Judge, 1892-08-06 · page 5 of 18
Judge — August 6, 1892 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This Judge magazine page contains three satirical pieces: 1. **"Miracles for the Fair"**: Mocks the Salvation Army's claim to reform people, joking that they could take a disreputable Chicago man and make him indistinguishable from a respectable New Yorker—poking fun at regional stereotypes. 2. **"A Reverse in Store for Sue"**: Two women use absurdly pretentious language about Sue's future embarrassment, satirizing affected Boston speech patterns and over-intellectualized expression. 3. **"Impartial Prizes"**: A poet visits an editor who's awarded prizes to the baseball editor and his own wife for submissions—obviously biased judging. The poet threatens arrest, leading to the punchline about new revolving barber chairs shown below, depicting exaggerated barbering procedures. The humor likely satirizes either new mechanical salon equipment or corrupt nepotism in literary contests. The page uses visual gags and class-based humor typical of early-20th-century American satire.
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JUDGE 85 MIRACLES FOR THE FAIR. ‘THE SALVATION ARMY is going to give practical exhibitions of the working of its social reforms at the world’s fair,” said Hicks. “They will take a Chicago man, for instance, and reform him so you won't be able to distinguish him from a New- Yorker.” A REVERSE IN STORE FOR SUE. Miss Bleecker—"1 think Sue will laugh on the other side of her mouth one of these days.” ‘Miss Emerson (of Boston)—" Yes; she is likely to perform cachinnatory exercises on the ulterior portion of her facial orifice.” : v yo" it, Geems? I'll slap yo’ pow'ful !" wearin’ a pair ob base-ball shoes dat Mis- tah Sutro done gib me.” IMPARTIAL PRIZES. ‘ve called to learn who won the hundred dollars you offered for the best, poem.”* Oh—ah! Our base-ball editor won that one, I think. ell, how about the fifty-dollar prize for the next?” Oh—ah! My wife won that one, I think.” ind the ten-dollar prize—who got that?” See here, if you don't get out of here I'll have you arrested, See?” Shaving the other side, s Revolving shampoo, Pressing the electric attachment. “ Toot, toot! Next!” THOSE NEW REVOLVING BARBER-CHAIRS, comicbooks.com /