Judge, 1891 · page 52 of 69
Judge — 1891 — page 52: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several brief humorous anecdotes typical of Judge's satirical style: **"Tried to Follow the Directions"** mocks a patient's literal interpretation—he bathes in water because the doctor said medicine "must be taken in water," a joke about stupidity. **"A Soliloquy"** appears to be a caption about vanity, with Miss Antique admiring herself despite her flaws. **"It Failed to Work for Once"** is an extended caption explaining an African monkey-trap mechanism, used as a metaphor (though the connection to the accompanying illustration is unclear). **"Criticised the Ingredients"** satirizes cheap restaurant food quality—a customer's false teeth are damaged by what appears to be non-beef material in the "beef stew," allowing him a cutting retort. **"Preaches, But No Practice"** targets hypocrisy: a fashionable magazine editor who advocates refined style dresses poorly herself. The six numbered illustrations below appear to show monkeys interacting with palm trees and coconuts, presumably depicting the trap mechanism described above.
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TRIED TO FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS. Jones had been quite ill. One day the doctor called and found him in a bath-tub. “Why, man, are you crazy? You must be anxious to die!” “No, I ain't,” protested poor Jones; “but didn’t you say that your last medicine was to be taken in water?” “You are from Chicago, I take it,” said Jones to a traveler ‘with much voice. “Yes,” said the trav- eler, with emphasis, “yes, thank heaven! Escaped two days ago.” It presently transpired that he was from St. Louis. JUDGE'S ANNUAL. A SOLILOQUY. Miss ANTIQUE (at her foilet}—'* With all thy false I love thee still.” IT FAILED TO WORK FOR ONCE. * The natives of South Africa capture monkeys by boring holes in cocoanuts just large enough for the inserti and the monkey, after reaching in and grasping a handful, is too greedy to let it go, and is consequently captured "—From ** Travels in Africa.” CRITICISED THE INGRE- DIENTS. “Do you call that beef-stew?"” asked a customer of a waiter in a cheap restaurant just as he had nearly ruined his set of false teeth by biting on some substance of stony hardness. “Beef? Yes, sir; certainly, sir.” “Well, if it is, you needn't have ut in the horns,” was the tart re-, joinder. PREACHES, BUT NO PRACTICE. * Who is that frightfully-dressed woman that you just recognized? " “That is Madame Prim, editor of a fashionable magazine.” of a paw. The nut is then filled with sugar, comicbooks.com