Judge, 1892-11-19 · page 3 of 16
Judge — November 19, 1892 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several short satirical pieces and cartoons typical of Judge's social humor. **"Table Etiquette"** depicts a formal dinner scene mocking pretentious dining customs—the caption ridicules making a face over a bad oyster, suggesting affected manners among the wealthy. **"The Rights of the Living"** and **"The Virtue of Inconstancy"** appear to be philosophical essays critiquing social hypocrisy, discussing churchyard disputes and romantic inconsistency respectively. **"Humping Himself for a Living"** shows lower-class street characters (Soaky Soggins) in comic sketches—one attempting to manipulate a wealthy person, another at a racetrack—satirizing working-class desperation and schemes for survival during what appears to be the early 20th century. The overall tone mocks both upper-class pretension and lower-class hustling.
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N HIS LAST STORY Mr. Howells leaves all his in- teresting characters unmarried, having killed off several persons to make that condition unanimous. HARVARD BOY has won forty dollars by eating a = ‘ A 5 ahs fe; », , y certain number of griddle-cakes in a certain number of minutes. It was an incident of a new kind of edu- cational campaign. AYNE MAcVEAGH is a delightful man in his various heresies, he assumes such hearty contempt for those who question his political insanity and are unable to be as crazy as he is. AME—A man named Vane Milbank killed several persons in as many duels, and when he died the cable announced the fact and it was given in double-leads in all the newspapers. E LOOK UPON the defeat of Mrs. Woodhull- Martin as a direct result of Frances Willard’s opposition, and beg to present the fact that woman's in- justice to woman makes countless thousands mourn. SHMAN wants Boston to adopt Jean Inge- low as her poet laureate and contribute the three TABLE ETIQUETTE. ‘ou shouldn't make a face even when you have found a bad oyster. It shows very es; I think it does.” hundred pounds necessary to establish the title. It would not do. We have too much poetry of our own, and the great principle of protection must be vindicated. THE RIGHTS OF THE LIVING. Trinity churchyard must be saved from secular desecration, whether at the hands of rapacious outsiders oF of over-sorely-tempted trustees.—New York Telegram. {4S A DEAD MAN the right to put his bones against the progress of a world to which he no longer belongs? Has a live man the right to will his property so that alter he is dead it shall be an obstruction and a nuisance? Sentiment is to be encouraged as long as it is harmless, and it would be sad to have the churchyard of Trinity obliter- ated; but the living have rights too, and the bones of the poor are shoveled this way and that, not at all, as far as we know, to the discomfort of their immortal souls. THE VIRTUE OF INCONSTANCY. ‘Thomas Hardy in a recent story presents the idea that a man's ideal of love is fragmentarily incarnated in many women, and that so-called inconstancy is Feally constancy to his ideal; the transferring itself from one personality to another.—Zoston Budget. A GOOD VOICE FOR IT. ERE IS THE democracy of the affections, the composite love, the narrow-minded Texor Rosusto— “Say, Bass, de Metropolitan opera- worship of no minute fragment, but the soul's outgush for the boundless continent House borain’ down leaves is in a bad 6x 5 of woman; and yet they have just sent a western man to state-prison for having thirteen Basso CANTANTI — "Gosh, yes! I'm goi 4 bees position tercanorrey tar all Gish int Pelton’ auariee™ es and wanting a few more. But Mr. Hardy must add that the principle involved belongs to man alone, he having a patent on it, and not by any means to the other sex. Soaxy Soccins—‘* Ha, ha! an idea SoaKy Soccins—"‘ Feel de lucky hump before you play de races, has penetrated my skull.” gents.” HUMPING HIMSELF FOR A LIVING. comicbooks.com