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# Judge Magazine Page 434: Political Satire and Social Commentary This page from Judge magazine comprises several brief satirical items typical of the publication's format. The top cartoons mock childhood behavior ("What Will He Grow Up To?"). The "Hum of the Court" section offers political jabs: mocking Deacon White's backsliding, commenting on R.P. Flower's political affiliations, and notably containing an anti-Semitic stereotype about Jews ("What a tremendous influence these Jews have!"). Other items satirize contemporary figures and events: Governor Gordon's failed "Farmers' Alliance" efforts in Oklahoma, the competitive land disputes among "Boomers," and Irish immigrant speech patterns in the dialect humor sections. The bottom cartoon satirizes a woman mistaking a bar ("Finlin's café") for a pharmacy, playing on period assumptions about female naïveté. The page reflects Judge's mix of partisan politics, ethnic stereotyping, and social observation typical of late 19th-century American humor magazines.
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LITTLE SAMUEL (in apparent distress) —"* Oh! ow! wow ! Tommy Hoperaft did!” ‘HUM OF THE COURT. TO DEACON WHITE —Sir, this back- sliding must be stopped. THE ARDOR of the conventions in behalf of an honest dollar can by no means be viewed with alarm. THE MAN who is “no man’s man" ob- viously has a lack of friends which shows itself frightfully at the ballot-box. HE SMILE of R. P. Flower is hearty and voluminous ; but nobody need run away from it—R. P. never swallows anybody. THE EARL of Dudley and the lady lately known as Rachel Gurney are apparently not as much ashamed of each other as one might think. +¢MR: FLOWER," says a correspondent, peaks of the Democratic party ‘my party.’ In which breeches-pocket ddes he carry it?” ‘S, according to Harold Frederick, lay all their own wickedness to the in- fluence of the Jews. What a tremendous influence these Jews have! SEVERE, ten-dollar note, chum, it ‘d make a new only ha Cysicat Sam—** Humph !” Waste o' money. o' repairs would exceed th’ value o' th’ original plant !" Buty Wiskers (fo Ais bench-mate in the park id WHAT WILL HE GROW UP TO? Mamma, see Livre (Mamma promptly faints.) : WOOING GENTLE HALUGAN (of Canajoharic distoorb you lasht noight ?” Ti Croucn (same place) —"* It did. wink did T get all noight fur the bells.” Matic * ‘They used t' bother me the same id the foire Divil the way. Croven—"* n’ don’t they now?” HALLIGAN N fot abit, I jined the voloon- oan’ haven't heard S6PON'T WHISTLE, giris! says a western editor, who evidently thinks that girls can whis- tle, But he needn't be alarmed. If they can whistle they are not likely to whistle for him, and if they do he can turn tail and run the other way. A DISPATCH tells of a Georgia turkey-gobbler that, inspired by the motherly tendencies of two hen-turkeys, tried to hatch out a watermelon, ‘This reminds us of Governor Gordon's experiences with the farmers’ alliance—we don’t know why, amvet. —" Jiminy ! If I'd knowed she'd took on so I wouldn't EVENTY PROOFS that the world will end in ten years are presented by the Rv. Dr. Jenckes of Indianapolis, but there may be a postponement owing to the inclem- ency of the weather. O MAN is possessed of more rhetoric than George Raines; but in the heat of ora- tory the gentleman frequently pulls portions of it out by the tail or the left hind leg. THE BOOMERS of Oklahoma fight to-day over sections of land that to-morrow they will look upon as not half fit to raise rattlesnakes and dogs on, They don’t care for the land, but they do appreciate the ex- ercising. THE MOSQUITOES of British Burmah are so bad, says a traveler, that th frequently drive men to suicide. The mo: quitoes of New Jersey are not so kind. They never let a man alone long enough to load his gun or select his poison. aw OUT OF HER RECKONING. Miss PRIMLETTE (sho has mistaken Finlin's café for an apothecary shop)—" L want you °o make me up about an ounce of nice sachet-powder.”" FLUID ENGINEER —"'I can’t give you powder, marm, but I've got some old ‘Tom ginlet that ‘Il make you chassay all over town," comicbooks.com