Judge, 1891-06-13 · page 4 of 16
Judge — June 13, 1891 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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This page collects short satirical pieces and illustrations typical of Judge's humor. The top cartoon "MISTAKEN" shows a beach scene where a woman rebukes a young man for flirting with her by using her umbrella as a prop—the joke being his clumsy pickup line calling the umbrella an "umbrella-handle." The bulk of the page comprises "HUM OF THE COURT," a column of brief satirical observations on contemporary life and manners. These include jibes at lazy men, fat men's embarrassment, newspaper editorial practices, and Irish attitudes toward aristocracy. References to "Ouida" (likely the Victorian novelist), Theosophy, and opera performers (Marie Tempest and Teare Snyder) suggest topical material for Judge's educated readership. The final cartoon "PARALYZING THE CLERK" shows a woman objecting to a telegraph clerk reading her private telegram—a joke about Victorian notions of privacy and propriety. Throughout, the satire targets social pretension, human weakness, and absurd conventions of the era.
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MISTAKEN Look at that umbrella some artist has left sticking in the sand.” Young man, you had better go about your business, and stop calling respectable women umbrella-handles !" HUM OF THE COURT. [A BOSTON MAN hanged hiasself from the top round of a Indder. We are thus reminded again that there is always room at the top. [7 15 TRUE that men feel lazy with the first warm weather; but it is likewise true that the same men are lazy when the weather is mod- erate or snapping cold. WHEN A FAT MAN tries to arise from his chair and inadvertently takes the chair with him he hates everybody who is looking at him and two-thirds of the rest of mankind. [F NEWSPAPERS would print the proceedings of their editorial councils they would fre- quently have the most frightful and delightful “ beats” over all their contemporaries. THE DAUGHTER of the duke of Fife is eligible to the position of queen of England; but, as they say in Ireland, she can have the place only after she has been buried many years. . ‘ov IDA” deserves well of the read- ing public, and for that reason we greatly regret the publication of a pict- ure of her which is said to be an accurate likeness, “THEOSOPHY seeks for a universal brother- hood, and frankly admits to begin with that that is to be had only through occult forces which can- not be used this side of AN ITEM FOR STATESMEN. the grave. SoTHAM —"* What political pat o ” . ‘ Eaststnea" hegote! OL only fined de clube lst E HAVE no carlos: in’ I forgit what shaloon-keeper it was named ity regarding the origin of the word “ mug- wump.” ‘The main thing is to so arrange things that nobody will think himself wise and mean enough to carry it. A LONG STORY is told of a man and his wife who didn’t speak to each other, though living together, for fifteen years, It must have been a terrible strain on the woman, SMITH WAS about to die and was mad about it. lower on the pillow, dear,” said Mrs. Smith gently faintly, “ who's doing this dying, you or 1?” Let me place your head “Soy!” said Mr. Smith TWO PRIME DONNE of a Duff opera company, namely Marie Tempest and ‘Teare Snyder, recently quarreled so that they broke up the show, and Mr. Duff says no mere teapot,can hold that kind of a jamboree. NOTHING so impresses on one the proprieties of life as the spectacle of a coun- try girl attending the circus in a tattered low-neck dress. The mingled mod- esty and tan and dust are more marked than her sense of triumph in the wearing of her mistress’s gown. EVER RISE at an early hour in the morning. The morning air must not be taken on an empty stomach; and again, the clothes you adopt at six o'clock will be totally inappropriate at ten o'clock of the same day. Wait till ten, Then you will know what you are about, and so will the weather. PARALYZING THE CLERK. Sue (handing in @ telegram) It is strictly private!" low dare you read it, sir? comicbooks,com