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# Judge Magazine Satire Analysis This page of *Judge* satirical commentary targets prominent figures and social issues of the Gilded Age (likely 1880s-90s based on references). **Key figures mocked:** - **John L. Sullivan**: The famous boxer is ridiculed for losing his fighting prowess - **Mrs. Cleveland**: Wife of President Grover Cleveland, satirized for her sheltered upbringing - **Jay Gould**: The railroad magnate criticized for his inability to enjoy leisure due to wealth anxiety - **Allen G. Thurman**: Referenced regarding Cleveland's 1884 vice-presidential running mate **The cartoons** ("On the Rockaway Sands" and "Cause for Hauteur") use humorous domestic situations for social commentary. **Overall satirical points**: The pieces mock the pretensions of the wealthy, criticize political figures, and use absurdist humor about contemporary manners and morality. The tone is lighthearted mockery typical of *Judge*'s irreverent approach to American public figures and society.

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168 HUM OF THE COURT. OHN COWARD has car- ried his name fifty years; so that, after all, he is a brave man. HERE ARE no bricks in Connecticut, At least itis said that there is a parrot there more than sixty years old. B, Lock woop is men- tioned as a woman of the future, We had supposed her to be very largely one of the past. MBS. CLEVELAND is said to have never seen a horse-race; but we are happy to say that in other re= speets her education is pretty xood, WOMAN lived forty of Georgia years with her husband and never once asked for money. We sup- pose she was deaf and dumb and didn't know how to write. \Y GOULD is the only man in this country who cannot have a comfortable sickness, and that fact robs hint of a privilege that no wise man would sell for a fortune, WE Ssustecr THAT Mr. John L. Sullivan has lost his power, sothat any= body may kick him with per- Ms fect safety. Will some other gentleman kindly try the ex- periment ? CONDEMNE and do it like a Christian. THE WIRES ill probably never go underground. By the time their pro- prictors amiably conclude to put them there they will have buried so much of the population that there won't be enough left to do the business, WE CANNOT believe the statement that an Alabama woman has two tongues. A girl baby might be thus situated, but she would talk herself to death before she was half weaned. EMPEROR FREDERICK is ademo- at in his theories and a king in his enunciation of them. ‘These are oppo- sites which | do not love, and therefore I shall have to resign.—O. Aésmarck. GENTLEMEN are requested to wear bathit identity. say this thing to women—their modesty suits that will conceal their Of course it is unnecessary to preserves them from indecorous exhibi- tion anyhow. THAT ENTHUSIASM of the Albany Times which puts up Cleveland as the lieutenant of Allen G. Thurman makes the red bandana the superior of the nose it was created to wipe, and that’s treason of the most wiperous kind. HE EDITOR of the New York Si tried to get up an issue as to the climate of Kamschatka which would beat Mr. Cleveland in the national convention. It reminded one of the effort of the usu- D murderer says. pathetically If he had tried to murder in that way he wouldn't have to die until his regular time came ON THE ROCKAWAY SANDS. nce, old boy, I've been looking everywhere for you away from the Me. Mickaswet into the bathing-house and stole me necktie, and I've been confined heah ever since. y, you really don't know! While I was in the wata If have to die 1 will try HE STATEME sure, the hay CAUSE FOR HAUTEUR. New roakpex— What a pompous looking man that Mr. Darby is; don't you think $02" Oup sornper—" Pompous? 1 guess you'd look pompous if you'd captured the strawberry out of the shortcake for three successive days, the way he has!" some horrid thief came ally quiescent oyster to reach from its bed into the upper air and pull the feathers from the tail of some soaring bird, [TIS CURIOUS thor white at this season ev: has alarge catch of (sh there is not the slightest lish to fi 66 THE BOSTON Gikt T says the New (Orleans Picayun Very well; what wants—centre-field ? THE_AGRICULTORAL STORY is gett large. ‘They are telling of a tomato-vine sixteen feet in depth of circumference that bore five bushels T DOES shake one’s faith in the innocence and beauty of human nature to be awakened at four in the morning by the shout “’Rah for Thieveland and Clerms Can THERE be a more fearful shock, to awaken a murderer far worse to awaken and one’s self the party that has been knifed rybedy ts left." it she f oats, FT January 1st we shall have only esthetic murderers in this state—those who want to be killed byelee- tricity; but unhappily thes won't apply that : their victims. You've been r of a New England paper that western are church-members is the most absurd of all paradoxes ; th new kind of church-member there. REAT FACT IN LAW—That a criminal lawyer ma thieves’ money and give all his time and intellect to brea live high on and yet that he should not be : to punishment the same as otlier profes sional law-breakers are. = HAVE alwaysthought that Shake. speare’s plays were written by Dan- iel Dougherty of Pennsylvania, and that heshould have had the chance tocreatethe characters of them behind the foatlights. TIS SAID that if tea and coffee were swept from the earth no ene would miss them ina fortnight; but it would make such a boom forthe that the saloon-keepers would and everybody else in greatly rede er beverages rich stances. THE CLERGYMAN in px precise man who it. Not that he hasn't nto an opinion, i but his judgment is so weak that it, and his vo from his pulpit all around the world ties is the ¢ out of an't feel is so loud t t runs MN“ is not profanit eveninthe garity, however, and that is ¢ There are a thou guage which mean the same th it with entire proprie and how much better it is to use abe vule as bad. 1d words in the lan- nd say re force, comicbooks.com j 1 ‘ t