Judge, 1892-02-27 · page 5 of 18
Judge — February 27, 1892 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several unrelated satirical sketches typical of Judge magazine's format: **"A Story in Five Acts"** (left): A visual gag showing a frog repeatedly entering and exiting water, with a pantomime joke about female modesty—two women at a theater comment on a creature exposing itself, with Priscilla smugly noting her own figure is superior. **"An Eloquent Plea"**: A domestic humor sketch where young Alfred leaves his mother a note complaining she talks too much, denying him conversation time. **Additional sketches** include: a commentary on wealthy people who waste money on "useless things"; an Irishman (Patrick O'Hallahan) seeking free medical advice by proxy for his sick brother; a joke about prohibition's dreariness; and a pun on cardinals wearing red hats near a "papal bull." The page represents Judge's typical blend of visual comedy, domestic satire, ethnic humor (Irish stereotypes), and wordplay—reflecting early 20th-century American magazine humor conventions that modern readers would find dated in style and sensibility.
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A STORY IN FIVE ACTS, WHEREIN MR, FROG PAYS BACK OLD SCORES. AT THE PANTOMIME, : Dow, The idea of the creature exposing herself like that! I should be ashamed of myself. RISCILLA —‘* So should I—if mine weren't a better shape !" AN ELOQUENT PLEA. RS. SOMERBY had had visitors all the evening and there had been a good deal of talking. The son and heir Alfred had himself inherited from the paternal side a goodly capacity for conversation and control, and no one knows what the little fellow sometimes suffered from the quietness and obscurity to which good breeding and maternal authority frequently consigned him. On this occasion he had tried to effect an entrance into the general conversation at various openings, but having been brushed aside for the seventieth time he said good-night with an air of hopeless resignation and went to bed. On her dressing-table the mother an hour or two later found the following note: “DEAR MAMMA—I wish you would not talk so much. Your affection- ateson ALFRED.” xc. THE VISIONARY. ALTHOUGH he seems so lucky starred His riches yet take wings, Because he always works so hard A-doing useless things. * AN ANXIOUS IN- QUIRER. SOWELL. what luck?” BY PROXY. “Pot luck.” Patrick O'IALLAHAN —"Good-marnin’, docthor, “How much was Oithought Oi'd come in an’ let yez look at me tongue an’ ‘ s reshcribe fer me brother Moike who is sick in Kalamazoo. there in the pot?’ it bein’ all in th’ family it makes no difference, shure.” VERY DRY. y.- WSTHE life of a prohibition- ist,” said Mawson, “is more arid than the desert of Sa- hara. There isn’t an oasis in the whole blooming thing.” A PROBLEM. 6s DAPA.” Ee Well?” “Do cardinals dare to wear their red hats in the pres- ence of a papal bull?” comicbooks.com