Judge, 1891-09-19 · page 4 of 16
Judge — September 19, 1891 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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This page contains political and social commentary typical of 1880s-90s American humor. Key references include: **Political figures**: Blaine (likely James G. Blaine, prominent politician) and Cleveland (presidential candidate/president); mentions of Emin Pasha (African colonial figure). **Social satire**: The items mock various targets—dress reform activism ("leading women"), the Farmers' Alliance (a populist movement), Sam Jones (likely a preacher known for outspoken rhetoric), the Mosby gang (violent criminals), and George F. Train (eccentric writer/activist). **The cartoons** show exaggerated situations: a pompous judge on horseback, domestic scenes involving flirtation and marriage delays. **The humor** relies on period assumptions—women's vanity, racial/ethnic stereotypes, political cynicism, and social anxiety about reform movements. Most references require historical knowledge to fully appreciate today; the satire's targets are largely forgotten figures.
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JUDGE HUM OF THE COURT. M*- BLAINE having said that Howells and James do not interest him, \ > we fear Massachusetts is safe for Cleveland. ( \ RESS-REFORM is mentioned as a Chautauqua fad of one season; but if Mr. Worth dictates it, it will last through several. EIN PASHA is getting a great deal of reputation through the care- lessness of those who ought to correct the newspaper reports about him. ‘THE FRENCH papers meant well, and it is a great disappointment to them that their stories about the kaiser were not true. We must 7G, ase" ) 7 % admit that. ys A\\} * \S . \ 4 ALL THE DEVILS can't stop my talking,” says Sam Jones. Poor \\ 3 ‘ Ly \ soul! they don’t want to, What they want is to have Mr. Jones keep right on. HE MOSBYS haven't shot or whipped anybody this week—perhaps because they couldn't shoot from ambush or get two or three women to pull hair for them. E BEG to congratulate the empress of Austria on her alleged insanity, ‘That is a change, and it must necessarily be better than the original condition. THIS YEAR re- peats the old story—it is only the experts in swim- ming that are drowned. The man who cannot swim was born for some other method of departure. WOMAN who threw vitriol at aman in Brooklyn the other day got Y some of it on her AN INSTANTANEOUS PHOTOGRAPH. own! ‘beauty and Showing that jolly 4om vizant, Colonel Strutters,winning his half- Suffered dreadfully, mile race to road-wagon with Mollie X., up on the boulevard, Ladies cannot be (Any absence of happy expression may be accounted for by the tog careful in these a -fly roosted his nose at the quarter t.) fact that a horse-fly roosted on his nose quarter post indulgences. HE BEST SLEEP of the year — that which the home-comers got on their first night in the home-beds, however late they retired and whatever the condition of the resting-places. A TRAMP in Maine ran off with another man’s wife and then. kicked the man. We didn’t suppose any woman could be . RESUMED FESTIVITIES. worthless enough to warrant such angry disappointment as that. TUE OFFICIATING CLERGYMAN (after waiting an hour)—'* This unforeseen delay is most lamentable. Iam afraid I shall have to dismiss JAT PART o the guests and postpone the wedding. T ar Fier "THE BRIDEGROOM (coming in)—"* Hold on, parson! Let her boom. I've been having a conversation with the bride's brothers down the road a holds the family piece, and they'd hardly let me get away.” record is not al- Ways correct; but you can put considerable faith in it if the elderly daughters therein men- tioned have not accidentally destroyed it. HE FARMERS of the alliance are spending a large portion of their time in punching cach other's heads; and we greatly fear that if they are successful to any extent there won't be a head left to punch, : HOTEL has laid down the rule that its waitresses shall not flirt. And at a recent con- vention in Niagara county it was resolved that the waters of the great falls should turn around and run up the river. DING WOMEN are as intensely agitated over the dress-reform question as if it involved a new geography of the universe; but we still hope they will retain a suffi- ciency of garment to secure peace. HE CROPS are bountiful and there is every prospect of prosperity; the weather is fair and most men have money in their pockets; but, God help us! George F. Train is wri ing those accursed rhymes again. HEY ARE TELLING again of the young Greek who has spent two fortunes and has just fallen heir to a third. It is a refreshing lie whenever it is revived, but we trust the now middle-aged youth will presently learn enough of English to deny it. A WRITER says the successful hero of Amelie Rives’s first story was’ her then contem- Gortenees eter tata Tey $e va vg plated and finally confirmed husband, and the gentleman over whose death she wept Keep your bresence of mind und distribate some of our convulsively was purely ideal, We see here how superior the ecstasy of imaginary grief is peesness cards as you go drue der copndry,” to the solemnity of genuine affection and accomplished matrimony, comicbooks.com