Judge, 1890-11-08 · page 4 of 16
Judge — November 8, 1890 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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This page contains satirical commentary typical of late 19th-century American humor magazines. **"'Tis Time to Rise"** is a whimsical poem about morning routines, using domestic scenes (cats, milkmen, newspapers) to humorously mark the passage from sleep to wakefulness. **"Hum of the Court"** collects brief satirical jabs at various topics: - British royal economy - Don Carlos's competing Spanish throne claims (referencing real European succession disputes) - Irish famine denial by English Tories (contemporary political criticism) - American wealth disparities (Senator Stanford's anecdote) - A dig at women's clubs lacking independent leadership **"Broaching a Bargain"** cartoon depicts an American mining magnate negotiating marriage discounts with an impoverished British duke—satirizing transatlantic marriages where wealthy American heiresses married titled but poor European aristocrats for social status. **"Introduced"** shows an Irish-American (indicated by dialect) proudly presenting his father to an exclusive club, poking fun at nouveau-riche social climbing and ethnic assimilation. The page reflects Gilded Age anxieties about class mobility, international relations, and social pretension.
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‘TIS TIME TO RISE. HEN ats forsake the backyard (énce, And drowsy maid in dark- ness dense Doth scratch a match to view the clock ; When milkman, taking in the block Through various gates, doth briskly clink To fill the cans; with him we think We ought to rise, When dimly white the window gleams, And most familiar object seems Unlike itself; when faint and far We hearken the first down-town car; When most we hate the thought of “biz,” This, we feel this is he time to rise. When sunlight reddens on the floor, And carrier swift at basement door The morning paper gayly flings ; When gently stir the breakfast things ; When we to spring from slumber vow And—fall asleep, we now that now time to rise, MADELING 5. Bx HUM OF THE COURT. DO NOT repress your trousers or the laughter of child- hood. ‘THE SAVINGS of the queen are eight million a year. Very few can be as economical as that. Tue looks of. THE TICA HAS a population of forty-four thousand and one. The one made a desperate effort to escape, but they tied him down. AS THEY say it in Boston —" Indulge in no anticipatory mathematics with regard to the ovalicular matter in incubation TEXAS MAN has a beard seven feet long, and a foot and a few inches will be added to it before we get through with our Texas exchanges. process of ON CARLOS has relinquished his claim to the throne of Fran order to devote himself wholly to his claim to the throne of This man shall not outdo us in generosi claim to the throne of England. pain, We hereby relinquish our GLISH TORY is determined not to admit that there is famine n Ireland until every Irishman starves to death and he is assessed to pay for the colossal funeral n then he will reserve his final judg- ment, and likewise his contributions. I will give him i le : BROACHING A BARGAIN. bucitess —"' Hector Clavering, there is a gleam in your eye that I like not the Would you"— DUKE—* Here's an upstart American miner who wants to know what discount he takes both Archibald and Hugh for his two blooming daughters !” A MAN is intoxicated, according to the governor of Virginia, when he has to open his shirt-collar to spit over his chin. It was Davy Crockett’s idea that he w in that condition till he reached up to find the ground. A BEAUTIFUL STORY is told of Senator Stanford—that he was giv- ing his private secretary twelve dollars a week and one morning he said to him, “ Hereafter, my bo! Il draw ten thousand dollars a year.” But the story has one drawback—it is not true. E REASON why women’s clubs do not succeed is, according to an authority, that no woman likes to be bossed by one of her own sex. We explain it in this way. She knows more than any other woman, but, being aware of her incompetency, naturally looks to a higher source for control and information. INTRODUCED. MeHuskey (sh ¢ his old father the city) —"* Walk night in, dad, Gents, my old man, ‘This is th’ Union League club you've heard so much about, an’ I'm president. comicbooks.com