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# "The Scientific Way" - Judge Magazine Satire This page features two cartoons satirizing late 19th-century American life. The left cartoon shows a pompous professor demonstrating weather prediction to children using an umbrella and compass—mocking pseudoscientific pretension and charlatans passing themselves off as experts. The caption's reference to "Washington" suggests critique of government weather forecasting claims. The right cartoon ("She Goes!") depicts a man with an umbrella being blown away by wind, illustrating the futility of the professor's methods—situational irony highlighting how abstract "science" fails against practical reality. The page's miscellaneous notes mock various contemporary absurdities: Bavaria's king bankrupting himself on opera tickets, newspaper editors being robbed (implying they're worthless targets), and a satirical exchange about whether society ladies posing for painters compromises morality. The overall tone ridicules pretension, incompetence, and social hypocrisy typical of *Judge's* satirical approach.
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THE THE JUDGE, SCIENTIFIC WAY. Ye ji t \ | “The weather ini na from Washington are, quaey winds | snow h to the muree of you we Geet it rue properly, wait J when 1 veill say “ail right,” Sue Goes! Tue Kine of Bavaria has bankrupted Wues the of the transgressor is hard, Dr. Rontssos, of Brown University himself on opera tickets at #410,000a go. He his head isn’t If the head wasn’t soft he’d that he would prefer not to be president of a might have run through his patrimony | make his way easy by skipping to Canada, | college “where men and women of a most quicker at a popular American watering compromising and living soft, rich and re- | inflammable shall sit side by side. plac spected the rest of his life. | Some old men can’t stand such excitement, | A CORRESPONDENT of a newspaper univer- A PrrtsbUrGH paper contains the impor. | Eseéiisn nobility may be interested to sal-intelligence offic causes tant information thatthe “nail-feeders have learn that there is no titled Englishman | yelones?” and it shamelessly says that it concluded that there is nothing better than whose name is so often pronounced in this | | does not know. We can tell. ‘The causes Union.” So this way in the case of the | country asthe Marquis of Queensbury. He are many. Hubby’s attitude towards dear slate-pencil eaters and the ice-cream-and- | immortalized himself by codifying the laws | ma is one of the most frequent causes, caramel sequestrators, for blacking eyes and tapping noses. | AN ISLAND LyniIc. Editorial Notes. | A country editor who recently came down to sce the sights | | A POEM IN TWO GATGES of New York, had his pocket picked in a Bowery dive. The || - oo. . thief was so disgusted with his ze that he returned the edi- || [The poet, solouening onan Hand {a the: Aantte) han, ander for a” torial wallet with the following note: “ Ye miserabil creter, hears | gauges, which incidentally Ilustrateth the elasticity’ of 1 1 ats flashy drest as you was to go ‘round with nothin but a comb |) : an newspaper clips an a rale rode pass is a impersition on the | NARROW GALOE, BROAD GALOR, public, [despises sich. I never robs no one but gentlemen.” | See the fe Behold how nature's mantle wraps this isle Last weck a burglar broke into the house of an editor. — He irene In fold on fold uy and fleecy mist! was busy picking the lock of a safe when he w. concerted by F Hark how the canine creature doth t hearing the owner langhing merrily behind him. Why do you 1 The weary hours, and never will d laugh?” fiercely asked the thief, “‘‘ Iam amused, my good fel- Ly it blows With cruel power the blast remorseless Ui low, said the editor cheerfully, ‘‘that you take so many pains The wild r And fairest things be! ts fury quail; , and so much risk to find money in a place by night where I And the waves, It tears the petals of the wild bi never can discover any by day How they roar And rudely scatters them about the vale = In the caves Through the dim corridors of Neptune’ | Outflanking Immodesty. By Ue ore. yt underlie the eras along the shore. |] -« Do onr ladies of fashion really offer themselves as models Phe poor bir ith step unsteady go the wandering waves, | to painters, Mr, La Farge?” Never beard And answer back to one another's roar M* Certain! Such a strife On yonder tree the poor affrighted bird « Do you not think it is a trifle immodest? And the _ Cowers, forgetful of his gushing song: ** Formerly it may have been, but I have invented a method the dish Such direful tumult be has never heard at which the most prudish women cannot kick.” coly wish In any of his whole life lon “Tow?” free How very nice these browned and basted fish “ By division, addition, and silence. ‘The first day the model 3o with the buttered muffins and the tea! appears in a ball dress above her waist and a riding habit below. let rogues, I know y phot wish The second day she wears a bathing suit below, and a jacket, | sapestuon: Turkish veil and turban above. In this way art ourflanks Im: | ROSSITER JOH modesty right and left.” VISCOUNT M. | a __t comicbooks.com