Judge, 1889-01-19 · page 3 of 16
Judge — January 19, 1889 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains several distinct satirical pieces: **"On the Other Side"**: A cartoon mocking Anglo-American marriages. A British countess tells her American daughter-in-law she'll lose her American accent and become "a thorough-going Briton"—satire on how British society absorbed wealthy American heiresses through marriage, a common phenomenon of the Gilded Age. **"The Idle Convict"**: Editorial commentary criticizing the state legislature for inadequately managing convicts, forcing taxpayers to support idle prisoners—standard Progressive-era prison reform criticism. **"Some Unrefined Intelligence"**: Mockery of an "electrical brain refinery" (likely a dubious invention/patent scam), comparing it to fraudulent sugar-refining schemes. Satirizes gullible capitalists and secretive, unproven technologies. **"Before His First Parade"**: A humorous scene of a new Odd Fellows lodge member struggling with ceremonial regalia straps. The page also contains brief satirical notes on topics like the Grant Monument, Boston women, and General Boulanger—typical of Judge's miscellaneous social commentary.
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ON THE OTHER SIDE. Tite, COUNTESS OF MARLSEA—" It won't be long, my dear, before you'll lose that slight American twang and become a thorough-going Briton.” HER DAUGHTER-IN-L. will not willingly be broken by a gap of thirt t India posses: day depend upon English control of the C thermore the safety of the E: If during any few ships in the Suez canal, E the Canadian railroads a v; dominion as a colony; and England has never yet been known, except by force, to release any advantages it has obtained, ia THE IDLE CONVICT. CONVICTS to the number of sev- eral hundred are lying idle in this state, and the workingman, who pays the bulk of the taxes, is supporting them, If the legislature cannot pro- duce a better state of things it had bet- tet confess that it is in session mostly in vain, It is the most important ques- tion of this period in this state. SOME UNREFINED GENCE. ‘THE ELECTRICAL brain refinery will fill a long felt want. It will enable capitalists to refuse patronage of anything the value of which they do not understand in detail as well as in general results. Mr, Keely keeps his process a secret from men who have a right to know all about it. The com- pany which refined sugar by giving the genuine article of refined sugar and letting the crude article remain boxed, labeled “machinery,” kept its secret too, and the result is the most pro- INTELLI- uropean embroilment any belligerent power should sink a gland could reach Calcutta almost as the Canadian roads and the Pacific as over the E d has a vast. military interes t financial interest in the retention of the, Ii ‘opes you think Ti 'm trying me best, me leddy.” ve hundred miles, Fur- ns of England may some dian continental railroads, nounced surprise and regret and all may yet be well. WHY SO THERE 1S much talk of late gyptian tee of It has in the g generous public more or less for ous haste, How many years d BEFORE HIS FIRST PARADE. C.C. James: (soho has just joined the Odd Fellorcs)—" This must be the way it goes, Hannah; but them straps must have been hung for a terribly short-armed may Let us have the electrical brain refinery MUCH HASTE? about the Grant monument; but we must Femember that the monument to the first president agitated the a hundred years. Let there be no ruin- Jid this continent manage to exist with- out the planting of a single cross on it? NY BOSTON GIRLS are learn- ing towhistle, [tis a good thing to have a whistle about the house, and the marriageable man never did care much about Boston. OU CAN HER. sustenance from the air; and if somebody will get up a company for that purpose and put his stock sufficiently high he needn't divulge his secret until he is so rich that there will be no need of his doing it. JF BOULANGER is not a great man his opponents are doing their best to make him one; and they even say that her majesty the grandmother of Williém of Germany thinks him a rather larger man than her imperial grandson. s pained to see Colonel hell of Life go into the colored-nude business, though it must give the little black boy in number 315 of the paper credit for being some- At present A, Comstock will not be con- sulted; but beware, Colonel J. A. Mitchell—beware! what protected by a paper collar. comicbooks.com