Judge, 1899-05-13 · page 14 of 18
Judge — May 13, 1899 — page 14: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from *Judge* is primarily **advertising** rather than editorial satire. However, it includes several brief humorous items: **The cartoons/jokes:** - A sketch titled "A Fortunate Circumstance" depicts a book agent convincing a woman who can't read to buy an unreadable novel—a jab at both poor literature and aggressive sales tactics. - Brief quips mock: a Chicago judge's absurd ruling (department stores selling meat), a jeweler claiming his figurines "never lie," and a police officer sympathizing with someone fleeing a book salesman using predatory installment plans. **The advertisements** include period products: Kodak cameras (emphasizing ease-of-use), Johnson's Digestive Tablets, Rambler bicycles, Eagle Liqueurs, and *The Wall Street Journal* subscription. The page's humor targets **commercialism, dishonest salesmanship, and questionable consumer products**—typical *Judge* satire. The "unreadable novel" joke particularly reflects contemporary anxieties about mass-market publishing quality.
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“There tk no Kodak but the Bastman Kedah” POCKET PHOTOGRAPHY becomes simple and easy with a Kodak, The Ko- dak system does away with heavy, fragile, glass plates and cumbersome plate holders,using non-breakable film | cartridges which weigh but ounces where plates weigh pounds, Kodaks can be loaded and unloaded in broad daylight. KODAKS $5.00 to $35.00. EASTMAN KODAK CO. a Rochester, N.Y. Give Instant ~ Relief a ZJOHNSONS DIGESTIVE TABLETS. 129999999999: Comfortable Shoes, $4. Geotioness Shoes. Jealthegiving Shoes. Good fitting Shoes. Shoes that give you character. Send for Catalogue free. Ralston Health Shoe Makers, OF IMITATIONS IF [HAD ONLY KNOWN OF THIS YEARS AGO ~ED.PINAUDS EAU DE patiently, parsiscenl i, eaaily carte; a bones, @558, Petia or gerefund money. AI! kinds kept in stocks BLANK BOOKS.:cnscicmser FINDLER & WIBE: 121 Nassau Street, New York. more prompt attention and better service by mentioning JUbes when anewerlug auvertisementa, Not everybody can live in Albany; but everybody can be good and try to deserve an advantageous residence hereafter. — Albany Argus. nae “I notice that a Chicago judge has decided that a department store has a right to sell meat," “Next thing, I suppose, he'll hand down a decision to the effect that a butcher can sell shoe-strings."— Cleveland Plain Dealer Customer —* My dear sir, your marbles, bisques and bronzes are not well selected. You have only standing postures.” Jeweler—"* Cer- tainly, sir. My figures never lie."— The Jewo- elers! Weekly. i" ‘The man came out of an office-building on the run and started down the street. ‘* Here, here!" cried the policeman on the corer. “* What's your hurry?” ** ‘There's a man back there trying to sell me a book on twenty-eight weekly installments of two dollars and thirty- three cents each!” cried the victim. The po liceman instantly released his hold. ** Run!” ne cried; ‘*run like a white-head! Maybe you can get away from him yet."—Chicago Post, CREME MENTE ANY) (2 as BICYCLES Eagic Liqueurs (CORDIALS) “The first and only tly American production.” Sepericr Tonic ant Digna Write for Htestrated Booklet and Prices, EAGLF LIQUEUR DISTILLERIES, RAEINSTROM BROS, Distillers and Exporters, ESTABLISHED 1876 947.900 Martin St, 948-968 East Front 81, CINCINNATI, O10, PEropLe WHo BUY Rambler bicycles know t! have recelved more for they investment than they could in any other way, in wheels, PRICE, &: 4.0 AcEncies” Evenvwnere Goauvtty & Jerrery Mro. Co. go. Boston, Washington. New York. Brooklyn. ‘Detroit. Cincinnati. Buffalo, Cleveland. London, Eng. & iit BEDICT’<&, (Trade-Mark) Patent Collar an Cat Button ‘DI GOLD, CILVER, and BEST ROLLED GOLD PLATE. BENEDICT”? ed upun It! BENEDICT ‘BROS,. Jewelers, BROADWAY and CORTLANDT ST., NEW YORK Send for Pull Desertptive Circular. A FORTUNATE CIRCUMSTANCE. Mrs. Jackson —"* I'd buy dat novel, only I don’t know how to read.” Boox-aGent—"‘All the better, ma’am! ‘This novel is positively unreadabl 3 DOTEENTUR HEADLIGHTS = ait When William takes his royal ease He surely can't arrested be ; * Bat look at it howe'er you please, It's surely lazy majesty. —Detroit Free Press, ONE DOLLAR is a very little money. You fritter it away for odds and ends, and have nothing to show for it. ONE DOLLAR Sent to us will bring THE WALL STREET for one month. As you know, 1: Mithe best deascial paper publanes. You will never miss the dollar—and you will have w you cannot get in any other way—complete Accurate information as to what is going on ir Wall Street. And this is what makes men rich ‘There have been some very interesting things happening here lately—and there are bound to be still more. You ought to know about them. One dollar will keep you posted. ‘THE WALL STREET JOURNAL 42-44 BROAD STREET, NEW YORK. When a girl has a young man cail to spen the evening with her, her sister always leaves the light burning in her chamber and looks when she comes to bed to see how much her hair is rumpled.— Somerville Journal, Senet) Constable K3Ca Cotton Dress Fabrics. Stripe Batistes, Printed Dimi Embroidered Mulls and Nainsooks, White and Colored Piqués. “Anderson's Celebrated Zephyrs. Cheviots, and Madras Cloths, Galatea Cloths. Beoadooay A 19th a. NEW YORK, comicbooks.com