Judge, 1893-07-22 · page 11 of 16
Judge — July 22, 1893 — page 11: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, featuring dozens of product advertisements for late-19th/early-20th-century goods (suspenders, hair oil, tobacco, soap, shaving products). The small **satirical content** includes: 1. **Church boycott commentary**: A brief quote from the Chicago Times mocking various Protestant denominations (Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, Calvinists) threatening to boycott some unspecified venue—yet money flows in regardless. This satirizes religious hypocrisy and the conflict between stated moral principles and practical financial interests. 2. **"Embracing Christians" charade**: An anecdote about Sunday school children acting out "conversion," with boys selecting girls from opposite sides labeled "Christians" and "Heathens." The joke satirizes the superficiality of religious conversion rhetoric. 3. **Philosophical verse**: A brief poem ironically questioning why women say "no" when they mean "yes"—a tired stereotype about feminine contradiction meant as genteel humor. The advertisements reveal period consumer culture: products marketed by dubious health claims (hair restoration, indigestion cures) alongside practical goods, reflecting Victorian-era marketing practices.
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‘The Methodists may boycott and ° Baptists keep away; ‘esbyterians command Calvinists to stay m the sinful spot; and still, ¢ this churchly game, + is crowded, and it will ke money just the same. —Chicago Times. Th Fa Low's SooTHiNG Syrur for Chil- cothes the child, softens the cures wind colic and diar- a bottle, renewed his youth last week sunday-school to which he used shining morning face, creeping villingly to school.” This par- ng they were enacting charades. of the room were grouped what s would have denominated a ** pret- <3 0' gitls.”” In front of them was Spanner with the word Christians on it, and és the other side was a correspondingly large, as! correspondingly pretty, mess Labeled heathens. Ata given signal toys alvanced; each one selected a girl id pat his arm about her. It took the saun- terer fifteen minutes to discover that this was symbolic of a wholesale conversion. But finally te saw that it was indeed ‘embracing Chris- Boston Budget. The bride stepped forward in a hesitating manner and, dropping an elaborate courtesy, said, ‘* We—we are—very much obliged to you, sir, and we hope that at some time we shall be able to retaliate.” Her husband looked at her with undisguised pride in her ability to cope with a word of such length and elegance, and the minister bowed the couple out with as grave a face as he could call up with that remarkable wish ringing in his ears.—Rochester Sunday Herald. Fifty-one new second lieutenants of the army were turned out by the West Point academy Monday. It's to be hoped that not more than fifty of them will be quartered on the world’s fair by a paternal government.—Chicago Times, Oh, the thoughts, the revelations, of our age that lie enshrined In the caldron of man’s mind! How they seethe and how they simmer; how they swim and how they swirl ; How they wriggle, how they wrestl whisk and how they w! Yet when now the puppy Science opens wide his ten days’ eyes, Will no trenchant man arise Who will fathom why to-morrow, as ten thou- sand years ago, When she means a yes emphatic will a woman answer no?— Wasp, how they ‘THE UNSEEN Scientific Suspenders. FOR SUMMER WEAR. No more Sprawling Straps across the Shirt-Fronts, No “ Galluses” showing at side of Vest. FOR PROFE SIONAL MEN. Do not Drag Down over the Shoulders. FOR WELL- DRESSED MEN. They neversmake the Trousers Bagey- FOR BUSINESS MEN. They do not pull the Trousers up. behind, tear off butions, or lift the Trousers up away from the shoe, in.aa awkward position, FOR ATHLETES. There is_no position one can get into that will bring a strain on the Trousers or Suspenders. FOR THE WORLD AT LARGE. They are the only SJ Suspenders made that perfectly suspend the Trousers, and are entirely easy and comfortable to the wearer. 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What became of his money?” “Spent it all at church fairs voting himself the most popular citizen."— Troy Press. He pattered wildly to and fro With dough upon his hands And flour spread like fallen snow Upon the chairs and stands ; He sang, with many a smile and smirk, And footsteps light as fairy, “Yea, I must do the kitchen work, For wife 's a missionary.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer, VALUABLE BUT NOT COSTLY. Tt _may save you a great deal of trouble in cooking. Try it. We refer to the Gail Borden Eagle Brand Condensed Milk, regarded by most housekeepers as absolutely essential in culinary uses, and unsurpassed in coffee. All grocers and druggists sell the Eagle brand, The Buffalo Courier is convinced that Eula- lia would have been received in that town with more savoir faire than she was in Chicago or New York. Chicago, however, had more dolce far niente and New York more entente cordiale. In Washington she was received with a brass band.—Brooklyn Eagle Beecham's Pills cure indigestion and con- stipation, = Tt must be very pleasant for Mr. Lease to sit at the breakfast-table with a helpmeet who is equipped by study and information to inform him authoritatively that ** the host is unfurling the banner of justice in the temple of American politics"—by which. she undoubtedly means| that the populist hayseeds are humping them- selves for another educational campaign in the appalling future.—Rochester Herald. As a specific against dyspepsia and as an appetizer, also for mixing in drinks, nothing is superior to BOKER'S BITTERS, renowned since 1828, Before the world’s fair closes some means should be adopted to let an anxious world know just what a“ plaisance” is and how to Pronounce it.—Chicago Dispatch, In buying anything that is made of hard wood you pay extra for the beauty of it. That may be a dead loss, for the beauty cannot last, unless the varnish is high grade. 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