Judge, 1891-11-07 · page 3 of 18
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page 499 This page contains several brief satirical commentary sections typical of Judge magazine's format. **Top cartoon**: Depicts two men in what appears to be a legal or business consultation, likely satirizing courtroom or financial dealings of the era. **"In the Plural"**: A joke about someone climbing stairs, playing on double meanings. **"The Best Ladies" section**: Mocks women's activist groups in Hiawatha, Kansas who organized against traveling variety shows, satirizing their moral crusading as excessive prudishness. **"Better Than His Party?"**: Discusses Mr. Cleveland's political position, suggesting tension between personal electoral success and party loyalty—likely referencing Grover Cleveland's complex relationship with Democratic Party support during his presidency. The page exemplifies Judge's style: mixing visual humor with political commentary on contemporary social movements, gender politics, and electoral dynamics.
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WHILE IT is admitted that much was said in the heat of debate, the record of Tammany is totally unchanged. cee THE DEAFNESS of the princess of Wales and her sister, the czarina of Russia, has saved those ladies a great deal of mental suffering. sae THERE IS SOME proof that Mr. Lincoln was‘a spintist; but, while he certainly did let his whiskers grow, he had his hair cut at frequent intervals. ery WE HAD hoped to locate the meanest ‘men in St. Louis, but two ruffians have been arrested in this city for trying to rob an impoverished blind woman. A MAIDEN of Brooklyn met a bear. “Proceed with your hugging, sir,” she said. “I am not to be frightened. I have frequently been caught in jams on the big bridge.” IN THE PLURAL. ‘Ah, Mees Hobartone, you climb ze Mattehorn? Zat vas a foot to be proud off.” “Pardon me, count, but you mean feat.” *Q.o-h! you climb'it more zan once?” . sTHE BEST LADIES” of Hiawatha, Kansas, recently organized themselves against a travel- ing variety troupe largely composed of girls, and went about town removing posters with pitchforks and rakes. It is lucky that the dispatch says the ladies belonged to the best society ; otherwise the reader would have thought them very ordinary women indeed. ar MB. 1. DONNELLY having sued the Pioncer-Press for libel, claiming one hundred thousand dollars damages, we hasten to remark that not only was Shakespeare Bacon, but when he was supposed to be under affliction as a poacher he was actually serving Sir Francis’s imprisonment as an impeached judge. Need we add the logical conclusion, more or less in cipher, that Bacon must have been Shakespeare ? THE YEARS IN MONTANA. A POET speaks in the Helena Journal of the passing years, which he says are slipping away “like a leaf on the current cast,” adding that they are “as light as the breath of the thistle- down.” Then he says with : rey =. much sadness : | aFH| { “One after another we see | } them pass 3 Down the dim-lighted stair ; OBSERVING YOUNG AMERICA. We Bess the Sonne of: Cee Mawta—" When you address a French lady, sear tes , Edith, you should not sy mistress, but madame.” In the steps of the centuries Epitu —" What, mamma? Are they al/ dress- ong since dead, makers and cosmetic-sellers?” As beautiful and as fair.” Again he remarks that they are “ beautiful blossoms, rare and sweet, by the dusty ways of life.” So that the years they have in Montana are at times leaves, though they are much lighter than thistle-down; at times they descend stairs with a very heavy tread; and, presto! they are blossoms that have been prema- turely nipped! They had better be careful. They may'find themselves in a dime museum directly. BETTER THAN HIS PARTY? HEN MR. CLEVELAND appeared as a champion of Tammany Democ- racy every mugwump felt like a hen that had hatched a duck. Yet it is a fact that Mr. Cleveland was elected governor and president by Democratic votes, and that if he is re-nominated and re-elected president he will get ‘his success from the same source. Possibly Mr. Cleveland is as much ashamed of the means to his elevation’as the mugwumps are, but of course he can’t afford to exhibit his mortification. They can; and is it not a curious thing that the fact of being able to command votes is a mugwump reason why one must not have the support of mugwumps? And is Mr. Cleveland really “better than his eqns party "— better than the millions of organized men who poll about half the votes Born (soliloguising) —"An’ i's glad Ol am that there's bar-rs of the country? What miserable rubbish it is ! q batwane us!" comicbooks.com