Judge, 1894-03-31 · page 11 of 18
Judge — March 31, 1894 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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This is primarily an **advertising page** from Judge magazine, with scattered short humorous items interspersed among commercial ads. The few cartoons/jokes present are brief, genteel Victorian-era humor: - A young woman enjoys a pianist's "strain" while her uncle worries the musician will injure himself from swaying—a mild joke about physical exertion. - A farmer deliberately leaves a gap in his fence to let his neighbor's chickens escape into his garden—petty rural mischief. - A play on President Lincoln's famous quote about fooling people, applied to why consumers keep buying Eagle Brand condensed milk (advertising disguised as humor). - A pun: "thoughts that burn" refers to both passionate writing and using a rejected manuscript to light a cigar. The page reflects **late 19th-century advertising culture**, where magazines monetized space through patent medicines, alcohol, bicycles, and consumer goods. The humor is gentle and domesticated—there's no sharp political satire visible here, unlike Judge's typical satirical cartoons on other pages.
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‘Isn't that delicious, uncle?” ecstatically | cried the young girl. ‘* Did you notice that lovely strain?” * Yes," hoarsely muttered the old man as he anxiously watched the pianist swaying back and forth ; ** but ef he makes er- nuther strain like that I'll be hanged ef he don't break his back."— Pittsburg Dispatch, Mrs, Winstow’s Sooriine Syrup for Chil- dren Teething ; soothes the child, softens the gums, allays ail pain, cures wind colic and diar- thea, 25 cents a bottle. Now comes the season when a man doth mend his chicken-coop In order that the birds may not throughout his garden troop ; Bat in the party fence that lines his neighbor's Tittle patch He leaves an aperture wherethrough the hens may go and scratch, —Vonkers Gazette, Do you like a dry champagne? Try Cook's Extra Dry Imperial; its flavor is unrivaled and it is perfectly pure. Hereafter there will be no excuse for locat- ing the Roncador reef wrongly on the charts, The United States naval authorities know now exactly where it is.— Chicago Tribune, ‘That depends. Maybe the Kearsarge has been washed away.— Utica Herald, PACKER’S TA required, and is the sham- SOA Prinzszent used and pre- scribed by most physicians in preventive and remedial treatment of Dandruff and Baldness. Invaluable for Skin Diseases. A TRUTHFUL POEM. If you want to be glad Read every ad In Jupce. New York has a lady who is called queen of horses. Royalty now has some stability on this side of the pond.— Picayune. ‘To drive a cough from the system use Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. It never fails. “Ef kain't git a libbin’ by far means den I mus' by fowl,” said Sambo as he lifted "Squire Munger's yellow leghorn from its roost.—Bes- ton Courier, Marie Brizard & Rogers’ Creme de Menthe, established 1755, is a wholesome stimulant and an excellent antidote for cholera, For sale everywhere, T. W. Stemmler, Union square, New York. It is hard to say which is the worse congres- sional evil—the cold tea or the absentee.— Binghamton Republican, There is no other ale “just as good” as Evans's, Better than the imported and costs less. Why? No duty. Spectally Selected Hops. Highest Grade of Malt. Mountain Spring Water. ‘Two Years in the Wood, Two Awards World’s Fair. S EARL & WILSON'S f \ MENS UNEN COLLARS AND CUFFS. eAsuR RES “THE OST WENDERFG AMERICAN WATER” HeauTl, yw o* not io DArs, The one-legged man has this advantage over other mortals—he never finds it any trouble to put his best foot forward.— Buffalo Courier. PRESIDENT LINCOLN used to say that you could fool some people all the time and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all of the time, This explains why people come back to the Gail Borden Eagle Brand Condensed Milk. “‘T have an ambition,” said the country con- gressman, ‘to make my presence felt by my absence."— Plain Dealer. As a specific against dyspepsia and as an appetizer, also for mixing in drinks, nothing is superior to. BOKER's BITTERS, renowned since 1828. “Thoughts that burn,” as the editor said when he lit a cigar with a rejected poem.— Florida Times-Union. Podel 35 COLUMBIA. Price, $125. A wheel designed for the special use lof lady riders only, and equipped more fally and satisfactorily in, point of| guards, etc., than any other of its class. While in this particular it is brought to the standard of the splendid Colum- bia Model 36, it can be stripped to| correspond with the lighter Model 34. Ti artistic and ete nee catalog lappeals to th laste of every woman in the} eee 18 ik fetal eur agincice, or mailed for fave fewo-cent lampt. POPE MPG. CO., Boston. New York. Chicago, Hartford, Editor of “Baby” reports: “For acne spots on the face, and particularly for eczema, it is undoubtedly efficacious, healing erup- tions and removing pimples ina few days. It relieves itching at GUARANTEED HARMLESS. 50 cts. per box of all druggists, or direct. BLONDEAU ET CIE, 73-77 Watts St., New York. Samples of Vinolia Cream, Vinolla Soap (Ot- to}, for sensitive shina, Vinolia Powder, for Tovlet and Nursery, and pamphlet free on receipt of rocents. ‘The dentist can hardly lay claim to original- ity. He is all the time taking things out of other people’s mouths. —Boston Transcript, Do you know the number one TROK- ONET is ready? ‘Ask any photographic supply dealer or the manufacturers. THE PHOTOMATERUALS 0, Catalogue free on application. HIGHEST HONORS AT THE WORLD'S FAIR. EAR ORUM CO. Loulevite, Ky- WILsol Mention JeDe8. If you wear religion as a cloak your soul may freeze to death.—Ram's Horn, 2 CEN ‘A oat, pure Clear. 65 per Bee pa empl je clears "tadob vale ‘olan NCY, 163 Chambers SL, New York: CIGAR Prepared and Bottled it = VINO DE SALUD. 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