Judge, 1893-01-28 · page 4 of 16
Judge — January 28, 1893 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains multiple satirical pieces typical of late 19th-century American humor: **"Safety Assured"** jokes about cholera fears from German imports—a reference to cholera epidemics that periodically threatened America, playing on anxieties about disease transmission through foreign goods. **"The Gungoes' Tame Pelican"** features racial caricature dialect humor common to the era, depicting an African American character. **"Just Then a Man Shot"** appears to satirize theater or entertainment safety practices, with Germanic-accented dialogue suggesting immigrant workers. **"The Real Home Atmosphere"** is a marriage joke: a bride adapts to city life by shopping in Brooklyn (then semi-rural), implying Brooklyn remains countrified despite being part of New York. **"Sentences Passed by the Judge"** offers philosophical one-liners in the magazine's characteristic sardonic style. The page mixes social commentary, ethnic stereotyping (typical of the period), and domestic humor targeting middle-class anxieties about modernity, disease, and marriage.
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JUDGE SLUGGARD. [UP SLUGGARD, up! nor wickedly Let hours of morn pass by. When risen you may upright be; Prone on your bed—you lie. antes RuYeneER SAFETY ASSURED. Gazzam—" | have imported some pictures from Germany by way of Hamburg. Do you think there is danger of their carrying cholera germs?” Maddox —“Are they oil-paintings or water-colors ?” Gazzam —"' Water-colors.” Maddox —" Well, it the water in the colors was boiled I'd think you'd THE GUNGOES' TAME PELICAN. Auntie Guncor—" Wonder whar dem onery chillern is? Hope ter massy dey yain't strayed away !" SENTENCES PASSED BY THE JUDGE. TRUTH dwells in shadow. Honesty is a very fluctuating quality. Disintegration is nature’s second law. Destruction is the first step toward progress. What is flesh to-day may be flower to-morrow. Peculiarities should not be yoked together; they pull better alone. The sick man's promises are best not left for the well man to fulfill. To laugh well one should have wept; to feast well one must XATHRINE GROSJEAM. Jones seems te have a But he was simply very long face— yawning. Rusy Guncor * Here we is, mammy. JUST THEN A MAN SHOT, behint der (Behind the scenes) —“* Now, Jake, you ou strike pull’s-eye und ven effer a feller shoots der first dim der gong mit der hammer, und it engourages him und he shoots all night. See dot 2” ——— wiToone| Pe siuag || (ers | Bre ot. g me — shoots.” THE REAL HOME ATMOSPHERE, Castleton —"1 should think your bride would find it rather hard after living in the country all her life to adapt herself to the metropolis.” Groomer —" Not at all. She does all her shopping in Brooklyn.” Done playin’ hammick wiv Brutus.” comicbooks.com