Judge, 1892-01-09 · page 4 of 17
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains miscellaneous satirical commentary typical of Judge's format. Key items include: **"Hum of the Court"** section offers brief social jabs: mocking Boston's "dynamite, slugging and literature"; noting that people forget holiday compliments; observing that Liberian colonists prefer America to their homeland despite promises of freedom. **"A Mistake"** cartoon depicts two men arguing over a telephone wire—a joke about telephone etiquette, with the punchline that both are equally foolish for misusing the technology. Several other items satirize contemporary figures and events: the Mayrick divorce case (appears British); references to boxer Sullivan in Australia; garter garters as Christmas gifts; and the Pamir region conflict between imperial powers. **"All the Style"** shows an Irish immigrant character (indicated by dialect) discussing grooming, reflecting period stereotyping of Irish-Americans. **"Future Possibilities"** depicts a German-accented immigrant discussing umbrellas and rain-making, another ethnic stereotype common to era. The page blends topical political commentary with everyday humor and ethnic caricature typical of 1880s-90s American satirical magazines.
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RS for our Stephen have apparently made the Elkins ring. THE CHE WwW UESTION FOUR TIMES a year by the ladies of paradise—* What's the new fashion in wings ? UPPOSE the Christmas holidays won't begin again till next week. ADMIRATION for Boston is composed in about equal parts of dynamite, slugging and literature. SAAC P. GRAY has the reputation of spellin sion than any man since gym ni. HE PERSON most remembered throughout the year—The one who most de- served your holiday compliments and didn’t get them because you forgot to give them. with more variety and profu- EMIN PASHA will presently give a map of the source of the Nile, which he declares looks not unlike the bottom of a champagne bottle with your lips at the mouth. HE COLORED COLONISTS of Liberia who have returned home say that liberty in that country means death, and they prefer to live here than die there if they never get an office. LO LME YI MOLES A MISTAKE. Frignp—"* Don't talk over that wire, Talk into the receiver.” Sourcrass —** Is that so? Well, by ding! the feller at the other end is as big a fool as Iam, for he’s talking over this wire too; I heerd him.” ARTERS, according to the Philadelphia Record, are popular presents, Here is a suggestion that—By the way, what are garters? THE EARL OF DUDLEY is insured for six million dollars. What a sublime egotist the man must be who thinks his life is worth as much as that. [7 1S TESTIFIED in a divorce case that a Mr. Van Duzen beat his wife with a twenty-five pound turkey. ‘That is too much turkey to be taken through the pores. [7 1S A QUESTION for debate whether Australia appre- ciated Mr. Sullivan too little or too much; but it is at least compliment to Australia that, having gone there as he came back without any mane. MBS. MAYBRICK is guilty not because she killed her man, but because an English court has said so and can never be prevailed upon to admit that, unlike the Almighty, it sometimes makes a mistake. DIRECTIONS. PAMIR, the scene of the Tittle fight between E: X —"" Dolly, hand me some on, ish andi vriting-paper.” natives under the protection of Russia, is “the roof of Mxs, MUSLIN—"*Sheets! Give me the whole box. [am writing to my dressmaker.” the world “—a place for the destruction of ordinary men and the protection of the powers that own them. UT WEST a lady in deli- cate health had an open- air baptism with the ther- mometer just above zero. We have no precise informa- tion in the premises, but her life must have gone consider- ably below it THEY TELL of a farmer who recently idled away a whole Saturday because, oddly enough, he thought the ALL THE STYLE. day was Sund: The mis- Pat Doxovax —" Pwhat in the wurruld hoy youse take is pardonable, so many 1 FUTURE POSSIBILITIES. been doin’ to yureself an’ the dorg 2" that. there! E 192—""Sol, go down by dot blace on Sulifan streed Bripcer. MUNKSWENY —"* Shure! don't ye know it’s all” pervons (ores S i. a ns und py dot chob lot of umprellas, I hafe chust fixed it the stoyle, ai’ to hov phwiskers loike thot on the dorg? Such aday as Sunday all the init der rain-maker for a fordy-days' rains, I vant to gornet Wel year through, der market.”