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# Judge Magazine Satire Analysis This page contains several short satirical items typical of late-19th-century Judge magazine. The main cartoon, "Very Considerate," depicts a society gathering where someone asks a critic's opinion of a painting by "Mr. Squeezer"—likely a jab at affected artistic pretension. The "Hum of the Court" section collects brief social and political jabs, including: - **Dan Rice** (a famous circus performer/politician) courting a wealthy Texas widow - **Daniel Lamont** (Cleveland's secretary) receiving praise - References to **James Blaine** (prominent Republican politician) feeling ill at sea, compared to reading Democratic newspapers - Mockery of **Mrs. James Brown Potter** (a society figure obsessed with being photographed) - **B.F. Butler** (Civil War general/politician) and prohibition debates The humor relies on readers recognizing contemporary public figures and current social debates—particularly around prohibition and Victorian-era propriety. The "Consistency" verse jokes about a woman's modesty changing based on context. Without knowing these specific figures and 1880s-90s contexts, modern readers miss the immediate topical punch.
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VERY CONSIDERATE. “adinian, what is your candid opinion of this painting by Mr. Squeezer ? You know it madarn HUM OF THE COURT. Dan Rice in: eof the various a better joke t rying arich Texas widow at the nts as to his dilapidation are unter an that in all his life mest 2" asks shows that He never did a * Does it pay to be exchange. happen to live in New Jerse Always—alws unless indeed ye A recent two-column article on Daniel Ls that m Mr. Cleveland Daniel has the best pi world. 1ont appears to show ale secretary in the CONSISTENCY. hen with her love she'd blush if he Perchanced to see her hose ; But when sh *s bathing in the sea Her limb to all she shows. has 1100 unmarried men and the unbeliever says there is no hell. Garfield county married women, and y You must never say that aman The man thus accredited is really ine: Mr. Jack Shaw of Shenandc since Bla d, ise half of his name. It is unfair. pable of any idea at all. hh, Pa, who has gone coatless ever dently guilty of fraud as to the They are talking of calcined oyster-shells for cancer ; and give us the unembossed interior of the same for any internal disorder that may be troublesome. When James Blaine had been twenty-four hours at sea he said he felt as if he had perused a Democratic morning newspaper and wanted to disgorge its contents. Mr. Haggard in ng that the human mind never think thought gives indubitable evidence that he is addicted to an oc reading of the London Times. Mrs. James Brown Potter has been photographed in 140 attitudes, and it will be strange indeed if she succeeds in not one of them. If, however, she doesn’t she must be photographed in 140 more. The Norristown Herald holds that a man who is right on the bat- tle-ground knows less about the battle than the man a thousand miles away. The inference is, we suppose, that the first man has been shot. They don't sell liquor in Detroit on Sunday, and yet on that day like never of a brother artist's painting to speak bad recently the editor of the Free Press counted 1.200 Joons that were open at the side like a cor gown, He must ha must have inflamed ination, his vision and his arithmet “ How little recks it where men should die!” exclaims a poet. There is only one possible reform as to this n nd that lies in the proposition that men mustn't all. The e: tly occupies two or three or four beds in What a world of inconveni ent luxury this would suggest but for the fact that he does it to foil the nihilists. The Albany Argus finds after investigation that , Who whistles, is an exceedingly and we do not wonder at Mrs. Shaw A Montana paper tells of a dying woman who disfigured the face of her husband with a hatchet lest he should m: It is a good stor the hatchet employed in it is evidence of its sacred truth. Tho Brooklyn father who turned his dau out of doors in her night justice, Havin . the poor child must in tremely bad. vitably have been ex: athan Hale suggests some lively war articles of anew kind forthe Century magazine; and it seems to us that the struggles discussed by the Hon, John Bun- yan have not been sufliciently presented. B. F. Butler says the country has no right to call upon him for further serv eneral thing B. F, hos m ed to call upon himself for that sort of favor, and the sooner he finds himself out the better the country will be pleased, Robert J. Burdette makes a prohibionist say, “If you hibit miu opposed to punishing it, Prohibition or nothing sty 1! That is such a good presentation of prohibition logic that we half suspect Robert of taking his drinks behind the door too. ant pro: The throat difficulty of the crown prince of Germany is so bad that itis thought he will never be sul inde is likewise unable to write abov happy. AC landlord who. hanged for killing a tenant sang ahymn just before he died ; but it is believed that he will insist just the same, if} a tenant over there, on having the walls of his man- sion newly papered, the roof secured against rain, and the same rega paid to the plumbing. ‘A REPROOF. Vistron rrow Warnack—" See here, pard ! If Thed a double-bar''d flask, dumbed ‘fT wouldn't shout.” comicbooks.com