Judge, 1890-06-28 · page 10 of 16
Judge — June 28, 1890 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This page from the satirical magazine **Judge** contains multiple humorous pieces satirizing American social life and manners circa the Gilded Age. The central cartoons mock: 1. **"Caution on Chambers Street"** — An Irishman (stereotyped through dialect) struggles with a runaway horse, a common urban hazard of the era. 2. **"A Good Reason"** and **"Protection All Around"** — Light social comedies about romantic propriety and German immigrant concerns about property boundaries. 3. **"The Richard-Bird Says"** — A gossip column satirizing summer social conventions: bathing suits, society weddings, engagements, and the behavior of wealthy young people. 4. **"The Early Bird"** — A racial-stereotype sketch featuring Black characters, typical of period humor (now considered offensive). The page's opening poem celebrates simple pleasures—music, laughter, nature—as antidotes to sorrow. Overall, Judge uses exaggerated characters, ethnic stereotypes, and gentle mockery to comment on contemporary American leisure, class anxieties, and social pretensions.
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JUDGE NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. ORK an’ pastime should be wedded ; Whistlin’ is a foe to pain ; Food fer mouth an’ eye oft mingle— We find posies in the gra ‘Thar er allus tears a Fortune frowns an’ sadness ; defiles ; Kut we awter nourish gladness, Joyful songs an’ happy smiles. 1 ot sorrow Shouldn't in life’s sunshine in’ sombre Why should = a happy sky? If thar war no use fer laughter Why should laughter merry flow ? If the river shouldn't ripple Why should ripplin’ breezes: blow? If thar war no call fer music We ud never hear birds sing: An’ the w ps Kn't be so sweet a thing. Whar the brook the stones caresses Would you If its babble « An’ if musi 1 up in the tree: listen with delight sn't_ music JTION ON CHAMBERS asn’t right? MePuacus (tehose hat has blown off) —"* So-ho now—sh—now, aisy | that's J. A.watowox, —— th’ good harse, Whisht, now ! so-ho, dar-rlin’, so-ho— Of how it, yex divil !” A GOOD REASON. oe if WISH you wouldn't look so lovingiy: that Arab remarked young Dolley to Miss Amy as they in- spected the curiosities in the side-show. “Why not?” asked Amy. “Because 1 don't like you to waste your sweetness on the desert hei PROTECTION ALL AROUND. Mr. Schaumberger (excitedly) —" Vhat_ you aboud, puilding dose fenses on mein broberdy?” fer (soothingly) —“Oh, that’s all righ only taken four inch very little land, Mr. Schaumbers )—" But how apour der admosphere?” Th (doubtingly I LOVE books on music and dress, n painting my spirit enthrall ; Yet here frankly I'm bound to confess That my cheque-book T love best of all, Rooks MYSTIFICATION AT THE SPA, Cnorvs—* Spiegelheimer must haf goot lungs. He has pen under fife minutes.” . SPIRGELMEIMER (climbing out) —"* Dot wig seems to pe addractin’ mooch addentions alreatty.’ THE RICHARD-BIRD SAYS: mer exodus is just_as great as ever, : weording to the are summering quietly roof afternoons; That the summer bathing-suit, although of very limited proportions, is to play an important part in our s I life; ‘That the sweet girl-graduate has come and has been seen but has aside soc an with a sure tip on the races is the last man you the girl who wears the Henley shirt knows best where the buttons hurt; Th and that the society papers the June weddings ar ing to write up the fall div iting in the wings for her ene and are CES That this summer's girl is that she will make things li ‘That the summer engagement does not go: Th who says the lea when she comes on the stage: he young man who has the most to say is frequently the one That we are to have the warmest summer in the recollection of the oldest inhabitant id ‘That the young man who used to send his best tied with satin ribbe irl the best bon= bons now sends her a cake of THE EARLY BIRD. YOUR early. The early bi SEFORE THE 9 ROTHAL nis praise’s warmest terms— Miss WixkLey —" Wha’s dat flutt'rin’ sou Mr. In’ hear nufin, your breakfast appetite, Miss WINkLEY "Sounded pow'ful lik wings.” ‘orm by the dawning light, Mr. GALLERWaY—" "Spec's hit must’r been Cupid.” 1 it is that catches worms: I jess now ? i comicbooks.com