Judge, 1891 · page 37 of 69
Judge — 1891 — page 37: what you’re looking at
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This page contains multiple satirical pieces typical of late 19th/early 20th-century American humor: **"With All Her Faults, I Love Her Still"** (Mark Bennitt poem): A sentimental piece about loving a woman despite her grammatical errors and poor handwriting—satirizing romantics who overlook obvious flaws. **"Black Bawling"**: A caricatured African American face accompanies a jab at New York clubs indulging in excessive emotional display. **"A Sudden Change of Mind"**: Three sequential panels showing a would-be suicide repeatedly failing at his attempts, played for dark comedy. **"New Wine Measure"**: A humorous scale correlating alcohol consumption with progressive intoxication levels. **Irish Characters section**: Mocks Irish immigrants' speech patterns and dialect, with a crude joke about an Irish postal worker misinterpreting "Sr." (senior) as an insult. **"After Supper"**: A joke about old game birds at a dinner party. The page reflects period attitudes toward immigrants, racial caricature, and suicide as comedy—content modern readers would find offensive.
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FUNNY THINGS FROM JUDGE. WITH ALL HER FAULTS, 1 LOVE HER STILL. It’s true she writes a scrawly hand ; ii " where one would do, jog" with an extra **g But not a girl in this wide land Is half so dear, and very few One-tenth as sweet as she to me. Dear thing ! she sometimes says ‘I seen,” “They was,” **1's not,” or ** So be you”; *Them's yours,” ** They’s good "—harsh to my ears ; But she is still my lovely queen, Whose heart-beats are to mine most true, And will be yet for many years, Some say that love is blind, and I Would add that love is deaf also. ‘Though grammarless and spelling bad, ape : 74 My love is handsome, sweet and shy. Z ‘The secret of our love you'd know ? BLACK BAWLING. She's only five, and I'm her dad, 5 What the New York clubs seem to be indulg- MARK BENNITT. ing in a good deal lately. A SUDDEN CHANGE OF MIND. Woutp-be sutcipe—" Bu'sted ag'in! Wall, I'll, ** Wall, I'm blamed ef this ain't ther third failure ‘*And ef I don't light out o' this purty tarnal fast, I'l settle it right now and here.” I've made, I cant seem ter fetch it nohaow. be smothered to death !" Hello! ther gas is escapin’;" NEW WINE MEASURE. Two glasses make - Half a pint makes - One bottle makes - Two bottles make - One drunk, Three bottles make - One headache. Four bottles make - - One sot. . - One lively. - One merry. - One fuddled. “Qh, say, Moike, phawt the divil des dim tetthurs mane thare at the tail o' me name?” eagerly inquired one Irishman of another, as he pointed to the letters, Sr., meaning senior, affixed to his name on a letter he had just got out of the post-office. “Tt manes sucker, av coorse,” responded the party interrogated. The last seen of the first Irishman he was forcibly trying to yank by the neck three hun- - dred pounds of a postmaster through a four- by-six letter-delivery aperture in the post- AFTER SUPPER. CS absdlCaS bs. Tur, pucuess—"' Charming table the host sets, but i ji did't it strike you that the birds were a little old 7° In some countries of South{ America; they, CAPTAIN. CROZIER (in desperation) —""Yes, madam US€ eggs for currency. Of course, there is a all of them.” great deal of bad currency in circulation. AN ENGLISH SWALLOW. comicbooks.com