Judge, 1887-06-11 · page 4 of 16
Judge — June 11, 1887 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Satire Analysis This page contains brief satirical commentary on contemporary social and political issues, rather than single unified cartoons. The cartoons shown illustrate specific jokes: **"At Home"** (right): A woman brushes her exaggerated hair while her husband reads. The caption—"I'm sure that's a mouse"—satirizes women's elaborate Victorian hairstyles, suggesting they're so voluminous they could hide rodents. **"Wire" (bottom left)**: Two figures discuss newspaper writing, mocking sensationalist journalism and moral hypocrisy in reporting. The text snippets mock various targets: political figures like Ben Butler, religious hypocrisy (Canadian priests), gender contradictions (umbrellas signifying rank but causing arrest), and social absurdities. References to boxers like John Sullivan and Kilrain, astronomer Langley, and Colonel Ingersoll appear contemporary. The satire consistently targets **Victorian social pretension, journalistic excess, and political corruption**—common Judge magazine concerns of the 1880s-90s era.
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Sidge: HUM OF THE COURT. We begin to think that ‘unius filehed from the Rider Haggard stories. If it is true that Ben But- er is out of polities then politics has lost’ both its father and its mother. The Marq Mich., man who has been in his house twenty-one years, and not once out of it, must have one virtue —he must pay his rent pretty regularly. This country has 165 women ministers, and it does seem as if men ought to be There ig a suspicion that the pitcher of the Chicago club has gone to the well once too often. In Burmah the more umbrellas a man has the more he is esteemed ; whereas here that sign of rank sends a man to jail. Iv is the chief article in the ereed of the Canadian priest to serve the home government and worship the governor gen A New Hampshire woman 101 years old has w cough, and hopes presently to adopt the measles and a pair of pantalettes, The Orangemen of Toronto wanted to hang Mr. O'Brien to a sour- apple tree, but it appears there was not one of t kind in the city or any of its suburbs. An exchange says Colonel Ingersoll likes ood whis Well, if that is so he is taking the precise course to lead him to the place where they don’t ny. Misy Nellie Nixon of Chatts miles without her shoes ton ry the man of her el nd ever since the girls of her locality have gone about bane-footed. ical society insists that prescriptions shall continue to be Ove or Tax Easrentaxo sierens—" I'm sure that's a mouse.” in Latin, Suppose, ler to be consistent, that we take ae | . mis and Revelations in the sanie way? Ellen is looking around fora husband. It is well to make our stories a ie Hientioned aa the mast eicceetal emer aie. “A MHOleas well npact next sentones iis announced that Tt ix a queer conundrum, * Why does a man eat before he is but, to drop the question of hunger, we suppose he thinks he will never have another opportunity. “Kill him!” exe! e ns of the United States reporter who visits them. Wine him!” exclaim the same parties of the United States defaulter who secks shelter under th flag. A New Or! s girl committed suicide because she was in love with a strolling actor. It was a praiseworth, and showed that there a good deal of common sense behind her foolishness. Ninety-nine per cent. of novels are pert The dear old soul never read a novel in his lif would have been so bad that he would send the percen above par, John Sullivan goes about saying that he cannot afford to pay tention to the challenges of Kilrain and others; and rea are so many of them, he might almost remark that it never Kilrains but it pours. Professor Langley, America astronomer, says the sun is blue. When a man is so far gor Ss not to be able to distinguish that lumin- ary from the ordinary atmosphere he had better quit his promulgation of theories until he recovers, A skeleton in Caledonia, Minn., had 100 in cash 2 ig the fragments of its gr lothes. The selfishness of some men is a ruling passion beyond the gi but it is not a circumstance to the honesty of the Caledonia unde: rT. A western man who was hanged and resuscitated was so pleased with the experience that he committed another murder in order to be hanged again. ** Put the knota little higher up,” he said to the hang- man; “Tam more used to it There is to be a college costume without corsets or stays. We imagine that this will give the intellectual boating clubs and the base- ball nines more freedom of action ali!—it seems on closer investi gation that the costume is designed for Vassar. The Detroit Free Press reports that the Apache Indians have be- come sufficiently civilized to undertake the manufacture of whisky. ALL THE DIFFERENCE. There will be no large sale, however, As soon as those persons get Wire. What ap entertaining. refined and witty lady Miss Cynic ts: Who fs she*™ enough to get drank on the manufacture will cease. The commercial scl moirt eke anuikee an co Gazette abot the ow — yrinciple is a something that an Apache can never be made to Wire—" Ob, the brute: How could they ever admit the horrid wretch in good society?” understand, comicbooks.com