Judge, 1887-06-25 · page 3 of 20
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# Judge Magazine Satire Analysis This page contains multiple satirical pieces typical of Judge's social commentary: **"Handy to Have Around"** (top cartoon): Depicts a woman asking her mother to jump repeatedly so children can float a boat—absurd domestic logic satirizing women's impracticality or the era's stereotypes about female reasoning. **"She for Whom the Heart Panteth"**: Critiques Susan B. Anthony's recent Rochester lecture on women's suffrage and independence. The satire mocks Anthony's apparent contradiction: she champions women's independence from marriage while simultaneously suggesting women should be "the subject" in relationships. The piece argues her logic is inconsistent—if women are sovereign, they can't also be subjects. **"The Rise and Fall of Feminine Intellect"**: Reports that Vassar produced thirty-six male graduates with impressive scholarly achievements (medieval music, Greek theology, etc.), then sardonically argues these accomplishments are logically impossible or absurd—attacking both women's education and abstract scholarship simultaneously. **"A Sure Business"** (bottom): A vendor promoting a cane-ringing device that supposedly guarantees fashionable results, satirizing consumer gullibility and dubious commercial schemes.
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June bonnet, a summer Shaws, and a pair of the beautifuilest long: stock- 1 ever saw. it a case of * asked the ing : liniment to Jus swollen cheek. + And as to the num ber of the purchases quest the gove nor, with a suspicious Jook out of the corner of his most innocent eye. “Three hundred, and all of ‘em weighed more than a pound apie remarked Daniel with as ppearance of exceeding: * Daniel Mrs. Lamont. “Put the child to bed!” exclaimed the president testily. ‘tHe got up by far too early.” ned FUL FACT eland and ont have grave doubt the truthful- ness of their respective husbands since the re- turn from the Adiron- dacks, and have fre- quent consultations with Brother Lamar, who is reliable because he always remains at home. SHE FOR WHOM THE HEART PANTETH. Miss Anthony ina recent lecture in Rochester said that the transi- tion of woman from the condition of subject to that of soverei; rapidly gomg on. There area great many who think she is the sov- erign already, and rightly so; but of course the matter is not one of ex as much so of circumstance, the least worthy going to the rear and the most fortunate or worthy to the front. Pausing to explain that as between marriage and subjection (and how much subjection there is on the other side!) women prefer independence and old-maidism, Miss Anthony says each of the pair must be * the -and this directly after ming that the woman is the sov- dd the man necessarily the This is not logic. It is the inconsistency. But let it i The more important proposi- tion is this—we quote from the re- subject gravest pass common with others, had any years to bring about this It is a most important confession made in a gentle and most modest way. It opens the road for some one than to that matrimonial ecstacy which thonsands have yearned for in vain. Miss Anthony is finally in the field, and that trembling hope Shich springseternal in the masculine rs Wst Is at last to have its vindica- ion THE HISE AND PALL OF REMININE INTELLECT, turns out this year thirty-six bachelors of art, one of whom writes of music of the nin th century, another of the divine Nemesis in the HANDY TO HAVE AROUND. Miss Roxreav--"Won't you please jump up and down afew times, mamma? Jack and Twantto float tho SC ‘A SURE BUSINESS, Propatetor (probably the introducer of the big-headedt cane) -* The beauty of it is young man, when you ring a cane, you see, you are sure to get one of the latest style. None of your old-fashioned tooth-picka.” 3 Greek theology, another of the redemption of Faust, another of the decline of oratory, and another of the ideal scientist. These things are quite impossible, with the exception. of the music of the nine- teenth century, which is on the whole a rather gratifying fact that has self. There can be no divine Ne sis, for the reason retribution without the purpose of reformation is quite the opposite thing. The redemption of Faust is equally ab- surd for the reason that Faust sold his soul to the devil, and we must first. consider the re- demption of the devil asa means to that end. Again, there is no de- cline in orator We have just as good tory today as the world ever had, and the only thing necessary to its vindication is that we who are contemporane- ous with. it shall pass away and give it the judgment. of _ histor Still further, any entist. who i mentioning is the ntist, bec giving himself up to the development of hidden fact at great personal sacrifice of the breed and butter ch, at Vassar (or instance, is too much a part of the daily suste- nee. It pains the Jue ceedingly to see the tenderness which nually exhibits itself at Vassar (in thin white muslin frocks and *k and lumpy and awkward asseveration of intelligence); and the question involuntarily presents itself, why do not these young ladies— who, by the way, have a phrenological development at the heel which is lamentable—devote them: s to the simpler questions, su s the archielogical substratum of the hypothetical altitude of the supernat- ural, which are the usual affectation of their classical contemporaries of the other sex ? BLAINE AND Derew WILL attract someattention in Europe; but it is un- fortunate that they can’t throw a lasso or ride abucking horse. O'Donovan Rossa 18 TRYING to re- ity by sending him- self letters threatening to take his life ; but if there is anybody that hungers forsuch a lifeas that he must have an exceeding contempt for his own. TUTTLE, WHO WANTS to insult the president for having vetoed the depen- dent pensions bill, had better talk less until it is positively demonstrated that the president must consult Tuttle before venturing to express an opin- ion, THE CREMATION OF 2 murderer recently hanged has thrown the med- ical colleges into a fever of passion and anxiety; but as a general thing murderers are not hanged till the law- yers have got all their money, and cremation comes high.