Judge, 1892-12-03 · page 46 of 52
Judge — December 3, 1892 — page 46: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily a **advertising page** rather than a satirical cartoon page, though it opens with one notable image. The left side features **"Victors Make the Pace,"** a bicycle advertisement showing a well-dressed woman on a Victor bicycle. The ad promotes bicycles as Christmas gifts, emphasizing health, happiness, and longevity—reflecting the 1890s bicycle craze, when cycling represented modernity and independence, especially for women. The page contains: - A contest offering **24 cash prizes** (up to $200) for advertising ideas - **Harper's periodical subscriptions** promoting magazines as superior holiday gifts - **Crosby's Vitalized Phosphites** medicine advertisement claiming to prevent "nervous break-down" and restore vigor to the "brain-wearied"—typical 1890s patent medicine marketing - Various other product ads **The satire here is subtle**: the page itself satirizes consumer culture and the era's obsession with "modern" solutions (bicycles, magazines, tonics) as cure-alls for contemporary anxieties about health and vigor.
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4 893 | HOLIDAY GIFTS. | THAT LAST ALL THE YEAR ow 18 893 Magazine, Weekly, ‘Harper’ Ss Bazar, and Young People Harper's Magazine They will Harper's Weekly be better Let your Christmas <=) present beas generous as the promptings of your heart ; as liberal as your purse. . 3 What can’ prove more valua- | [| |°s “_ this year ble than a rt of health, happiness | and long life, such as goes with a high grade bicycle; a Victor bicycle? | rnin rem If Greatest American than ever Harpers Bazer 24 Cash Prizes, Pete st ee sts! Qf culture a Young Pope Sieyeles throughout should be ~ without them | £4.00 ;} The Best Literature Teint Deer IL} and the Best Art Periodicals Ist Prize, $200. 2nd Prize $100, 3rd Prize $50 | Subscribe Now ” | Harper & Brothers, Publishers Franklin Square, New York, N.Y. 4th Prize, $25 Sth to 24th Prize, $10. idea not securing a prize that we required, The McIntosh-Huntington Co., Ady. Dep't. Cleveland, Ohio. Crosby’s Vitalized Phosphites. | From the phosphoid principle of | Va the ox-brain, and embryo of wheat. The very best Tonic for preventing | nervous break-down, and for re- = storing vigor to the weakened, . “used up,” or brain-wearied. It is a offal, nutricn te, not an acid phosphate. The Formula . f nation free. Also Cros! Kan th Cu r Cold in the Tread | i Wee PAT, DEC. 30,'90. { Frank Leslie’s Weekly IS the Leeding Illustrated Paper of America. comicbooks.c TM |