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# Judge Magazine Satire Analysis This page from **Judge** magazine (a late-19th-century American satirical publication) contains various brief satirical observations and two cartoons mocking social customs and notable figures of the era. **Key satirical points:** - **Oscar Wilde reference**: Mocks Wilde's flamboyant dress while criticizing his wife's alleged originality, suggesting she vindictively gave away her new bonnet rather than wear it herself—portraying both as ridiculous. - **"He'd Like to Please Her But—"** (top cartoon): Shows a man reluctant to be seen publicly with a woman, likely satirizing social pretension and courtship anxieties among the fashionable classes. - **"An Hour with a Jersey Mosquito"** (bottom cartoon): Depicts the discomfort of mosquito bites, a relatable domestic annoyance. The page also contains satirical quips about women writers, Philadelphia women marrying disabled men, and political figures (Prince Luitpold's sanity). The overall tone reflects Judge's brand of urbane, somewhat misogynistic social commentary typical of the period.
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JUDGX. A New Jersey woman who died haunted her husband because he had re-married until he died of fright. That was mean and cow- ardly. A woman ugly enough to do that ought to have died before she found anybody to haunt. The sanity of Prince Luitpold is commended ; so we suppose the Ba: tumble him out of his regency in short 7 What they want ina ruler is a high order of craze, and the more expensive it is the better they like it. A society girl says the young man must real- ly be taught to handle alady’s fan to the lady's satisfaction. This will be accomplished, we think, just as soon as the young man learns how to occupy both sides of her, and he’s will- ing enough. THE COURT PHILOSOPHER. Photographers can never teach theircustom- ers to assume an easy smile until they furnish the smile with the rest of the apparatus. Let us not build our hopes of beauty on vain imag. inings. Women write very much more immoral matter for the journals of the day than men do, but we can pay them one compliment—it is the other sex for the most part that reads the matter. __ “What is a sham ?” inquires Lady William Lennox in the Home Journal. It seems odd that an intelligent woman should ask such a question as that, but we must remember that they have no civil-service commission over there. Oscar Wilde dresses likea Christian, but Mrs W. is said to be startlingly original in her The man who works off his eccen- tricities in that way is meaner than was the woman who was afraid her new bonnet was » here, Mr. Joseph, [don't want to walk home with you with those horri- — |dragging her to everlasting punishment and hit the folks would raise old Ned if I took them off.” therefore gave tt to hor sinter. = ————— - —— Acinan conceives a prejudice against another jman, and thereafter every act of the latter will be looked upon by the former absunl- oran affront, To dispel such a prejudice i . you must kill the man or wait for him to die a There is a dog in New Jersey that cats cu-| Kill, and they're never charged a cent for it. [natural death, And you hadn't better wait— cumbers. We apprehend no danger, however.| A Philadelphia girl has married a man with- | you'll die long before he does. The dog hasn't yet learned to call the doctor) out any legs. Indifference to hun great: F = or fill himself with cholera mixture. ness like this cannot be too strongly condemned. a F SPRING bale? Pa is F Whatever success the man may have, he can | ‘* How long will you care for me It is stated that Cl zo gumbl last year} : 4s “ ‘ violet 7 cleared 835 00. The ‘polation: of Chinsseo | MOY win the slightest fame as a player of Ask es haar bunch of violets how sae arid : settee long its perfume wi ay is not exact! wn, but this must be about eaal Seals Uaeantstl five dollars apiece for the miserable sinners. your gas the higher your bills. Due perhaps |%500 for carelessly poisoning a patient, That to the recent discovery of valuable mines in|shows how the sex is trodden upon, Male Alaska. doctors do their injury with just a little more Frances Willan has written a book for girls Ll entitled “How to Win.” Miss Willard not al being an authority in matrimony, we suppose I MWh the book consists prineipally of points on poker. MAMA vil el il ti a An exchange says time is its mark 11 jut io it TE on Butler. The old man is a inded t lawyer, however, and if he is worsted in the last argument he will carry his case to the highest court. The Greenbackers and Democrats of Iowa have resolved to unite. They are totally opposed as to principle, if they happen to have any; but that is the identical rea why they can harmo- nize and still retain their self-respect. A woman says that of 200 men taken to the police station but one will be found to have a high hat. We have suspected for some time back that those fellows have taken to carrying their bricks in their pockets. | Dr. Helen Cumming of Boston has to pay An hour with a Jersey mosquito, comicbooks.com