Judge, 1887-03-19 · page 4 of 16
Judge — March 19, 1887 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from the satirical magazine *Judge* contains several short humorous commentaries and two cartoon sections: **"Reeling It Off"** (top): A rural selectman asks a cotton broker for black ribbon instead of white, explaining his wife is in mourning. The joke mocks rural simplicity—he misunderstands the broker's business. **"Hum of the Court"** (middle): A series of brief satirical observations on contemporary society, including jabs at high society affectations, earthquakes (referencing recent natural disasters), newspaper pretensions, and moral hypocrisy among the wealthy and prominent. **"The Crush Hat"** (bottom): Four cartoon panels depicting the comedic chaos of a fashionable hat being crushed or destroyed, with dialogue emphasizing the hat's destruction. The humor derives from the exaggerated concern over a fashionable accessory and the slapstick consequences. Overall, the page targets American social pretension, gender roles, and contemporary fads through wit and visual comedy typical of 1880s-90s satirical journalism.
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SeLeCTMAN FROM HorskHEans (to broker who has drop, | | | | | ed in to look at the quotations) —" Say, | my friend, don’t that air loom make nothin’ but white ribbin? My woman's in mournin’ an’ I'd like ter git a couple ‘er yards uv black, ‘f Mri of the Court. | Earthquakes are no respectors of persons, with the exception of the prince of Wales. Miss Coghlan in a scrap of paper must be charming, provided the scrap is not too large. _ It is feared that the two men who from Winnipeg for the north pole have pegged out, _ Th Med Old House at Home in this ity would be greatly improved if it were | ays away from there. place Jay Gould has undertaken a history of | Ameries begin with will buy the con: tinent the better to investigate it. and ¢ ys that when he lived in he never drank anything stronger than milk. It is therefore stilla mystery what he wanted to live Philadelphia for. “Whither are our gilded youth drifting?” ks a high moral contemporary with ill-con- American pickpockets got away with much money at the Montre: |, but there is | gall in the thought t in some cases the ras- cals probably picked the American pocket too. The Philadelphia Nets wants to know why | Life and the Jupce do not build harbor de- | fences out of their impenetrable jokes. What! | for nothing? Uncle Sam is no pauper, we think. - | There is to be a great depletion of the treasury. It will be nec ries of those distin men whose perso body politic carniv: ational | ary to pay the sala- uished newspaper gentle al accounts so agitate the 7 | “More glory for the bewitching little | of a prima How long has that excellent gentle- man had this attic A lady of Shel days after the death sine latter has haunted her. She been hasty, but a ghost that can't find anything better to do than that | the Buffalo Commercial, sy donna f her husband, and ever er kin run it out.” ought to be driven into oblivion with a hot pitchfork. Somebody has heard an woman of this city remark at * You can't waltz for sour apples,” to record the conclusive reply—" I don’t want sour apples, you know. elegant “Knee-breeches have come.” York Star. Knee-breee! Fe ny years a away; though we can’t say, to be whether the garter belonging to them always had the buckle on. ys the New y son, came a! If there is a lady or gentleman who doesn't propose to belong to the Boston Ideals. will information to that effect be promptly for- warded to some daily journal? There at least three who have yet to speak, and only two of them are dead. President Robinson of Brown university thinks it would be perilous to put young men and young ladies in the same class of fresh- “ What is it, Bid; “ Faix, I don't”——Bang! Bang! “Take it away, take it away! men, It would indeed, and the protection of the young man of that denomination is nally the first law of nature. - Sd The Buffalo Commercial tic the zephyrs of its town because ' earthquakes; and we dare say that if th earthquakes it would be delighted because were not the day of judgment. were they ASt. Louis woman gets nine yee in the penitentiary for killing # policeman The proposition that a woman grown can live that amount of time 1s so absurd that we shouldn't blame the lady if she spitefully ex. pired long before her sentence did. 7 A telephone girl says she talks every day with men, strangers, who inquire about her age, looks, dress, prospects, etc., and adds naively, “I soon find out which among them are gentlemen.” Remarkably astute young lady. It would puzzle anyone else to get that information. The papers the other day had long accounts of how pretty Mrs. Thompson smiled « favor. able verdict out of a New York jury. This is going too far. The old kind of jury-tixer was bad enough, and under this new influence ther | wouldn't be a safe jury in the world—except those composed of women. The ghost of Stonewall Jackson regularly appears on the grounds of the Virginia military institute, mounted on a high horse and war ing a sword. Stonewall must 1 ged deplorably. He was not in the habit of doing that sort of thing when there was no call for vec jit, and he never fought after the battle was over. The ghost of tie la nightly over a } e Mr. Guiteau walks Jand farm, and the owner e been reformation. How would it be for the farmer to make him walk daily, previously harnessing him to the plough witi some other ji A Georgia mother burned her son's best suit to prevent his marriage. We have no further information in the premises, but itis pnable to suppose that the proceedings went on if the youth didn't have a rag to his back. Utherwise the aged lady ought to have burned all the hair off hi It’s loaded.” comicbooks.com