER. Males’ Patent. FITS ANY LENS. CORRECT 6KY EXPOSURE. TIME OR INSTANTANEOUS. FAST OR SLOW. LOW PRICE. “AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS or PROFESSIONALS will find it does work equal to a $20 ‘shutter. No danger of accidental exposure; simple. durable, light and positive. Always ready, as it swings both ways. TWO SIZES—price the same for either, No. 1 for fens tubes 1 to a inch diameter. No. 2 for 1 inch and under. Sample by mail, POST PAID, on receipt oI Sample by mail, with pneumatic release, on receipt of. Extra Spring for extra rapid work . J. B. GOLT & GOo., P. 0. BOX 2773, 16 BEEKMAN ST., NEW YORK CITY, MAKERS OF MAGIC LANTERNS, STEREOPTICONS, ETC. Meotivn thi paper. Look not upon the hydrant-water when it is of the | consistency of soup and leaveth its deposit of sediment in the cup, for at the last it smelleth of innumerable things and tasteth like sin. —Chicago Tribune, Blinks—" You don't mean to say you've found a sure way to make money at the races?" Jinks—"'Si as shooting. [never fail.” Blinds —“* My! m| you buy tips?" /inds—"' No; I sell them."—Werw York Weekly. ‘A good old lady, the even tenor of whose way had been ‘long kept undisturbed in a secluded hamlet in Vermont, spent the past winter with relatives in a city which sustained a lecture-course, and she was per- suaded to attend the lectures. ‘The first lecture was by Colonel Ingersoll. She was much displeased but held her peace. ‘The second was by Mrs. Jenness- Miller on dress-reform; and when the old lady re- turned from the hall, she exclaimed in despair, “* What ! no hell and no chemise? What's anybody going to do?"—Albany Journal, Milkman (to applicant for situation) —'* You have had experience, have you?" Applicant—"* Oh, yes, sit. Milkman—"On which side of a cow do you sit to milk?" Applicant—"* The outside, sir."— Harper's Bazar, ‘The “‘ oldest inhabitant" dies every day And the “oldest inhabitant” still lives, ‘tis said— For the next to the oldest the oldest becomes When the “oldest inhabitant's” dead. —Binghamton Republican, “Tt is a fact that side-whiskered men are seldom seen young and busy communities,” remarks the Atlanta, .. Constitution, There is a good reason for it. whiskers are expensive. ‘They make a man look digni- fied and lead him to cultivate slow ways and a careful style of costume. In order to keep up first-class side- whiskers a man must have leisure and money If he gets up early and rushes around town in a bob-tailed coat he will look out of place, and people will stare at him with pained curiosity.—Zroy Times. recommend friends. fone year, finest made for all household purposes. Inst a life-time. is especially valuable to us. a family). sell only direct from factory to family. now ; you run no risk. $27 Some people prefer to send cash wi fdagar Spoon in the box (in addi Sider is feceived yall other orders Six SoLip SILVER GIVEN GRATIS TO EACH READER OF JUDGE who orders a Mammoth ‘Sweet Home” POO OOOO CS SPOONS Box, and agrees to ‘Sweet Home” Soap—provided, of course, the soap is found all we claim—to three or more ‘The box contains 100 cakes (full size) “Sweet Home’ Soap, enough to last an average family Also five boxes—3 cakes each—exquisite toilet soap, six boxes boraxine, perfumery, toilet requisites, etc., etc., but best of all You get the Six Solld Tes Spoons, (given to Introduce our Soaps) plain pattern, will Such ‘These spoons are so valuable we cannot possibly afford to put them in every box we ship, but we are giving them only for a limited time to the readers of a few hi 8 your grandmother us igh-class publications, whose influence "The price of entire box complete is six dollars, payable after thirty days’ trial (only one box sold to If not satisfactory, we take goods back and make no charge for what you have used. (No middlemen.) We are reliable ; ask your banker. We Order spoons and all the other extras) lied in their restlar turn. Mention dual Pears Soap been established in London 100 YEARS both as, a COMPLEXION and as a SHAVING SOAP, has obtained 19 INTERNATIONAL AWARDS, and is now sold in every city of the world. It ts the purest, cleanest, finest, The most economical, and therefor The best and most popular of ‘all soaps for GENERAL TOILET PuRPoses; and for use in the Nursery it is recom- mended by thousands of intelligent mofhers throughout the civilized world, because while serving as a cleanser and detergent, its emollient properties revent the chafing and discomforts to which infants are so liable. PEARS SOAP can now be had of nearly all Druggists in the United States, BUT BE SURE THAT YOU GET THE GENUINE, as /hereare worthless imilations, LE PRESS OF FLESS é RIDGE, FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. comicbooks.com