Judge, 1890-08-23 · page 3 of 16
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# Page 315 Analysis: "A Rise in Obstructions" This page satirizes early 1900s fashion extremes through two panels showing women's wear evolution. The left panel (labeled "1860: The day of the crinoline") depicts an enormous hoop-skirted woman dwarfing a uniformed man. The right panel ("1890: The day of the wide-brimmed hat") shows a woman with an absurdly oversized hat extending horizontally, again towering over a male figure. The accompanying text mocks how these fashions obstruct public spaces and domestic life, particularly referencing women's impracticality during social gatherings. The bottom illustration "A Non-Military Hostess" depicts women in a garden party scene, reinforcing the satire about fashion-obsessed society women. The humor targets Victorian/Edwardian fashion excess and women's vanity, a common Judge magazine theme reflecting period anxieties about evolving gender roles and consumption.
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1860. The day of the crinoline. DURING HOT WEATHER we hear only at intervals that the czar is about to be assassinated; and that shows that the nihilists occasion- ally have amusements outside of assassinating too. T IS a recognized principle of South American revolutionists to shoot as long as they have powder, and then to surrender because their financial condition has made it impossible to buy more. ‘T IS HASTENING things to say that a funeral will be held from the late residence of the corpse; but when you say the person died “at his late * that is velocity. Is there no better way of saying that the dead person is about to change his residence ? esidence LADY DUNLO keeps her title, and that part of the English nobility which looks fondly back to Nell Gwinne is quite shocked about it. We suppose Lady Dunlo can’t sing and dance as well as Nell did, and the English nobility are very particular about these things. ‘4 ] CANNOT RELY on a single one of my diplomats,” says the czar. hey all lie." ‘That has been the trouble ever since the world began, your majesty. ‘The only exception to the rule is the writer of this ‘The day of the wide-brimmed hat. paragraph. And yet, your majesty, what would a diplomat do if he couldn't lie? You know, verily yourself, that if a diplomat didn’t lie you would discharge him in ten minutes. OH, GIVE THEM THE WINGS OF A BIRD. HE SUFFERINGS of murderers cannot be contemplated without horror. In exceptional instances they are hanged on the day selected for that purpose, and that is unseemly haste. Generally they are permit- ted to survive the first sentence, and that puts them on the rack of sus- pense. In other cases they are sentenced many times, through the g of the bench in behalf of the bar and the prisoner, and each hope is given them merely that it may give way to dark despair true that the jailor’s or warden’s wife ministers to their condition, and does her utmost to smooth their way to the tomb; but what is that as an assuager, sweet and good as it is? For they have not their liberty. ‘Their cells are not furnished with luxuries. In hot weather they are too warm and in cold weather too cold. The clergyman’s words of sympathy and advice are good, and the cook does her utmost to give them unex- ceptionable solids and delicacies; but they pine in their solitude and occasionally lose their sweet but complicated minds from long or short suspense. What shall we do with them? They cannot have the earth, since it will be of no use to them after they are killed. A NON-MILITARY HOSTE Mrs. Darrow — ood - morning, lieutenant. LieuteNast Horto! “ We were awfully sorry to hear of your trouble.” "Why, I—er—haven't had any trouble.” Mus. Dakkow—" Really? Tow strange! We understood that you had become involved in some captain's mess over at the fort.” comicbooks.com