Judge, 1891 · page 24 of 69
Judge — 1891 — page 24: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several satirical sketches mocking contemporary figures and social situations: **Top cartoon**: "Pretty Hard on Them Both" depicts Little Kitty comparing a visiting performer (likely a famous dancer or entertainer) to animals doing tricks in a cage—a cutting insult to the visitor's talent or dignity. **"A Terrible Mistake"**: The Honorable Dingman Plumb is mocked for absent-mindedness. Having attended a ballet with scandalously short skirts (compared to Kipling's recent works), he confuses the dancer's shoulder cape placement, then leaves his son behind at a shoe store—satirizing both his lack of attention and the era's shocked reaction to modern dance costumes. **"Hamlet Left Out"**: Jones absent-mindedly measures his son for shoes but forgets the boy is there, creating dark humor about parental inattention. **"He Was Not Afraid"**: A tramp boasts of fifteen years walking railroad tracks without injury—satirizing either the tramp's foolish fearlessness or society's callous indifference to working-class danger. **Bottom section**: "Progressive Evolution" shows a drunk man in three grammatical cases—wordplay on linguistic decline through intoxication.
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PRETTY HARD ON THEM BOTH. Litt Kirty (as Babbon and Crumley come in)— Ob, mamma! Ask his keeper to let him do some of those funny tricks he did in his cage at the park the other day.” A TERRIBLE MISTAKE. HAMLET LEFT OUT. The Honorable Dingman Plumb Jones, who is absent-mindedness itself, entered a shoe-store Had never seen the ballet, id And I supposed ‘twould strike him dumb the other day and asked the attendant to measure his son and And shock him, naturally. heir for a pair of congress gaiters, But when the star, with skirts'as short “But where is he, sir?” asked the shopman, As Kippling’s late romances, “Why, drat the boy!” exclaims Jones, waking up and glanc- WAST latebed toeatall be danoed: ing around, “if I haven't gone and left him to hum!" “Why, Plumb !" said T, “restrain your glee. Now ain't the dancer pretty ?” HE WAS NOT AFRAID. “But such a blamed mistake," said he, ** Right here in New York city— FarMer’s wire—Aren't you afraid, my good man, that some Why, Tom," said he, as round he faced = day you will be killed by the cars, walking as much as you do “That shoulder-cape is round her waist on the track? . . Instid of round her shoulders." Tramp—“No, mum; I've been on the great steel highways for fifteen years, and I've never been killed yet.” PROGRESSIVE EVOLUTION. Nominative—Jag. Possessive—Jig. Objective—Jug. comicbooks.com