Judge, 1901-11-23 · page 15 of 18
Judge — November 23, 1901 — page 15: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This Judge magazine page (mostly advertisements with one cartoon) centers on a **Thanksgiving Day joke** about a small boy and racial stereotypes. The main cartoon depicts a **young African American boy** teasing a white boy about catching him kissing his sister. The humor relies on minstrel-show dialect ("Gee!") and the "innocent child speaking truth" trope—a stock device in period humor. The page is otherwise filled with **late-19th-century patent medicine and product ads**: blood poison cures, morphine products, "Cascarets" candies (laxatives), and various dubious medical remedies reflecting an era before FDA regulation. These ads reveal what people actually feared (rheumatism, constipation, venereal disease) and the snake-oil solutions marketed to them. The **Maryland Club whiskey and Martell's brandy ads** show alcohol was openly advertised in family magazines. Overall, the page documents period attitudes toward race, commerce, and unregulated medicine—all quite foreign to modern standards.
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