Judge, 1887-03-19 · page 6 of 16
Judge — March 19, 1887 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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This page from *Judge* contains three distinct pieces of satire: **"His Way"** (left): A romantic poem mocking sentimental literature and Democratic politicians. The final stanza reveals the "dreamy" romantic hero is actually a "boodle Democratic politician" obsessed with embezzling public funds—satirizing corruption in Democratic administrations of the era. **"No Laughing Matter"** (lower left): A dialogue between Mose and Jefferson about raffles. One character explains running confidence schemes through charitable societies, using fake raffles to profit from gullible members. The final exchange mocks both men's inability to recognize obvious truths about themselves. **"Freddie's Sayings and Doings"** (center): Humorous anecdotes about a two-year-old child. The jokes exploit innocent malapropisms ("His name, mamma, is mud") and childish irreverence (interrupting a minister's grace with "Get your skates on"). **"Enforcing the Canadian Fishery Laws"** (top right): A cartoon about Canadian enforcement, featuring officers addressing violations. The page represents typical *Judge* content: political mockery mixed with domestic humor and social satire targeting Democratic corruption and urban con artists.
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ape: HIS WAY. He gazed into her eyes and nearerdrew, She flushed and turned co quettishly away, Then, poutingly aside | roses thre And wont low had to say. He bent his | The yello e felt U And ud so low above her own ised the face which he had found so fair. He took her hand—the music swelled again, ‘the Gern waltz th ed from above Thritled all her soul with p oreand with And whispered to her heart sweet dreams of love. re the mystic magic of his glance 4 the dreamy music sound so sad? “the pleasure of the dance, it was a way he had! KITTIE K. u De administration?” » smiled as he thought of tl he was a boodle Democratic politi administration is all right,” he ren has got a tine big Democratic i trouble is that the man with the veto is a agewumnp.” What's your latest fake in raising the wind?” I went on, leading him into a neigh. boring beer-tunnel. ny,” he chuckled, drawing the of his hand across his mouth and inwardly ng at his success in the ways that are dark and the tricks that are v: “You re- : NO LAUGHING MATTER rocratic » time when Mose—" I don JEFFERSON: "t see nuffin to laff at!" Co’se not; you can't see yusself.” 1 | stances over a dozen times, and my grandfather the surplus will remain long in the treasury | vember I got in the little confidence gan Well, when T hea papers on account of that. e I played on the actor? 1 the detectives were after | ENFORCING THE CANADIAN FISHERY Laws me I switched off on something else; for a] crook, you know, has to be a man who can always land on his feet. He must know when Jit is time to drop on a game that's played out. and that's why I'm such a success at i “My st wrinkle is the raffle racket. | join a society—generally one of those benevo- lent ones—and set to work to make myself solid with the members. When this is don: | I start a raffle for the benefit of myself under | |some assumed name. If I can se hundred | jtckets at fifty ts each for an article tha {cost me two dollars, you see Lm doi IT now belong to enough soc raffle every week. My. sister's hu \died and left his family in destitute cireum falls down stairs and breaks his leg about onc |amonth, Whenever th is a serious acc dent one of my friends or relatives is sure to) be among the injured. I find that a man | | would sooner give a quarter and take his hances of winning at a raffle than pay a half! and buy the article outright. You can bet | your life I make it my business to nurse all | such foibles of mankind and turn an honest | penny by then almost all the papers are pub, lishing witty say. ings and doings of children, so I send ‘ou some of our Freddie's: which we think very fun- ny. He is. only two years old. One ai came into my sewing-room with his ck. you been doing, darling?” Freddie jace snd | | ing a man,” he answered, holding up a mud figui | Whe you going to call him?” + His name, mamma, is mud,” he answered with a sweet smile. | | Last Sunday our minister took dinner with ‘us, and, of course, said grace, Freddie seemed | to think it too long in ending, and when it! | was about half through he called out: “Get your skates on, old man; get your skates on, | Of course, we all laughed heartily at this} sally. On another occasion he stid to the minister: “Mr, Pulpit, wouldn't you like to borrow | our rat-trap + What for, Freddie?” inquired th “Nothing; only I think you your garret. minister, rats in We had a large dinner party a short time | witty was coming, | ted id my husband: “why do “T thought x | Canaptas oFFIcER—“ Back. back, I say, in the queen's r You are not allowed to cross into the Ameri an waters.” I see the butter has started 3 This humor, favorite. He is also a great practical joker. Only last week he cut a large, square piece out of the cook’s best dress, and the stupid thing couldn't see anything funny about it, but I laughed until I was almost si Yester he took the waitress’s tooth-brush and soaked it in car. bolic acid, so that her mouth is so sore that she cannot eat. T think that such a little boy, don’t you? put the whole table in the best of ud Freddie at once became a great very cunning in L. R. CATLIN, QUITE NATURAL “Whatever are you going to do wi murderous shillaly?” asked Merritt expect to any trouble with the ( men?” that D .” replied Dennis, * but Oi thought we might mate the opposition faction uf the Ancient Order uf Hibernians.” A CONNOISSEUR FROM WAYBACK. LOAN EAH IBITION Rvrat vistror (at loan collection of printings Let me see! ‘Owned by Boodle the million- aire; value ten thousand dollars.’ Well, Ill be darned! That air pictur’ ain't a patch to theone ea the other day y folks git ch T tell sew it takes a sharp un to cheat me on a pictur.” comicbooks.com