Judge, 1892-07-23 · page 5 of 16
Judge — July 23, 1892 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several short satirical comics mocking late 19th/early 20th-century social conventions: **"Broadway" sketch**: A wealthy "dude" and upper-class woman meet; the wind tangles her feathered hat, choking him—satire on both male vanity and women's impractical fashion. **"Both Sides of the Case"**: Women gossip about a man's appearance, but he hears conflicting reports—mockery of how reputation spreads through social circles. **"Identifying Him"**: A man who gives his wife only 25 cents when she asks for a dollar is identified as "Percollum," a writer advocating husbands pay wives weekly salaries—satire on both miserly husbands and the emerging "wages for housework" movement. **"Antique"**: A woman calls a modern sculpture "art" while her companion notes it looks sixteenth-century—mockery of pretentious modern art appreciation. All four jokes target social pretension, gender relations, and class distinctions of the era.
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VCH ae 704, A breezy day upon Broadway, In accents warm he spoke of love ‘The dude and the sweet girl met ; Beneath his little breath ; He of the upper circle, But the wind blew through her streamers She of the inner set. And they choked that dude to death. BOTH SIDES OF THE CASE. SHE—"'I was calling on Miss Dingle the other night, and she said she thought you were an awfully pretty girl.”” 's.strange, Mr, Wayback told me she said I was ¢ evidently didn't know that you knew him.” IDENTIFYING HIM. 4) YOU know who that is?” asked Trivvet of Dicer, re- ferring to aman who had just given his wife a twenty- } five-cent piece in response to her request for a dollar. H 4 baie “No; who is he?” Soaleritien: GATE ONT Ee “He's Percollum, a man who has written some very able FULLER WateRs—"'Say, lookey yer, young feller! ef yer would have less light an’ "ticles advocating that husbands pay their wives weekly more ham aroun’ yer, it ‘od suit me better.” salaries. ANTIQUE. Miss J." Fine piece of mod art, isn't 1” Mr. K. (toho is not looking at the statue)—"* You certainly err in calling it modern art, She must have come out in the sixteenth century.” comicbooks.com