Judge, 1891-12-26 · page 4 of 19
Judge — December 26, 1891 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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This page from Judge (a late 19th-century satirical magazine) contains holiday-themed humor and social commentary typical of the era. **Main Content:** The "Hum of the Court" section offers cynical Christmas observations: mocking empty pocketbooks, critiquing lavish gift-giving beyond one's means, and satirizing hypocrisy (how people romanticize the dead while forgetting their faults in life). **Specific Jokes:** - A Texas gentleman's awkward courtship approach - A father (Mr. Ford) disinheriting his athletic son, suggesting the wealthy often harm their children through neglect - Commentary on Arkansas's empty treasury as evidence of honesty (sardonic commentary on state finances/corruption) - A couple from "the Yellowstone" speaking in exaggerated dialect, complacently praising American identity **The cartoons** illustrate domestic scenes—children disappointed by empty stockings, young lovers, and family interactions—reinforcing the text's themes about Christmas commercialism, class tensions, and marital dynamics. The overall tone is satirical toward wealth inequality, consumer culture, and social pretense.
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JUDGE HUM OF THE COURT. LOVE LAUGHS AT ALL. HRISTMAS ADAGE—An empty pocket-book makes a full heart. E DO NOT know that the Boston girl walks on mere stilts, but why does she borrow her Christmas stocking ? ANTA CLAUS will have a good joke on the universal married man, for that person will get up and find nothing but a hole in his stocking. THE CHILD with an empty stocking looks out through the frosted window on an empty world, and there is no star bright enough to shine away his sorrow. NOW MAKE a resolution that you won't go be- ye ee er a tenia phere somes yond your income in the making of Christmas a : presents, and to-morrow will be just the time to break it. T IS A FINE THING in human nature that when a man dies everything good about him is remembered. It almost atones for the fact that Uncte Enenezer (from Wayback)—" Well. while he lived everything of that kind was forgotten by gum! the people that wear them stockings z must have pretty long toes.” or misconstrued, nT Hh i “Oh, no, papa; you are mistaken. You did not hear me talking to any one. I was merely read- ing aloud to myself.” GENTLEMAN PROM TEXAS (Jo elderly maiden, who has been waiting for a partner three hours—very loudly spoken) —* Madam, do you dan¢e?” Matpen (guickly)—" Oh, yes.” TeXAS GENTLEMAN —"* Who with?” MB: FORD, millionaire, disinherits his son Malcolm because he is an athlete. If the young man had taken the other extreme and been a Vouio. Werte! "Ae: Venus. caylag: dartiog, dude he might be rich, but he wouldn't be half so well off. , : would that we could go through life together—you DUTY MUST NOT be neglected at this season; and he is a base gp SORRY penleenng cate," atts A ste. creature who refuses his share of the Christmas pudding, however he may suffer from it through the long hours of the Christmas night. THE CHILDREN of the houschold are good to have year in and year out; but the heads of the family had better stay up till the burst of dawn and get their night's sleep during the later Christmas morning. THERE IS NOT a dollar in the treasury of Arkansas, and presently we shall learn that that is the most honest state in the country. Noth- ing helps a thief to be good so much as the blessed’fact that there is nothing to steal. ++ [)O NOT CALL the president Benny,” says the Syracuse Herald; “it isn’t respectful.” And we think, ourselves, that good, plain * Ben" is long enough and strong enough, to say nothing of economy in the use of the human voice. HE HUSBAND of Mrs. Besant was a harsh, uns i . Pee T a. Besany seas & harsh, unsympathetic clergy REAL COMPLACENCY. man. There are those who think that his influence, in driving the ; SIL Pole eye oe ena us Canasta lady from him, has been good for the world; therefore they offer him Ducay (on @ trip to the Yellorostone)—"' D'yex moind thot, Catharine Mrs, Ducey—" Oi do. Ain't it disgusbtin’ ? praise which it would hurt him to accept. Ducky —" It is thot. “‘T’ank biven you an’ me is Amiricans.”” comicbooks.com