Judge, 1899-12-16 · page 13 of 16
Judge — December 16, 1899 — page 13: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and light humor**, not political satire. The bulk consists of commercial ads for products like Libby's Plum Pudding, Beeman's Pepsin Gum, Schlitz Beer, and dubious patent medicines (a "Blood Poison" cure). The scattered jokes are social commentary rather than political: - A woman forced into marriage (theater melodrama trope) — the humor inverts sympathy to the "worried father" - Noah's wife delaying departure for her "rainy-day skirt" — domestic gender humor - A schoolgirl imagining heaven as "ham sandwiches, bananas an' pie" — innocent child humor - A covered wagon's "heavenly city" sign misidentified as heading toward Trenton, New Jersey — geographic/place-name humor The **Stanlaws's Pictures** advertisement references popular illustrated collections of "the American Girl" — a common commercial art genre of the era. No identifiable political figures or events appear. This is a typical early-20th-century magazine page mixing consumer advertising with gentle, family-appropriate humor.
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Aman and a woman recently passed through |this part of New Jersey in a covered wagon on which were painted various religious senti- ments. On the dash-board was the legend, “We are bound for the heavenly city.” A countryman with a good appreciation of the humorous stopped them and, pointing to the inscription on the dash-board, said, ‘* You never made a bigger mistake in'yer life. You ain't bound fer no heavenly city this way— why, neighbor, you ain't ten mile from Tren- ton." —Princeion Tiger, DEWARS: id a) THE PLOWBOY *|AND COUNTRY FARMER, Atlanta, Ga. The great Southern Farm and Household Journal. Sample copies free. ADVERTISING RATES REASONABLE. A COLLECTION OF em—Stanlaws’s Pictures of the American Girl, artistically printed on plate paper and tastefully bound in an ils- minated cover. Sold by your bookseller, by all hotel news-stands, and by the boy on the train. YOU WANT IT. Jevon's Linmaxy {a full of pure fun. 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