Judge, 1890-12-13 · page 17 of 18
Judge — December 13, 1890 — page 17: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising with marginal humor content**. The main cartoons are brief comic snippets: 1. **"Girl in Blue to Ditto in Green"** — A social commentary joke about gender relations. A woman deliberately makes a male clerk fetch items from high shelves as revenge because he didn't offer her his seat on a streetcar the previous day. The satire targets petty gender tensions and the expectation (unusual for the era) that men should yield seats to women. 2. **"Excursionist to Captain"** — Dark humor about a cheap excursion boat's poor safety standards. The captain admits they can't afford accidents because the fares are too low—implying the vessel is dangerously substandard. 3. **"Jinkins" joke** — Racial humor (containing period offensive dialect) about a Black man's good nature being mistaken for lack of sense. The bulk of the page comprises advertisements for products (roofing, cigars, soaps, books, organs) and Franco-American canned soup, which includes a testimonial allegedly from Sir Erasmus Wilson, a renowned dermatologist, about soap's benefits for skin.
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‘A Kansas farmer recently sent this rather mixed or- der toa merchant in the county town: ‘*Send me a sack of flour, five pounds of cofe and one pound of tee. My wife gave birth to a big baby boy last night, also five pounds of corn-starch, a screw-driver and a fiy-trap. It weighed ten pounds and a straw hat.” Girl in blue to ditto in green—"* Why did you make him haul all those goods from the top shelf if you haven't your pocket-book along?" Girl in green— “Why, the mean fellow was in a car yesterday and never offered me his seat, though I-looked right at him, and I was bound to get even.”"—Pailadelphia Record. 1800 by Lum Smith's Ages? Herald, Phila., Po. SPECIAL BILL POSTERS WANTED Fuentes, Manetararery, se "Pie ‘arly Wind at ewante fow such “ads."as Bra wart ind for.” 4 lined an below (Brum 193) Hetate ote jy aala ep a papers, . ia irenghet Bie Busetbark ant rer: ‘Aedreca WHA PRICE $6.00. ‘THE AUTOPMONE Co., Ithaca, N. ¥. ROOFING GUM-ELASTIC ROOFING FELT costs only $2.00 per too square feet. Makes a good roof for years, and anyone can put ition. Send stamp for sample and full particulars. GUM ELASTIC bene lo COMPANY, 39 and 41 WEST BROADWA‘ NEW YORK. TOOAL AGENTS WANTED: “STOLEN AMERICA.” A Powerfal and Fascinating Story of the Bermudas! BY ISOBEL HENDERSON FLOYD. Shows the dangerous nearness of Bermuda (Eng- land's greatest Naval Stronghold) to the American Shore Necessity of Coast Defenses. Should be read by every loyal American. _Issued by CASSELL PUBLISHING COMPANY, New York. illustrations, 1 vol., 12mo, Paper, 50 Cents; Cloth, 75 Cents. FREE! WATCH AND. 150 | CIGARS Yes, The Havana Cigar oe Agents, Winsion, N. Coto lo oduce their great " Nickel Cigars, will send to any merchant onsumer. C. O, D., by express (with privilege of examinae sample lot of iso Cigars for $5.25 (retall value, $7.50), and in the same package a gold-filled stem-winding watch, ac- companied by the manufactorer’s guarantee to wear 20 years. Wonderfully Fascinating. THE NEW CAME REDOUBT FOR OLD AND YOUNG. SOLD BY ALL TOY DEALERS. PRICE, $1.00. A Success, Yes. them a better sou you might think, uGitgatarny! Mock Tertla Og fa, Feat och Beaton ‘alien a Peart Tapioca” “It is a craze,” some grocers say, surprised that they. sell in a day as many canned soups as they used to in a week. A craze? No. But not surprising, for our sales indicate that people believe that we are giving and at less cost of time, trouble and money, than the: can produce at home. Be sure you as for and receive acan of ours, otherwise ou also, that “it isa craze” and that there is nothing in it. 1, Tomato, Chicken jatanier, "Opitothe-timer Grocers Beep them. A sample can will be sent on receipt of the price of postage, 14 cents, The Franco-American Food Co., 42 West Broadway, New York. and Why. A ,wonderful increase ? Parée of mn Broth, Excursionist (to the captain of a-cheap excursion boat) —'*Any danger of the boat blowing up, captain?” Captain —" Not in the least. We can't afford to blow people up at these low rates."— Texas Siftings. “«Jinkins is er mighty good-natured man,” said one colored citizen to another. ‘I doan’ know. Some- times I 'spected dat he didn’t hab sense ernuf ter know when ‘twus time ter git mad."— Washington Post. ‘There is no Appeal beyond Ceesar! ” The late world-renowned Dermatologist, Sir ERASMUS WILSON, r.rs., The FIRST AND ONLY President of the Royal College of Surgeons who ever gave a public Testimonial, and the following is THE ONLY TESTIMONIAL HE EVER GAVE, “If it be well to wash the skin—and we never heard the proposition questioned—it is well also that we should be familiar with the means by which that purpose may be most efficiently attained, “We once knew a beautiful woman, with a nice complexion, who had never washed her face with soap all her life through ; her means of polishing were, a smear of grease or cold cream; then a wipe, and then a lick with rose water. Of course we did not care to look too closely after such an avowal, but we pitied her, for soap is the food of the skin— Soap is to the skin what Wine is: to the stomach, @ generous stimulant. It not only removes the dirt, but the layer which carries the dirt; and it promotes the displacement of the old cuticle to make way for the new, to increase the activity of change in the skin, Now turn we to Toilet Soaps and there we find @& name engraven on the memory of the oldest inhabitant—PEARS. PEARS’ SOAP] an article of the nicest and most careful manufacture, and the most refreshing and agreeable of balms to the skin.” FLEss & RIDGE PRINTING Co., FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. comicbooks.com