Judge, 1881-11-19 · page 3 of 16
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# Analysis for Modern Readers This page from *Judge* satirizes dishonest newspaper correspondents—particularly those writing from New York to provincial newspapers. The main article, "Pre-Raphaelite Liars," attacks correspondents who fabricate or wildly exaggerate stories about wealthy New York society figures to sensationalize their reports. The cartoon "The Day After Election" (top) depicts a crowded political scene, though the caption is partially illegible in the OCR. The critique focuses on how these "country paper" correspondents invent gossip (like stories about Mrs. Astor running a peanut stand) or claim insider knowledge they couldn't possibly have, merely to make their reports marketable. The author argues these fabricators thrive because readers in rural areas eagerly consume such nonsense. The satire ridicules both the liars and their credulous audience—a commentary on journalism ethics and rural gullibility in the Gilded Age.
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Mn. Tiwiv—the unexpectedly ance wens, gentlemen, LL nerer ri PRE-RAPHAELITE LIARS. ence to that y who correspond for country the greatest re the “Gath” school, but he complains now of th his inclinations with- out his genius for making a bald-headed lie ctable, even with the wig of country t, after all, it must be this lulity which fosters beings of kind, for what is there short of it that would tolerate such nonsense as is sent out from this city. The only wonder is, to those I when they by chance see countr which support the luxury of “New Y respondents,” how they can swa slush. who pos here, papers wk Cor- low such e days of telegraph: emination of news, how people living outside of the Metropolis tolerate, even over Sunday, such sensational nonsense as is sent to them by the supposed posted cor- respondent. For instance, one of thein aston- ishes his readers by uring them that the wife of W. IL derbilt has set society and the world agog by eloping with her coachman, and another makes his letter interesting by iving a piece of news that other portions of the world are denied, namely, that Mrs. Wil- liam B. Astor has lately undertaken to find out who are and who are not really charitable. One of them goes si to say that this estimable 1 ing a peanut stand on the corner of Broadway and Twenty-sixth street, where she has a sign hanging out, which reads: ‘Remember the Poor!” and THE DAY AFTER ELECTION. ba zr boys” who rcorket for hi they come for their daily peanuts, and ealls th attention to her benevolent sign, in to test their sincerity, and if they pur: nuts without being moved beyond a ish motive, she cuts them otf from her lists forever; but if, perchance, a poor boy alon r buying tive cents worth of her ving her t nd telling to keep the change for the poor, she aston- ishes him by handing him a check for thou- ands of dollar Or these unmitigated liars tell how they have dined with some of the na- bobs of New York, and report most contiden- tial conversations—which said nabobs would scarcely impart to their wives or brothers— tails of private atl to posture Il they know of the people of whom | they write is what they may obtain from the kitchen scullion or assistant coachman, and are glad to put up with a garret room and eke out a miserable existence on cheese and crackers while pretending to be the famili of wealthy aristocra Bat Ta u cludes that these outrageous things will never | cease until people living outside of great cen- ters become better educated and thereby ullible than they now are. Bohemians, who perhaps a dozen country got to make their “rot to make it marketable, will live and thrive, at the rate of ten dollars a week, perhaps, just so long as the less ite ers; who have ‘These busy | manifold’ letters to | ional in order | readers of the papers | cand who of course expect something soft in rete for which they correspond will swallow the ridiculous nonsense which they send them, pre of the ordina | news gatherers, on whom respectable publiea- Who ¢ knew one of their ations to be ver ding to be posted abe depend, A New Jensky milkman was recently ar- rested hy the health officer se for doing so was decidedly ring his vid he had heard that there ity of water in New York, and he bea kindly act on his part to send some over there. “7 eanp that you tool Mechanics’ Institute Fa ple prize at me put it gement is rprise and industry in thi right bi ther Tue colored people of this city are t about 5 < Men's Christian J jation. And if they do, will they have a | colored Comstock, and exclude white Chris- an young men, just as our white Christis keep out their black fellow: lers to the ‘ew Jerusalem? TH lla recently imported tenor a Pat- ticake, but from the way the papers have “roasted” him from time t6 time, we should call him a griddle-cake. | ‘Tie Land Bill is proving a greater blessing and than ever the Land League woul