Judge, 1889-03-23 · page 4 of 16
Judge — March 23, 1889 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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# Explanation for Modern Readers This Judge magazine page (circa 1889, based on North Dakota statehood reference) contains satirical humor and social commentary: **"A Silk Sachet"**: A sentimental poem about a man receiving a gift from a woman, complicated by his engagement to a Brooklyn girl. The satire mocks romantic entanglements and the anxiety such gifts create. **"Hum of the Court"**: Brief satirical jabs at public figures, including: - Mrs. Booth (Salvation Army leader) — pun on her name meaning "beautiful" - Russell B. Harrison (son of President Benjamin Harrison) — mocking his reliance on inherited status - A newspaper story about a wife finding her lost husband but going mad **"Off on His Spelling"**: A joke about spelling inconsistencies in advertising. **"What Women Wear"**: Two cartoons satirizing the absurd fashion trend of women wearing small dead animals as hat decoration—likely snakes and small mammals. This was genuine 1880s-90s fashion the magazine ridicules as ridiculous and cruel. The overall tone is genteel Victorian satire targeting society's vanities, pretensions, and fashions.
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A SILK SACHET. SILK sachet with ribbons biue, Like to her sweet eyes’ lucid hue; It lies upon my dressing-case A dainty knot, in creamy lace, With pansies painted —just a trace Forget-ne-nots and drops of dew, A silk sachet. I smile and eye the thing askance, With doubtful mind and cautious glance; I whistle slow and softly say, Why should she send to me, I pray, Who held her flowers thro’ one biief dance, A silk sachet? Alas! sweet maid, I must confess I welcome all this loveliness; But oh! a Brooklyn giri I sing, Who wears a brand-new wedding-ring (1 Hie about the pla Aand say it came from C This silk sachet! HUM OF THE COURT. TO FOREIGN MINISTERS—Come home and all shall be forgiven. MBS. BOOTH of the salvation army, judging from her picture in the papers, is as boothiful as she is good. Hvcu McCULLOUGH and Hannibal Hamlin never wore an overcoat; but it is better to live comfortably and die young and happy. SOMEBODY mentions Russell B, Harrison as the heir-apparent. R. B, paddles his own canoe, and is heir-apparent to nothing but the results of his own efforts. A PICTURE ina daily newspaper resulted in the discovery of a long-lost husband, ‘The wife has recovered him, but she is so grieved that she has lost her mind. ME: ENDICOTT of Massachusetts will now resume his: mug- wumping. Mr, Endicott will be recalled as the gentleman t Whadjer wanter advytise a coon ball fer, den? C-o-he-n— whose daughter married Joseph Chamberlain. PT pista, sled’ | Rope assert” T IS REASONABLE to suppose that Bill Nye really slept com- fortably in an clevator in Washington during the inauguration, because if he had his legs and boots with him there was no chance for — rule that doesn’t work both ways, and if a man ever succeeded in finding anybody else to get in, his wife's pocket he did it solely by accident. A WoMa rs. during \JORTH DAKOTA was admitted as a state, and the very nest day the silent watches of the various nights, she robbed her husband's her capital was afflicted with scarlet fever. This is the first of the pantaloons of about $900, She is now dead, and justly so. Itisa poor tricolor; the white and blue will follow presently, WHAT WOMEN WEAR. “The fashion of using small animals for hat decoration will prevail this spring."— Fashion 7 ‘The chase, comicbooks.com