Judge — December 29, 1894 — page 12: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising and promotional content** rather than satirical cartoons. The central image shows a caricatured smiling face labeled "WHY WE LAUGH"—the mascot for Judge magazine itself. The page promotes Judge's circulation (150,000 copies weekly) and includes an affidavit from 1894 attesting to these numbers. Various patent medicine and product advertisements fill the margins, typical of 19th-century magazines. At the bottom, there's a plug for Conan Doyle's "The Stark Munro Letters" serial story. The "Why We Laugh" caricature—with exaggerated features and grinning expression—represents Judge's comedic identity, though the specific satirical content targeting contemporary figures or events is absent from this particular page.