Judge, 1887-12-31 · page 3 of 18
Judge — December 31, 1887 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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This page contains multiple satirical pieces targeting late 19th-century American social and political issues. **Top cartoon ("The Engagement is Broken"):** A Boston man visits his Connecticut fiancée's home. The humor appears to mock class pretensions and regional differences—the man's natural slouching posture (comfortable for a Bostonian) offends his fiancée's more refined sensibilities, breaking their engagement. **Sidebar commentary** addresses women's labor rights, demanding equal pay and protection from exploitation. It directly invokes Susan B. Anthony, urging her to "press the suffrage for woman"—this page supports women's voting rights as essential to protecting women workers. **Bottom cartoon ("An Offer Worth Considering"):** A street vendor sells a Saint Bernard puppy as a snow-rescue dog—absurdist humor playing on the impracticality of the sales pitch. The page blends light social satire with serious advocacy for women's suffrage and labor protections, typical of Judge's reformist editorial stance during the Progressive Era.
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JUDGE THE ENGAGEMENT IS BROKEN, Penhaline.of a very bine Basten family, visita the home of his Connecticut flancee for the fret time. Sne— "Most fortable in his natural position.” nd yet he shall be forgiven, blank his eyes! because of the soothing influence of this blessed season, when no man has the right of any criticism that mterferes with new thought, new aspiration, new settlement, and new beginning. lodge there forevermore 1 You May lead a prohibitionist to water, but he prefers a stick in nis THry ai ARE endeavoring to destroy a postage-stamp for the wearing of the reen, Tue pePaRTURE of Higgins to Maryland diggings is almost as gratifying as would be the subsidence of Wiggins. We bo sor believe that Bacon wrote Shakespeare; and the pres- ident’s reeent address to con- ss is of such a composite na- hat one can charge it to any particular man, Mr. James Sait thinks it never Kilrains but it pours. Gespoww's tile having been married toa respectable lady, the reign of idiocy ought to be celebrated through all the coming year. WOMEN IN THIS NEW YEAR. The ¢ for fifty cents, e the fe matter of chiy AM OFFER WORTH CONSIDERING. “Don’t yer want ter buy a Saint Bernar’ pup, mum Yer cant get lost in the snow, mum, all miserliness on the part of — i¢yer have him with yer.” verybody is surprised at the way dear old papa’s portrait ts hung: but you see he made his inoney clowning for Barnum, and mamma thought heWl be the manufacturers and the general public? Have the lawmakers ne higher regard for women than these facts indicate ? Have the organ izations in behalf of male labor? Isn't society good enough to create some method through which the honest work of women can be given honest pay? Is it not amazing that we have so many pure women with this robbery in unrebuked operation ? Is every business man’ heart located in his pocket? Is it possible that decent men and women will encourage, by their silence and their purchases, such outrage as this? Come up, Miss Anthony! Press the suffrage for woman! There is no other method through which she can so properly protect her honor and her life. LADIES ARE invited to attend as delegates th ional prohibition convention at Indianapolis on the 6th of June and get them- selves talked to death. ped on Grover's Sherman will proceed directly to taxe up the remains and scatter them to the four winds of heaven, AN IMPERATI /ECUSSI at least half our fellow: is to begin to count the y gin to go the have some fun toc Ir Democracy isn't free trade then murder is a little matter of readjustment. As if one should say that a spade is not a’spade, but merely a rake wherewith to comb the surface of the ground. comicbooks.com