Judge, 1891-04-04 · page 13 of 17
Judge — April 4, 1891 — page 13: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** from Judge magazine, with minimal editorial cartoon content. The page features various commercial advertisements for late 19th-century products and services—razors, clothing, bicycles, patent medicines, and theatrical attractions. The few humor items present are brief **jokes** rather than political satire: - A joke about a woman buying a small hat "for Lent" (implying she won't attend theater during Lenten season) - A minister attempting mind-reading at a dinner party - A child asking about an uncle's complexion being "paint" rather than water-color These are gentle domestic humor, typical of Judge's lighter content—not political commentary. The **advertisements** reflect the era's consumer culture and include period remedies like treatments for rheumatism and hair loss, alongside legitimate goods like clothing and bicycles. The Jacobs Bros. tailoring advertisement and the Home Safety Razor represent typical commercial messaging of the 1890s. This page demonstrates how Judge mixed advertising with editorial content, rather than serving primarily as a political-satire publication on this particular issue.
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‘NOME SAFETY RAZOR. it is absolutely impossible to cut the face. It is specially adapted to the young just beginning to shave; to the old, with trembling hands, to those who have very tender faces, and to all who consider their time of value, as they can shave with ease, comfort and safety in five minutes or less, with it. EASTMAN & KRAUSS RAZOR CO., Sole Owners and Manufacturers, 98 CHAMBERS STREET, NEW YORK. Clara —"* What did you get such a small hat for!" Maud—"" 1 got this for Lent, You know I never go to the theatre in Lent."— Clothier and Furnisher. “We had some mind-reading at our house last night. Johnny hid a pin and the new minister tried to fi it.” ** And did he succeed?" “Ob, yes; he found it when he sat down,”— New York Herald. Mamma, what a lovely color Uncle What’ kind of paint does he put_on Mamma (grimly) —"* Never mind, my dear, But T can tell you this, that it is not a water-color.""—Pitts- burg Bulletin, Florence — As spring approaches you will need @ tonic. Greet India Pale Ale, Double Stout and Half-and-Half you will find pure malt beverages. “These cigars Havana else,” “No? By the way, where is Havana?” "i don’t know exactly; but, hideiog from. our tobacco consignments, I should say it was somewhere near I-an- caster.”— Philadelphia Tics. ALLSOPP’S RED HAND * sr: BOTTLED BY THE BREWERS IN ENGLAND. HIGHEST DE IMPOR “We deal in nothing RTED. SOLD EVERYWHERE, T will mail free to any sufferer a szpage pamphlet, which tells RHEUMATISM aces ramet Soa cause ofthe palo, and how to obtain a cure, Address F.W. KIMBALL, 3 Union Square, New York. “HOW TO WIN AT CARDS, DICE, ETC. A sure thing, sent free ‘any ‘one on ‘receipt of 4c. stamps to pay postage. “Address oF call in person, MOR SUYDAM, 23 Union ag.,NewYork, Sound, Constable AS C, D. & J. ANDERSON’S SCOTCH ZEPHYRS Unsurpassed by any cotton fabric. Novel designs and artistic colorings. Unequalled for durability and wear, FRENCH PRINTED CAMBRICS, CHEVIOTS AND SHIRTINGS. fee H 19h st. NEW YORK. OVERMAN WHEEL CO., MAKERS, CHICOPEE FALLS, MASS. Q0sToR, WASHINGTON, COKER’ Sn FRANCIBCD. ALG. SPALDING a BROS Gpésial agents Chicago, New York and Phil BEST NEW YORK ATTRACTIONS. | ACADEMY. Denm 8 The Old Homestead.” Matinées Wednesday and Saturday. HARRIGAN'S THEATRE. _M. W. Hanxy, Manager. “Reilly and the gon." Matinges Wednesdays and Saturdays, PROCTOR'S THEATRE. 234 ST. Mat. at ap. RECEIVED from adver Using in Junge's Lemnany Monthly, Magazine of Present circulation 75,000." Rates of application GREAT RESULT Fun. iE NEW i 1880 METEOR. SCIOPTICON. GEL i Ghent InvenTiON o EVERY Gh aS 5 HA FAMIN “snout tA ve cas. out uF KE! raphe ae > STEPHEN F. WHITMAN & t-luventors ano SoLe MANS, 1 Leica EARL & WILSON'S -COLLARS & CUFFS T IN THE WORLD * Mr. Wilkinson's Widows, Evenings at Cis Now GONSUMPTI olf, KOCH, Bri NCHITIS’ amo Bacillicidal Saturation 6 NEW YORK BACILLICIDE CO. 0. (Lang Dept Deptt 1 % i aims Su DRESS COATS & VESTS TO ORDER, IN. CLAY'S DIAGONALS THESE GOODS ARE SOFT FINISHED AND WON'T GLOSS. SPRING SUITS IN NEAT SILK MIXTURES. TO ORDER SPRING OVERCOATS TO ORDER, $ | 8 DIAGONALS IN ALL THE LATEST SHADES. KERSEYS, A FULL LINE OF SAMPLES WITH EASY SELF-MEASUREMENT GUIDE SENT ON APPLI- CATION FREK OF CHARGE. Our Goods Will Stand Expert Inspection. JACOBS BROS., 229 BROADWAY, opposite Post-Office, 152 and 154 BOWERY, cor. Broome Street, ‘The stutterer is certain to break his word.— Yonkers Gazette, ** To church, to church !" the parson cries ; ‘To church each fair one goes ; The old they go to close their eyes, The young to eye their clothes. —New England Magazine, Pozzoni’s Complexion Powder produces a soft and beautiful skin ; it combines every element of beauty and purity. LWELL CYCLE UROPEAN TOURS Personally, conducted — Ragland, France, § | many and Hel folland. First class. Gur Ne’ faves New York syst or partial ELWELL® Hedrss, PORTLAND, MAINE, THE EACLE THE EASIEST RUNNING BICYCLE 1M THE WORLD, ‘arSpeed, Comfort and Safety, AGENTS WANTED. Large Iilustrated Catalogue sent Free to any Address. THE EAGLE BICYCLE MFG. CO., erasro: te . ‘conn, JOHN HM, WOODBURY, Dernatilogin, 125 W, 424 St.,N.¥, City. Woodbury’s Facial Soap For the Skin and Scalp. edrpunarits Bat Ee cg es ont of all diseases of ‘At Drugaiste or by mail, Price es YY FOR CATARRH.—Best. P1803 REMEDY. FOR. re Cold TR Head te fas Ho ean ‘Cheapest. Eastest to use, sure 1s certain. For CATARRH tis an Ointment, of which s small particle 18 ils, Price, te, Hold Dy 4 463, to'the eesent by mi . cxenane, Warren, Pa. comicbooks.com