Judge, 1888-07-07 · page 4 of 16
Judge — July 7, 1888 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page 200 This page from Judge contains brief satirical quips ("Hum of the Court") mocking contemporary figures and social conventions, plus two illustrated cartoons. **Top cartoon ("At Albany"):** A man and woman discuss attending a party. The colonel declines because there's "not a single disengaged wheelbarrow in town for the return trip in the morning"—satirizing either his drunkenness or the state of Albany's transportation/infrastructure. **Bottom cartoon ("Parsimony Rebuked"):** A man economically reuses a Chinese lantern from the previous year's Fourth of July celebration. The caption mocks his stinginess. The text snippets mock various targets: clergy who only attend prayer meetings, the 1884 presidential race (references to "Blaine-or-bust" Republicans and reform-minded "mugwumps"), Frankie Cleveland (wife of President Cleveland), and contemporary social absurdities. The satire is gentle, focusing on human folly rather than hard political critique—typical of Judge's humorous tone during this Gilded Age period.
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HUM OF THE COURT. THE, ORATOR of the day— ‘The loud-mouthed gun. THE CHIEF of the St. Louis ticket appears to be a hand- kerchief, THE MOST favorite sun just now is the one that sheds a merely mild effulgence. CAMPING OUT brings health to the frame and tone to the spirit—of the all-pre- vailing insect. HE MAN who always says what he thinks ought to be the smallest of all talkers, because he really can’t think, you know. THE DIFFERENCE between the Blaine-or-bust people and the mugwumps is that the latter have the bust without the Blaine. SOME PERSONS are organ- izing Frankie Cleveland clubs, and as some of them are women it looks very much as if the dear children were about to knock their own brains out. THERE IS a man who is al- fishing and always he didn’t get a bite. SOMETIMES with bunions and moles. S4] AM AWARE.” said a cautious man somewhat given to slang, “that Jones is very slow, but he manages to get there just the or rather by the overland route.” E HAVE always thought, with Brother Shepard, that the clergy ought not to earn their mone work to the Wednesday evening ‘prayer-meeting. PARSIMONY REBUKED. t Geanpra Grimes Ucratching a match to light last year's Chinese lanterm for the evening of the Fourth) child jest as good as new" —— He lies worse than the other fellows. think that a bathing-suit ought to consist of something besides the mere skin, becs AX EDITOR of the Detroit Free Press uses a bushe’ of corn every week; anyhow he says that much corn makes four gallons of whisky. [TIS ALWAYS hot on ti: fourth of July; but it is al. ways enjoyable because fr one point of view it is so swe: English. se] AM. reminded,” said a man who had suffered from the inadvertent fire-Ivil the same having injured iis head. “of the poem which speaks aay Hit HY t of the ‘bombs bursting in RUC YT: BY Ma Ti Si POOR MAN wrongfully ac- cused of having six wives said with tears and much pathos of voice, “Good heavens, how they must have suffered! | pity them, but 1 wonder how I sur- vive.” ITH HIS WEALTH. his power, and his youth. the late emperor found a pecu sharp sting in his taking off; but the new emperor will have many more and will lack the power to pluck them out. AT ALBANY. Miss Vax Oxst—" You're coming over to our house to-night, aren't you, colonel? We're koing to have a real regent’s punch.” : mpled the decoction before)—"V'A really like to, you know, but there isn’t a single disengaged wheelbarrow in town for the return trip in the morning.” HERE IS a very pretty girl in the ballet_of one of the prevailing comic operas; and when she sees this paragraph she will purse her se the girl may be afflicted composite lips and smile her most compositely pleased smile. T WOULD be much better to have national conventions in cool her. ‘There was that St. Louis affair. It ought to have been called for the Tuesday succeeding the last Monday in November. of the Voice says he was two days in “the dirty pool he attended the prohibition convention—and in all that smell of liquor. That was tough; but, dear why didn’t he stay at home ? ITLER WAS a good enough man, but he would have been Fitler if he had kept outof the convention. THE MAN who builds a house for his neighbor THE EDITOR of politics” time he didn’t have a nm the Sabbath, but confine their sakes ! across the way to occupy— that free- We do hope, however, he has a sufficiency of self-respect to protect his wife and children, NA DICKINSON took to the stage to become poor and forgotten, Let her come back to the platform and will resume reputation as the greatest, and add to it that of being the most sensible woman EN MUST necessarily pick their company and their time for receiving com- pany. ‘Thus a burglar at four o'clock in the morning totally out of place, and by the same token your cousin at the hour you are enter- ning your other cousin is the more annoying the pret- tier she happens to be. man is a she her And the band played “The Ruined Home.” “Tes Jest as good as new, comicbooks.com