Judge, 1883-08-04 · page 15 of 16
Judge — August 4, 1883 — page 15: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** from Judge magazine, with one notable satirical poem taking up the center column. ## The Main Content: "A Little Too Much Rye" The poem is a **humorous verse about drunken behavior and fighting**, written as a parody of the Scottish song "Comin' Thro' the Rye." It uses the original's structure to mock men who become belligerent when intoxicated—suggesting that various professions (flunkeys, sculptors, writers) who drink and then fight behave foolishly and hypocritically. ## Supporting Editorial Section Below the poem, Judge prints a brief commentary on an actual legal question: **the monetary value of a stolen kiss**. This appears to reference a real court case or lawsuit, and Judge sardonically explores how juries might rate kisses differently based on the woman's age, status (widow vs. young woman), and circumstances. It's gentle social satire about legal absurdity. ## The Rest The page is dominated by period advertisements for Austrian bonds, musical boxes, writing inks, billiard tables, bicycles, and patent medicines (notably "Gastrine" for dyspepsia)—typical late-19th-century magazine fare.
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with FIVE DOLLARS 5 per cent. Imp. Austrian 100M. Gov't Bond, Issue of 1860 INTERNATIONAL a Co, No. 207 Hroadway, cur, Pution nt. New Vark City MONARCHS [SOLD BY LEAD JOUN BL DAVIDS & CO.’S CPROWN BRANT) WRITING INKS AND MUGILAGE. MUSICAL NOVELTIES. ONGULNETTES, CAHINETTOS, TOUR CAHINETS, AUTOMATIC SAP VIANOS, PIPE AND SMALL INSTRUMENTS, §8 TO $2 831 BROADWAY 12th and 13th Streets. ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE SENT FREE. ON APPLICATION. THE MECHANICAL ORGUINETTE COMPANY. A CARD. - HO 19 TS A CARDS, DICE te LARGE INSTRUMENTS, THE JUDGE. A LITTLE TOO MUCH RYE. Iv a body Meet a Body When a body’s tight, Should a body Hit a body And then want to fight ? Every flunkey Isa dunkey When he fights a duel: If a dunkey Kick’s a fhinkey, Do you think that’s ernel ? If a seulptor Shoot a writer When he's on a bust, Should we smite a Cold clay fighter Make him bite the dust ? Tur. interesting question of the value of a stolen kiss will shortly c euse judge and a jury f uid a lawyer is now drawing up a na ns property in r'this ehall: be decided in’ the ive, the further one will arise of th fication of kisses, All kisses are, of J course, precious, but some kisses must. be mach more valt The kiss of sixteen, iously rent from the for instance, kiss of sixty beyond. price. The not to be comp: f pretty ones, What is the a widow's kiss? All these points will have | to be take tion in the coming J suit. If the young lady whom the grocer robbed is zed, a suit for damages will | probably Pr Jianee, and a pecuniary | to wuide juries as tothe value of stolen kisses may finally be the result, —Moru. Journal. | Examen my wife for her beauty ; She married me for my—wit. That | got the best of the bargain Min candid cnough to admit. W it often | My Me is washtub, | beside uty soon fa So Pan certain that beauty will Wanitering Paragraph A youns | long a surety is ally We don't erchant wants te know dona note, Well, Por surety knsts. ath, but ety 2 Only catch hit a second rlington Hawk jelphia bride, 1 am r wedding tour should Park. Yellow don’t hile. with my comp! News. Ir may bee him to do so, but aman stsuslly takes his hat off in the the presence of his barler.— | Youkers Statesman. oss's Le OYAL en BELFAST IRELAND ow MANUFACTORY —Erehange. | ndemni- THE COLLENDER BILLIARD a ) POOL TABLES. \| ELECTRIC STEREOPTICON ADVERTISING CO 185 FIFTH AVENUE. Liberal Terms for Summer Resorls, excursion Routes, ete. The taal and most Central Spot in the City. ANKONL & HART, Proprietors, -Gastrine | (LN LIQULD FORM) CURES DYSPEPSIA | DRUGGISTS. « Jolum bit Bieyele hy | AGENTS: nd "what every CAN NOW G Outfit worth a FG HIDEO comicbooks.com