Judge, 1889-08-10 · page 3 of 16
Judge — August 10, 1889 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains multiple satirical pieces targeting late 19th-century American issues: **Top Cartoon** ("Why He Was Sent to Seclusion"): A domestic comedy about a young woman removed from society, with dialog suggesting gossip about her romantic prospects—likely satirizing strict Victorian social conventions that isolated unmarried women. **Lower Cartoon** ("Wise in Her Generation"): A young woman (Dotty) manipulates her wealthy uncle through flattery, securing a Christmas gift. This satirizes women's limited economic agency, forcing them to use charm rather than direct means to gain financial security. **Editorial Content**: Mixed commentary on tariffs, currency, prohibition, and marriage as economic contracts. References to "Judge" predicting Columbus's discovery appear self-promotional. **Social Context**: The page reflects Gilded Age anxieties about gender roles, women's dependency, financial instability, and protectionist economic debates—presenting these through humor for educated middle-class readers.
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WAS SENT TO SECLUSION. Livre CaLveRT—"'I see only one, mamma,” Mrs. DeGraw Livre CALVERT —"' String to her bow, [heard you say Miss Patterson had altogether too many.” that any disturbance in the direction of a diminished domestic consump- YJARRIAGE is a combination of interests; in other words a trust. Let tion puts us more and more, in proportion to its decrease, at the mercy of us abolish marriage. a foreign market. It is certain that no relief from treasury ac can come of a greater inlet of foreign products, as the lowered duties on THE JUDGE. predicted the discovery of America by Mr. Columbus the vastly-increased imports would aggravate rather than diminish the evil. some three months before the discovery was made, Is there no other way of relief than the old stupid and tried one of a “tariff for revenue,” and Europe instead of America for a market? Ina little over two years four hundred and fifty million dollars of the government debt will mature, which we will have to re= borrow, or to pay. All of the outstanding greenbacks are due on demand. There are three hundred and fifty million dollars of these promises duc to-day. ‘These will chief, “that we've struck oil cee SIENCE AND THE ARTS are doing well enough when Professor Sullivan can make nearly twenty thousand dollars ina day and keep out of the penitentiary. have to be paid some time; why not re- 2 : : a) (; PROHIBITION as a partisan propo- deem them now? It is true they carryno Sees yn means that the Republican interest jer does the unused money in who is not a prohibitionist must be pro- It is the same as unearning hibited the privilege of an opinion on the cash in a man’s pocket, and as unproduc- prohibition question. tive for the public as for the person. b 2 , ] Why should not the federal treasury 3% ‘ R ah M be empowered to cancel its promises to ‘ pay by issuing certificates of deposit in their place, retaining in the treasury the redeeming bullion? ‘This would lessen the surplus just in proportion to the demand = for the exchange, and the debt to be paid Ay Wag 2 tT would be paid without any disturbance of the financial resources of the public. Furthermore, this kind of currency would be good the world over, and par in every corner of the globe. Whatever of it was destroyed or lost, as every and any such : : certificate, irredeemable, because unpre- : = 66(0 TO BED at a reasonable hour sented, would inure to the public rather WISE IN HER GENERATION. every evening and rise at a reason- than, like a bank-bill, to private advan- Doty —T heard you, and T'm awful sorry you made Mr, ble hour in the early morning,” says one tage. It is good business to pay promiscs [a Font feel so badly.” ? of those newspaper physicians. What ab- when in funds, and this government ca AuNT Lavra—"T couldn't help it, dear. I don't like him." surdity! ‘There isn’t sonable hour in = 3 area ‘ Dotty —" No matter if you don't.” [think you might have Gither of ee not have an honest surplus when owiny regard eruigh for me ts provide another uncle who'd te useful ther of those excellent” quarters of the millions of notes of demand. } to me ‘long about Christmas-time,”” day. AJOR COLUMBUS usually opened his fights with savages with prayer and the remark, “Gentlemen Indians, let us discuss this thing in a civilized way. Mind, now! no scalping.” eee IS SETTLED that the queen will come to the Columbus centennial as the guest of Sir Chauncey Depew; and this not because Sir Chauncey discovered America, but merely the means to regu- late it. comicbooks.com