Judge, 1892-10-15 · page 10 of 16
Judge — October 15, 1892 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This page contains multiple satirical sketches mocking gender relations and domestic expectations in turn-of-the-century America. The main story "Papa's Own Girl" depicts a romantic couple where the woman deflates her suitor's idealized vision of married life. She challenges his assumption that she'll solely comfort and care for him after work, pointing out she won't be his "private nurse." The satire targets men's naive expectations of wives as unconditional caregivers—she insists on reciprocal kindness "when things go wrong." The lower cartoons employ crude humor about bodily discomfort: men struggling to swallow quinine pills without water, and references to constipation remedies. One sketch jokes about cheap labor in Borneo driving workers to desperation. The overall message critiques both romantic delusion and working-class desperation, using physical comedy and domestic conflict to expose societal hypocrisies about marriage and labor.
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254 JUDGE “PAPA’S OWN GIRL.” HE WOOING had progressed splendidly. It had even progressed to a point where she had been won —that is, ostensibly won. If she proved to be a truthful girl she would in time be his wife. If she were not truthful—well, no man wants a wife who is not truthful. That's the way some men console themselves when they fail to marry. But she seemed to be truthful, and as he drew her closer to him he whispered : Mr. Guips (stopping suddenly Phere! I forgot to take that quinine ‘and the doctor said I'd have a chiil row if L didn’t, “Ah, fortunately I've the box in my pocket; haven't any water, but 1 guess T can swallow it.” “TM put it well down,” * Hang the thing! it's sort o° sticking.” “And when we are married, dearest, we will have the hap- piest home in all the wide, wide world.” “Yes, George,” she replied. “ There can never bea harsh word in our home.” “No, George.” “And when I come home tired and worn out with work at the office and the worries of business you'll be kind to me.” * Y-e-e-s, George.” “Tknew you would, You'll ‘soothe me and put me in better s, but say, George.” “Yes, dearest.” “What's the matter with your doing a little of this your- ‘self?" * Why, darling "—— “Yes, that’s all right. But to come right down to business, as papa says, what's the matter with your being kind to me when things go wrong? I don’t want to do it all, you know. You're not looking for a private nurse, are you?” “Why, Mabel!" ” “ When the cook leaves un- expectedly to go to the bedside of her second cousin you might be just a:trifle considerate, you know.- Is it ¢ go?” How strangely you. talk, Well, they say-I'm papa’s girl, you know, and I notice caution.” sana BAK-KREPER (observing that Fuller in pouri ' glass to overflowing )—"* ‘That ain't water you're drin FULLER —"* Do I look like a man that would drink that much water?” Vv when any one tries to make a NATURAL CONSEQUENCE. ¥ bargain.with him he generally “Say, Sim, has you read ‘De Battle fer Bread’ in Frank Leslie's Weekly | ‘stipulations to his own BOW cheap dey hatter work in Borneo?” Sets Soege su puuations to.nis own Sim—"* Yes; an’ I guess dat's what drove dem wild men 0’ Borneo inter 0 interest. put in, just as a pre- de show business,” < fay “If you run the house on the same business principles,” he said, after a moment's thought, “we'll save C money and be rich.” stuorr riowse. ¢ “Ugh! it’s beginning to dissolve."” A COMPRESSED QUININE | me “ Thurr-rer!_ Worm-wood and gall! ? eer | This is awful. ‘Thank heavens there's _.. ({ENTLEMAN IN CHARGE OF Plu ES a man opening a plug, for | must have inure i is water!" PILL AND A DRY THROAT. comicbooks.com