Judge, 1886-03-13 · page 11 of 16
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This page from *Judge* satirizes Boston's self-regard and intellectual pretension through a melodramatic serial story. The narrative mocks Bostonians as snobbish descendants of colonial wealth ("money left to them at odd") who disdain outsiders while pretending cultural superiority. The story's central satire targets 1880s-era feminism and women's suffrage activism. Varina, the "eminent" female lecturer, advocates for women's rights and independence, while Frank Rivers (a Southerner—adding regional mockery) argues women belong in domestic roles or laundries. The satire suggests both positions are equally absurd. **"Our Medical Department"** section parodies patent medicine advertisements with fabricated products ("Reliable Indian Remedy," "Painless Corn Destroyer"), ridiculing the era's predatory medical quackery. The cartoons depict physical comedy and social chaos. The overall tone is dismissive of Boston's pretensions, feminist activism, and contemporary commercial hucksterism.
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JUDGE. THE BOSS TONY ONES. th nung lady. Al in love with the Miss Olive Chancellor, who be Vs rights and has money to she falls in love with the ald, disrey f war, he | ness aft Boston is the ws are laid, | The suene is laid in Boston, t where all our literary [fit keepson we will wish that Boston had rose: opinion The isa traveling spi 1 from a botth his fingers. young th | gets his inspirs it to Varina thro is his usual drink CuAMTER I. proposes to buy up the won alin the harbor a hundred: years fthe tea, Fi ; Cape Cod and t wot far away. sare the “an fields mans bulge lows on t Miss Chancel derful young li must learn te napkin on he y and be her manag t pie with her fork, knee, and talk through her ton would be complete can and the ¢ It is gettin; but we have wind enough for the It rumbles and roars. Be still, my soul, CHAPTER IIL Frank Rivers has an office in New York. It prner gro He gets beer for five and a hundred scents for noth up his stairway. An CHAPTER 1. Wipe your nose, Pr gumsat the door ne good society. Maho met would not view Damascus, for he said he and in and see se Z come ss boards in the wished to see but “aven. Peo- OUR MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. ple ery have not seen | good si for | they have not seen Boston. Lat that posed of people who have had money left. to thom at oid Reliable Indian Remedy” a Sere anton board dandrull re. at idiot asylums. They can neestry i F hundred They would not any fur if they They run against. some thing. On the occasion when our story opens there was a char eristic Boston years would w's Painless Corn Destroyer,” gathering. Four. | guick and sure, * Law's Positive Skin Cure.” teen cran that ote, turn, and two journalists with heads on them | same odorous locality. They sympathize, he likea Hubbard squash. ‘The rest of the une pied space was dotted with first Beardsh grown cu- | because she draws no houses, he draws no clients. The end is obvious They draw together, CHAPTER 1. Varina becomes eminent as a lecturer, thinks woman's position might be improved and wasted her life iving to ned people from slavery, instead of reading E Cook and growing transcendental. s too funny for How foc Woman once drew the plow thing. Ha, hat ho, hot ‘Then there is with cattle. Once was sold lik ; st young girl who beli | was without right to hold proper rights. | She makes an eloquent speech and | 1's mission is to lean on man shows great power. She is not a first family. | have his strong arm to nd his breath She and her parents eat pie with a knife, and | will do when she misses: his : She ought take the soup, when they can get it, out of | to look up to man, when he Il enor the point of the spoon. They pin the napkin | when he can keep his feet. Woman is tor lof laying it on their left | home happy when she has one, and: wher on the breast inste: nd yet a Boston Providenceallows them | has none she ought to run a laundry and get The two journalists fan the top of | one. Thus does Rivers argue when he next their heads with their ears and fall in love | mects Varina, and as she picks a hunk of bo- with the young lady. Frank Rivers, a youth | logna out of his blonde moustache she mur- from Mississippi who was formerly in the| murs, ‘Frank, perhaps I have struck the southern army, but forgave the north and} wrong combination. Forgive me.” came up here,to make scads in the law busi: | Guzzel's World Renowned self treatment for dryness of the throat, nd she because She She will | and | { in? cuArTER ¥. Olive Chancellor discovers that the southe ling the affections of Varina, S finds Varina losing her interest. in. wo rights and her heaven-born gift of eloqi She runs away with her and hides her at a krupt sunimer resort of concealment and comes down the only way he can come down skipped his 1 sum He has plenty of time itors have all been givi plent He wins the love of Varina tells her that she must choose between fo erduty, and himself. He year's board bill, a suit of Chi street clothes, and an old ci man is st Rivers finds her It is He has around all His ered. him time, so he has He plac he said to consider, and he gave It was all he had te CHAPTER VI. Olive Chancellor had stolen: - - She consent, ve her. away again was to de | livera lecture at Tremont tem ple, Bostor big ongin 1 rumbled out a prelude, Boston common wa out there in the pale was full of first fam As we look them over we wonder that Lincoln and Grant and Gar- field ver amounted to much, born, alas! so far from Bos: ton and with not blue chief. they did not } tobeold, Well, By deep a tious stud he learned that x 4a bi T-boards actress: ler He would stop He stalksdown At purpose in his loved should diss him money to buy a ticket He comes in. ‘but TL forbear. The crowd wa Hing “Come out, come out!” x into his arms with a sob. “Tknew breath.” Ismelled your indry, [see my duty 1 sobbed cony Olive Chancellor fainted, and the turned a pale sage green in the me Isiv one woman had found her destiny, and chimera was busted. MORAL. But, you say, this is not a great stors own it. You ask, where do the beans Ido not know. What does it prov comicbooks.com