Judge, 1892-01-09 · page 7 of 17
Judge — January 9, 1892 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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This page from the satirical magazine *Judge* consists primarily of **short humor pieces and aphorisms** rather than political cartoons. The top section presents philosophical "sentences" about justice, generosity, and mortality—moral observations typical of the era's genteel humor. The remaining content comprises brief comic vignettes mocking everyday situations: - **"Not Fast Colors"**: A racist dialect joke about Black people and clothing - **"They Failed to Amalgamate"**: Appears to reference interracial relationships (unclear without fuller context) - **"Stating His Wishes"**: A young man seeking a father's consent to marry, mentioning Austin Corbin's million-dollar wedding gift as leverage—satirizing mercenary marriage practices among the wealthy - **"Advertised to Our Loving Friends"**: A woman credits mourning veils for winning back her straying husband - Various other brief jokes about children, photography, and telegraphs The cartoons illustrate these jokes with period-appropriate line drawings. The humor is primarily domestic and social rather than explicitly political, reflecting *Judge*'s focus on satirizing middle and upper-class American manners and morals.
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SENTENCES PASSED BY THE JUDGE. SF]O CONQUER docs not mean to convince. An attempt to justify an error is worse than to have erred. More people are generous than have patience to be just. The unhappy have at more distant call a physician than the sick. ‘A man may sin and yet be just; but the unjust man is a sinner. Generosity is usually spasmodic, but justice is equity at every point. Pray the fates one’s life may be finished when it is completed and completed by the time one is called upon to finish it. So one shall neither regret life nor dread death, but cast aside the cup drained empty, the torch burned out, with a smile set as a seal upon all that which the soul and the body have enjoyed together. KATHRINE GROSJEAN, NOT FAST COLORS, Chloe —" Whaffor you doan’ like dem brack stoc! Dey am no good. Dey crock de feet.” THEY FAILED TO AMALGAMATE, THE FEVER HAS REACHED THE WOODs. VENTURESOME RABBIT (as the bullet reaches him) —"* Judgment !" STATING HIS WISHES. SS YVELL, sir, what can I do for you this morning?” said old Mr. Scadds as young Dolley entered his counting-room. “T want your consent to our engagement, si daughter and I love each other and want to marry “Indeed !" snorted the father. “Anything else?” “Well, sir, I might mention before I go that Austin Corbin gave his daughter five million dollars as a wedding-present.” replied Dolley. “Your ADVERTISED TO OUR LOVING FRIENDS. Edith — Do you believe it does any good for women when they lose their husbands to wear such heavy crape veils?” Ruth—Yes, indeed. If I hadn't been wearing one when I happened to pass George in Paris he'd never have come back to me.” COURAGE. ee > D° NOT despair, ob loving Mas, Ronatps —“* There is a little boy of about your age who has heart, just moved into the next house. You may go and ask him to come and play with you, Dunlap.” Dustar—" May I Mrs. Ronatps — Ifa maiden now says no. Her thoughts may undergo a ke my tin soldiers to show him 2” es, pattie.” change In twenty years or $0, AN ADEPT, Hilow — Miss. Fly pp learns every catch-phrase as soon as it is out.” Glim—"Yes; she’s a master of the English slang- uage.”" RIGHT. HE saw him off upon the train, And showed that parting was but pain. “At every stopping-place,” she id write, then go oo A NEW SIGN. A PHOTOGRAPHER ina western town surprised the people the other day with be : fafhew ign’ that read as fol IMMINENT LITIGATION. 5 CLaxcanty (the scction-man)—" Thot settles Nunky Socks (the champion bantam-weight, to his trainer)—" Say, lows: “Photographs taken i, Oj sue th’ tillygraft company eemony tee avin’ Crickets, don't leave no kids in here. Dey tires me.” while you wait.” a missige dhrop aff th’ wire.” a comichoo!