Judge, 1892-07-16 · page 10 of 16
Judge — July 16, 1892 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This satirical page mocks **Walt Whitman** (though unnamed, referenced as "a late poet à la Ingersoll"—likely invoking Robert Ingersoll, who eulogized Whitman). The lengthy opening piece mockingly praises Whitman's supposed obsession with physical sensations, bodily functions, and common animals/foods rather than elevated poetic subjects. It parodies his verbose, cataloguing style while suggesting his poetry celebrates crude materialism. The smaller cartoons are unrelated satirical vignettes: "A Professional Adviser" jokes about a nephew seeking payment for medical visits; "Cause for a Divorce" ridicules a woman threatening divorce over her husband's mismatched whiskers versus their dog's; "Hard to Suit" depicts a bicycle customer with leg problems incompatible with ordinary bicycles. The page exemplifies *Judge's* use of exaggeration and mockery to critique both public figures and contemporary social absurdities through text and illustration combined.
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42 JUDGE A RHAPSODY ON A LATE-POET A LA INGERSOLL. HE FOREMOST American poet of our day has fallen—the greatest the world has ever seen lies low, A good large, big heart is at rest. Gentle, humane, tender, grand old man. Lover of beasts.and: birds, of fishes, flesh and fowl—notably of spring chickens—also of flowers, fruits and vegetables—particularly of beets and “dead bea also of cabbages, Bermuda potatoes, asparagus, onions, garlic, pop-corn, tuéips, carrots, spinach, oyster- plant and parsnips. F Great master “of grand, sensuous, and perfectly onginal ideas—extolling so eloquently anid graphically the odoriferous perfume of his own’ gigantic-frame, and breathing out in liquid tones of purest music the delicious effluvia of-a dish of sauer-kraut or fried onions. He fairly reveled: im the tow-path of an Erie canal:boat. He loved to sit exposed on the cow-catcher of the cars of the New Jersey Central, or Hudson River railroad—fishing for squabs or eels when he came near a stream. He loved mountains, fields, lanes, streets, courts; a cow, grazing silently and ail alone in a meadow, with a looking at him—straight in the eye— the clarion call of the early the cackling ofa delighted hen over the spontaneous, and. in- Z ate delivery of a couple"6f dozen of fresh-laid eggs not only thrilled A-PROFESSIONAL ADVISER. used this giant invtlte arena’ of poesy and. poetic | ND (fo toayward nephew) —"* My boy, you'should try ti 1 gavé hintan appetite for his breakfast. Jack —"'I might, uncle if I got five dollars a visit for giving it, as rt thattevér’flash izon thas- ceased to you do.” ; shall thrftor ever stir again the countless millions of his rature un~ J on the poe ‘The pig, the dog, the bull, the tiger, the lion and the bear, the kan- garoo and monkey, the harmless kitten and’ the necessary cat, the innocent flea and the occasional bed-bug, were his constant compan- ions; also the ducks—e: : back—and geese—he loved to hear them qiack—and of pigeon he was very fond. So farewell, great’ big heart —friend, brother; corpanion ! he veil has dropped ; ¢ fond worshipers. No thymer of our day-so hold entranced his enthralled admirers ! gone to the unknown the great beyond—ir depths of impenetr: mable and more Sgyptian darkness We all have to follow—singly and alone! ‘And-may our ‘hope-shod feet,: traveling to this “undis- find our pleas- Strewed —right ly “leaves CAUSE FOR A DIVORCE “Oh, mamma! I shall get a divorce, so I shall.” “My dear child, what Aas happened?" * He is letting his whiskers grow and they don't match Fido's'a bit !" vO Oy Oo esnen ¢ DEPART MENT . MARD TO SUIT, Curawtry (to salesman)—"" Do you make bicycles to orde Cuawtry—" Yes, yes; but you see I have a misfortune with my legs and Satusmax—" Ves, sir, if necessary; but have you seea when I ride an ordinary bicycle my knees catch in the spokes and over I go.” comicbooks.com