Judge, 1891-07-04 · page 4 of 18
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This page contains multiple political cartoons and satirical commentary from Judge magazine, likely from the 1880s-1890s. **Main cartoons:** - "Their Size Saved Him" and "She Had Him": Domestic humor about a husband confronted over expensive carriage repairs - "Absent-Mindedness": A professor trying to coax a kitten, unaware he's looking through binoculars backward **"Hum of the Court" section:** Satirical one-liners on current issues, including: - Criticism of foolish newspaper ventures - Commentary on George Washington as ex-president - References to Mr. Ingalls (likely Senator John J. Ingalls) making an early morning speech - Anti-Chinese sentiment regarding Independence Day firecrackers ("the Chinese must go off") - Foreign policy concerns about European interests in Central/South America - Criticism of the Evening Telegram and Herald newspapers for absent leadership The page reflects Gilded Age concerns: partisan politics, nativist attitudes, American hemispheric dominance, and satirical jabs at contemporary public figures and newspapers.
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202 THEIR SIZE SAVED HIM. “Go ‘way, wasp! What yo’ want?” SHE HAD HIM. Mr. NaTBANKS—" By Jove, Clara! this is too much, ‘Two hundred dollars for a hood is more than I'll stand.” His EVEN-TEMPERED DAUGHTER —"* Just look at the heading, papa, and you'll sec it's from Prewster's for repairs on your victoria.” HUM OF THE COURT. F A FOOL with money wants to start a newspaper he must insist that the money he’ puts into it to-day must return to him to-morrow, ‘THE SMALL BOY has as much right to fight, bleed and die for his country as anybody else; and how much better it is for him to perish of patriotism than of thin ice, FoR SEVERAL YEARS George Washington was an ex-president and nobody kicked him; but it must be remembered that George was a tall man and his enemies were not acrobats. ECENTLY at an early hour in the morning Mr. Ingalls made a little speech in a loud voice. “ What was that?” was the question. “That,” was the reply, “was a bomb bursting in air.” JHE CHINESE CRACKER wherewith we celebrate our independence is a-welcome intruder for tempo- rary purposes, and merely enunciates the great truth that the Chinese must go off. HE BEST friend of the prince of Wales was asked directly after the verdict, “ What will you have?” and replied calmly, “ Merely a few encouraging words and a rather tall scratching-post.” DAX ANTHONY of the Leavenworth Times had no quarrels on hand at last accounts; but on the ern , Gowan: dee Fourth he proposes to have three bullets in him and six in that number of his contemporaries. ‘ ‘THERE ARE too many foreign interests in the central and southern portions of this continent, Sometimes they mark out the policies of southern and central governments. Directly that must be stopped. T MUST be understood that any foreign power wanting to fight the United States shall be obliged to fight the rest of the continent as well, Not that we need help, but those South American republics do. GAD WORDS are spoken by the Evening Telegram 7A about “an orphaned government,” the president | #> and the most of his cabinet enjoying the usual sum- _{/ mer absence from Washington, ‘These things go too ~~~ far. There, for instance, is the long absence of the papa of the Herald and Telegram from his post of duty. “Oh! Ugh! —! ABSENT - MINDEDNESS. sea tt, ROFESSOR—""Come, pretty kitty—pretty puss, puss! I wonder how a kitten got so far away from civilization?” “ Heben bless dem feet !" THE RETAINER —"' Hustlin’ Abdallah! th’ sahib is looking through the wrong end of his glasses.” comicbooks.com