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This page from Judge contains miscellaneous short satirical quips ("Hum of the Court") mocking contemporary figures and social pretenses, plus a comic strip titled "The Quick and the Dead." The verbal satire targets: - **Dr. Mary Walker**: A likely reference to the controversial Civil War surgeon and women's rights advocate, mocked for her appearance - **Walking delegates**: Labor organizers criticized as lazy - **Mary Anderson**: An actress whose marriage prompted gossip - **Senator Blair**: A defeated politician - **Walt Whitman**: The poet ridiculed for overwrought, incomprehensible verse - Various hypocrites: women who complain about shopping while loving it; a suicide note writer; a Russian minister The comic strip shows a tramp encountering a bear at a store—a slapstick sequence where the bear chases away customers and the tramp ultimately partners with the trader to profit from the chaos. The humor relies on contemporary references Judge's readers would recognize, targeting pretension, failed ambitions, and social absurdities of the era.

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56 HUM OF THE COURT. HAT your walking delegate most wants is not eight hours as a day's labor, but five minutes. DB: MARY WALKER has wrinkles about her eyes that look as‘if they were cut on the bias and tucked under. . A MORAL ‘ cial Ac this witticism.” the Commer goes with That's nice. Now give us the witticism, Y very the luxury of Ludlow -street jail when the they can’t pay their debts, HE Utica Observer says of a JUDGE cartoon, * It tells a heap of truth.” The Odserver is a Dem- paper, and therefore uses the word + instead of rich men can afford © So very poor that ocratic * mountai ‘T DOE have to stand in. public conve ances; and then again it seems s: that no man can have the privilege of sitting down in public conveyances. Miss Tozter T IS a suggestive fact that the men who most severely American newspaper are the identical men who have b cessful in their failures to edit it NEVER speak harsh known actress, “even if they do dye their hair and have se 18 that hateful Miss Blank has, criticise the n most suc- rr y of my sisters of the stage,” says a well- al living husbands, HE QUE! is being divorce which SENATOR BLAIR needn't take his defeat to heart. He had his revenge beforehand, If we had talked our friends and adversaries to death we shouldn't care what they had to say about us during the progress of the funeral. TION whether Mary Anderson will act ed. ker her marriage ag’ Curiously enough, nothing is said about the always precedes that ‘kind of resumption, A NAME AND A NAME, Miss ‘Tozirr—"* How I do love that German skipper!” Her FUTURE HUSBAND — “Don't get cy Well, I like that !” al. YOUNG LADY admitted to bar in Massachusetts married her ‘That shows how much women know about law. Is it a lawyer's business to beat the client instead of the enemy? DAY appointed by a prophet on which San Fran- cisco was to be “swallowed by an earthquake.” We judge that in this case, as in some others, it is the Jonah that has swallowed the . whale H was GREAT love of a woman is for “beating down.” She would shop ten hours every day, if she could, and then say mean things against Sunday and the rail- road ticket-offices because they per- mit nothing of that kind. MITH, minister to Russia, took farewell dinners enough to in- sure him against hunger until his return, It is lucky for him that he wasn't going to heaven. In that he would have been dined enough for premature death and against all possibility of a resurrection. I referred to the Strauss waltz.” case ALT WHITMAN went out to see ‘the accompany and when he got within doors sneezed a sonnet and some couplets that brought tears to his aged eyes. “the coming-lilac time" and almost human tenderness in the atmosphere,” MAN in Fort Smith, Ark., ca as he said in a note, his wife wished him dead such extreme y for his domestic partner ought to be a first-rate husband without spoiling himself in that ridiculous manner. itted suicide because, The man who ha court 3E into Browning,” says an exchange; “then plunge « replunge.” After a great many plunges you get his meaning ‘Then you will plunge ‘and replunge regarding the question whether his meaning is any better than would have been that of some individual who would have expressed it simply and therefore with more force. THE QUICK AND THE DEAD. A MONTANA TRAGE P WEAR —"* Here's a snap.” QQ ‘Tur voys—"' Rufiin’s got a new sign, fellers.” Tire TRADER—"‘ Somebody's been kind to me.” by. Tue wraR—" Reckon I'll have t’ go inter pardner- ship with his nibs.” comicbooks.com