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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page from Judge magazine contains satirical commentary on various contemporary topics, arranged as short humorous observations rather than cohesive political cartoons. The three illustrations show: (1) a new schoolmaster arriving with a bag, greeted by students expecting punishment; (2) a child with an iguana being introduced as the "new schoolmaster" from Rio Janeiro; and (3) a couple strolling in an orchard. The text satirizes diverse subjects: Democratic Party disunity, a Georgia newspaper editor with many children, the Lodge bill (federal election protection), Henry Irving's theatrical productions, the Astor family, Stanley's African expeditions, and women's suffrage at seaside resorts. The commentary mocks contemporary politics, social pretensions, and cultural figures. References to annexing Haiti, San Domingo, and Spain appear to critique American imperialist ambitions of the era. Overall, this represents typical Judge-style social and political satire—brief, caustic observations on 1880s-1890s American life and politics, relying on readers' familiarity with current events and public figures.

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AMPLY Bab Woy oF THE CLASS—' If you're th’ new school-master, jest drop that bag an’ git ready fer a lic We always begin that way HUM OF THE COURT. NO the Democrats have not got together. and no clashing of clubs, R MARK of the New York bluffer who died and went there in July- You don’t call this hot, do you?” THE EDITOR of a morning paper in Georgia has thirty-seven children We think the morning paper is the best. EVE'S FIRST REMARK—*Go and put on your clothe: man! Why, I haven't even been introduced to you. THE a truly agile man who occupies anything more lofty than the ground below i HEN SUCH an actress as Miss Eastlake says her diamonds have been stolen one is almost persuaded to believe that she must have had them, THE CORRESPONDE, that but for the official s bly be drowned in it OF coursi y man opposes fair federal elections in the south it is natural that he should oppose the Lodge bill; but what a confes- sion his oppo We hear no shrieks of pain you bad ATURAL condition of a hammock is wrong side out, and he is E regard ‘al that inhal g Behring sea is so voluminous nt of the deep would proba- ICIANS are generally vain. Thus M. Su- periori objected to dying because he was afraid he wouldn't be permitted to wield the baton in the celestial orchestra. WE DON'T know which of the lady Astors is Mrs. Astor; but a compromise in all great wars, necessary and we suggest Mrs, Ferguson as the matron best adapted te the emergency. H will produce “The Bride of If Desdemona had been that kind of bride we sometimes think the career of Othello would have been more wholesome. WE ALWAYS read the Pp asure, but reti RY IRVID Lammermoor, ing Post with perusal with a Dod the Virgin from painful consciousness. that there is nothing this side of the editor of the Post a Ma Ms: STANLEY has given orders that on the next excursion into Africa there is to be no shooting of the untutored savage, and the better to enforce the same will see to it that Henry travels without guns or ammunition. HE EXTRA GIRLS at the seaside have but fone resource. They must be permitted to vote and hold office. ‘That accomplished and they will be so overwhelmed with attention that they will want to drown themselves. Kirkrjean (the poet) —"* Don’t you Miss WIxpMERE (/roi Jon’t care much about ‘em, PROTECTED. New arriva.—'But I-ain't_ your new school-master. My name's MecLarkin, an’ I've jest come up from Rio Janeeryo with a pet iguana. Any of you fellers want 'r buy him?" CULTURE IN POLITICS is a fine thing. We could wish it might be applied to the raising of cattle and the buying and selling of merchandise; but unhappily there isn’t enough of it to supply the population. E LEARN from a Portland (Oregon) dispatch that this government is about to annex Hayti or San Domingo, What's the matter with Cuba? And by the way why shouldn't we annex Spain, Portugal, and the planet Venus? SOME PAPERS object to the use of state flags in place of the flag of the general government. Oh, well; let us have a compromise in the shape of grandmother's apron, That is as good as anything for an emblem, and there could be nothing more serious than a family quarrel over the particular apron to be selected. THAT ALWAYS excellent paper, the Boston Traveller, says even the brook may dry up. We could wish for less slang in a paper so evenly good; for that term which applies properly to men and women belongs not to the liquid beauty the poets celebrate. Why not say it has evaporated, gone up, slid out, or swizzled? DURING AN OLD ORCHARD BEACIL STROLL. you like the sough of the pines, Miss Windmere ?” the west)—"L ain't seen her, but we have so many pigs at home [ comicbooks.com