Judge, 1888-09-01 · page 4 of 16
Judge — September 1, 1888 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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This is a page from *Judge* magazine containing political humor and social commentary from the 1880s era. The main items include: **"Hum of the Court"** satirizes contemporary political figures and events. References include: - James G. Blaine's role in the presidential election and his grief over the Democratic party - Benjamin Harrison and his relationship with Blaine - A prohibition candidate (unnamed) hanged at St. Louis - Henry Watterson commenting on the Civil War's outcome **"A City Institution"** (bottom cartoon) shows a passenger falling into a subway trench, with Uncle Biles comparing it to mud back in Canajoharie—satirizing the rough conditions of early subway construction. Other brief items mock social absurdities: lovers viewing a sunset romantically while an old man complains of rain; the difficulty of escaping Philadelphia; and churches paying ministers while undervaluing religious journalism. The satire targets political hypocrisy, incompetence in public works, and social pretension typical of Gilded Age America.
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JUDGE A SUNSET. WO lovers saw the sun go down, And sitting in the glow Of rosy light that ushers night Endearments whispered low For them the sky's delighting hues Foretold a life of bliss And saying love's sweet orison, They sealed it with a kiss Anold man saw the self same scene: The heavens, all atlame, Would move a fancy most serene Admiring phrase to frame, But he looked up in discontent bi Bgosh! ‘CM rain.” Jaw HUM. OF THE COURT. ROVER, after election: Geran moatecuad the wrong kind of bait. Remaried, [7 LOOKS somewhat as if Thomas Nast were a tariff man for revenue only HERE ARE. 12,000 Smiths in Philadelphia, but we must remember that the facilities for getting out of Philadelphia are costly and LOCKWOOD was very prompt with her letter of acceptance. Why can't Mrs. Cleveland go to her Aunt Lockwood be wise? ME: BLALNE has grieved the Democratic party half to death, but really he had to come. The Democratic party can stand it, but it fears for the health of Mr. Harrison. It is bad to be sympathetic, [8 ORDER to drow and ‘oid wholesale ng We must apparently go back to the period when vessels were built without skill. EVERAL clergymen ata camp- meeting say they will vote for Clinton B. Fisk; but there are a thousand others who supplicate that Clinton be hanged. DAVID A. WELLS says the Canadians are very intelligent se he saw the JUDGE y news-stand there, But s no criterion to go by, because there is no part of the world in which the same thing doesn’t habitu- ally occur. SIT NOT odd that the church should pay large sums for Chris- tian « most a couple of thousand ears, and should fail to give a religious paper the appreciation which be- longs to a square, deliberate, eff tive talk with a half million every wee ors who can reach at the R. BENJAMIN HARRISON has a habit of managing his own affairs, and Mr. Blaine has a habit of managing his, and both let the personal business of each other and of other men alone. to put aside al the friction between the next presi- dent and his cabinet R. JOHN A. BROOKS. says. that the reporter that said he was a rebel soldier is a liar. Dr, Brooks is a truthful gentleman and a Christian, and the man that hoops and yells rebel at him is a low sneeking cur, and isn’t fit to live in any civilized country. The Prohi= bitronist. Dear, dear! police? This ought prehension as to Where are the comes up ter that !” A CITY INSTITUTION. UNcLe BILes (as passenger jumps off car into subrouy trenchy—"* Geewhitz ! I thought we hed some purty deep mud up to Canajoharie. but I'm dinged ‘f it E SHALL “tellauto- graph” by telephone presently, That is to say, We shall write it by word of mouth and hello it in the same way. Se] F YOU adopt an ant.” says R. L. Stevenson, * weed your mind at the out- set of all desire for money. We knew of just one man who did that, and he died of starvation three weeks after the weeding. VER THERE. they are happy to have Larry Jerome, and they of the Netherlands are equally rejoiced at the acquisition of Robert B, Roosevelt. T WAS Louis EXPRESSION HEARD IN DRY GOODS CIRCLES. **Cash-em.'eres in three tints.” XT Brooks of the prohibition ticket who was hanged at St Brooks will probably get a commutation of punishment HE THIN MAN has vanity. It is easy for him to have it, becatise he cannot sce how ridiculous he looks and is never conscious of his wobbling C LONE late war. WATTERSON says he is glad the north conquered in t Well, it was a good thing to annex that bad, bold you! man, anyhow. Af feeling that he is so weak he ought to have the protection of a guardian ALL, it is not strange that a Democrat should cry out ag: free whisky. When one is always in his cups one is continual A. BOOK by an old maid showing how to bring up children is entitled ~The Mistakes of Mothers.” Dear old girl! What she means to say is that the great mistake is the hav- ing the children to bring up. | DONNELLY home, $I have turned in their grave for a stretch and another nap. having reached espeare’s bones MAN in St. Louis smoked cigar- ettes a long time, and the other day he was hang: getting mo GOVERNOR HILL has’ his prefe day, but he can't put off the fi Tuesday after the first. Monday in November, THE BREAKING UP of one or two Methodist gatherings by rowdies shows that the summer outing of this kind is too often « scamp-meeting. THACKERAY is a great favorite of Amélie Rives, but the dear old boy got off before the irl got her arms around him, Still, he didn’t have as happy a death H!S GRANDFATHER'S HAT it got so very small that he put on the hat of Mr. Blaine; but his head was big enough to show the tuff, and he'll have to swap Cigarettes are al every day. ences as to hangman's hats again. HERE IS a new song, and it is called “ When Baby Smiles it her Sleep.” It is very pretty, but th Norristown Herald coldly and verely thinks the smile indicates tha the infant is troubled with worms. Fek HIS grandfather's name be was not so much to blame, fe: his birth was fore he came : and he can’t repud ate a thing he knew so late, but h gets to the white house just th same. xed some time be comicbooks.com