Judge, 1900-05-26 · page 11 of 16
Judge — May 26, 1900 — page 11: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising with minimal editorial content**. The dominant feature is a poem titled "Georgia Revival Meeting" in dialect, depicting a Black Southern religious service with repetitive calls to "stomp de fire out." The dialect humor reflects late 19th-century satirical conventions common to Judge magazine. The page is otherwise filled with commercial advertisements for alcohol (Wilson Whiskey, Evans' Ale, Vigoral beef drink), clothing (Lion Brand collars, Brighton Silk Garter), pianos (Sohmer), and patent medicines (Ripans Tabules, Abbott's Bitters). Small humorous anecdotes appear between ads—jokes about neighbors, rural apple-stealing, and household pranks. **Historical context:** This reflects Judge's typical format mixing light satire with consumer advertising. The dialect poem would have been considered entertainment by contemporary white audiences, though it reinforces period racial stereotypes. The advertisements reveal what products were marketed to middle-class readers of this era.
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GEORGIA REVIVAL MEETING. Ef Satan git de preacher, too, De sinner "bleege ter doubt. Ef you git dar befo’ I do lease stomp de fire out. Sinner, don’t you doubt ; Rise up now en shout ! Ef you git dar befo’ I do Please stomp de fire out. Dey say dey ain’t no hell fo’ you— Dey twis’ it all erbout. Ef ea dar befo' I do Please stomp de fire out. Sinner, don’t you doubt Dat Satan make you shout. Ef you git dar befo’ I do Please stomp de fire out. —Arkansaw Thomas Cat. Bipans Tabates, ten for fve, Stomach ills away will delve : Pain exp-lllog, sleep compelling, Peerless LLP: wen for Ove. He —' hbors have been next door to us for “Do you mean to tell me our new a sie week and you don’t know yet what sort people they are?’ She—"* Yes; but I'll be to tell you when you come home this even- This is their first wash-day."—PAtlade Press. as walking through a lovely. quiet vil te 1. .” said the gentleman with the high collar, imiring the pensive beauty of the scene an d bedering how the soul of man could content 1fto dwell in the crowded city, where sordii brie, noise, dust and confusion render life ure. when my attention was suddenly draw rlarge, ripe beautiful apple hanging on just inside a picket-fence. It was withi ny a n a in yrreach, and while I was balancing my in- ation to grab that apple and eat it ag: t Ieluctance to violate my principles by com. ga petty larceny—while was doing | s. I say—for I really wanted to pick that es,” said the gentleman wit And the orchestra played "* Oh, whah i bd ole Dan’el? Safe in de promised lan’ Khicago Tribune, A better Cocktail at home than is served over any bar in the world MARTINI. HOLLAND GIN, VERMOUTH and YORK. So handy to have in the house; can be eved in a minute's notice. You will not be These Cocktails are made of absolutely pure 4 well matured liquors and the mixing alto the best cocktails served over any in the world. The proportions being ac- Ne, they will always be found uniform, AVOID IMITATIONS Sd 15 Dealers generally, and on the Dinini state raat the principal railroads &. F. HEUBLEIN & BRO.. Sole Prot 2 Broadway, N. Y. Hartford, Coun. 20 Piccadiliy, W. London, Eng. ~ ueceesesesenssenseesscsssreresetecsnssesssssonsesequensenonsessnse es h is “Why is Aguinaldo like a man who relies | knowledge for a living Dunno. 1e always carries his capital around Chicago Times-Herald. * Josiar,” said Mrs. Corntossel as her hus- band came wearily up the front step, "* I hope you kep’ your head while you was in town,” “I did, "Mandy," was the humble reply ; ** but I guess it was only because none o' them fellet took a notion that he needed it in his business —Waskington Star. It's reflected in your face—the health that Abbott's, the Original Angostura Bitters, gives. Ask for Abbott's. “I thought that girl was in love with me, so felt kind 0° forced to propose.” ** Well?” declined me, saying she had only been unust ally friendly because I was so pathetically ugly Indianapolis Journal, * Very often,” remarked the long-haired man, “* the printer mixes up words in my pcems, thus creating different meanings and thoughts from “That so?” inquired the . “How much does he charge Indianapolis Sun. Mrs, Semper Maginnis laughed gleefully as she abstracted a ten-dollar gold-piece, three ‘er dollars, a handful of loose change and a penny from her husband's pocket, leaving in place thereof a small bit of paper upon which was written “April fool.” ** How. surprised Henry will be," she murmured, “* when he gets on the car in the morning and finds himself without car-fare.” Once more Mrs. Semper Maginnis laughed gleefully. Yet there are those who continue to insist that woman has no sense of humor.—Omaha World-Herald, cays “TIGIt ERATD STP TS COMARS YOU will not get ‘hot under the collar” if you wear Lion Brand goods this summer. Their perfect unity of pattern makes them set easily, increases thelr stylish appearance, and prevents that binding which first causes warmth, and then mops up the perspiration, wilting collars, cuffs’ and shirts alike.” A wide variety of design and style affords satis- faction for every fancy. Two collars er two cutfs cost 25 cents, It doesn't pay to pay mor Shirts cost $1.00, $1.50, and $2.00, ac- cording to the kind you want, Ask your furnisber. UNITED SHIRT & COLLAR CO., Mrs. Bong Tong—" Awol!" Mr. Bong Tong—* What?" Mrs. Bong Tong—*1 {or- got to give the reporter Mrs. Nexdoor’s name, and she will never lend me her silver service again." — Syracuse Herald. **T want to show you some of our new reno- vator,” said the insinuating stranger, ‘Its the best thing for the hair"—— “I don't want it,” snapped the bald-headed grocer. ‘And it will make last year’s maple-sugar cakes look just like new.” “Put me down for a dozen boxes,” said the grocer.— Cleveland Plain Dealer, "The isles of Greece ! the isles of Greece !" The fair young elocutionist waved her arms wildly as she hurled this bunch of Byron at her audience. ‘* Good gestures,” said Mr. Knows- itt, ** but very poor in pronunciation Think of spending money to learn elocution and then committing such an error as to say of Greece’ for ‘oils of grease.” ‘* But,” said Mrs. Knowsitt in an apologetic way, ‘* perhaps it is a dialect recitation.”—Haltimore Ameri- can, fo eee ey Evans’ Ale is Just the Thing for Country Club Life ee | It Doubles the Pleasures and Benefits of an Outing Always in Prime Conaition and always ‘eady for use—no sediment EARL "WILSON Ss “cous CUFFS&SHIRTS ALTOGETHER CORRECT. I see her now, my dancing-girl, Her figure bent with matchless grace, Her gauzy skirts all in a whirl, A dainty smile upon her face. Upon my couch her toe-tips rest, ‘And me alone her eyes enthrall. Oh, that’s all right; please don’t protest. She's in a poster on my wall. Princeton Tiger. ‘It is funny how marriage will change a man,” said Fogg the other day. ‘There is Mouster, for example. Before he was married a glat.ce of May Taintor would intoxicate him, so he used to say. Now, when he comes home late at night and meets Mrs. Mouster, née Taintor, the sight of her actually sobers him.” —What to Ent. A DELICIOUSLY SEASONED BEEF DRINK TONES UPA WEAK tapos (! BEST IN THE WORLD LIST OF THE HIGHEST GRADE PIANOS, SOHMER PIANOS Sohmer Building, Sth Ave., cor, 22d St. Salearoom Ont tg Greater New York. They said he owed nothing when he died. A little inquiry showed he had not provided for his chief creditors—his family. This debt is best discharged through a life-insur- ance policy in the Pawn Mutvat Live, 921-35 Chestnut Street, Phitadelpbia. COE'S ECZEMA CURE, $1 at drugatata. 25¢. atze of us THE “SOHMER” HEADS THE. Coe Chem.Co.,Cieveland,0. | overworked.” some furnishings and the man who demands absolute comfort. The handiest, best-ft- ting garter made, Instant to Stany leg. aver Ei Tih berket Sey, Philadelphia. Mrs, Peck —" You know very well, Henry, that I'm a woman of few words.” Henry— “True, my dear; but the few are shamefully Chicago News. Established 1823. WILSON WHISKEY. That’s All! | ‘THM WILSON DISTILLING CO, comicbooks.com