Judge, 1890-02-08 · page 3 of 16
Judge — February 8, 1890 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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This page contains satirical sketches demonstrating facial expressions and physical comedy—what the header calls "A Study in Tonsorial Expression" (tonsorial = barbering/hairdressing). The captioned vignettes depict exaggerated reactions to barbershop experiences: "Repose," "The avalanche," "Against the grain," "With the grain," "The throat exercise," "P-p-puff!," "Ray-rum in the eye," "Evening up," "The dry shampoo," and "Next!" The article text discusses political matters including Senator Brice, Alaska fisheries, President Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase, and German treaty negotiations—typical Judge editorial commentary. However, the primary visual focus is the sequential humor of barbershop misadventures, using grotesque facial caricature to mock everyday discomforts of shaving and haircuts. This exemplifies the magazine's use of physiognomy-based comedy popular in early 20th-century American satire.
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A STUDY Repose, The avalanche, of hospitable pockets? Is it not possible that the adroitness that is pushing forward foreign capital is also shrewd enough to watch well its management and provide against any possible flank? The latest advance, if we are correctly informed, is to throw up intrenchments for its safety, if needed, even by the use of government shovels, The twenty-years’ lease of the Alaska seal-fishery very shortly ex- pires. The company that has gathered this crop of valuable skins in the Behring seas is a syndicate of English Hebrews. From the begin- ning it was no venture; but protected, as it should be and was, by our revenue-cutters against the ig of our own or ian depredators, it has proven a very mine of wealth. ‘The first Republican adminis- tration showed a fore-sighted statesmanship in the purchase of Alaska that rivaled in its results President Jefferson's se of Louisiana. Alaska added, by its wonderful fisheries and resources from the sea, revenues as great as those gathered from the tropical lands of the Mississippi. Can we afford to throw away the result of the states- manship of the great secretary? Is it possible that an ad- ministration pledged to pro- tect American labor and interests will on any pretext give to foreign control this chance of abundant wealth? Shall we tie up for the fifth of a century, by a contract, the exile of an industry that is and has been successfully manipulated in the United States? If an open tak- ing of seals by American seamen under government restriction is not possible, let the harvest and the handling be restricted to the citizens of the United States. It is natural that an English corhpany should send its arctic catch of furs to London to control the price and keep busy the three to four thousand of its employés. A Democratic adminis semi ‘The throat exercise. Nay-rum in the eye. Evening up. IN TONSORIAL EXPRESSION. Against the grain, With the grain. tration, backed by free-traders and seduced by mugwumpery, might .be expected to hold lightly its patriotic virtue. A Republican administra- tion cannot forget the purposes for which it was elected and the sol- emn pledges that it made. a SENATOR BRI has a secretive nature. den his statesmanlike of it and nobody ever will. For instance, he has hid- bility so effectually that nobody ever heard ote AY GUSTA, the late em- press, was noted in her youth for her beautiful nat- ural shoulders, and in her old age for her beautiful manufactured ones. eee ‘© AT LAST,” says an ex- change, “winter is get- ting a little back-bone.” ter ought to wear it at the front, so that somebody might see and recognize it. ELLEN FOSTE) new temperance —organ- ization whose name has nine words, The purpose is, we suppose, to have the name wag the organization. see LEON ABBETT, like Governor Campbell, favors ballot reform in pre- cisely the way that Governor Hill doesn’t favor it. Looks very much as if David would have to run, if at all, for both the first and second places ‘on the ticket. has a P-p-puff ! THE GERMANS are not satisfied with the Samoan treaty, and the London Times says the treaty “bears handsome testimony to Prince Bismarck’s reasonableness.” We believe something has been said as to Mr, Blaine’s nonentity in this connection. ‘The dry shampoo. comicbooks.com