Judge, 1885-10-31 · page 5 of 16
Judge — October 31, 1885 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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This page from *Judge* contains several short satirical pieces typical of late 19th-century American humor: **"Where Ignorance is Bliss"** mocks French cuisine pretensions—a lady unknowingly eats poultry that French cooks fought over in a dirty kitchen, yet praises "the Frenchman's cooking," satirizing blind admiration of foreign sophistication. **"Boring a Hole"** ridicules stubborn ignorance: Old Bromly refuses his son Ike's correct advice about auger direction, insisting on his own wrong method. The joke: after hours of effort, he admits the auger is defective—never considering he was doing it backwards. **Other brief items** mock Native Americans in museums, Congressional incompetence, and Brazilian slavery laws that free slaves only at age 60 (useless, the author snipes, since they're then decrepit anyway). The cartoons use exaggerated dialect and physical comedy typical of the era. The satire targets pretension, stubbornness, and social hypocrisy rather than specific political figures or dated events.
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