Judge, 1891-09-26 · page 4 of 16
Judge — September 26, 1891 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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This is a satirical comic strip mocking an inexperienced city dweller ("Mr. T.") taking a Western honeymoon. The narrative follows him from a train meeting through various mishaps in "Cayuse canyon"—a remote location promoted with exaggerated claims about health benefits. The humor derives from the collision between Eastern civility and rough Western realities: the groom gets pressured into buying drinks for rowdy locals, his bride experiences dangerous horseback riding complications, and he encounters the rough terrain advertised as therapeutic. The accompanying "Hum of the Court" section contains brief satirical notes on contemporary figures and events—a journalist (Bocock) leaving journalism for preaching, eviction cases, and prohibitions in Chicago during the World's Fair era. The final vignette at the Oriental mocks pretentious social dancing with cowboy dialect ("cowtillion"), contrasting Eastern sophistication with Western vernacular.
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MR, TENDERFOOT’S WEDDING-TRIP. 1 Mr. T. meets an old school-mate on the train and agrees to take in Cay- use canyon on his tour. ‘Greatest tour in the west. Best hotel accommo- dations west of Chicago, One whiff of our balmy air will lengthen your life ten years,” etc. Mr. and Mrs. T. aboard. 5. The boys honor the bride. 6. ‘That * balmy air." HUM OF THE COURT. GEVERAL cases of eviction remind us of the prophecy we made, long since, that the man who owns the property would turn out well. ONES is a sort of Samson, with his strength in his mustache, and he hopes to pull down the Democratic house and die among the ruins thereof. MB: BOCOCK, journalist, has left the press for the pulpit. In other words, he proposes to talk to tive hundred people instead of a hundred thousand. This is the Cayuse-canyon stage with “Best hotel accommoda- 3 ‘The boys find the groom, and he has tions west of Chicago.” * to "set ‘em up. 8. This is the eastward bound passenger with Mr. and Mrs, T. on ard. 7 Mr. T.'s friend plans a little trip in the hills, but as the ‘lady must have the only quiet horse in town,’ it results disastrously for Mr. T. E ARE sure that justice will prevail in the Hopkins-Searles will ase, and beg at this time to congratulate the legal profession on its impending opulence. HE SISTERS of the kaiser are far from pretty, but they do not fancy themselves war-lords and do such violent kicking as to disarrange their stockings and break their knee-caps. DRINKING is prohibited in Chicago after midnight, and some persons denounce it as an attempted blow at the world’s fair, and one calcu lated to keep away from the city all the people of the further and woollier DOWN AT THE ORIENTAL ren't you dancing to-night 7” —" Haven't been yet, but l've got that chestnut with pink points for place in th’ cowtillion.”” comicbooks.com