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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page 215 **"A Mean Revenge"** (top cartoon): A singing master confronts a woman at a piano. The caption suggests she's rejecting his romantic advances, threatening to hire a different instructor. The satire mocks both the pretentious music pedagogue and the woman's weaponized rejection—using professional dismissal as "revenge" for romantic rebuff. **"During a Motherly Call"** (bottom cartoon): Three women discuss a recently married daughter's marital troubles. The daughter admits breaking "the rule" by saying "yes" to a proposal six months ago—satirizing the absurdity of women's constrained choices in courtship, where even accepting a proposal is framed as rule-breaking. Both cartoons lampoon gender relations and the awkward social conventions governing Victorian-era courtship and marriage.
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[T SEEMS so sad that Mr. Pulitzer can’t be permitted to run the politics of Pennsylvania; and this an off year too. THE ABSENCE of Mr. Depew has three times left the fourth of July in a state of the most helpless and orphanage. arning It must not occur again. THE PRESIDENT is reported to have said that he wants to resume his law- practice in ’93. Well, if the people give their permission he can, and if they don’t he won't. OST OF the articles on the college graduate this year are so barren of ideas and so patronizing in tone that we suspect they were written by the college graduate of last year. ht kills a hundred thousand insects a night. For heav- c! Why doesn’t Bourke Cock- ran’s gentle heart make some money for his pocket out of that? HARL B. WAITE, the aldermanic informer, is now an employe of a St. Paul hotel owned by a man who was once his chief cook, Things change. We sup- pose Mr. Waite is in the*kitchen department, superintending the soup. IOHN L. SULLIVAN is not only to be a chapter in what is called “the longer we live in it the more we are the free. actor, but has written a composite novel.” The ‘onvinced that this is the land of TANLEY has the love of Bernhardt. “1 love him, | adore him! she passionately, “and I would gladly go with him to the heart of Africa.” Perhaps if Henry had known this he wouldn't have stayed long enough to marry Miss ‘Tennant. HAN doubtless meant well in trying to sell a court-of- appeals decision in advance of its publication to Wall stre that is the kind of good intention that is used for pavement in very warm and sequestered localities, and the more it is explained away the more it stays there Mapae. Iavtry—" You the singin; Hekk Pompersicket.—"* Bardon; de A MEAN REVENGE. aster! But we do not want a singing - master !!" aty next door toldt me you vanted one badly—she sent me!" THE. YOUNG black man, Clement Garnett Morgan, who was class-day orator of Harvard, our oldest university, this year, conferred half his triumph on his classmates and his audience, for they listened to him with the utmost respect and every sign of approval. discussion of the race problem. And now let us resume OUR LEGAL VATICAN. * R, KEMMLER remarked when he learned that he had to die—he has learned it several times, by the way——* Well, the sooner the better. I'm tired of this monkeying, and I guess the law is all right.” ‘There has never been the slightest doubt that the law was all right. It is the worst of all absurdity to assume anything else. This particular protest against the law shows only this—that the law has privileges of protest, at the expense of the tax-payers, which ought not to be accorded to that other pope who lives in Rome, The law is chiefly an instrument of injustice in behalf of itself, and the people are as tired of its as is the Hon, Mr, Kemmler, DURING A MOTHERLY CALL, Mrs. Beesopy HER RECENTLY ™M. Mxs. Beeson’ “*You look pensive, RIED DAUGHTER — dear.” I've had an awful tiff with Tor n't I caution you to avoid the first unkind word? HER DAUGHTER—''T tried to, but he declares that I broke the rule when I said ‘yes,’ to his proposal, six months ago.” comicbooks.com