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# "The Judge" Page Analysis This page from the satirical magazine *Judge* contains brief topical jokes about contemporary 1880s American politics and society, accompanied by one central cartoon. **The Main Cartoon "Jay Charlton"** depicts what appears to be an "aesthete"—a fashionable person devoted to art and beauty—being mocked. The caption suggests debate over whether someone is truly aesthetic. This satirizes the Aesthetic Movement, a real late-19th-century cultural trend emphasizing "art for art's sake." **The surrounding brief items** target: - **Cabinet officials** (Secretary of State Frelinghuysen, Secretary Folger, Postmaster-General Howe)—poking fun at scandals or perceived weaknesses - **Political figures** (Blaine, Arthur—likely referencing 1884 presidential tensions) - **Cultural trends**: aesthetes eating only while gazing at flowers; vaccination side effects - **Celebrities**: the opera singer Patti; actress Langtry The humor relies on readers' familiarity with contemporary scandals, political figures, and cultural fads. Without that context, most references remain opaque today.

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Mrs, De Nepie.—Oh, Mr. Cattleranche, tell me, are you esthetic? Mr. Cartienascue.—O, dear, no, madam, not at all. “JAY CHARLTON.” Oscar Wipe is the fluffy ange!.” specimen of “the Tue #sthetes say that they have a sufll- cient dinner when they have softly gazed at a lily for an hour, But chickens, according to | agricultural authority, eat all the sunflowers, THE Secretary of State, who is a pious man, who teaches in Sunday-school, and who is loved by the ladies, is now accused of being a teadrinker. Why Frelinghuysen should not love Old Hyson and Young Hyson we do not know. But Oolong are these criticisms to last? ‘To Secretary Folger, he of the hardy Scotch side-whiskers, we si Do not leave the Cab- inct. Notwithstanding the talk of the gos sips, the President does not want you to go. When he di then Folger tent like the Ar- abs, and silently steal away. ‘Tue Postmaster-Gencral says that when anybody tries to play any games in his de- partment, he will show him what kind of a hand he holds. Howe is that for high? Carn was the first policeman. He clubbed the head of Abel, and then got broke. Never had anything the matter with me in my life. retary of th toc: atic gentl life without saying much. He likes still Hunt. avy is a very fied, ari thro the way of th n, Who proc Patti will after all make some money fr But it is worth am; ce how Patti p: out, s barber, who adds to his 1 ness by pulling teeth, adv : We thought that most barbers were endowed with pure ‘Tue Chilian navy is now the admiration of the world, just beeause the chilly uns took some Peruvian bai Tue prize bull Tempest, we sce by a Chi paper, is a great pet. But take friend, that you do not get Tempest tossed. Ay Towa centenarian is named Lang. Of | course, he belongs to the days of old Lang syne. Tue circuses next summer will exhibit the most beautiful women in the world. And if, any other woman, upon comparison, thinks that they are a little more beautiful, she will go home and make a lite circus with one man a mute observer, ulies now carry blue velvet prayer- h golden clasps. ‘The inside is filled nd hair-pins. ick for two or three days after being vaccinated, doctor?” ‘ Well, , the virus was from a fine calf, and, as aken, you only feel a little more like a did.” ““Wuat makes me it has the calf than y | Bostoy soup houses are in operation, and it is the fashion for some of the asthetes to send down for a little of the food, just to taste and show their feelings towards the enter- prise. They speak of these tastings as ‘ pot- age picnics.” Wuite.aw Rrip speaks of his recent re- marks as ‘frozen truth.” That's a good deal more than can be said of modern ice- cream, Ose: Half Breed says that Mr. Blaine will soon pin Mr. Arthur to the wall, Better hit ith a Blaine pin in the most approved nauti- fashion, Some of our exchanges things mixed so muc hould not get a . They speak pages of Pig-Tron Kelly and Pig- They will soon be speaking of David Davis as the Hamfat Man. Onive Loc “virgin purit try that sho is thinking of. N speaks of Mrs. Langtry’s she wal and devotedly at- tached to the proce ter of art nd science, Little did he dream that por- traits of dancers would appear on the streets infree and kneesy pe a sober ma | Tue plumbing business seems to have up the spout. Wownper, Gould hangs around while the two detectives go in a side door to get a little cold lunch. | Masrropa has a canned” frog factory. The best thing that Manitoba has heretofore fur- nished has been the jug-o"-rum, | Foyp widow to the marble-cutte you give him a little more epitatly “Couldn't ‘THe servant who knocks the va mantel is the one who ge 3 from the sup and dusts, Ir is sometimes the old rake who calls spades spades, Oscar refuses to be buttonholed—except by a sunflower, Retnerrorp B, Haves hates slang, and will not listen to it. He has even been known to leave when sung | to the tune of son; comicbooks.com ¥