Judge, 1894-01-27 · page 14 of 16
Judge — January 27, 1894 — page 14: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three distinct elements: **"Can You Make a Cost Mark?"** is a puzzle contest where readers decode a merchant's secret pricing system using ten letters. Judge offers cash prizes ($50-$10) for solving it—a common interactive feature in 1890s magazines. **"A Proper Correction"** is a brief comic exchange: a Boston-bred servant corrects her employer's grammar, saying "will be" instead of "is," implying superior breeding from Northern service versus the South. **"That Awful Puzzle"** is a humorous poem by George M. Vickers about a Ferris Wheel puzzle at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. The narrator spends all his fair time obsessively working the mechanical puzzle for a $100 prize, ignores everything else, then gets violently ejected when he finally solves it—satirizing obsessive contest-chasing and fair-going excess. The page also advertises Judge's Library magazine (10¢) and the Ferris Wheel Puzzle itself (25¢)—connecting to the poem's subject matter.
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CAN YOU MAKE A COST MARK? Te will take some time and t trouble, but Ifyou SURI NA PRIZE, ‘Reoat tare a = tyme, fatorm thelr talee secret inen eliher the cost of certain articles or the lowest Price the salesman may accept. Taking. Riarks as consist of one oF more w ggosist of ten diferent eters, one jor CULMINATES ow suppose an article} eel conte B61 ees arsemeatyts ca iteem, NUS, csies oo Eoubtee of tem etter ail diferent, tormiag @ Sands easy remembered ecmer CASH PRIZES 1 follows for the best cost marks sent na: Worth bent cot mark made according tothe above $50.00 Cash. the next best, the next best, Sy esiber of eres put.on the Tee mark, therekore ea ord oF correct cost mark sent us not win- ‘shove prizes, a pretty leatherette purse For eve! ‘one of card case, ‘Cor 1 yery, cost mark ‘must consist of ten letters, a0 "and most be sent in @ letter, marked on svelope sc ark Contest," The Whole Family, 196 sead tn only ope cost mark. | ye. aide of th tien. on ove ide of ti e-paper only” ‘Contest closet ae ist and cont marks rectived alter that date Wil aA books are to be selected from Fates & Lauria sat prizes must be pala by recip | y Zou, maRE Inclowe 7S cents, ppstalsnote or money-order, (0 pay for a year’s aubecrip: Y The Whole Family, A PROPER CORRECTION. Mrs. CazzaM— To-morrow is your day out, I believe, Louise?” Louise. (who once served a Boston family)—" To-morrow will be my day out, madam.” gabspatital,Mastraced, monthly magarine, coptatning by best aSetgnce, 7 Woman's » Work, Farm testa with valuat Vbole Family, 198 Summer 8 ere, and tiany quest monthly. The ton, Masa. No, Maud, dear, a party worker is not always one who works his party, although it is often rites, | difficult to distinguish the difference.— PAila- "| delphia Record. THAT AWFUL PUZZLE. I bev been out ter Chicagy Thev seen ther fair clar through— Through the ole Dahomey village ‘An’ the Japaneesers too. I hev seen the forty beauties 10 il yer, est fer all ther thing is worth I hey mounted on thet monster, is wheel. Ihev seen the Turkey lady Dance a rattlin’ heel-an'-toe. An’ I've stood an’ watched the Esko's From the land o° ‘tarnal snow. Thev been out ter Chicagy T hev dined out ter ther fair, Thev hit ther Midway Thet is mostly m: They eat Vianner sau qiill ther garlic made me wink, $0 far as I could find ‘em, "Y hev sampled ev'ry drink, waffles je 0° air. Thev been out ter Chicagy ; Thev taken ia ther fair: But outside ther gates I stumbled On er thing thet made me stare, “Twas a puzzle, an’ I bo ‘Till it made me old head reel, First, I'd turn the wooden handle ; ye Then the shot “4 fly about, ight oot I wa'n't workin’ jest fer science ; "Twas this line thet struck me eyes— * Angone who does this quickest sa hundred dollars prize.” So 1 went ter work ter larn it With a hungry, fusted will, An’ I did the tek fest ea) n’ T longed ter shaw me Thgnted found ther corners Gittin’ printers on ther press TIILT struck a circulation Ot er million (more or less). Shoe! Hil Seat! 1 weed me dandy I hev come ter do ther puzzle". But he riz an’ yelled out * ‘Yes, he chucked me out ther winder, qptzle, tally-sheet an’ all, Tianded in a lime-box standin’ close beside the wall, 1am crippled up an’ achin’, Pm er-deacon, yit I feel Jest like jumpin” on the maker (O' thet cussed puzzle-wheel. George M. Vickers. Father— When I was your age I earned 1g and never spent any but my own —"' Well, father, I never spend any but your money either."—Detroit Free Press. The Sohmer pianos are pronounced superior to all others by leading artists. Abraham Lincoln's emancipation proclama- tion didn’t mention the tariff, but no one can |deny that it was the forerunner of free wool.— | Somerville Journal, Feretemssta ery nang DETECTIVE Sux= Erperines "Beet camp Re fer Scum Haroean Devers Besa | FLORIDA. Artantic Coast Line ieee TO Charleston, Savannah, and all points in Florida and Cuba. ONLY LINE RUNNING SOLID TRAINS FROM New York and Eastern Cities to Jacksonville and 8t. Augustine. Commencing Jan. 10, 1894, the NEW YORK AND FLORIDA SPECIAL Composed of Palace Sleeping Cars, Dining + Car, Observation and Library Car, will leave New York daily, except Sundays, at 12.10 Noon and reach St. Augus- tine next day in time for dinner. NO EXTRA FARE CHARGED ON THIS TRAIN. OTHER TRAINS LEAVE NEW YORK 9.30 A. M. (ONLY ONE NIGHT OUT) AND 830 P. M., BOTH OF WHICH CARRY THROUGH SLEEPING CARS NEW YORK TO FLORIDA. EASTERN OFFICES: 229 Broadway, New York ; 228 Washington Street, Boston, Mass; 33 South Third Street, Philadelphia, Penn.; 601 Penn- sylvania Avenue, Washington, D. C, Joseph Donjon, who has been writing threat- ening letters to prominent men in Washington, is at last in a ‘* donjon-keep,” where apparently he belongs.—Rockester Union. JuDGeE’s LIBRARY, Published Monthly. Price—Ten Cents per Copy. Subscription—One Dollar per Year. | Jupse's LiBRARY all of which JUDGE’S well-known It is a devoid of every trace of vulgarity or January Issue Now Ready. "S$ LIBRARY is a neatly-printed 32-page book, containing a selection of the best witticisms of both pen and pencil which have appeared in JUDGE from time to time, to artists and writers are contributors. MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF FUN, coarseness, and is conceded to be one of the most humorous publications of its character. Price, 10 Cents. THE FERRIS WHEEL PUZZLE, 25 cents. All News Companies or Toy-dealers; or sent to any address upon receipt of price. THE COLUM- BIA MANUFACTURING CO., 112-114 8, Eutaw St., Baltimore, Maryland. cy comicbooks.com