Judge, 1890-11-29 · page 11 of 20
Judge — November 29, 1890 — page 11: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily a **product advertisement for Liebig Extract**, a meat extract/bouillon product popular in the late 19th-early 20th century. The image shows a domestic kitchen scene with a woman cooking. The satirical "poem" (typical of Judge's style) praises Liebig Extract as transforming housework into domestic bliss. It celebrates the modern housewife who—thanks to convenient cooking products like Liebig—maintains a spotless kitchen ("no stain e'er clings") while presiding peacefully over her domain. The advertisement's humor and appeal target middle-class aspirations: the product promises to modernize household labor, freeing women from drudgery to be "bright" and cheerful rather than exhausted. The elaborate praise of Liebig ("king of all") is typical of period advertising hyperbole, humorously framed as devotional verse. This reflects contemporary attitudes about domestic convenience products as liberating innovations, though from a modern perspective, it simply reinforces women's domestic confinement.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
EXTRACT OF HERE at the kitchen table stands The fairest cook I know— She who presides the household o'er, From roof all down below. With bright, sweet face and white, small hands, For there no stain e’er clings— care is ever mistress there— She deftly bakes and sings. HAPPINESS. Why should she not? The days are gone When cooks must rule the roast. The housewife reigns the kitchen o'er, Just where she's needed most. ‘The magic Extract tells the tale Of meals that never mar The soulful peace of home, and is The modern family jar. Ob, Mr. Liebig! thanks to thee, | And to thy company too, The home that has thy Extracts has ‘The bliss no ancients knew ! Peace reigns therein from early morn Until the midnight call ; Each hour has Liebig in its praise, And crowns him king of all.