Judge, 1892-12-10 · page 8 of 18
Judge — December 10, 1892 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several humor sketches typical of late 19th/early 20th-century American satire: **"Frances's Prayer"**: A wholesome anecdote where a five-year-old, given unpleasant medicine by a visiting doctor, prays for God to make the doctor kinder—satirizing children's literal-minded piety and parental coddling. **"After the Theatricals"**: A brief exchange mocking theatrical pretension, where someone felt "inspired" but didn't appear so. **"Both Exhausted"**: Two Boston women return from shopping, exhausted but "utilized"—satirizing upper-class women's leisure activities and affected language. **Bottom sketches**: Comic vignettes featuring ethnic caricatures (notably stereotyped Jewish and immigrant characters with exaggerated accents) in absurd situations—"Electric Pans," "Paderewski" (hair-growth joke), and "A Great Idea" (cheese sandwich nonsense). These represent period humor relying heavily on ethnic stereotyping and dialect comedy, now considered offensive.
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D no answer came to greet me, No sweet voice to mine replied ; But I heard the waters rippling And the moaning of the tied. FRANCES’S PRAYER. IVE-YEAR-OLD FRANCES was indisposed recently while away from home, and the physician called in to prescribe for her gave medicine more unpalatable than her doctor at home is in the habit of giving. When Frances said her prayers that //M night she added, “Dear Lord, put it into the heart of that doctor to give me nicer medicine. I don’t want people to monkey with my medicine. Amen!” AFTER THE THEATRICALS. Hy—"' I felt like an inspired idiot.” Sute—"* Yes, but you didn’t look a bit inspired.” Resecca—"' Oh, Levi, Levi! Liddle Ikey has got killed.” Levi—* Oh, Moses and Aaron! Oh, oh, oh, mein liddle Tkey! BOTH EXHAUSTED Vere vas he kilt, Rebecca?" : Ca teal had a goot head on him, ie *¢]M COMPLETELY used up!” exclaimed Miss Bleecker as she and Miss knew his fader could get damages. He alvays had an eye fer Emerson of Boston came in from a shopping expedition. pizness,” “Lam utilized at an elevation myself,” said Miss Emerson. A GREAT IDEA. EWSKY—"' Tear me! my hair —ell, that's good. I have an g so long that I can't see the idea, It'll work too, I'll bet a cheese —A, it works elegantly !" sandwich,— comicbooks.com