Judge, 1900-06-02 · page 11 of 16
Judge — June 2, 1900 — page 11: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. The dominant content consists of commercial advertisements for products like Wilson Whiskey, Evans' Ale, Sohmer Pianos, and various patent medicines and toiletries popular in early 20th-century America. The small text snippets interspersed throughout are humorous anecdotes typical of Judge's filler content—jokes about marriage, insurance agents, and social awkwardness—rather than political commentary. The "Little Sermon" poem advocates for kindness and pragmatism over rigid doctrine, reflecting Progressive-era sentiments, but it's generic moral messaging rather than targeted satire. Notable: The large **"Sea Plug Cut" tobacco advertisement** emphasizes the product's Southern origins and natural qualities—typical marketing that wouldn't raise modern eyebrows but reflects period regionalism. Overall, this appears to be a **back page of advertising with light comedic filler**, not a page showcasing Judge's satirical cartoon work.
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_—"* Don't you know what your duty is ee weeldent?” Mororman-— Ves, your foot. | got off the car and proved by every- holy standing around that [ wasn’t to blame.” —Chucag Record, Thousands testify that DR. SIEGERT'S Acgosv'a Bitters isthe proper toni to take in fespring. A reputation of fifty years speaks for itsel. _ we “Now, John, you know if I were to die you sould weep over me and tell everybody what a good wife Twas.” * No, I wouldn't, so help Ber" Well, I would for you—just for de- geney'ssake, And that shows I'm not half as ean as you are."—Chicago Tribune. We have been for a number of years person- ally familiar with the Sohmer piano and believe \ i has no superior in those excellent qualities hich make a perfect instrument. It is to be especially praised for its volume, richness and arrying-powers. No person can hear it played without being convinced of its superiority. “It was very kind of that naval officer bring you this parrot,” said Maud. ** Yes, answered Mamie; * but the bird is so profai "Shocking!" “*And that isn’t the worst of i It doesn’t speak English, and I've got to hire aa interpreter in order to understand him."— Washington Star, ‘aeefoar llver"s out of order and your skin's not very You bad better get some RLLV.A.N.S, they're certainly Yeotan fet ikem from your druggtat, they only cost metre you will not part with them when onee you do ‘counence. The insurance-agent —* Well, 1 thousand on Olesport yesterday.” The other agent—"" What? T was after him for a year.” The insurance-agent—" You didn't know how totackle him, I went at him with a proposi- tion to bet him five thousand dollars against the amount of the first payment that he would live another year."—Jndianapolis Press. rote five The best friend a traveling man can have with him—one that has been tried and proved—is a cake of the all-round and always reliable Packer’s Tar Soap. Being pure, it can be used freely with confidence; being antiseptic, it insures against disease; and for scalp and hair leansing it has no equal. This valuable “friend” can be found at druggists . THE PACKER IFG. CO., 81 FULTON ST., NEW YORK Club Cocktail Before Your Dinner? You can offer this polite attention to the guest who dines with you at your home Ifyou have a bottle of the inv Cocktalls.” They are home Cocktails. They Are they on yours? the proper thing to ve, of the Club THE Sohmer Building, A LITTLE SERMON, What this troubled old world needs Is less of quibbling over creeds, Fewer words and better deeds. Less of ** Thus and so shalll yo Think and act and say and do More of ** How may I be true Less of wrangling over text; Less of creed and code perplexed ; More of charity unvexed. Less of shouting *'I alone Have the right to hurl the stone More of heart that will condone. Less of ruling—"* Hear! You must Hold this tenet, wrong or just"; More of patient, helpful trust. Less of microscopic scan Of the faults of fellow-man ; More of brave, uplifting plan, Less of dogma, less pretense ; More belief that Providence Will sanctify our common sense. More of chords of kindness blent O'er the discords of dissent ; Then will come the great content. “+ Just to be good and to do good.” Simple, plain, for him who would ‘A creed that may be understood. —Baltimore American, There are any imitations—but only one Original Angostura Bitters — Abbott's. Its goodness can't be imitated. Get it at your grocer’s or druggist's. Mrs. A.—*Are their domestic relations sat- isfactory?” Mfrs. B.—"1 should think they ought to be. They have had the same servant- girl for ten years." —Detroit Free Press. QLCVETEVA It's a Great Comfort for persons traveling by boat oF train to know that they can get wherever they are, and that {t 18 the one beverage that can always be depended upon to be Just what they want— Rich, Mellow Old Ale VRECVVVVVVUVVGG EARL & WILSON'S 4 COLLARS CUFFS &SHIRTS BEST IN THE WORL f (ull SOHMER” HEADS THE LIST OF THE HIGHEST GRADE PIANOS, SOHMER | PIANOS | (aiy Salearoonn ‘Sth Ave., cor. :b2d St. Yor Se" "the pure Uquors used, "the perfect blending, make them better than you can mix; better than “any cocktail’ served ver any bar in the world. Send home a bottle of Man- hattan, Martini, Whiskey, Holland or Tom Gin, Ver mouth or York, to-day. For sale by all Fancy Grocers and Dealers. G. F. HEUBLEIN & BRO. 29 Broadway, N.Y. Hartiord, Conn. 1n FSS Pacnaces ontr. One of the signs in the nounced, ‘Raspberry jam, twenty-five cents the jar.” ‘*Ah,” said Mrs, Newliwed,."* isn't that dam jear?" ‘Beg pardon!” exclaimed the grocer. She tried it again. ‘*I said, isn't that dam dear?” Then she blushed vividly and retired in confusion.— Pittsburg Chronicle. an- ‘A Hot Springs girl who has always practiced soubrette parts in the hope of going on the stage finds that she can talk well in low G, and is now studying tragedy.—A Hot Springs wo- man gives her little girl ten cents every time she takes a dose of cod-liver When she gets fifty cents her mother takes it and buys another bottle of cod-liver oil. —My wife had a palm which she thought was not doing as well as it should, although she had given it daily attention. She took it to a florist yesterday, who assured her the palm had been dead six months.—Arkansaw Thomas Cat. “Tnever make a move,” he said, “until I am absolutely sure that it is right.” “* Per- haps,” his wife said, ‘that accounts for the fact that you are always geting left.”"—CAicago Times-Herald. “* Bridger dedicated his last book to me.” “Yes?” “ Put my name on the fly-leaf large as life.” “Yes?” "Then he had the whoie thing copyrighted.” “Well?” ‘Now I'm afraid I can’t use my own name,"—Cleveland Plain Dealer, Smythe—"" V'm getting tired of that old story about the Chicago man eating pie with a knife.” ‘Smith—" Yes; ain't they conceited to go on blowin’ about that?” Smytke—** Conceited? Who?" Swith—* The Chicago people. They seem to think nobody else knows how to eat pie but them.”—Catholic Standard and Times. A OF NORTH CAROLINA PLUG CUT is a mild, cool, mellow and satisfying tobacco of the highest quality and is the most popular and largest selling brand of ‘plug cut’’ smoking tobacco in the world ! leaf that ‘‘Seal’” is its own native climate—in the The reason for this is that the made of is cured in sunshine and balmy atmosphere of the southern states, where pipe tobacco originated. A full size trial pouch will be seat by return mail on receipt of 10 cents in postage stamps by The American Tobacco Co., ut Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. Have a good Cigar. It’s just as easy to have a good smoke as a They cost you the same. The Brunswick i JACOB STAHL, JR. & CO., Makers, 168th St. and 3rd Av is good. “You will like it and buy it} i Took for Arrow Head on Every Cigar, poor“éne. N.Y. City. Established 1823. WILSON WHISKEY. That’s All! ‘THR WILSON DISTILLING CO. Baltimore Ma. ‘IF IN HASTE TAKE THE NEW YORK CENTRAL. comicbooks.com