Judge, 1894-05-12 · page 12 of 16
Judge — May 12, 1894 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising**, with minimal satirical content. The ads promote products typical of the 1890s-1900s: glass decorative pictures, rootbeer, bicycles, whiskey, and cookbooks. The only notable cartoon appears mid-page: "NOT AS BAD AS IT LOOKS" shows a couple in an apparently romantic pose. The caption references stage-hands' acting practice, suggesting the "rejection" scene is theatrical rather than genuine—a mild joke about amateur dramatics. Scattered throughout are brief satirical quips: one mocks poets who mistake poetic license for drinking licenses; another jokes about a job applicant citing fatherhood of twins as floor-walker experience; a third comments on absurdly high collars fashionable at the time. The page reflects **Judge's** blend of light social commentary with commercial content. Nothing here addresses major political events or figures—it's primarily lifestyle humor and period advertising aimed at middle-class readers.
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Adorn your Home WITH OUR DIAPHANIES (GLASS PICTURES.) In beagtifal colors for decorating Wh paneln, Transo inacind all places where art lass te used ‘These pictures are high class, artistic subjects, with wonderful transparent effects, for hanging In or decor. ating entire windows, Kare variety of designs, reproductions of old mas. ters, allegorical groups, magalficent landscapes, genre pictures, Bower, frult pleces, &c. Tobe had at all art stores and picture departments of Arstclass dry goods house Hiustrated Catalogue mallet Colored Catalogue, $1.00; amout $1009 orver. GRIMME & HEMPEL, 310 Broadway, New York ‘Gensasy. receipt of 25 cents, Fefuoded tn eave ef Main House: Letra Corbett’s love for his native land is touching. He proposes, in puuching jackson, to strike for his altars and his fires, like Bozzaris of old. —Elmira Advertiser, ‘The only objectionable feature about the vio- let is that so many people write poetry about it. Atchison Globe. Add twenty drops of Angostura Bitters to every glass of impure water you drink, The genuine only manufactured by Dr. Sons. Ask your druggist. The trouble with many, of our poets is that they mistake their poetic license for a liquor license,—A tlanta Journal, Alcoholic Excesses Completely Neutralized by one harmless“ Sober-up” tablet. Instant. ly makes you walk straight and restores mental powers, Put one in your vest-pocket when out with the boys. Write to the Noseline Co., 35 Arcade, Cincinnati, Ohio, for information. Business man—" You want a situation as floor-walker. Have you ever had any experi- ence?" Applicant—"| am the father of twins."— Philadelphia Record, Just THREE DOLLARS is all it will cost you this month for the Cosmopolitan Magazine and Good Housekeeping one year each. To secure these two publications for one year for that sum, send this month THRE! LARS to GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, Spring. field, Mass. “THE MOST WONDERFUL AMERICAN WATER” IT POPS. Effervescent, too. Exhilarating, appetizing. Just the thing to build up the constitution. H i res’ Rootbeer Wholesome and strengthening, pure blood, free from boils or carbuncles.’ General good health results from drinking HIRES’ Rootbeer the year round. Package makes five gallons, 5c. Ask your druggist or grocer for it. Take no other. Send a-cent: ‘stamp te. the Charles E. Hires Co., 117 Arch St., Philadelphia, for beautl- ful picture ards. ‘The collars now worn so tremendously high, Which rise up as if bristling with fear, Bound tight in a stock which encircles the throat, Seem to me like a cuff on the e: cord. WHERE SUMMER BREEZES BLOW. Would you fly if you could Toa glen in the wood, Toa spot in the shade ‘That nature hath made; Rich with ferns and wild flowers— One of nature's fair bowers? ‘What is life to the soul If to labor is all? What a joy to the heart When for rest we depart To the woods and the dells! Does your heart cry for rest In a place that is blest, With no shadow or sorrow Nor care for the morrow? Ifs0, send your address for alist of “SUM "published. by the Ch a Be. Paul Hallway. Geer i jeneral Passeng: ZJ TRADE MARK $1 WARy My WORLDS FAIR FACTOR TROY, N Tae pet ee Peer ee is kehswasea eres uy Peper srr VICTOR SASH! wit Ve ‘wilt send you! istofnew and @ mad-hand Bicycles, showing asaving of @ '¢31.00 to $90.00, or for 10 centa they will G B send youn Candy dheyele Transparency, 600d B to cat but better to hang in your window. stage-hands’ actors’ club at practice. his fall is an intere: without the parachute.—Chicago Fimes. Rye or Bourbon WHISKY. Quality Unsurpassed, Delivered in a sealed. “caso (no marks) ‘at. your home. direct from te Bisiery, 8a I maihtle ‘at $2.73 pe gall. Write ustor prices and ful formation. All Ineas strictly con: Suential, Address Congressman Willie Breckinridge's story of g study in aeronautics— The Little Brown Jug OT AS BAD AS IT LOOKS. No, gentle reader; this is not a case of rejection in a love affair—merely the amateur CHEW. SMOKE. uo—_ STOP EVERYTHING, AND TAKE A CHEW OF MAIL POUCH. @~Pure, Harmless, Satisfying..o NICOTINE, The Active Principle, NEUTRALIZED. ANTI-NERVOUS; * ANTI-DYSPEPTIC. cd Miss Maria PARLOA’S COOK BOOK containing 100 recipes which she has lately | written for the Liebig Company || SENT FREE ¢n application to Dauchy & Co.,27 Park Place, New York. Dropa postal for tand always buy LIEBIG COMPANY’S EXTRACT OF BEEF ‘ext time Colonel Breckinridge goes riding with a young lady let him insist upon taking his chaperon along.—Chicago Post. 20th Edition, postpaid for asc. (or stamps). THE HUMAN HAIR, Why it Falls Off, Turns Gray, and the Remedy. By PROF. HARLEY PARRER. F. R. C,K. Loxc & Co.. 1013 Arch St, Philadeiphia, Pa. “Every one should read this little book.""—d thenaeume, New York Attractions. Abbey's Theatr Academy of Mu: Nijou Opera Ho Broadway Theatre—Utopia. Limited. ‘asino—The Passing Show. Kilanyi living pictures. Marrigan’s Theatre—Hilliard and Arthur in The Bt P Standard Thea: Posen. Star Theatre—Musotte, —M. B. Curtis as Sam'l of " comicbooks.com