Judge, 1892-04-30 · page 16 of 18
Judge — April 30, 1892 — page 16: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, with brief humorous anecdotes scattered throughout—typical of Judge magazine's format. The main advertisements promote consumer products: cocoa (W. Baker & Co. emphasizes their cocoa is "absolutely pure" without chemical additives—addressing contemporary food-safety concerns), bicycles (Warwick), chocolate (Menier), pills (Beecham's), trains, and clothing. The small jokes reflect early 1900s domestic humor: one anecdote shows a child's cheeky back-talk to his mother about punishment; another portrays a preacher as a failure at oratory but accidentally skilled at inducing sleep in his congregation—satirizing boring sermons. The page reflects **Progressive Era anxieties** about food purity and industrial processing. Baker & Co.'s emphasis on avoiding chemicals and "patent processes" suggests consumers worried about adulteration—a legitimate concern that eventually led to food safety regulation. No specific political cartoons or caricatures of identifiable public figures appear here.
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ASK VOUR GROCER FOR CHOCOLAT Annual Sales Exceed 33 MILLION Lbs. Write for Samples. Sent Free. Monier, Union Sa..N. Y. MADE BY THE DUTCH Cocoa PROCESS aro ‘“Treated with Carbonate of Soda, Magnesia, Potash or Bicarbonate of Soda.” ‘The use of chemicals can be readily detected by the peculiar odor from newly ‘opened packages, and also from a glass of water in which a small quantity of chemically treated cocoa has been placed and allowed to remain for several da; For more than One Hundred Years the house of Walter Baker & Co. have made their Cocoa Preparations ABSOLUTELY PURE, using NO Patent Process, Alkalies, or Dyes. W. BAKER & CO., Dorchester, Mass. WARWIEK BUILT ON HONOR WARWICK CYCLE Bertie had been forbidden under severe penalties to | play in the rain-barrel. The other day his mamma and grandmother caught him splashing away in the barrel fi high glee. His mamma's face hardened, bat the grandmother's kind heart led her to make a plea for mercy for the offender. Dertie heard the plea, and when his mamma asked him sternly what she should do to a little boy who didn’t mind what was told him he answered promptly, ‘I fink you had better mind your muvver.""—Zndianapolis News. END 1. fora Lirrux Casino” Base Batt Scwepuce to Emil Grossman & Co., Cleveland, Ohio. Quester—"* Do you call Dr, Ranter a man who, as a preacher, is eminently fitted to his calling?” Jester— ‘Well, as to that, he reveals elements of fitness and unfitness.” Quester—* Please explain your meaning.” Jester—" Why, as a pulpit orator he is a failure; but Jpdging from the number of people T observe nodding in his church during a discourse I should assume him to be a great composer."—Beston Courier, fH eeresereen ane treaeeeteneen renee poeta, f EEC A GUINEA A BOX." COVERED WITH A TASTELESS AND SOLUBLE COATING. For SICK HEADACHE, H H i Dizziness, or Swimming in the H i 1 3 lead, Win Pain and Spasment the Stomach, Pats In the Back, Gravel, and Flying Paina in the Body, Rheumatism, ete. Take four, five, or even six of Beecham's Pills, and in mine cases out of tem they will give relit/ in twenty minutes : for the pill will go direct to and remove the cause, the cause being no more nor less than wind, to- ether with poisonous and noxious vapors, and some- times unwholesome food, Of all dry New Teeseens tenneenns pees, Price 26 cents a box. TERE cepa sestenal vreet 20 8 revevoveute teesenoerenenest ‘The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad is the only line running Pullman's Perfected Safety Vestibuled trains, with chair, parlor, sleeping and dining car service between Cincin- ‘ati, Indianapolis and Chicago. Exact Sise. EQUAL TO ANY. rod oO, rt e We ey for sample box of 10, by mail, to JACOB STAHL, JR., runswick Qu should buy of your dealer: if he does not ki Perfecto. them send 81,00 168th Street and 3d Avenue, New York City. —UNION<CYCLES SURE WINNERS, / SOLID TRAINS BETWEEN New York and Chicago, ‘Via Chastangea Lake or Mlagara Palla, AX ENCHANTING PANORAMA OF MOUNT: PULLMAN CARs Berns, Niagara Yate, gor Cha: a4 ‘oronto, Chaa faague Lake, Cleveland, Cincinnati, aod ag D. 1. Roberts, Gen'l Pass, Agent. ene cerant dressing exquisitely ee skin, removes asa causes the cing Sod Bence Inthe for aera ‘All Dragglets or by Dall, 50 cts, BARCLAY & C0., 44 Stone Str, Now York, all im iscanes The palate is almost tickled with Scott’s Emulsion of cod- liver oil. The stomachknows nothing about it—it does not trouble you there. You feel it first in the strength it brings; it shows in the color of cheek and smoothing out of wrinkles. It was a beautiful thing to do, to cover the odious taste of cod-liver oil, evade the tax on the stomach, and take health by surprise. Let us send you a book on CAREFUL LIVING ; free, ‘Scorr & Bown 1 venue, NSPE Bowen, Chemists, 132 Soath sth Avenue, Your di Scots iver ae lruggist keeps bere ‘cod-lin “ SONG versus TALK, A fable, A prima-donna endowed with wondrous beauty and 2 sweet voice attracted the attention of a casino manager, who said unto himself, “If T can secure this renowned songstress of lovely face and form she will bring me a harvest.” But the watchful low comedians, fearing the dulcet notes of the song-bird would discount their cracked voices, devised much funny business, which caused the prima-donna to hie ; whereupon the comedians did crow with glee. Morat. seiNevet mind what you do, so long as you don’t get left. oral, Misses’ and Children’s Dresses. Ladies’ Silk and Flannel Wrappers, Sacques, and Tea-gowns. and Children’s COATS, JACKETS AND NEWMARKETS. SILK PETTICOATS. Paris and City-made Underwear. INFANTS’ OUTFITS, ready-made and to order. SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO ORDERS. Proadway K 19th ot, NEW YORE. WIESBADEN. HOTEL DU NORD. WILHELM STRASSE NEAR STATION. Cure-house and Koch n, Bath, Lift, ure-house pris itone Ritcnen” All the'good men did not live and all the good books were not written in the dim past, my son. We have plenty of good men yet, but they are not the fellows who try to impress the world with a sense of their saint- liness. A good man gocs right along sawing wood, thinking he is succeeding but indifferently well, and trying to do better.—Punxsutawney Spirit, Thank you.—Oit City Blizzard, access are trrByers Ravertising in Suage comicbooks.com