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Judge — September 22, 1888 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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# Explaining Judge Magazine Page 381 This page contains several satirical pieces from Judge, a late 19th-century American humor magazine: **"Hineses' Houn' Dog"** is a dialect poem celebrating a prize-winning hunting dog, written in rural Southern vernacular. The joke culminates when the narrator reveals he threatened fellow passengers with a gun to prevent them from bothering his dog—the "pistol" being the ultimate social currency for gaining "respect." **"The Chatelaine Chariot"** shows a fashionably dressed woman with an elaborate parasol in a baby carriage, captioned as "a necessity of the near future"—satirizing upper-class women's vanity and leisure. The page also contains political commentary criticizing tariff reduction policy, comparing it to bloodletting that averages small loss but causes severe localized damage. "The Old Adam in Us" jokes darkly that a "humanity society" watching workers hoist a safe actually hopes for a fatal accident. The content reflects Judge's conservative, anti-reform editorial stance and its humor rooted in class observation and period stereotypes.
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JUDGE HINESES’ HOUN’ T hed him fom a vettle pup, Ez fat ez any butter ball ; An’ watchin’ bim agrowin’ up So fine an’ peart, I tell ye all, IL kem ter jedge right natchelly Thet dog wuz one the family. DOG. ‘Wren he wuz on'y two year old Me tuk the prize et Lick Run fa'r, Fer bein’, so the jedges told, The ve'y fines’ houn'-dog thar; An’ w'en I see the rebbon ved Eroun’ his neck 1 like ter died! I luked thet feller th’oo an’ th’oo, An’ tuk my shooter fom my belt Likewise a whittlin” blade er two, An’ laid "m out in easy helt ; An’ ‘en I kamly shet one eye, An’ “This houn’ tuk the prize,” No wagon couldn’ pack me home ; Thet rebbon luked $0 red, I “lowed, Ter wait untel the steam-cyar come An’ ride ez fur ez Rankin’s Stile, An‘ walk the other ‘leven mile ser ‘We got erboard ; an’ soon ez 1 Sot Bose up d'rekiy facin’ me, A weery feller sittin’ nigh Churned roun’ an’ sized us up,an’ ke Erlowed no beastis couldn’ ride * In ary cyar with Jim inside! Ez soon ez they all got thet word ‘They ‘peared ter hew respeck fer Bose ; Ant no un “tempted, ex T heard Ter noway spile his ride; which shows Ter make folks ‘preciate yer houn™ It's well ter hev a pistil roun't laden with the fate of sixty million people scraping over the rocks without tearing a hole in its hull. A miscalculation gave to the first Napoleon Waterl lous confidence to Napoleon the third the cyclone of Sed when it wins is daring ; when it loses the disaster is a crime. ‘The surpius, heretofore applied under Republican administrations to the extinguisnment of the national debt, has been t cumulated, that its magnitude mignc threaten the overthrow of some of our domestic industries, The panacea proposed for its lessening was the reduction of the tariff, ‘The meanness of the measure was, however, that it did not propose to lessen the duty on material or products we do not or cannot produce, but it struck its blow at those we do, ‘The specious statement that the average tariff reduction proposed was about seven per cent. is and was intended to be deceiving. ind a credu- Success Fifty per cent. reduction on one line of products, three to four per cent. on another, and the putting of a large number of articles entirely on the free list, make truly a low average, but nevertheless a dangerous one. Ifa physi ay to a patient, “The surface of your body is about four thousand square inches, and in bleeding you ! shall average but the merest fraction of an ounce per inch,”—in the process, while taking a drop from the toe or finger-end, and a pound or «wo from the limbs, and another such quantity from near the heart. it would not be a matter of conjecture that, small as the average might be, the danger would THE OLD ADAM IN US. “Who are all those men, mamma? “They're members of the humanity society.” “Why do they watch the men hoist the safe ** Because, my dear, they hope to have a chan to see the rope break and the laborers get killed. THE CHATELAINE CHARIOT. A necessity of the near future be immense. Neither would there be any consolation to the suffering and weakened patient, not yet sufficiently exhausted, if he were promised the continuance of operations on all the parts before untouched. P N REFUSING an interview with a pretty girl the other day Mrs. Cleve- land did not act with her usual discretion. make such a dreadful mistake as that. HE NEWS shows that there are many men who ‘neglect their families to provide for the families of others, the iniquity pleasantly called free trade, We should certainly never That is not protection—that is IS GRANDFATHER'S HAT had a dent in the crown, and the rim it went down to his chin; but most quietly he walked to the little white-house door, and the hat it was chalked to let him in, MBE. THOMAS NAST drew some very effective pictures of Mr. Tilden as an exceedingly aged man when that man was running for presi- dent. How would it be for Mr, Nast to exercise his cunning on Grandpa Thurman, the parade of whom is an affront to all mercy and all good sense? [7 IS. NOT a good idea to break a fair contract with another nation or another individual ; but Wwe must remember that the Chinese are a nation of cowards, and it is therefore safe to kick them when- ever they turn their backs to present the requisite opportunity. THE CORSET QUESTION. LONDON DOCTOR says corsets are healthy if they are not laced too tightly, ‘That stands to reason, It is so. A little pressure at the waist improves the human figure, which should not be allowed its own way any more than a growth of the horticultural or vegetarian kind. Any uncultivated man, woman, or agricultural thing is unprofitable enough to cause regret that they should not have been choked out by the weeds of various kinds that have attended their progress. It is as necessary to train the body as the mind, and there is no real grace or beauty which has not been brought up in this way. As to the corset, the maid who does the tightening should stop when the woman begins to squeal. 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