Judge, 1892-03-05 · page 14 of 18
Judge — March 5, 1892 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising**, with some brief comic anecdotes scattered throughout. The cartoons/jokes are short, contemporary witticisms typical of Judge magazine: - **"Cholly Bangs"** exchanges with Miss Cecil about shooting dogs—a light satire on upper-class affectation (Cholly's exaggerated speech pattern mocks wealthy "society" types). - **Domestic humor** about marriage, infidelity, and hats plays on gender roles and marital dynamics of the era. - **A Boston girl's Paderewski joke** mocks pretentious cultural attendance—she wishes to see the famous pianist's head "when it was a bud" (as a child), a nonsensical but innocent comment treated as cute. The bulk of the page features ads for **Van Houten's Cocoa**, **Victor Bicycles**, **Baker's Breakfast Cocoa**, **Great Western Champagne**, and railroad services. These ads reflect 1890s consumer goods and industrial progress. There is no significant political satire visible—this appears to be a typical late-19th-century magazine mixing lightweight social humor with extensive commercial advertising.
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“ Chops and to- mato sauce are ex- cellent, my dear’ Mrs. Bardell, but Let the liquid be Yan Hovten’s: Cocoa. Lis a glorious Restorative after A fatiguing jour- PERFECTLY PURE. VAN HOUTEN’S PATENT PROCESS tnereases by SPER CzNT. the solubility of the flesh-forming elements, making of the cocoa dean an easily digested, delicious, nourish- {ng and stimalating drink, readily assimilated evenby the most delicate. Ask your grocer for Vax HovTEx'sand tako nogubstitate. sg-Itnot obtainable enclose ‘Bets. to either Vax Hovrex & Zoox, 108, Keade Street, Now Yurk, or dS Wabash Ave. Sxleten aod ai lourex 4250 Weoden—'* So Spender is dead. 1 wonder if he left his wife anything?” Bulfinch—"'Oh, yes: a great plenty.” Weoden—'* Why, what?” Bulfinch—"* Nine children.""—Boston Courier. FINEST ‘CHAMPAGNE IN AMERICA. A HOME PRODUCT WHICH AMERI- CANS ARE ESPECIALLY PROUD OF. One that reflects the highest credit on the ‘country which produces it. NOW USED IN MANY OF FOR PARTICULARS, PRICES, ETC., Address PLEASANT VALLEY WINE CO., RHEIMS, Steuben Co., New York. WEST SHORE RAILROAD. (N.Y, C. & H. R. R. R, Co., Lesser.) : The Picturesque Route for Business | and Pleasure Travel —Vie— West Shore of World-famed Hudson River, and Through the Mohawk Valley, THROUGH TRAINS WITH ast Service for Albany, Utica, Syracuse, Rochester, Buffale, Risgars Fale Torostey Deut. Chigs, $e Louis ood al points west. Magaificent sleeping and drawing-room cars on all through Infcrmation regard Raliroad cal on of address HB. ae en Passenger Agent, 363 Broad wa} CE. Lastserr, General Basenger Agent, s Vanderbilt Avesue, CAF Write Sor copy of “Suburban Times.” issued monthly. Cholly Bangs—'' 1 intend shooting a vewy gweat deal | ~ The man who sells his services to another and then this season, Miss Cecil, but cawn't decide on the kind | sharpens private axes at his employer's expense is a be- of dog to buy.” Afiss Cecil (who shoots some)—"' Buy | trayer. He cannot be implicitly trusted in any relation a china dog; they're so easily broken, you know."— | of life.— Tray Press. American Field. “If I could only leave my experience to my son," said a worldly man, addressing his wife, ‘he would be better equipped than if he should inberit a million do- lars. “*What are you looking at?” asked his wi, Why, bless my life! that rascally st passed a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill on me. kansaw Traveller, stmninmennmnn Tyranny She—'*1 don't see how you can love me any longer. You are the most devoted husband in the world.” /e— “Well, my dear, why shouldn't I be?" She—"* Be- cause I disgrace you every time I go out wearing such an old hat.” (Sequel—a new hat, of course.) —Auffalo Express. fakir Are =| Victor Bicycles E =... to-day the leading wheels, and [7 inan as @~| have more genuine improvements than Palefies, ta, ig @~| all other makes. Mee ia tee ns Eleven years’ experience, brains, in Boros whe El is ; capital and the finest plant have com- tpleadia tno td a4 | <a bined to make Victors the best. They fa, Thee | = stand alone —above criticism. “Sept tn at. I I o~i : I @~| OVERMAN WHEEL co., A. G. SPALDING & BROS., [~@ ‘Special Accwrs, Ss Denver, CHICAGO, NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA. ~@ no 377777 No TN GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1878. W. BAKER & C0.’S Breaktast Cocoa Ras aaa ‘AMERICA’S GREATEST RAILROAD." nawiymrene [tae NAW YORK “Oh, mamma,” said a little Boston girl who was tak- en the other day to a Paderewski “function,” ** how I should like to have seen his head when it was a bud !" —New York Tribune, it ts soluble, FouR- No Chemicals pelt valeditirona TRACK BNTRAL has more than three times the TRUNK LINE strength of Cocoa mized with | Starch, Arrowroot or Sugar, and 1s therefore far more eco- omleal, costing less than one centacup. Itisdeliclous, noar- fablng, strengthening, EastLy piorsteD, and admirably adapted for tnvalida as well as for persons 10 = Sold by Grocers ev ‘W. BAKER &C0., CO, Dorchester, Mass. : mUDeaa RIVERS Operating the fastest and most service In ‘Al trains arrive at and depart from GRAND CENTRAL STATION, 4th Avenue and 42d Street, New York, Centro of Hotel and Residence Section. SHR ONLY RAILROAD STATION IN THR SITY OF wa A CHARMING OFFER. | °°2.2%2"" FLOWERS. FOR 1892. WE GIVE THE BEART SY os The offer which brings the greatest amount of pleosure to ery home at the smallest expense. Frank Leslie's Weekly or Zeitung (colored number), twelve times a year, including the Christmas number, $1.2 Graphological Chart, or Reading of your Character from your Handwriting, - : - = 100 Four Rose or four Chrysanthemum Plants, or 25 packets of choice flower-seeds, all from the famous seed- house of Peter Henderson & Co., NewYork, = + = = 5 5 5 5 + nag Totat, $3.50 We offer all these for $1.00 in advance. We will give an order on Peter Henderson & Co. for any one of the above collections, which is good until June 1, 1892. ARKELL WEEKLY CO., 110 FirtH AvENvE, New York, 16 comicbooks.com