Judge, 1890-02-08 · page 4 of 16
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This page from Judge satirizes various social and political issues of the 1880s-90s era: **"Discouragement to Art"** mocks theatrical producers touring America, suggesting provincial audiences lack sophistication (they throw things at actors). **Multiple brief commentary pieces** target: - **Victoria Woodhull** and **Belva Lockwood**: early women's rights activists and political candidates, presented skeptically - **Gilbert and Sullivan**: famous operetta composers, criticized for their theatrical work - **Society women**: their faces allegedly artificially altered by "jack-knife artists" (cosmetic procedures) - **Woman suffrage**: Senator Stanford's donation to women's causes treated dismissively - **Race relations**: commentary on Black emigration desires, reflecting period racial attitudes The cartoon illustrations depict working-class and immigrant characters in period dress. "Earned Shelter" shows someone seeking refuge from summer heat. The page reflects Judge's conservative editorial stance mocking progressive causes while using humor about contemporary social anxieties.
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286 HUM OF THE COURT. TIME, tide and Nelly Bly wait for no man.—New York World. ERHAPS the law fears that electrocu- tion will kill a man too much. The law devotes itself exclusively to these little niceties, Vicky WOODHULL threatens to sue lots of American newspapers for libel. This is good news, because it is evidence that Vicky still lives. LVA LOCKWOOD will be a candi- date in ‘92. As the Democratic par- ty cannot unite on its only man perhaps it can make a compromise on Belva. THE NEW KING of Portugal has curly hair, and if he continues long in office it will curl so tight, like that of the girl of the south, that he “cannot shut his mouth.” SING SING insists that she is just the place for a prison, but it must be ad- mitted that Schoharie is nearer to Albany nd the cost of transportation must be considered, DISCOURAGEMENT TO ART. ALLEN (of the “ Wrecked in Siberia" company) —"1 think we'd better skip this town and strike a fatter one, Hart, ‘They seem to have a breed of cats here made on purpose to throw, S go together—one that the queen is dangerously ill and the other that Wales is debauched. ‘These stories have been before the public so long that one almost suspects the English of American politics. WELVE HUNDRED working girls of this city had a dance the other night, and there was not a man or a heart-ache among them. There was merely an unuttered protest that something was lacking and nobody cared to vex her soul by inquiring what it was. [7 1S WONDERFUL what ability some actors have in the great work of destroying a good play. We should think that Gilbert and Sullivan would be chagrined enough to quarrel themselves to death and come over here in two yessels and several pieces to see about it. HE FACES of some of our society belles as given in the daily papers have an appearance of combined measles and influenza that would bode ill for the future but for the beautiful wealth that belongs to them, We must remember, however, that heaven doesn’t give us these faces—it is the jack-knife artist. AN UPPER CUT. Miss Werpex—"Do you know that you remind me so much of the prince of Wales?” Densinanast (flattered into an uniwise question) —"" How s MSS BRADDON has written fifty nov- els,and the Pall Mall Gazette hopes she will live to write fifty more. We hope she m ticularly as she is fifty-three years old and can’t do it. NATOR STANFORD gave Miss Anthony five hundred dollars to use for woman suffrage, and we should con- sider that money safe for equality if Miss Anthony urgently needed a new bonnet and a set of diamonds. 6 UTIHE NEGROES,” says the Mobile Register, “cannot be miade to emi- grate un y wish to.” That is so; and let us be frank and add that if they did emigrate the whites would howl more M' RER wooed and won Mr, Muller and then jilted him, and now she gets twelve thousand dollars be- ] { Muller's allegéd breach of prom- EARNED SHELTER. he insult is not to be matched by s¢ except the injury, mer, Hoccrxrirrex—" I tells you, fellers, T geds mein revenche fer luggin’ dis big tuba ‘round all der hot sum- comicbooks.com