Judge, 1890-01-11 · page 12 of 16
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This page is primarily **advertisements** with one brief humorous anecdote titled "The Meanest Man Yet." The story describes a husband's prank on his fishing wife: After she catches a two-pound bass, he repeatedly re-catches the same fish by secretly switching it onto her line, making her believe she's catching multiple fish. He repeats this deception seven times before they leave, falsely claiming "mostly she fish to-night." The joke relies on the husband's smugness about his petty trick and the implied comeuppance when they string the catch and discover the truth. The humor targets **marital dynamics and male vanity**—the husband's competitive need to "even the score" against his wife's fishing success, combined with his elaborate deception scheme. It's gentle domestic satire typical of Judge magazine's era, poking fun at both spousal rivalry and masculine pettiness. The remaining content consists entirely of period patent medicine and consumer goods advertisements (corsets, firearms, skin treatments, etc.).
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My wife shares with me a passion for fishing, and during the season we frequently take a boat and row out to the mouth of the river to fish for pike and white bass with minnows. Some unscrupulous person has told my wife that male fish will not bite a hook held by a man, and vice versa ; so that one lovely evening toward the latter part of June, when we had dropped our anchor on our accustomed fishing-ground, I said, ‘* Now, my darling, we will soon see whether there are more he or she fish in the creck.” We had hardly assumed the easiest po- sition to await the bites when my wife, in her accus- tomed energetic manner, succeeded in landing a two- pound white bass. She’ did not say ‘* First blood "— women are so funny, you know—but I am sure she thought it. A weary half-hour dragged away. No bite.” I began to think my minnow must be off and pulled up to see. While adjusting the bait a mean but brilliant idea presented itself to me—why not catch her fish over again? As her back was partly turned, and she was intent on fishing, the plan seemed feasible. I put her poor little he-bass on my hook and slid him gently ‘| in, Thad hardly got my line out before I pulled it in again, I said, “ We are even.” ‘This scheme worked like a charm ;'so that by the exercise of considerable tact and by working hard, T succeeded in hauling that fish in seven times before dark. I dragged him (or her) all over the river. ‘* Mostly she fish to-night,” I said. She said, “Let's go home” As I had been having quite a good time I did not object. Well, when we came to string those fish there was but one in the boat. Only the sound of the oars broke the stillness in that boat as we rowed home.—Forest and Stream, A VALUABLE AND UNIQUE BUSINESS CALEN- DAR The most convenient, valuable and unique business table or desk calendar, for 189, is the Columbia bicycle calendar and stand, issued by the Pope Mig. 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