Judge, 1888-02-25 · page 4 of 16
Judge — February 25, 1888 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains miscellaneous satirical commentary and two cartoons mocking American social customs and public figures of the Gilded Age. **Top cartoon ("Incomoding"):** Depicts a shabby man—likely representing urban poverty or vagrancy—illustrating a joke about Anthony Comstock, the famous censorship crusader, who wanted angels depicted clothed in heaven (satirizing his prudishness). **Bottom cartoon ("Stock of Another Kind"):** Shows Wild Bill and Miss Havers in frontier dress, with dialogue about broken saddle horses and "stock-breaker." This appears to play on livestock terminology while referencing frontier types or possibly contemporary figures. **Text commentary** includes brief satirical observations: jokes about boys preferring bonfires to meals, remarks on seal-skin jackets, references to Clement Arthur Day (a hanged murderer), and Roscoe Conkling (a prominent politician). The satire targets Victorian morality, fashion excess, and criminal justice. The overall tone is cynical about American society, class conditions, and public figures of the 1880s era.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
JUDGE HUM OF THE COURT. Angels are always pictured in robes and that's) wh kes Anthony Com stock want to go to heaven. As between a bonfire and a square meal a boy will take the former if he burns himself half Wh he says‘) him in that 0 ship. The cold weather out v seal-skin sacques every © which cannot be satiated in ten » got a valentine When this you see flee right fre and it made him so tired that he had to yo to bed. It is a popular re Troy hasn't the ¢ winter carni: six miles a They are looking up the men who de hot wear overcoats in the coldest weather; and thus necessity makes heroes of the weewnon, When one can have twelve buttons sewed on for fi ws in Philadel sav: rd : why should | nt to bea Mor they be a lithe batt thet chawa on much terbacons en me mon with five wives and have no but tons sewed t _ AM] the marderers who are hanged wear a sweet sinile, TH The literature of calf love deals largely in initials. ‘There is theeae to do it was Clement Arthur Day J but we suppose : cago whe wrote te ostly because he belonged to th of Roscoe Conkling. led, means. ** Con yourself kised marked in substance. “the Lord might have made bigger fools than these, but doubtless he never did.” We must have our winters in summer otherwise the mor there isof them theles ple they are anumber of the recent go-as-yeu please may be mentioned a Louisville man who an idiot by xmoking tes nit we suspect that nature got in its work tirst Aw 1's cunning onthe dd while the man is searching forit with a far-wach clumsy spate she is clipping the har that grows on his eve teeth. a pein veer ares that he Knowledge af ‘of poker e anorance bas Fe prevail iB STOCK OF ANOTHER KIND. managed . a ca) courts oF jon't yer tell yer pap to come oat here + New York can't be no such countey as this fer breakin’ saddle homwes-an' ri OUP loca ive him al ran’ him's in the san - Though, t . ne the pe have lied comicbooks.com