Judge, 1892-10-22 · page 7 of 18
Judge — October 22, 1892 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page collects several satirical sketches typical of late 19th-century American humor: **"As the English Do"** mocks Anglo-philia through a dialogue where a man dismisses his girlfriend's dream of marrying an English lord, retorting that she'd have been a barmaid—satirizing American admiration for English aristocracy. **"Why Hofer Laughed"** features a thick German-accented character recounting a joke about a Harvard graduate who's one of three sons (a doctor, lawyer, and "natural fool")—likely satirizing both pretentious educated immigrants and the gap between Harvard credentials and actual competence. **Other sketches** include variations on robbery ("He Was Too Late"), ethnic humor about Jewish delis selling "fresh buttermilk," and wordplay about "angle-worms" and "angel-cakes." The cartoons employ heavy ethnic stereotypes (German and Jewish accents) common to Judge's era. The humor relies on class commentary, immigrant characters, and puns—reflecting early 1900s American satirical conventions that modern readers would find dated and offensive.
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AS THE ENGLISH DO. Miss Flighty had a dream about you and me last night.” deed? It must have been very entertaining. What was it?" ‘DITH—"'She dreamed that you were an English lord and that you mar- ried me.” JAck—" ‘That was not very flattering to you, for you must in her dream have been an English bar-maid.” WHY HOFER LAUGHED. 66 OW you mindt vot I tole you. Pimepy you laif like dot, undt you got a stitches in your sides undt fall ofer in some elliptic fits, ain'd ut?” ‘said Bimblesock to Hofer as he guf- fawed with merriment. “You know dot Shadwick poy?” asked Hofer. “He yoost got gradu- ated mit Harvard college. Yes, he knows eferyting, undt vos loaded mit education like a shackass mit silver in a Montana mine, undt he got some drouples mit his family, undt he comes down py Strauss’s pier-saloon undt shwell aroundt, undt saidt his fader got tree sons; von vas a natural doctor, undt von vas a natural lawyer, undt von vas a natural tam fool.” “He vas mad,” sai A NEW BREED, “Land sakes! I wondah whad kind o’ breed dat is?” “Oxeckly,” said Hofer. “Undt vot you tink Strauss saidt ven he handed him his pier? He saidt, ‘Pring der doctor undt der lawyer down sometime; I like to see dem too, also, likewise.’ Haw, haw, haw!" A. T. WORDEN, HE WAS TOO LATE. + © HAT do you want?” asked Bloobumper of a man he found in his bed-room.t two o'clock in the morning. “ L.want your money.” “Oh, you are too late. at Saratoga.” I have just returned from an extended stay EXPERIENCED. Florrie (passing drug-store, reads) —“* New buttermilk.’ Wouldn't you like to have some, Annie? I am so fond of it.” , Annie— Yes, but not here. I know a delightful little Jewish pli where they sell it fresh from the cow.” MISNOMERS BOTH: + ¢(QURIOUS name,” said Hicks. ~The idea of calling a worm that is all curves an angle-worm. ‘Bout as bad as calling a cake that raises the deuce with you an angel-cake.”” CHANGE OF EXPRESSION, Citorus—" Ha, ha! What a snap!" Rerraix—‘ Well, I'll be blamed !* comicbooks.com