Judge, 1892-03-05 · page 4 of 18
Judge — March 5, 1892 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Satire Analysis This page collects brief humorous observations and comic strips mocking Victorian-era social pretensions and absurdities. The opening items use irony to critique human behavior: umbrellas are "property" (stolen goods), elephants' longevity is undesirable, displaying house numbers is impolite, and a female evangelist's tireless talking is presented as ridiculous. The centerpiece mocks pompous or obtuse figures: a newly elected justice of the peace learning to read, a clergyman complaining about camphorated garments (a home remedy for illness), and a reverend suing over how his wife operated a clothes-wringer. The sequential comic strip "The Goat and the Yeast-Cakes" shows a grocer abandoning his baked goods to visit a saloon, a goat eating them, and the goat becoming violently ill—satirizing both alcoholism's temptation and comeuppance. Overall, Judge ridicules human vanity, poor judgment, and social pretension through quick, observational wit typical of late 19th-century American humor magazines.
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A MAGISTRATE in Rochester holds that umbrellas are prop- erty. Why, certainly—the property of that other man, HEY SAY that some elephants live one hundred and thirty years. That is one reason why no sensible man wants to be an elephant. T IS NOT good form to have the number of your house so plainly displayed that a stranger can find it of a dark night without barking his goodness and his shins. ‘A LADY who is an evangelist has spoken in more than a hundred towns in Kansas and says that, so far from being exhausted, she feels as if she could go on talking forever. NOW THAT Mr. Johnson has been elected justice of the peace for Grayson, Ky., he has entered a public school to learn how to read and write. For Esquire Johnson is a conscientious man. HE REV. MR, WITTHAM sues for a divorce because his wife brutally assaulted him, the trouble being that he turned the clothes-wringer the wrong way. It does seem to be impossible to get along with some women. A CLERGYMAN protests against wearing camphorated garments to church. His remarks fill a long-felt want. The house that has camphor in it has an atmosphere of death, We often think of the meanness of the camphorated person. “ You kill me with that air of sickness,” said a man to his visitor; and the caller remarked with brazen impudence, “ That, sir, is what I camphor.” A GREAT SHRINKAGE. Jasory —"* What have you got that little shirt hanging up there for?” ssi MURKAY—"' Just to show how fat A. I'm getting. I was able to wear that a month ago.” Jammy —" What !” Murray oes, ive me the ten. It's a flannel shirt and has been to the wash several times.” HUM OF THE COURT. N HIS BOOK John L. Sullivan drops easily into poetry and casu- ally knocks it out. HE PIANIST of the halo never combs the same because he lacks the necessary rake. N ACTOR in Boston who has mar- ried several times hopes to achieve reputation as Jack-the-masher. s*GHE SUNG a song “a = hands on the piano,” said a acide tof ART-SCHOOL TERMS. little girl who had just begun to think et ae ey ee ie and very much in love with his A gale of wind strikes him. A member of the life class. her own words. beautiful beard until— vith her THE EFFECT OF VANITY. THE GO. -CAKES. AT AND THE YE. 1. Groceryman sees a saloon and immediately 2. Leaves his yeast-cakes outside. GoaT— They taste a kinder bitter and make me wants a drink, 3 (peering around corner)—""Ab! there’s something feel thirsty.” 4 ‘Guess I'll take a drink myself,” 5- ‘* Great Scott! what's the matter with me!" comicbooks.com