Judge, 1893-01-21 · page 10 of 18
Judge — January 21, 1893 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This page from the satirical magazine *Judge* contains multiple short jokes and cartoons mocking various social issues of the era (likely early 1900s): **Key Content:** - **"What Will the Cabbies Do Now?"** jokes about a new baby-carriage design, implying it might replace horse-drawn cab services - **Social satire** includes mockery of servants (cooks leaving over domestic quarrels), class hierarchies, and ineffectual remedies - **"Effect of the Lime-Museum Freak in a Street-Car"** shows a humorous sequence of a streetcar tipping when a heavy woman boards—visual slapstick humor - **"The Machine-Made Article"** critiques Tammany Hall (NYC's corrupt political machine), suggesting judges were obtained through bribery and that primary voters were illiterate - **"A Missionary Report"** satirizes missionary organizations' inflated claims and poor financial management The humor relies on class stereotypes (immigrant dialect in the water-waiter joke), physical comedy, and **political corruption** references. Overall, it's period satire targeting inefficiency, fraud, and social hypocrisy.
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WHAT WILL THE CABBLES DO NOW? Nocas—" Hello, Jaggs! What are you doing with that overgrown baby-walker?” Jaccs—" A COMMON-SENSE PRESCRIPTION. ‘eT HE POOR MAN was dying. His breath was becoming weaker and weaker every minute when I saw him.” “And what did you do?” “I gave him an onion.” WHY THE COOK LEFT. YOU ASK me why I left there? It really made me grieve ; But master and missus quarreled so much ‘That at last I had to leave. Their langwidge it was dreadful, And awfully they looked. You ask me what they quarreled about ? "Twas the way the meals was cooked. REASON IN ALL THINGS. Bingo (at breakfast) waffles come up very slow. Mrs. Bingo— My dear, the cook hasn't had: her breakfast yet.” Seems to me those EFFECT OF THE UM FREAK T-CAR. —then sits in the middle. Little patent of mine, Taking it to the club. If you're in this neighborhood to-night you'll see how it works.” JUDGE ASKING TOO MUCH. oe AITER, this water is Ww very dirty.” “1 am vaire sorry, but ve cannot be expect to wash ze water, sare.” AFTER DR. WHAT’S- HIS-NAME. LITLE grains of powder, Just the size of sand, Make the mighty heavens Irrigate the land. A LONG WAIT. Clara —"Why has Fanny Finnimaker's wedding been in- definitely postponed ?” Maude—"They sent the groom down town to match the wedding ribbon.” (same street, three a.m.)—" Thish besht thing ever No more payin’ for cabs to take me home (hic). A MISSIONARY REPORT. Number of missionaries sent out... 8.000 Number of missionaries come bac! Number of missionaries eaten. Number of tracts distributed. Number of heathen that promised to attend church... Number of heathen that & Amount of money still in treasury—thirt cents, four car-tickets, three suspender-but- tons, and seventy-five hundred wish-bones. MAKING A START. +6] DO so admire your pictures, Mr. Smillton,” said Mrs. Bromley. “Thank you, madam,” said the artist. “I. have always wondered what part of the work you do first,” said the lady. “Talways put my signature on the canvas first,” said Smillton, THE MACHINE-MADE ARTICLE. Primus— How did Blodgers ever secure a judgeship?” Secundus— By bribing three or four juries.” Primus—" How could that help him?” Secundus—" \t gave him standing in Tammany ball as a great criminal lawyer.” = = oe SS HE HAD BEEN ON THE LOSING SIDE. do they call a caucus a primary 2” Um! because the majority of those who attend need to learn how to read and comicbooks.com