Judge, 1892-11-26 · page 16 of 18
Judge — November 26, 1892 — page 16: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily a **advertisements page** from an older American publication, not a political cartoon. The page contains various product ads from the late 19th or early 20th century, including cameras, cocoa, soap, whiskey, and health products. The only satirical content is a small dialogue labeled "Current Events" featuring two characters named Mabel and Esther. The joke mocks women's fashion: Esther asks why women wear dresses eight inches too long on the ground while holding them up twelve inches high—a critique of impractical Victorian-era dress conventions that required constant manual adjustment. The page's main value today is **historical**: it documents period advertising claims (cocoa's digestibility, "permanent" hair removal, obesity pills) that reveal era-specific medical misconceptions and marketing tactics now considered dubious or humorous by modern standards.
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The Junior Kodak Is the most compact camera made. It can be used with roll film or glass plates for either hand or tripod work. Fitted with focusing Index and register for exposures. Best Lens, Best Finish. $40.00 & $50.00. Send for New Catalogue. EastmanKodak Co. Rochester, N. Y Unlike the Dutch Process No Alkalies Other Chemicals aro used in tho Preparation of W. BAKER & C0.’S BreakfastCocoa which ts absolutely ‘pure and soluble. Ithas morethan three times tho strength of Cocoa mixed with Starch, Arrowroot or ‘Sugar, and $s far more eco- costing tess than one cent ac P. felicious, nourishing, and Zasit1 DIGESTED. ywhe W. BAKER & CO., Dorchester, Mass, THE TAP TELLS BS OWN STORY. But it may be well to add that itis a map of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, which road is the only one over which Electric Lighted, Steam Heated Ves- tibule trains—magnificently equipped—are run every day between Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Minneapolis (with a through Portland, Oregon), and also between Chicago, Sioux City and Omaha, In each sleeping-car berth there is an electric reading-lamp, which no other west- ern line uses, and it is the greatest inven- tion of the present progressive age. It is hardly necessary to say that our Dining Cars ‘are the finest in the world, but we make the assertion without fear of con- tradiction GEO, H. Ganneat Passencer Acent, HEAFFORD, CHICAGO, ILL. Leaves a Delicate and Lasting Odor. ‘AN IDEAL COMPLEXION 60AP. For sale by all Drag and Pancy Goods Dealers: or if anabieto procure this ful soup send Bie ia ‘amps and reoelve a cake by return mall TAS. 5. KIRK & CO., Chicago. dend $1.25, $2.10 oF $3.50 for a retail box, by ex Prepaid west of New Yori and east of Denver, of the best Candies in the World, put up ‘a handsome boxes. All sirictly pure. Suit” Able for presents. Try it once, Address GUN- THEI. Confectioner, 212 State SI leago. Mabel—"* Say, sister, can you tell me some- 1g?” Esther—" That depends. What is Mabel—"* Why do grown women wear their dresses eight “inches too long hold them up twelve inches too high ark Current Events, D. L. Dowo's HEALTH Exercis! Per Brats Wecbee 8 2 Terabe mal Vocai Cultare, OLD BLUE = RIBBON Whisky. A Strictly Pure, Old-fashioned Sour-mash Kentucky Whisky. Distilled, aged and bottled only by us. Its purity guaranteed. Put up one doren bottles ina case. Every bottle has blue ribbon attached bearing our signature. Barrel goods sold in Bond. Ask your dealer for it. Agents wanted. FIBLE & CRABB DISTILLING CO. Eminence, Ky. Avoid Damp and Obilly Booms. “CARBONITE” coat. CLEAN, NOT EXPLOSIVE. NO SMOKE. NO SMELL. NO GAs, Burne Anywhero WITHOUT OHIMNEY, DUT nest IN OCR PORTABLE HEATERS, CARRIAGE WARMERS. soip ay THE AMERICAN SAFETY FUEL CO., EET,N.Y. THE MOST QOMPORTABLE ROUTE BETWEEN Chicago and Buffalo. HUDSON, COLUMBIA COUNTY, New York. 127 Hudson Street, New York City. Hair, Destroyed Forever at ote or by | ga at home. Can't . Yan DYCK, Electro Surgeon, 1108 Watnur S¥., PHILADELIMIA, PA, on Obesity mailed indler’s Marienbad Re- “mailed upon receipt of $2.30.,_ Dr Schindler-Barnay's 1s the best known authority on Obesity. His writings are quoted in all text-books on his disease, “Eiswen& Menpetson Co. Agents, New “The genuine Marienbad Pills must have Dr. Schind- Jer-Barnay's signature on every box. Pears’ a Skin blemishes, like foul teeth, are the more offensive because they are mostly voluntary. The pores are closed. One can. not open them in a minute; he may in a month. Try plenty of soap, give it plenty of time, and often; excess of good soap will do no harm, Use Pears'— no alkali in it; nothing but soap. All sorts of stores sell it, ‘especially drog. gists; all sorts of people are using it. E. &H. T. ANTHONY & CO 591 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, Manufacturers and Importers of PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, Materials, Chemicals and Supplies. Detective and View Cameras in great variety of sya and prices. Lenses, shutters, dry plates, ete..e6 THE BEST TEXT-BOOKS ON PHOTOGRAPET. Free use of dark room on main floor of our store. 50 Years Established. ASTHMA—HAY FEVER. NO more, sleepiess nights. Instant relit,, New known to fail. Send ze. stamp for sampie. Rep: ular package sxc. Address ARMSTRONG & CO.. P.O. Box 790, Baltimore, M6 otels Everpwhere, HOTEL DE LOGEROT, EUROPEAN PL. 124, 126, 128 Fifth Avenue, EW YORK. OT, Proprietor, NEW YORK CITY. BREVOORT HOUSE, Filth Avenue (near Wa ington square), New York. (0. B. Liss. UNION HOTEL, Evxoreax Put (Opvarive Grand Central Depet. en St Neale a $1 a day and upwards. Baccage # ‘Grand Central depot fret ALBANY, N. Y. N HOTEL, Mate GRAND BALTIMORE, MD. ST. JAMES MOTEL, Ev, PLax. Gao. Seo up. ‘Frank Leslie’s Weekly IS the Leading Illustrated Paper of America. comicbooks.Ggm]