Judge, 1891-01-10 · page 5 of 16
Judge — January 10, 1891 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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**Main Cartoon: "The Lay of the Connecticut Fowl"** This satirizes the **McKinley Tariff** (likely 1890), using a Connecticut farmer's hen as metaphor. The farmer blames the tariff for economic disasters—rising prices on imports (Brussels carpets, Sèvres pottery), crop failures, and general hardship—so he refuses to let his hens lay eggs until the tariff is repealed. The "Con-nec-ti-cut" wordplay references Connecticut's agricultural interests. The satire attacks protectionist tariffs as economically damaging rather than helpful. **Minor Items:** - "The Deceit of Appearances": Social commentary on theater and chorus girls - "Merely to Advertise His Poem": Jokes about poet Edwin Arnold - "A Lesson in Air Force": Visual gag showing wind's power - Several short humorous dialogues (hotel prices rising, theatrical participation, committee dining) The page represents typical Judge content: political-economic satire mixed with light social humor and visual jokes.
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THE LAY OF THE CON-NEC-TI-CUT FOWL. It is almost impossible to find Connecticut-laid eggs in market.—/arlford paper. AID the Arar tobe zwles sled bet ny fair ant Comfort of my i aod pea a rs Grp now a dut aut: gh the people x. Not to lay another eg. “Why _1.do not know full well, jut his wife I heard the farmer Only just this morning tel, in alarm I * This McKinley Bill, he said, Ina manner keen and ni “ Brussels carpets had gone up. “Then be whispered, wild and weird, Sevres and velvet gone artiting, iow the bill had spoited the weather, And, to overflow his cu And $0 many things he fe ildew wheat and ca cor were blighting. ‘That T shook te my talk teather— ‘This McKinley Bill. Rarthauake, panic, early snow, suck bas Bored Rise in diamonds, produce “Not a barleycorn of grain ‘Would he plant. "He'd give a lickin’ If the smallest egg again Dared lay turkey. duck or chicken “Till the people have repeal ‘This McKinley Bill he squealed. "No,more egus at present, wile "Till T've done what T swear inly, Caring oot for limb or life Slain this dreadfu} ai Bill McKinley. Slain with spur or gua oF rocket TuL-con-neeti-cutcutda-cut! “Till then, though they beg and beg, be Ge roms Haamone G87, On the toutl Senera ex "They shall live tll they are sorry. Eng of nutmeg state. adie snd ! but see his cockship strut— § * Cock-a-doodle-doodle-di THE DECEIT OF APPEARANCES. oN —"' Jove! isn't she a stunner? Where does she act?” Murray—"Act? Why, that is Mrs, Blassford, the president of the society for the refinement and culture of chorus-girls.” CARRINGTON —"‘And who is the demure and dignified little woman with her 7" Murnay—" That's Belle Kickley of the Casino.” Carninc AN INTERESTING EXHIBIT. +6] THINK we ought to have the Venus of Milo on exhibition in the art depart- ment,” said a Chicago director of the world’s fair. “I think so too,” replied another director; “if you'll give me’his address I'll write to Mr. Milo about it.” MERELY TO ADVERTISE HIS POEM. Mrs. Kickshaw—" Sit Edwin Arnold denies that he is to marry a Japanese woman.” Kickshaw —" Yes; he fell in love with her for publication, and not as a guar- antee of good faith.” THE USUAL RISE IN PRICE, Guest —"1 stopped at this hotel a year ago and you asked me four dollars a day. Now you want five. I don't see that you have made any improvements.” Clerk — No, sit; but if you will look over the register you will see that a short A LEADING PART. Tomay —'* Say, Tubby, wanter join our theatricals?” Tunny (delighted) —* You bet 1 do Tommy “ALL right We're goin’ to play "A Moonlight Crime,” stick your head up over a fence.” Funny —" What for?" come round to the barn to-night, an’ we want you t time ago Major McKinley stopped here over night.” AN ESTIMATE WITHOUT GUSH. Primus—"\ am chairman of the committee on invitations to the annual ban- quet of the Utopian society and I'm thinking of asking Colley; how is he, a good diner-out ?” Secundus —* Well, Colley is a deep thinker and his appetite is extemporaneous.” A LESSON IN AIR FORCE. Showing in two ways the expansive power of wind. comicbooks.com