Judge, 1891-12-12 · page 6 of 18
Judge — December 12, 1891 — page 6: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains multiple satirical vignettes typical of Judge magazine's humor: **Top strip (9 panels):** A comedic sequence showing a snake-charmer who appears intoxicated, with snakes attacking him in increasingly chaotic ways—the "mistake" being his drunkenness renders him unable to control his serpents. **Other jokes target:** - **Boston's pretension**: Mocking the city's reputation for intellectual superiority - **Holiday poverty**: Footpads (robbers) avoid a man who spent all money on Christmas presents - **Marital dynamics**: Husbands controlling wives' spending on clothing; wives manipulating husbands - **Class/fashion anxiety**: A man worried his eye-glasses won't stay on at formal dress occasions - **Ethnic stereotypes**: "Chango" appears to be a racial caricature in the lower section The humor relies on domestic situations, economic struggles, social pretension, and period-specific anxieties about appearance and propriety—typical of late 19th/early 20th-century American satire.
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THE BIBULOUS SNAKE-CHARMER'S MISTAKE; BOSTON. BOSTON is for her haughtyculture noted ; Her flowers of literature are often quoted. ee HE HAD NOTHING LEFT. First footpad —" There is no use tackling that fellow ?” Second footpad —" Why?" First footpad—" He's been buying Christ- mas presents all d OR, HOW, FOR ONCE, ART FAILED. CERTAINLY NOT, Bingo (who lives next door to Wickstaff) —"I have bought my little boy a drum for Christmas and I hope he won't keep you awake."* Wickstaff —“ He won't keep me awake if he doesn’t play on it.” SCY OU know that good blood always shows," As said the man with the red, red nose. CONJUGAL FELICITY BY THE BACK DOOR. " AN INCOMPLETE COSTUME. He—"She says she has the sweetest and most thoughtful husband — ++GAY, Mandy,” said old Mr. Oilriz, who had come to the metropolis in the world. He goes with her and helps to select her bonnets and for a social season, “it’s a full-dress de rigger occasion, ain’t it?” gowns even, she says.” She—"Yes; he decides-on the price.” Now, dear, do come home and have some cold mission- Mrs. Crtanci “Of course it is.” “Then I can’t go; that’s all there is to it.”” “Why not?” “I can't make my eye-glasses stay on.” A PROVIDENTIAL UNIFICATION. : 's a great country where the law compels married men to wear a ring through their nose, and a kindly providence that supplies us Mr. Cuaxco will not. Iam going down to the island, See?” women with crook-handled parasols. Come along, Chango, dear.” comicbooks.com