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# "An All-Around Freak" - Judge Magazine Satire This page satirizes Victorian-era circus and variety show culture. The top section depicts a carnival barker presenting absurd "attractions": a skeleton that walks, Professor Gillispie juggling incompatible objects (cannonball, ostrich feather, sausage), and a "Circassian girl" escapee from a harem—exploitative exotica typical of 19th-century sideshows. The "Hum of the Court" section collects brief jokes about contemporary social absurdities: the Princess of Wales's high collar (allegedly hiding scars), cyclone destruction, playing cards, and razor safety. "A Lost Retriever" (bottom) shows a woman searching for her dog while holding a gun—likely mocking society women's incompetence or the tension between Victorian femininity and practical capability. The overall tone mocks both carnival exploitation and upper-class pretension, reflecting Judge's satirical approach to gilded-age American society.

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k—"* This, ladies an’ gents, is th’ skeleton ever before exhibited. ; th’ curtain’s ketched, but you kin see he's alive ‘cause he kin walk.” HUM OF THE COURT. WRITER says the high worn by the princess of Wales conceals an ugly scrofulous scar. Fashion has al- ready adopted the collar; now for the scar. F ik portion of last year. We are therefore moce or less prepared to receive the cyclone linen collar —or rather we shall be if we happen to sur vive it. THE RAZOR, according to the Cincinns nguérer, is a better weapon than the Much depends, we think, on. the question whether it is to be used for shaving or killing. . & CARDS,” says the circuit court of Mer- er county, a, are “simply piec h various game: hat is confirmation of a suspi long entertained. RUCTION of the village of Prophetstown, Ill., by a cyclone would scem to indicate that the man who named it was, like his predecessors, totally without honor in the place which gave him his bread and butter. STANLEY WATERLOO of the Chicago pre: by the Chicago Journatist. This gentlema lar that his friends who are accurate in history a aying they are glad they met their duke of Wel Me Kuxi—" By AN ALL-AROUND FREAK, ——"'Next we have Professor Gillispie, the only man who kin juggle a cannon-ball, an ostrick- feather an’ a sassinger at one an’ the same time. =" Well, Rufus, you're th’ best drawin’ th’ cost of yer ‘salary, I ever had on th’ boards, ss is written up at length servedly popu- re in the constant habit of ington. even higher pri an is so de A LOST RETRIEVER, ! puppy, T think T heard a bird sing.” rd, fer than its chief competitor. you want to get in something about the local Cone and in writing for Buffalo jump in a few words regarding Del- aware avenue, Lake ie, n’ lastly, T wanter interjuce Ma'm- selle Eureka, th’ Circassian gal, who has jest escaped from the harem of th’ sulkan of Pershy.” SOY AIT a thousand years,” says a con- gressional orator, “and see what the colored race will amount to.” With the utmost pleasure, sir, Please do something to enable us to do so, ONVICT F. WARD sent a rose to his wife's funeral, not being able to attend it himself. This is the pathos of crime, the poets will forget their cunning if the to take advantage of it. ©6Q0 FAR as possible,” says DeWitt Tal- mage, “let all women dress beauti- fully.” ‘That is good advice. A decent cos- tume is a woman's first right, and we could prove it too if Mother Eve were alive. EVERY DAY one reads of disappointed maidens who, anxious to get on the . find themselves duped and in a most ing condition; and yet they are better in that way than they might have been behind the footlights. distres actre HEY SAY there is a great demand in Rochester for verses descriptive of sum- mer pleasures. The papers want to get a supply on hand, and it has become such a fad that the Buffalo press is prepared to offer In writing for Rochester sland, which is called and the principal cemet —"Ah! there he i comicbooks.com