Judge, 1892-02-27 · page 6 of 18
Judge — February 27, 1892 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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This page collects satirical vignettes mocking contemporary American life and figures. **Top cartoon**: A German immigrant ("Dutchy") tricks a man into giving him money by feigning injury, then boasts to a tramp about escaping detection. The joke satirizes both immigrant cunning and transient schemes. **"Some Possible Titles of Future Books"**: This section parodies famous contemporary American writers (Edward Bellamy, Nellie Bly, Edgar Saltus) by inventing absurdly self-aggrandizing book titles—mocking their perceived vanity and tendency toward verbose, self-important works. **Other vignettes** mock: - People inventing false novelty ("oyster cultivation") - A newlywed's dark inference about life insurance implying death - Quack medicine advertisements - Gender role reversals in leap-year proposals - Domestic violence treated comedically The page reflects Gilded Age anxieties about immigration, literary pretension, commercialism, and social change, using exaggeration and stereotype-based humor typical of 1880s-90s satirical magazines.
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- Pin an 1" A SUCCESSFUL SUBTERFUGE. Mr. SpiecetrotH—"' Here's a kervarter, mein frent. Dot vos too pad (Around the corner.) “By gravy! I thought Dutchy bad ketched me apout dot leg, ain'd it?” (Around th Couey (the ingenious tramp) —"* Thanks, boss, ‘Tis kinder tough.” snakin’ dis Rhein wein one spell. SOME POSSIBLE TITLES OF FUTURE BOOKS, ++} {OW TO Make a Long Story Still Longer,” by Edward Bellamy. “ How Taking a Tour Around the World Helps a Girl,” by Nellie Bly. “ Feminine Delicacy and Hauteur and How to Cultivate It,” by Sadie Martinot. “The Great Emotional Deeps I Have Sounded in Tragedy,” by Fanny Davenport. “The Commercial Worth of a Father Who Pursued My Business,” by Julian Hawthorne. “An Essay on the Advantage of Being the Poet-Laureate of Long Island,” by Mr. Cutter. “Recorded Words I Would not Give Mental Birth to Again,” by Amelie Rives- Chanler. “Why I Think Iam not in the Ordinary Soup of Contemporaneous Novelists,” by Ed- gar Saltus. THOSE QUACK MEDICINES. “The Little-neck Clam as a Pocket-piece and a Mascot,” by a gentleman who is a Speciatist —'* Easiest thing in the world, sir. Just rival of Berry Wall. apply adittle of this emollient and the redness will disap- “Fine Feathers on Tough Birds,” by a young man who would like to borrow five thou- Pear instantly.” sand dollars to go into the ornithological avocation. Lon seran, NOTHING NEW. Mrs. Cumso (who has been reading about oyster cultivation) —" Isn't this thing of planting oysters something new entirely?” Cumso—Oh, no. Why, even when I was a boy we raised oyster-plants in our garden.” HIS INFERENCE. *eYOU ARE married now, Mr. Gazley,” said a life-insurance agent to a newly-made Benedict, “and you really ought to take out a.policy on your life.” “Gracious!” replied Gazley, frightened, “is it likely to prove fatal?” Patient — By Jove! that's a great scheme. Guess T can afford a cigar in celebration.” <t ADVICE. HERE vice To put in your casket— That is, never be foolish Enough to ask it. a piece of ad- IN LEAP-YEAR. Young woman—"1 want to look at some en- gagement-rings.” Jeweler —"Yes, miss. What is the size of the young gentleman's fin- ger?” ON A BUSINESS BASIS. sowury did you at- tempt to shoot A WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY. your wife, Isaac Miss HARDWARE (abou! f0 go abroad) —" But, papa, can’t you i ; permit us to extend our trip to Italy?” rer aes Beezness vas pad, OLD Mk. Haxpwane—" Humph ! can't you see enough organ- | neededt dher adtfertis- grinders right here in New York?" ing.” But the fact that spirits of naphtha entered into the composition of the lotion brought about unpleasant results. comicbooks.com