Judge, 1889-04-13 · page 3 of 16
Judge — April 13, 1889 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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This Judge magazine page contains three satirical items: **"A Lasting Effect"** (top): A social cartoon mocking awkward etiquette. Two women discuss a girl's clumsiness at a social gathering, with the joke implying her shopping spree during Easter holidays explains her ungainly behavior. **"Uncertainty at the Dance"** (middle): A racial caricature using offensive dialect stereotypes. The humor relies on minstrelsy-style Black characters debating whether a woman's corset protrusion is fashionable or a new garment type. **"Information Sought and Found"** (bottom): A joke about ambition and wealth. A poor man named Jones asks successful "Smarty Smith" how to get rich; Smith's punchline—"the mint"—is a double entendre suggesting both currency production and simply having money. The accompanying editorial text discusses political corruption, voter registration, and electoral fraud—issues prominent in Gilded Age American politics. The racial caricature reflects period attitudes; modern readers should recognize it as offensive historical artifact.
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Miss Douiiver—" She can't help it. all-seeing. He must assume that the representatives of the people are his proper advisors. By what divining could the president or the heads of de- partments presume that the elections had all gone wrong, and that some- where, in some undiscovered nook, was a modest and hiding political wisdom waiting to be sought? Fault-finding does not rise to the dignity of exer tion, There are men, as well as ani: mals, whose highest happiness howl. Grumbling gives the air, out the quality, of wisdom, Party managers are the party's ag- gressive, if not always its wisest, mem- bers. There isa pugilism in politics that pushes itself by persistence to the front. in hope to expect ‘a reforma- without staying in an organization and by a continuous and stronger push creating it. An eminent money-achiev- ing New York financier once, remark- ing in response to a criticism on the danger of indifference to local politics, said he could make more money in the time he would waste in watching pri- maries than the amount that, by bad politics, he would be robbed. We know the evils we have to confront. They cannot be purged by sentiment. Only by action, One-half would be removed by co-operation in demanding registry of voters to sup- press frauds. An educational quali- fication is an antidote to ignorance, A LASTING EFFECT. “It's a pity so charming a girl should be so awkward.” Resreghmes’ UNCERTAINTY AT THE DANCE. Mr. Soci sum tight?" Mr. Witeets—"" D' boys ain't quite suah whedder dat ‘rangement stickin’ out of her bodice is one ob dem new fash'ned lawnettes er a razzer, an’ dey's shy.” “*Whad meks dat Miss Spacer ser kinder lon’. Shopped too much during the Easter holiday season, you know.” * Disfranchise vote-sellers to. prevent corruption, In this way it would be easier, and possible, to attain a political representation that would not be so largely a selection of popular ignorance or personal venality. HE. RIGHTS of states must not be overlooked. Let the national sur- plus be applied for the next fifty years to the completion of the Albany capitol. see ‘THE MOST pronounced April fool was the man who got his only bite out of a sandwich and sold his fish- ing-tackle for trout at Fulton market. 2 TRUST the natives of Samoa are not superstitious, If they are they will say that the late d there was due to a special interposition of Providence. INFORMATION SOUGHT AND FOUND. AID ambitious Jones, "I'm a down-hearted 1 try to get rich, but I can’t find a plan; I look forward and back And try to get track ‘Of aught that will make me a very rich man.” He saw Smarty Smith, a rich man from Flint— fe me, I pray you, a pointer, a hint here the most money's made!” For an answer he stayed. Smarty Smith stroked his chin and replied, "1a the mint!” LENA GILDEKT .uKOWS, comicbooks.com