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# Explanation for Modern Readers This Judge magazine page contains satirical articles addressing post-Civil War racial and social issues. **"The New Slave Owner"** criticizes Jewish merchants in the South, claiming they have economically enslaved Black people through debt and mortgages—a harmful antisemitic stereotype. The article suggests these merchants exploited freed slaves in ways analogous to slavery itself. **"Modern Shopping"** mocks wealthy women's shopping habits at department stores, suggesting wives drain family finances through frivolous purchases of dry goods, buttons, and trinkets. It argues newspapers won't report honestly on these "dry-goods palaces" because advertisers control coverage. **"The Modern Play"** complains that American theatrical productions lack energy and authenticity compared to French drama, calling for more dynamic stagecraft and realistic plots. The page reflects Judge's approach: satirizing contemporary social anxieties (economic relationships, consumer culture, artistic standards) through exaggeration and mockery, though some content reflects deeply prejudiced assumptions of the era.

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b th THE JUDGE PUBLISHING CO,, | « 84 and 36 North Moore Street, N.Y. PUBLISHED ONCE A WE TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. by Tur Jepoe, is xiving, some facts concern: Mr. Frank Wilkeson, one of the most Drilliant writers ected with the Sun's corps, hag been travel published some most startling state Might it not be for the fature | si them to my alligators. prosperity of the Sorith if all the wanderers frum Taraet | who are trading among the i wgroes and oppressins | Ustren Starea ax Casas) ALMost everybody reads daily newspapers tiv Vanterbilt, Gould, and others, we may be p One Copy, for 13 weeks such interesting m The antisuncements that | alleged humorous put w known among our Ge eee tins, linens, dre button-hooks, pins and | tan cousins aa © Buck Pepin vue Sead and other articles too numer: | | by te we-koown tr of Sandwich, Coa sant The Modern Play | worice: wich are sufficient tu startle our fair friends, and they = ivators must pat their valuation upon the articles 1PeY | raid the etezant and commodions stores wecupiel ty | A FEW suggestions to the authors of sensit Tivo ney wittte reganted as gratuitous, Stampe sboutt te | that frm. We can understand why the daily news | ‘pumas are offered by Tue Jcpce. Complaints ar {nclosed for return postage, with name and address, if writers | papers do not give faithful reports of the scenes wit- | {eauentty made by dramatic crities—and who 1s not wish to regain their declined articles, geved! in the *dlry-goods palace as the pro. | 08¢—that Armerieanfplays lack somethin:s or other, and = —— ietors of those establishments are not in the dark | 47 Het up to the aven pund out hy French ma: upon the subject, we will «ay no more atit. Tue | Chines All attempts at American plays have been The New Slave Owner. Ivooe undertakes to abow to the male portion of the or Jess ridicnted and denounced, and with all due | ty, which aupplies the “sinews of war” for «t to Mr. Bartley Campbell, Mr. Ges Wilhams, | ‘Tue New York Su» following in the foot-prints made feminine raids npon dry-ools establishments, how Tony Pastor, and Mr. Harry Miner, we are com Jewa, | much real activity is actually displayed by wives pelled to observe that in the opinion of a large num Th the South, Ho has written and the sen hes | harsbly in this matter. It is time, he thinks, that they | UF share of.the work of fetching him ont het ‘i : ithful picture of an every-day scene from which be is | strike the heart of the author, stage-manas jons existing between the Jews und the negroes in th * “l of the conntry. * He showa th a oes | crowded out, That a woman «! 1 partake of a hasty pher, and bill-poster, as of the Kind ty stir thy that section of the eo r a Oe a Le ee it | enthusiasin and dollars of the Great American Public. are mortgaged to the Jews, and that the Jews are rap. d ; : i OS hece te wont ea | in her Sunday raiment, dash madly Pot the bazz-aaw, the trip-hammer, and plenty of dy- i a vthesBauik in'ike sate attalibeshann MNS | yas though winzel to Derrick’s, Racy's, sundwich, | Mamite Inte the play? Such ingredients have too long : eran: une stealthy manner alopted | 6 tish & Sandwich, or aome other of the big estale | been lacking, We trust that the dramatic author who by them before Abraham Lincoln set them free, Those hall adopt , wilicuindi 71 by ses eee ments; fight fur admission into the plac shall adopt our suzzestions will understand that we bo remain are. [it A Gey a away. li (hecstraggta: became:résiored. to ;conscion all make no elaitn upon him for any portion of th Wilkeson intimates that a race of hook-nosed_nezroes fea’ ot A biel le ; hess, hattlé for hours for ten yards of apron-string les of xreentacks which are sure to be rec is being created. He writes: “If 1 were asked te het a ‘ i and return to her home aud figure up that she has | him from the Great American Muna 1 aeal for the 1 belt should picture a rall vor or a steamer, piled high with cotton hates, | A86H four cents by purchasing the goals at that the topmost bale [ should place a Jew, hooke * | store, may not seem probable to our quiet countey A Drama Played Out : bd pabnchy as sa 1s ah Oa tatese | comin such women live in New York, and Tip should be a erafty «mi his feet a number k sh : need te Saar Tae: vicissitudes of hosed mulatto children; and as he tappet his nose | © BOL Marre! with our This Urlenls, the sally pews: all our daily life, Hut ye , | papers, of the proprietors of the dry-guods establish: . rapliie with stubby aud dirty index finger be should exelaim, | PMT : : é more exact) the name of Waleott might ina servll: “I flourish where ignorance thrives crea Warsi Rac Maras variants pit alust the workl (at quall on toast), and steerage of every ocean steamer that touched our sTiundn Scaveveit (ieaceitntnes nc the previous vizht amon «rushed a column of dirty Jews who hastened caries seas Acre the Tombs Police southward. Prom the amps of the Union armies the was aw! Mr. Justicn White fons, and fathers, migrated down the open Mississippi Funny Coroner Merkle. + it were, awl impeled nither thar fl into the cotton belt, It was actually a Might of hook- - For this reason a policenan hosed vultures, anxious to feed on the cotton Stites. | ayy New Yorkers affected to be surprised theo tte a place af safety atl * + * No denunelatory voices in the South are | day at the action cf Coroner Philiyy Merkle tn summon: without some difficulty raised higher against the Civil Rights bill than the of | ing seh men as EX-President Grant, William I. Va mplishing bis. charitable mission. the Jews; and the very > loudly denonnee | dlerbilt, Jay Gould, a elaster of ex-mayora, and other t Vel stocked ‘with quail; presmalils F the Dill and declare th a demos ary duty, The wept, and —diseharsesl its distin-cuished | by taking them to their beds, These Jowa talk of | iuen of our times, Tene, his humor has | , . . amat, ¢ ¢ * aunt and fever-stricken planter dying for want of anmusement Hi suc yoked at me earnesuiy wher 1 | ner wasa Tammany statesman when John Kelly was | -S¥U8e the Latest arrivals of s-ealled f LY soberly replied: ‘They travel, not to escape from th ve] Totn Dunlap wasa prattling infant, Ie has obe | bresence is M. le Duc de Morny. This promising se ' payment of their debs, not becuase they are demoral- | seevesl New York zrow from the Rattery to the Harlem | Cf Somewhat doubtful father, aud still more doubt H | ize, bat simply bec the policy of the ——— } River, and althouzh during all this tite he beeame srandfather, is known to fame solely from the cires | Jews makes them travel.’ It Sania 18” ane. WANK ME GRRE MChAleS ce of having had an actress commit suicide in his this planter describe the conntry crus faculty of making himself undersiowi in the E wpartments at the gay capital some months ago—-not ing cards and drinking whisky with the language. Great German comedians have mad very munch to epeak of, It is trae, but enouzh, perhaps, the negro intoxicate and then cha inense fortunes by imitating on the staze his style of | M seeure for him some sort of “social” reeozenition in him. They cheat In the weights. They encou This manner In conducting inqu Certain metropolitait circies | vice and license by speech and act. Savagely the melancholy and auleyed persons have been Jawa of this Mississippian snapped as he said profanely: | sumone! as with he has tnroed what might | Iv Henry Bergh would only look after th *Damn them! [ should like to kill all of them and few! | have been a most sorrowful proceeding into an ocea- | shod car and stage hors THE JUDGE. v belt could be Larne Here the re Suv and of Tur, Jepee have nt 1. At length, however, he has ¢ chance to learn something of the condition of affairs | un office tilled with ghastly memories, and is ex ought about by the Jews in the South, Jews in the himself asa prize humorist, Some of his old orth have become very much excited beeanse Tire: | political friends were appalled when he ordered that Gen por has pictured their conduct hi Now that the | eral Grant, Mr. Vanderbilt, and Mr, Gould should act tions of Jews in the South, there is yet a possibility | solemnly said, “ Merkle is off.” He answered that he © subject. career as a public official, and then he hurrivs| inte bis private office and became uproarious with delist « his scheme to put some of the great men of this city on f General Grant Modern Shopping. ‘ourt-room, AL the prese Now of Tie Jeper’s friends the Great American Drama. tist has not yet app Still weare prepared to du fe nds not to judge bin 2, he might possibly 3 with the | jwople believe that he was a friend to d Ithe idea | It is a sh ination | anffer, ake mh animals. the way those poor bmtes are m jon for much la nclish tanseus For months he repm wus a humorist, and showed deep comicbooks.com