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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains several satirical vignettes mocking American social and professional life around the turn of the 20th century. **"A Discourager of Pride"** shows a man attempting to vault a wall while his companion watches—the joke being his boastful prediction is cut short by the wall's interference, deflating his pride. **"How Great Dailies Are Run"** satirizes newspaper hierarchies through a chain-reaction scene where a minor obituary error (a missing initial) gets amplified as it passes down from proprietor through editors to reporters, illustrating how trivial corrections become exaggerated through organizational layers. Other brief humor pieces mock superstition (a groom blaming a gypsy's curse), marital dynamics, fashion obsession, and social awkwardness. The drawings emphasize physical comedy and exaggerated expressions typical of Judge's style. The overall theme critiques American vanity, organizational inefficiency, and social pretension through quick, accessible jokes rather than partisan political satire.

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for the home business man and the home worker, and American interests above those of any part of the world ! star-spangled banner in triumph <hall wave O’er the land of the free and the home {the brave! WHERE THE MCKINLE sitsthat is the rightoft of the table. rs HEY DO KNOW how to get 1p good platforms, those Republicans; and when their are elected they know how to carry them out, was a little premature in his speech the other day; but the hisses that were given him were partially unjust,and he has to be agreshive about it. A DISCOURAGER OF PRIDE. The ball has gone over the wail and Dagsby is showing his agility, Miss Buratyse-* Look out for that wall! it's” Dacsny—* Don’t be alarmed. I can vault it as easy as" — LOOKING AHEAD. Jones had just been get- As they were leaving the church he began to ting married. ery ‘Whatever can be the matter with you, Samuel?” asked the 199 A DELICATE COMPLI- MENT. D. is one of the most gal- lant of our New York artists. On seeing the beautiful Mrs. B. enter his studio the other day, nearly concealed behind an enor- mous bouquet of Jacqueminot roses, which she wore in her corsage, he exclaimed as he ap- proached to kiss her hand : “But they told me, dear madame, that you had no family.” HOW GREAT DAILIES ARE. RUN. Proprietor (to editor-in- chief the sky is clear) — "1 noticed in that obituary sketch of ex-Mayor Bigbug that the middle initial of his father-in- law's name was omitted.” Editor-in-chief (to man- aging editor—a cloud in the hor- izon) — “That obituary sketch was materially defective. More care, please.” Manoging editor (to news editor — every evidence of a storm)—" The local page is a perfect inaccuracies. That Bigbug sketch was honey- combed with errors.” News editor (to city editor— mass of bride anxiously, “My darling,” exclaimed Jones, between his sobs, “you behold me the wretched vic- tim of superstition.” A victim 3" i life; you must aM eee know that [was once so foolish as to have my for- tune told by a gypsy. The old hag told me that | a second time, and oh! darling, it wrings my heart to think of losing you.” “Yes, my should ma LIBERTY. * ‘Tis Independence day,” I said to darling May : » I'll do what I please, Ido aver The day of liberty our country free, Union pulses all astir, ove to take a kiss, jepulsed the bliss, And vowed I'd take no diderty with her \ GREAT FASHION PAPER. IWiye—* Jack; did you bring home a copy of Sunday World?" Hushand—" No, by George! | forgot all about Nfe— Well, 1 can't go to the Watkins ball to-night then.” /rusband—"Why, what has that to do with it?” 'Wife—"V've got to have a bustle, haven't 1. stupid > NOT IMPROBABLE THESE DAYS. Mrs, Nefus (who has not seen her friend in two months)—" Cicely, dear, how do you get on with y suit?" “Which one?” divorce Cicely, dear But it was one of those terrace walls, and the finish of Dagsby's sentence was not intelligible, the storm is about to break)— * Who wrote that rot about Big- bug? It has taken the whole town by the ears. His ay name, list of societies, amount of estate, church connection, and the date of the funeral are w off. It wasn’t so when Penwiper was city editor.” City editor (to reporter—the storm breaks): 2s. 2 finish Saturday night... ——!!" UTTERLY UNSYMPATHETIC. Little Tommy (tying to entertain Uncle John, who is on a visity—" Oh, Un- cle John! they have such a real nice parrot next door—I'm sure you would like him !” Unete John—* What! 1s he dumb >" DID BACON SAY IT? Reporter—* Mr. Donnelly, it begins to look as though you were going to fail your efforts to prove that Bacon wrote Shakespeare. doesn’ Ignatius Donnelly — My dear sir, as said, ‘There's no such word as THE ROOT OF .THE MATTER. Teacher — The basis of society, my boys, is the family. But what is the basis of Tommy (raising his hand) —* Oi know, sor! Oi may not be quoit roight, but Oi think the bay sis’ av the family is me red-headed sisther ! comicbooks = -com