Judge, 1891-07-11 · page 3 of 16
Judge — July 11, 1891 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**Top cartoon**: A couple in a rowboat discusses the cost of recreation. The woman suggests drifting as a free activity, but the man replies it costs seventy-five cents per hour—satirizing the commercialization of leisure and the difficulty of finding affordable entertainment, even outdoor pursuits. **Bottom series**: Nine panels depicting a trained monkey performing increasingly chaotic stunts across plains landscape. The sequence appears to satirize animal training, slapstick entertainment, or possibly mocking someone's uncontrolled behavior or public antics. The progression from controlled tricks to mayhem suggests loss of control or competence. **"The Prince's Set"**: Brief text mocking Lady Brooke as the cause of a divorce scandal involving high society, suggesting satirical coverage of contemporary celebrity gossip.
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TOO EXPENSIVE. Suz—" Oh, how delightful it would be to drift on like this for ever and ever!” He (tho has hired the boat) —‘* Not at seventy-five cents an hour.” THE PRINCE’S SET. asylum, is the first gentleman of Europe, who, being the very head and LADY BROOKE let out the Gordon-Cumming secret that shuts G. C. front of society, cannot be shut out of anything. On the whole, the peo- out of society. Now Lady Brooke is likely to be the defendant in a ple who do not belong to the highest society of England are to be greatly divorce suit that will shut her out of society. At the bottom of all this congratulated. It is a fair inference that they are in the habit of behaving mischief, not to mention that which sent Lady Mordaunt to an insane themselves, A TRAINED MONKEY ON THE PLAINS. / comicbooks.com