Judge, 1899-11-18 · page 14 of 16
Judge — November 18, 1899 — page 14: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising** for consumer goods from the early 1900s, with brief comic anecdotes scattered throughout. The small cartoons and jokes include: 1. **"A Soliloquy"** — A dialogue between a rooster and another character, with a brief existential complaint about "a weary world," followed by a practical discussion about buying bicycle tires. 2. **Comic vignettes** about relationships and courtship (a couple introduced at a party after being past lovers; a sister threatening her brother about future marriage). 3. **A joke about Mother Goose** — An educated Japanese character expresses bewilderment at the nursery rhyme about blackbirds baked in a pie, treating it as literal and absurd rather than whimsical. The bulk of the page showcases ads for St. Raphael Wine (marketed to physicians), Vici Kid Shoes, Libby's Mince Meat, tire repair products, and other merchandise. This was typical for Judge—a satirical magazine that supplemented editorial content with advertising revenue.
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Pam Leaves “Wy iia = COES ECZEMA CURE, $1 Eacessar ‘ VICI KID SHOES are, Blu ot. erieags, : os . 7 Barclay Oh, Mew Teh. 4 so. Palm, $1.40 0, tor acceptahle ideas # Eeiq_ is the softest leather ever m CASH ‘cts Tarzre attean, taser, wh | Vici Kid fir: goat's skin, ius toughest leather, too, and the handsomest, “I have just been reading the honorable No one else mates it or can make it. Tt works of Gne of your most female English stands damp and dirt and wear as no other poets,” said the educated Japanese, ‘and I Kid can, It keeps shape and shine as no cannot understand her so exceedingly popular- other Kid does. We want these truths to ity. I refer to the Mother Goose. There is get into the heart of every home. 7 one of her poems of celebrity in which she ac- Quaints us with. twenty-four blackbirds that || Very Baby Born in1900 sang after they had been beforehand baked |Mf Woy payy "1 into pie. The Mother Goose I regard and con- lay have a pair of Vici Kid shoes for nothing. sider as one of the greatest liars of the English- |] — Takethehaby to your shoe deater. Let him meas speaking antiquity." —Chicago Tribune, ure its feet as carefully as for a grown perv, and send the measure to us. We will return ine dicate — shoes to him for you as soon as they can be made. Vici Friction Polish 9,05.) ever put on any fine shoe leather to pre- serve it and keep it mellow and shin: Vici Paste Polish *t<s!os*ixe- er for frequent use, It keeps the shoe mirror bright, and will not soil the whitest skirt. Your shoe dealer should have all of them. "It he trles to give you somethin, “just as good,” Insist on the Viel rai ROBERT H. FOERDERER KID Philadeiphia LNG SHOE SAVING FREE. il so Makes a Pie That He (telling a hair-breadth adventure)—"And Melts in Your Mouth in the bright moonlight we could see the dark Those who know Libby's delicious muzzles of the wolves.” She (breathlessly}— Mince Meat never bother with the |*Ob, how glad you must have been that they labor of makinga wiater's supply had their muzzles on !"—Jewish Comment. of home-made. a Libby's Is so convenient, whole- DIAMOND some, pure. Z 05 stoves ese Put up in packages enough for two large mince pies. Ask your grocer or write Me a a Ling, ens & Luby. Chee SOLILOQUY. THE Rooster (sad/s)—"Ah, me! this is a weary world, I could Sg almost wish that some one had stepped on me when I was an egg.” Mits Rich—" V have grave doubts about the AMt kinds kept in stz<*: count's reputed wealth.” Afiss 1ase—* Why?” jand made to order by CURE LEAKY TIRES | atus Rich He has offered to have my dia-| FINDLER & WIBEL, ers! 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