Judge, 1890-01-04 · page 3 of 16
Judge — January 4, 1890 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The upper cartoon "In Newport" depicts a social scandal involving wealthy Newport society figures. Mrs. Dunn explains she obtained a divorce Tuesday and married Jack Halsey Wednesday—with commentary from Mrs. Beerbelle noting the quick remarriage. The series of four panels below shows a "Composite Bowery Shave," satirizing Irish immigrant working-class culture through exaggerated depictions of barber-shop scenes with crude humor. The text snippets scattered throughout mock various political figures and issues: Cleveland's character, debates over women's suffrage in South Dakota, and criticism of Democratic political corruption in Ohio. The overall tone is characteristic of Gilded Age satirical humor targeting wealthy society, political hypocrisy, and immigrant stereotypes.
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when the great Democratic party smirks with an air of wisdom, as its dull face furrows with a free-trade smile, because England claps its ap- proving hands. hea MODERN novel ought to be taken without a grain of Saltus. OPY—Having stopped sneezing, you are grateful because you have lost your grip. pee OULANGER fires off nothing but paper wads nowadays. Lack- ing bullets, he has to content himself with bulletins. REASON why the Albany Argus is so great an admirer of Cleveland’s egotism is that it also has a hundred I's. [F KILRAIN is guilty of another as- sault and battery he will ha experience of the man who to death by his own gun. ALL THE who can’t write the great Ame novel having tried it, perhaps there is room now for the one who can. ‘e the -EVELAND says with emphasis that marriage is not a failure; and behold you! every man who says that praises both himself and his wife. cov “EU wants his fa law, the ex-emperor Pedro, to give him authority to capt- ure Brazil from the existing gov- ernment. If Pedro wants to get rid of his sot in the surest, speediest way he will grant the pe- tition, IN NEWPORT. i i Dunn?" sday and married Jack Hul- a disappointed expression on his hostess's fact) perhaps ; she got a divorce ‘ ic Ae'll bring her a little later.” \\ v i ied * Five cents all ‘round; call agin when yer ain't busy.” THE COMPOSITE BOWERY SHAVE, 205 A SULITARY government may be well at times, but the kaiser is wroth because he can't shoot so little a thing as his influenza. THE MARQUIS DE CAUX was chiefly known as a titled nobody who robbed a woman of millions and lived thereby in titled idleness. sTHE VERDICT in the Cronin case is a compromise verdict, and would seem to indicate that in the jury's opin- ion Cronin was only half killed. S¢CRAZIER than ever,” says the Inter-Ocean of the New York Herald, speaking of the “ papal bank.” Impossible, sir—quite impossible. (@) WAR is declared by Hill gainst Cleveland-and Cleveland against Hill, That being the case, is Campbell the coming Democratic in- dividual? ATH is the great touch of nat- ure that makes the world akin. Thousands are weeping over Robert wg who never read a line of his PROPOSED that the women of South Dakota vote as to wheth- er they want the right to vote. Seems to us the right to vote would be thereby conceded whether the suffragists won or not. oe ALVIN S. BRICE, carpet- bagger, will buy the senator- ship of the Ohio legislature against several competitors almost equal rich, That is Ohio under Demo- cratic rule. Oh, monopoly! what politics are committed in thy name, comicbooks.com °