Judge, 1887-10-29 · page 7 of 16
Judge — October 29, 1887 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This Judge magazine page contains three separate satirical pieces: **"From Way Back"** celebrates a rough, weathered sailor—a working-class man with calloused hands, crude speech, and limited education, yet possessing genuine knowledge and virtue. The satire critiques snobbish attitudes toward the working poor. **"She Had Lost It All"** mocks a woman who claims educational superiority (graduated from Vassar, an elite women's college) but has squandered her reputation by spending years in Cincinnati—apparently suggesting the city corrupted her status or respectability. **"Judge's Fables: The Flagstaff and the Steeple"** satirizes the church-state separation debate. A flagstaff (secular authority) and church steeple argue over who stands highest. Independence Day (Fourth of July) personified lectures both, claiming they coexist peacefully at his annual dinner—suggesting partisan religious-political conflict is absurd and unnecessary. The cartoon illustrations show typical late 19th-century Judge visual style: exaggerated features and working-class caricatures.
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JUDGE FROM WAY BACK. OH, he smacks of the salt sea air And the rolling waters blue: His knowledge of clams beyond n I'm sure, quite old and ra Transcendeth the burning, extensive learning of a hundred men like you! You may say he's not fair to see, That his beauty makes you quail : Vhat if his hard hands puilt with a vast i up with but ani Oh, he swears with an art profound, ad and free ; re perfect and nice, they're sweet and sound, y run the quite harmless shores around, industry ! symphony built of grime, anan Quite worthy Deserving the plaudits of all time Becvuse his ambition secks no fruition beyond an old ! # never stale, never fail— ood story that's ok and hoary will prevail, and never dies. NATHAN 3. LEVY. SHE HAD LOST IT ALL. Mrs. Bacon—*That Mrs. Ransom certainly has great audacity to eltim to be the best edueated woman in th d Mrs. Sprightly— graduated from Vassar.” Mrs. Bacon—* Yes, out since then she has spent most of her time in Cincinnati.” HAD TO BE DONE. n't you bleach this nose of mine in some way plied the doctor, ** but I think you will find it better to let nature take her course.” “But Vl be left sure if T de eturned old Bibbler. You see I've just received the JUDGE'S FABLES. THE FLAGSTAFF AND THE STEEPLE. FLAGSTAFF and a steeple once yot into a discussion as to which of them stood highest world. The steeple claimed pre-e ax drawing the thoughts of men upward from the cares and wickedness of the Fi without ble at any time to be loud talk having almost created a cyclone in the the Fourth of July, who was passing, stopped to nd when he had ascertained the cause of the trouble he lectured them as follows: You two fellows ought to be ashamed of yourselves for resurrecting the old quarrel between church and. state. Thave sat down between two Sundays at my annual dinner for over : and there las er been the slightest trouble between us. P shadow: of this flag that you can have true liberty; and you, Sir Fl ember thot [reared you in the interest of equality, and that all deba eabsurd.” ‘A RUINOUS INCREASE IN STOCK. Tommy goes out to raise some Three months later. euvey- on his pups Hard luck, comicbooks.com