Judge, 1892-09-24 · page 4 of 16
Judge — September 24, 1892 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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This page contains multiple satirical sketches mocking various social groups and contemporary issues: **"Cynical"** jokes about marriage and disappointed romance among the upper classes, with women quipping that they've been married multiple times or rejected. **"Her Way of Putting It"** satirizes affected Boston society women using pretentious language ("auricular appendage," "pulex irritans") for simple concepts like "putting a flea in someone's ear." **"Busy Judge Lynch"** darkly satirizes lynching by suggesting a man was lynched for "taking a political straw"—likely referencing the arbitrary, absurd justifications for racial violence in the South. **"Two Irish Heads"** and **"Probably Correct"** use heavy stereotypical Irish and Jewish immigrant dialects to mock working-class foreigners and their speech patterns. **"A Pointer on Avenue B"** similarly mocks Jewish immigrants with exaggerated Yiddish-influenced English. The page reflects Judge's typical Gilded Age approach: punching down at immigrants and poor people while treating elite pretension as merely ridiculous rather than harmful. The lynching reference is particularly revealing of the era's casual treatment of racial violence.
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CYNICAL, “ Were yon ever disappointed in love ?" * Two and a half times.” fo and a half times!" Yes ; twice married and once rejected.” Miss SentiMi ELiciBte wipow Miss SENTIMEN Euicrs.e wipowe HER WAY OF PUTTING IT. ss] PUT a flea in Sue's ear,” remarked Miss Bleecker. “ What was the occasion of your depositing in her auricular appendage a specimen of the pulex irritans?” inquired Miss Emerson of Boston. STRAIGHT. (studying geography) —** Papa, what's a strait?” ‘That beats two pair or three of a kind, my son.” BUSY JUDGE LYNCH, S6\VJHAT did the Ww poor man do that they lynched him —murder or train-rob- very?” “ Worse than either. He was caught red- handed in the act of taking a political straw.” PROBABLY CORRECT. American girl— POINTER’ ON AVEN “Papa, what would 1 Gamu I knows where dey's some business fer you, TWO IRISH HEADS. be called if I married — Grosstein. i : O'TooLe —* What do yees mane, yees bla’guard, by callin’ ine a an earl?” Grosstrin—** Here's a nicgkle, mine leedle frent. flannel-mouth ? “ oy Vere vas id?” REGAN hrue fer yees Oirish heart ; don't yees mouth shrink Rich father— Gamix—"*Up ter der polo grounds, Dey've jes’ from wather?” Crazy.” called t'ree balls on Mickey Welch.” comicbooks.com