Judge, 1892-10-15 · page 15 of 16
Judge — October 15, 1892 — page 15: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is predominantly **advertising for John H. Woodbury's dermatology services** (125 West 42nd St., New York). Rather than traditional satirical cartoons, it uses repetitive, emphatic advertising copy to mock social anxieties and vanity. The humor operates through **exaggeration and social shaming**: Woodbury's ads relentlessly catalogue skin and appearance flaws—pimples, dandruff, red noses, superfluous hair, warts—claiming each makes one socially repulsive. Lines like "MOTHERS DON'T LIKE you to kiss their children" and "Your friends are laughing at your red nose" weaponize embarrassment to sell treatments. The satirical edge lies in how **extreme and absurd the claims become** (dandruff makes siblings keep distance; pimples mean "you have few friends"). This appears to be Judge magazine mocking the aggressive fear-based marketing tactics of the era, where advertisers exploited insecurities about appearance and social acceptance. The surrounding ads for Ayer's Sarsaparilla, Knox Hats, and other products reflect typical 1870s-era advertising on the page.
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FOR THE SAKE OF THE ONE who sits beside you in the car get off your Face. those Pimples THE PITTINGS on your face give you a coarse, low look; interfere with your success in Susiness, too. Don't you see you are standing in your own light? Send for book. MOTHERS DON'T LIKE you to kiss their children if you have a greasy, pitted face, and the grown-up daughter doesn't Felish it, either, Have your face straightened out. BAD QDORS ABOUT THE BODY can be blotted out entirely. See to it that you have them blotted out. IF YOU MAVE PIMPLES, you have fow friends. ‘They are ashamed of being seen with you. ‘They are afraid of catching something. OUN H. WOODBURY will give you a friendly greeting. Call or write. CONSTIPATION, its cure and treatment ; not aphysic. Send for book. ARSENIG, its effects on the skin and the blood. Read the article in book. FACE-STEAMING, the latest fad. used at home. Price $3. Send for book. THAT NERVOUS FEELING one has when riding in the cars is indicative of trouble, Send {or t45-page book. PIMPLES HERE AND PIMPLES THERE, pimples even in your hair. It’s enough to drive ne wild, Why do you stand it? ‘The remedy is here, right at hand, here! now! to-day! Write Can be THE BEARD LINE, If the hair is above the beard line or between the eyes it can be perma~ rently removed. IF PIMPLES LIVE and thrive on your face or body it is because you let them, When you peglect the skin you feed the pimples, and. pim- ples are always hungry; they absolutely live on Sou, whole families of them. YOUR FRIENDS are laughing at your red ou don't catch them at it; they laugh od your back. “Get square.” "Have JOHN 1. WOODBURY’ pat it in its natural condition. SPOTTED FACES, birthmarks, India-ink, ckles, ete, People running about with any of c above labels will please express themselves rite to JOHN H. WOODBURY, Dermatolo- 125 West 42d st DON'T THROW YOUR FACE AWAY. No if you are tired of it. Don't let it go until ve Fead Dt. WOODBURY'S book oF called NOSES RED and noses blue, no knife should cut that nose on you, because JOHN H. WOOD- LURY can make the color of your nose perfectly patural without using @ kite, YOUR BREATH IS TERRIGLE. I think Wve Catarrh or dropping of the mucous mat- {er in your throat. For the sake of others who Ei geaide you, call or write Dermatologist JOHN, HK. WOODBURY, 125 West gad st., N. ©, City, DANDRUFF ON YOUR COAT-COLLAR AND SHOULDERS makes you repulsive to brothers. sisters, friends and every one. The kitls keep you at a distance, too. CORPULENOY Pills reduce flesh ten pounds per month, with diet. Send for book. ATARRIHL—Read the chapter on it in the book published by JOHN H. WOODBURY. TUE NEW FACIAL INSTRUMENT is a licabie toall fleshy parts of the body, and should pe on the toilet table of every lady and gentle- IT'S ANNOYING TO HAVE a clerk or a {tend in your office come up and brush off your shoulders and say: Aha! Dandruff, eh? 125 West ad st. is JOHN H. WOODBURY'S address. He'll Stop that annoyance. YOUR EYES AND CHEEKS ARE SUNKEN In fact, your general a} Nervous Debidigu Seperal appearance indicates YOU HAVE NO USE FOR WARTS. Horses have warts, but you're nota horse. Then don't Rive the warts SUPERFLUOUS HAIR on the female face looks badly and makes the patient bashful. BIRTHMARKS CAUSE PEOPLE to look ar'you Ine scrange way. and ask you embarrass: Mig questions: “ont tind them, Sut-call or write'(no. surgical operation) JOHN H. WOOD- BURY. IF YOUR EYEBROWS were a little thicker you would be much preter, “it ean be done, YOU BLUSH because you have a birthmark on you. Hyerybgdy sce what cia: and talks about it. Get rid of it once. (No surgical operations.) SORE, WEAK AND WATERY EYES can be made Drght, pore and Cleat. You can throw away your blue e: gases: after consulting JOHN “H. WOODBURY. YOUR EARS are ill-shaped. ‘They stand out too far from the head. Did you ever think of it? ‘WRINKLES WIPED OUT in short order by a iiss who bas beraat ht fortwenty years, Walk. fag testimonials of what 1 have dove in ibis line can be seen on any avenue in New York City at sty tine SCARS AND BLEMISHES smoothed over so nicely that a hand-giass and an electric light ‘won't had the place where they once were: ‘THAT SUNKEN LOOK makes you look like acorpse. You can't afford to take an ocean voy ‘age, So call or write JOHN H. WOODBURY. TATTOO MARKS ERADICATED. You know those “]-wish-I-hadn't-done- it’ blue fharks on your bands and arms. MOLES ARE CARRIED ABOUT a whole lifetime by some people. It's ridiculous! it ought to be stopped. I hereby prociaim a law Senin it. SOMETHING 18 APT TO TURN UP any misute on yous face or boay when you be Bhood disease it Keepe you guessing contino: FLOWERS HAVE TO BF ENCOURAGE: so doesn mustache. People always glggie at tho Sipnt'or a wicktyclooking mustache fs a sort ofa “he-would-if-he-could-but-he-can't kind of giggle.” * TO BE A REAL MAN you must have a mus- tache a good-sized mastache. itis my business (oake Sec grow on yout Want one? FRECKLES make your face look like atarget, of ab if some one had spattered paint on you Getinem ow quick before they turn into large tmoth-patches. THOSE HAIRLESS SPOTS on your scalpare a disease called Alopecia, or falling of the hai: It can be cured. FRECKLES ARE: CALLED “ DEVIL SPOTS In some counties, but the innocent suffer from these “devil spots” as well as the wicked. Let me clean ‘em out! Don't let ‘em Het seated. FAIR FACES FRECKLE® and fade fast. Powder won't cover RP. freckles. It's been tried End itwont work, The freckles peek out and grin, and do everything but talk. JOUN H, WOODBURY CAN create a panic among that jot of freckles in a jiffy. FLESH WORMS become {rightened and run away at the sight of JOHN H. WOODBURY'S remedies, and that they never come back is the dest part of it. Send for book. ‘A YELLOW SKIN tells its own story. It has come PPPS like a ghost in the night, and now, JOHN H. WOODBURY must be consulted. PUSTULES ; asickening kind of aname and a sickening kind of a d Pustules are rockon out in one round by JOHN H. WOOD- A sample cake of soap and 145-page book sent sealed for 10 cents, illustrated, on skin, scalp, nervous and blood diseases, JOHN H. WOODBURY, DERMATOLOGIST, 125 WEST 42D ST., NEW YORK CITY. Consultation Free at Office or by Letter. Established 1870. Jagson says there are lots of men who start Elmira Gazette, John L. Sullivan says in his book of reminis- ceaces that Queen Victoria on more than one occasion turned round to look at him when her carriage passed him on the Windsor highway. In his day John L. turned many a woman's head.— Utica Observer. “My mother-in-law never understands a joke,” says a correspondent. ‘*I finish a good story, and she always looks up and asks, * Well. what did the other man say? As she can't appreciate wit, I was surprised to receive a let- ter from her a few weeks after my.little boy had swallowed a farthing, in which the last words were, ‘Has Emest got over his finan- cial difficulties y st? "—Zxchange, at the stock-yards in that city got into a heated discussion the other day over the law of supply and demand, and one of them said, “There isn’t any use in arguing with a man who doesn’t understand the elementary principles. You don’t even know what a syllogism is.” ‘*I'll bet fifty dollars,” replied the other, purple with rage, ‘that our packing-house turns out more cans of ‘em in one day than the one you're working in does in a month.” JOSEPH GILLOTT'S STEEL PENS. GOLD MEDAL, paris ExPosiTion, 1889. THE MOST PERFECT OF PENS. 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