Judge, 1882-07-01 · page 7 of 16
Judge — July 1, 1882 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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This *Judge* magazine page contains three satirical pieces typical of late 19th-century American humor: **"Young America"** (top): A poem mocking children's obsession with Independence Day celebrations—fireworks, noise-making, and destruction. The accompanying illustration shows rowdy urban children. The satire targets parental indulgence and children's recklessness (the speaker boasts of burning buildings and losing fingers). **"Too Much Boy"** (main story): A pastor visits a shiftless family to convert them. Their precocious four-year-old embarrasses everyone by bluntly revealing the family's poverty and the mother's drinking ("goin' on ter Smit's arter de beer"). The joke satirizes working-class dysfunction and how children innocently expose adult hypocrisy. **Shorter pieces** include commentary on Walt Whitman's poetry, a silent wife, Arctic explorer Nordenskiöld, and insurance companies—typical brief satirical jabs at contemporary figures and institutions. The overall tone reflects *Judge*'s target audience: educated, middle-class readers amused by mockery of both the poor and intellectual pretension.
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AF EW TYPICAL READERS OF METROPOLITAN YOUNG AMERICA. Yt ndpop, Lam s: For the Fourth will soon And it’s very much ti Since it comes but How much will fourteen 1 Tam bound to make a noise, And a joyful eclebration, Along with the other boys, Christmas, year, 3 buy? M1 them all t About Freedom's raw ‘That you tokl me—how Wa: el Kin out of his boots. They'd nev same tale Sam Jobnson has got a cu, Lif we can get some powsler Well ome glorious fun We'll ap snoots at Johnny Bull, will fire th And, grandpop, won't And help whoop for W M no, my hoy; I've done my share Of whoc day. P've burned three baitdings firing ‘eracks,’ And blown three fingers away, This blinded eye and powdered face My beauty does not e And go grandpop will s you youngsters GEORGE G, SMALL. Too Much Boy. A SHIFTLESS couple, notorious for their lax ity in religious matters, were suddenly sur. prised one morning by a call from a contiguous church parson, around on a converting tour, and the male sinrer, striving to divert the man of Faith's attention from himself, took his precocious four-year-old son up on his pai knee, and began interrogating him thus : “Sonny, now hold yer head up, an’ tell us how old yer be ?” Sonny (with alacrity).—I bees four, dow- in’ on five, sur.” Gratified Father (patting his heir approv- ingly on the shoulder).—Good boy | Now tell the parson how old yer ma be. | Boy hesitates, and the father prompts him | thus : “ Goin’ on—goin’ on——" Aieful Boy (quickly).—Goin’ on ter Smit’s arter de beer in a minnit. Ain't yt (nodding interrogatively at the pantr | behind which his mother in great embarrass ment had hastily retreated). Horvified Father.—Oh, sonny, Wain't yer amed to talk so—right afore the parson, too? (Coaxingliz) Now, like a nice, good tell the parson how old I, yer daddy,be. Boy (hesitatingly).—Turty-t'ree. Ilis father prompts him thus : ma? door, Boy (after hurriedly wiping his nose across | dis y -sleeve).—Goin' on a bust wid er coon (punches the parson his stomachic regions), if ma gives up der stamps tuye. in [Exit demoralized parson in haste, amidst the agonizing shricks of the small boy, the plaqueshaped part of whose tattered little trousers were being sorely impressed by his parent's han ADE De their r DELANEY say zt side compose poetry.” Ifthis theo- that Walt Whit- nt side. | man never N woman kept silent for fifteen , to spite her husband. It was a cruel joke to play upon her spouse, but he doesn’t deserve much sympathy. He might have broken her site! erted her into a twenty minutes’ se: convention, A Wise years, woman's rights yy simply letting her urprise him in the act of kissing the servant- girl in the dining-room. It may be barely possible, howe’ ut he preferred quiet in the house. Some married men do, we've been told. Prov. Norpexsksoin, during his Arctic voyages, was perplexed by the question: | “What becomes of the bod which die a natural d had prosecuted his search a re discovered a bologna sausage in full blast. es of animals Perhaps if he A PUBLISHE! 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