Judge, 1883-12-15 · page 14 of 16
Judge — December 15, 1883 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising** interspersed with a satirical story/dialogue. The main comic content is "Shake Shtays In," which appears to be ethnic humor—likely targeting German or Eastern European immigrants through heavy dialect spelling ("vhas," "pelief," "Shiminy"). The story concerns a lazy boy named Shake whom his father considers sending to the circus for fifty cents rather than supporting him at home. The joke hinges on the father's reasoning: keeping Shake costs money for food, but sending him away means losing those wages he might earn—a crude economic logic played for laughs. The humor relies on the familiar Judge formula of caricaturing immigrant speech patterns and depicting foreigners as comically ignorant or miserly. Without clearer historical context, the specific social commentary remains unclear, though it likely mocked contemporary attitudes toward poor immigrant families and child labor.
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