Judge, 1888 · page 17 of 72
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This page from *Judge* magazine contains multiple short satirical comics and jokes targeting late 19th-century American society: **Key satires include:** - **"Natural Gas from Judge"**: Deacon Lish's crude farming wisdom about livestock and crop management, mocking rural dialect and unsophisticated thinking. - **"Poker Dot Hat"**: A joke on women's excessively ornate fashion, where a lady's hat features playing cards—satirizing the impracticality of haute couture. - **Legal/Social Humor**: Several strips mock lawyers' dishonesty ("No Trouble About an Alibi"), class anxiety, and domestic relationships. "Evading the Law" shows a man hiding in a fireplace to avoid his wife's complaints. - **"Concentrated Wisdom"**: Mocks pretentious, pseudo-philosophical sayings found in autograph albums—gentle satire of aspirational sentimentality. - **Nemesis**: A dark joke about a man choking on pie while making jokes about Chicago—suggesting poetic justice through ironic circumstances. The overall tone is light social commentary on fashion, law, manners, and Victorian hypocrisy.
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