Judge, 1891-08-15 · page 4 of 16
Judge — August 15, 1891 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Satire Analysis This page from Judge contains multiple brief satirical commentaries on contemporary social figures and behaviors, circa the 1880s-90s. The main cartoon "Preaching and Practice" mocks Young Pennis, who writes pretentious dining advice for a gastronomy journal denouncing knives as "barbarous," yet eats messily with his hands—exposing hypocrisy between his written prescriptions and actual conduct. The "Hum of the Court" section offers short jabs at various public figures: Fair Evelyn (appears to be a society figure); P. Cousins (likely a women's rights activist); Mrs. Parnell (wife of Irish politician Charles); Gordon-Cumming (apparently involved in a scandal); and a woman who married an anarchist. The sketches below illustrate everyday mishaps: a customer with a worn shoe sole, and a near-sighted cobbler admitting the damage is severe. Overall, Judge ridicules social pretension, celebrity gossip, and human folly through brief, disconnected vignettes typical of the magazine's satirical style.
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PREACHING AND PRACTICE. Younc Penniss (writing Ais “Dinner Hints” for the *Gastronomicat Jcurnal”) —"* Dining is a function of elegant leisure. ‘The food is all brought the table properly cut up, making only the fork and spoon necessary as table implements. ‘The knife is now banished from fashionable dinner-tables, In deed, it is a barbarous instrument,” etc. HUM OF THE COURT. THE FAIR EVELYN is lecturing about her relations with Mr. Huitbert quite as if she were proud of them. WHEN P.COUZINS dies what woman will arise and carry on her contin- uous and always eloquently threatening squawk? HE WOMAN of the Evening Sun dis- cusses “the proper behavior on being caught in a lie.” The proper behavior, it occurs to us, is not to be caught. MBs. PARNELL will act as secretary to Charles, and as she is sensible enough to insist that he shall write no letters and keep his mouth shut her duties will not be numerous. GORDON-CUMMING has been made honorary chief of the Highland as- sociation of Illinois, Notoriety is some- times as good as fame, and presently G.-C. may be highland, lowland, Jack and the game. THE WOMAN who married an anarchist about to be executed wishes she had been as wise in selecting her second hus- band, who is bent upon scolding her to Custosen —"* Will you please look at the sole of this shoe and see what you can do with it?” Mr. Bricker (in a loud whisper) Voict. FROM TH A BUSINESS OVERSIGHT. far, How young Pennibs himself eats. death; but wisdom generally gets around too late. ¢¢\JOORHEES and Victory!" exclaims the editor of the Columbus Herald. “Why wouldn't that be a good alliterative cry?” Nonsense, good sir. Mr. Victory belongs on the other side of the political establishment. LOSING the drug-stores at ten o'clock Sunday morning at a watering-place is plain notice that nobody must be sick till the next day. Strange what privileges one relinquishes when he goes to the sea- side to enjoy himself. KUNNEL JONES of the St. Louis Repud- fic is mentioned by Kunnel McLean of the Cincinnati Enguérer as“ the jackass of Missouri journalism.” Let us be fair. The Cincinnati gentleman ought to re- member that on the trial of Kunnel Jones ‘on the charge mentioned the jury dis- agreed. MAN makes the suggestion that a pretty dress for a lady at an evening party would be a thin black something-or- other with fire-flies “occupying little com- partments of it.” The idea is certainly novel, and the more so as, the fire-fly be- ing a bug with wings to it, the lady would coruscate as much as the sparklers would. [NEAR-SIGHTED COBBLER—"Ah, my friend, I'm afraid it has gone too comicbooks.com