Judge, 1891-05-30 · page 4 of 16
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page from Judge presents satirical commentary on contemporary American society through brief quips and illustrations. **Main Topics:** The text mocks various figures and trends: actress Fay Templeton's marital status, the spiritualist Madame Blavatsky, and a shift in American heroism from gunfighters to baseball players. It satirizes newspaper magnate Pulitzer's yacht acquisition, requiring rival Bennett to buy two yachts. An anecdote ridicules an Ohio woman who calmly discovered an intruder under her bed, while another celebrates an Indiana woman shooting her abusive husband. **Political References:** Actor John L. Sullivan is mocked for abandoning prizefighting to run for Congress, suggesting he'll become a lesser-known politician. The text also critiques President Cleveland's alleged profanity, comparing it unfavorably to department store magnate John Wanamaker's language. **Cartoons:** Two simple pen sketches illustrate domestic comedy scenes, typical of Judge's humorous social observation. The page exemplifies how Gilded Age satirical magazines combined gossip, political jabs, and social commentary.
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118 HUM OF THE COURT. PROVERB FOR JUNE—There is no rose without a bug. CED MEMORIES of love, not hate, upon the day we deco- Tate. [F FAY TEMPLETON is not Mrs. Osborn we shall be obliged to look upon her as the culprit Templeton. WE BELIEVE not only that Blavatsky is dead but that she will presently arise in meeting and say so. PEACE HATH her victories, ete. Thirty years ago the hero was the man with a gun. To-day he is the man with a bat. E JUDGE after a hasty perusal of a recent column of fash- ion notes that the eight-button stocking is coming into general use. R. PULITZER having bought a yacht, it becomes neces- sary for Mr. Bennett to have two yachts and sail in both of them at the same time, ‘THE QUESTION “Should actors marry?" has been largely i discussed lately. It seems to us the question should be, not whether they should marry, but how often? JARDINE SWEARS IT IS TRUE. A WOMAN in Attica, Ohio, really did BoarDING-House TURKEY (philanthropically inclined) —‘* Tell her to turn me over, find a man under her bed after long young feller. I'm better done on the other side,” and patient looking, and lifted up her voice and laughed with joy; but the man escaped. RT AND POLITICS—Actor Sullivan will not fight again. He will aw pe act, and presently go to congress from the sixth Massachusetts dis A YOUNG MAN of Lowell was sued for Kissing rile Mi Stata his esd understudy, will take his place in the fistic arena, MBS. BRICK of Goshen, Indiana, was undergoing beating and choking at the hands and feet of her-husband, and drew a revolver and shot him dead. Mr. Brick never did a better thing than he did when he gave the lady his name. EVERYBODY BLESSES the old flag: but if it hadn't been for the boys who are remembered once a year there would have been noth- ing of that kind worth mentioning. Because, please remind yourself, these things cost blood, E CANNOT believe the story of a California paper that the president recently swore like a trooper, because in his selections of profanity he has thus far confined himself to the kind of elaborated objurgation used by John Wanamaker. a girl without her permission. He said he MBS: ELLIOTT has a strong story in “Jerry”; but it is most exasper- ating to witness the building of a work of art merely to have the author unbuild it at one swoop of her powerful pen, It is as miserable butchery in its way as anything in the dime novel. TIME WOULD s Fussy (/o his wife) —" I'm sure, Maria, those shoes are too tight for you.” Mas, Fussy —'* Why, no; they're quite eas Fussy —** Ah, just wait a week or so and you'll ‘acknowledge the corn.’" thought the girl was his sister, This made the girl so mad that she wanted fifty thousand dollars damages. F ANYBODY asked who paid John Smith’s expenses in his recent trip to and from Chicago John would tweak the anybody's nose; but you must remember that John isn’t president of the United States. THE TENDENCY of the times is in the direction of a labor day no hours long and the pay for it many dollars more. Perhaps that’s what Professor Totten means when he predicts the millennium. WE DO NOT believe that the Lord will provide a candidate for the Democratic party of the nation, as Henry Watterson says; anyhow the selection has heretofore been made by quite a different authority. ‘A POLICEMAN of Chicago jumped on a mad dog with both feet and killed him instantly. We refrain from a sickening and extremely aged so-called pleasantry, but can the ladies of Chicago be blamed? | RTHUR COIT GILMAN, who had robbed his partners of over two hundred thousand dollars, had his choice of the prison or the grave, and perhaps he showed wisdom in preferring not to get behind the bars. HE YOUNG LAWYER likes a murder case. With a murderer for his client, especially if the client is known to be guilty, he can easily maintain himself at the expense of the tax-payers for a couple of years at least. ! HEY WOULDN'T let Colonel Ingersoll deliver a lecture in Pittsburg A SURE PLAN, on a recent Sunday night. If Aaron and Moses had lived in Pitts- plonany ow how cory $s these, eonle fo atiend chante a : ‘ ai S vcus ; d IKE. (new convert) —"* Dere’s ‘er good many w: ister burg they would have cut off their noses whether it was the fashion to parson, but 1 think a dog.fight belore service would" fetch "eat quicker cays . wear them or not. Ving else.” comicbooks.com