Judge — 1891 — page 43: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

**"Taken in All Around"** is a romantic comedy cartoon mocking a bumbling suitor. Mr. Breecher has forgotten the theater tickets, failed to arrange transportation, and neglected to secure dinner vouchers—yet he still asks Miss Heathcote if she's ready to go out. Her sweetly sarcastic reply ("Not any more, until I recover a little") suggests she's exhausted by his incompetence and needs time to compose herself. **"Musical Notations"** is a visual pun depicting musical terms through physical comedy. Each panel shows a figure enacting a musical instruction literally rather than musically—"A minor run" shows someone running in a minor key-like posture, "Finger exercise" depicts actual finger movements, etc. This plays on double meanings of musical vocabulary, creating absurdist humor through physical exaggeration typical of Judge's satirical style. Both rely on genteel Victorian-era social situations and wordplay for their humor.