Judge, 1892-07-09 · page 5 of 16
Judge — July 9, 1892 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains multiple short satirical pieces typical of early 20th-century American humor magazines: **"Ought to Have a Pension"**: Mocks someone claiming a pension after a self-inflicted injury from reading war stories—satire on frivolous pension claims. **"Self-Disfranchisement"**: A character named Goslin, speaking in affected dialect, claims English people don't vote for president, humorously confusing English and American political systems. **"Resurrected"**: An elderly man emerges from twenty years of retirement to place a bet on a horse named "Flory Temple"—satirizing how even invalids will gamble on racing. **"The Modern Accompaniment"**: A jeweler recommends "proposal revolvers" alongside engagement rings—dark satire on marriage anxieties and domestic conflict. Other pieces mock women's inconsistency, medical profiteering, and clergy indifference. The cartoons use exaggerated facial features and working-class dialect typical of period humor targeting immigrants and lower classes. The satire is gentle rather than sharp.
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JUDGE 21 OUGHT TO HAVE A. PENSION, ¢YVHAT ground has Dumley for asking for a pension?” “He fell out of a second-story window while reading a war- story and broke a leg.” SELF-DISFRANCHISEMENT. Lark * Whom shail you vote for for president, Goslin ?” Goslin—“1 nevah vote for pwesident. They don’t in deah old England, dontcherknow ?” RESURRECTED. Mr, WELDERKIN (from a long retirement)—"' Hold on, friend. I've been laid up fer goin’ on twenty year with rheumatiz, but if Flory Temple 's runnin’ t'-day I want t’ put ten shillin’ on her.” THE MODERN ACCOMPANIMENT. 3 i Poe ae n fA COURTESIES. ¢4] THINK this will suit me,” said Hunker to the jeweler after selecting tyr yonse—": How are you getting along, old fellow?” an engagement-ring. Tn poc—" Oh, I have to work like a horse. How's things with you?” “Very well, sir,” replied the jeweler. “Now let me show you our THE Horse—“'T lead a regular dog's life.” fine line of proposal revolvers.” a A GERM OF TRUTH. PERVERSITY OF THE SEX, L Fruit may be cheap at this season, WHEN a woman asks you for advice = , but the doctor never lowers his rates. Don't feel a bit elated ; 5 ‘al lll Don't think that you're the chosen one f : lig COUNTRY JOYS. And get your head inflated. : “HH QO": FOR a picnic under the trees! > It's just a little way she has Custards and cakes and pies (The tantalizing elf). : Flavored with beetles and buglets and bees, She asks you for your counsel—then Together with ants and flies. She does to please herself. MITTENS WILLETT. y a 7 PRACTICAL POLEMICS. A PECULIAR PERSON. We Z Primus—"It was so hot in church GaeoT eaew tee ionntely toe sees } to-day that Miss Carter fainted while the eral years and saw her in every condition z evangelist was preaching.” of life. She was delightful—absolutely : 2 z Secundus—" Did the episode discon- without peculiarities.” WD =, > ZE~ cert him?” Another ske—"Ts it possible? What : Primus— Ob, no. He drew a lesson a peculiar person she must be!” “1 wonder— from it about the torments of hell.” —-that cable— comicbooks.com {