Judge, 1890-10-18 · page 5 of 16
Judge — October 18, 1890 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from *Judge* contains multiple brief satirical pieces typical of 1880s-90s humor magazines: **Main cartoons feature:** - A schoolboy citing "state board of arbitration" to avoid punishment—satirizing contemporary labor arbitration debates by applying them absurdly to discipline - Domestic servants gossiping—a recurring Victorian anxiety about household staff overhearing secrets - A woman correcting another's grammar about lightning vs. thunder, mocking pedantry - Jupiter jealous of "ox-eyed brides" (referencing Homer's epithets)—classical literary humor - Electricians as "protectionists" believing in the "ohm market"—a pun on economic protectionism and electrical resistance **Overall tone:** Light social satire targeting Victorian pretension, class anxieties, gender dynamics, and contemporary political/scientific terminology. The dogs illustrated throughout serve as visual breaks rather than narrative elements. The humor relies on wordplay, puns, and gentle mockery of everyday life rather than partisan politics.
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UP THE SPOUT. THE WHY OF IT. +4] LIKE the novels of Besant and Rice; they'll live. They're the kind that “Yes; like pitch.” “Like pitch?” “Of course; because they're bi-tu-men.”” HIS PLATFORM. Room HE HAD BEEN READING THE PAPERS. ERT RAWSON (who has been sent up to the principal by his iss Bargs’s compelments, sir, an’ she says I've been pretty bad ; but before you start in on any whalin'-trip, won't you give me a chance to git th’ state board of arbitration down here ?” HEARING AND TELLING. THE conversation had turned on gossiping servants. “As for me,” remarked Jones, who was present, “my dream is to have only two, one of whom should be deaf and the other dumb, The deaf rascal wouldn't be able to hear anything, and the dumb one couldn't repeat what he happened to hear.” HARD ON THE FAMILY. Ethel—"Vave you any remembrance of your great grandfather, Clara?” Clara — Excuse me, but we never speak of him.” Ethel —" Why, is he tabooed ?” Clara —“Well, I've been told that he married beneath him, and that after that time the family never took any notice of him.” APPLYING HER KNOWLEDGE. Miss Bunting —“1 was thunderstruck when I heard the news.” Mrs, Bunting —" Now, Laura, didn’t you tell me the other day that it is the lightning that strikes, and not the thunder?” TELEGRAM FROM OLYMPUS. Jupiter (alter reading several hundred fall-wedding aotices) harmony's sake, don’t write any more about the ‘ox-eyed brides * so jealous already I'll have to buy her a new seal-skin cloak with peacock-feather border to quiet her.” UP THE SPOUT.—(Continued.) ‘SSW THAT’S WHY. ¢¢RLECTRICIANS are naturally protec- tionists.”” “ Why?” “Because they believe the ohm market.” BOTH INDISPOSED. Miss Bleecker —"\'m un- der the weather this morning.” $610 YOU favor free UTILIZATION. Miss Beacon-street (of whisk FOREMAN OF DAILY raPER—"' This cut of ‘Before using Higgin's salve’ is flattened Boston) —"I too am be- Piney out so it won't print.” ‘ Tm in: favor of any Eprror—"* Run it in on the first page and mark it ‘ Mrs. Langtry in the dark’; we've neath the meteorological kind, sir. got to fill space to-day, anyhow,” phenomena.’ comicbooks.com