Judge, 1893-03-11 · page 4 of 16
Judge — March 11, 1893 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several unrelated comic sketches and gags typical of Judge's format: **"Popular Fallacies"** lists humorous social observations (successful politicians aren't sweet; pie-eating manners don't indicate morality), accompanied by cartoon illustrations including a monkey, suggesting these beliefs are as foolish as animal behavior. **"Strategy"** depicts a racial caricature dialogue (using period-offensive dialect) about a man named Smith avoiding his girlfriend because he's busy with dogs—the "strategy" being comedic avoidance. **"The Live Gymnasium"** shows a monkey mistaking itself for a gym apparatus, playing on the double meaning of "gymnasium" as both exercise space and, apparently, the monkey itself. **"No Improvement," "Driven to It," and "Winter Crops"** are brief joke snippets: a woman's new songs are worse than old ones; a tramp's suicide attempt was triggered by wine-jelly instead of whisky; a farmer only grows whiskers. The page primarily showcases Judge's reliance on wordplay, visual puns, and social satire rather than coherent political commentary.
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JUDGE POPULAR FALLACIES. fl HAT a successful politician maketh a sweet man. ‘That good looks are as much in demand as a tip. That modesty is as beautiful as a crisp ten-dollar note, “That there's any choice between rheumatism and neuralgia. ‘That there's any charity in making a hungry man laugh. ‘That an embroidered shirt-front procures a man special favors. That people who eat pie with a knife have a conscience, That pestilence kills off more people than the paper cigarette. That people who snore do not possess their hopes of heaven. That the small boy bent 27 on mischief is not as terrible a a cyclone. ‘That there's anything in a power-of-attorney to profit a man’s soul. That the man who drums up trade has any rea- STRATEGY. son to worry about the next *Mistah Smif, w-h-h-y, M-i-s-t-a-h S-m-i-f, yo’ dun got yo" world, ‘That there are many “ Doan’ yo' niggah Mistah’ Smif me ; yo" jis’ : eel . got no time tu fewl wid dawgs w'en I go's People who are insensible to ty -P°mah gal, It jis’ tuk me foah minits tu solb de problim, “T's the attractions of a brown- Monkey— Why, hello! Some one must have dun gor a clock oe 4 dawg.” stone front. left a gymnasium out here. — That the man who rides in his own carriage is more happy than the poet who has had his little rhyme accepted. That putting a ton of coal into the cellar is half as hard as trying to collect a bill from one who takes his own time about paying. That there's anything to rival the flamboyant happi- ness and ebullient exuberance of the man who labors un- der the excitement of love's first kiss. xarwax a, Lavy. NO IMPROVEMENT. GHE doesn't sing the old songs— And yet their wrath they nurse, For the new ones that she warbles Are a blamed sight worse. DRIVEN TQ 11. WINTER CROPS. Judge—" Why did you try to ‘Ob, Uncle Joshua! What do you raise out here winter commit suicide? This kind lady time?" says she did all she could for you.” UNCLE JosHva—"‘Alas, my little man! nothing but Tramp—* Wait till you hear “biskers. my story, your honor. I asked for whisky and she gave me some wine-jelly that was left over from a church-fair.” —was a member of the New York athletic club ELEpuanr (catching chimpanzee as he comes —gymnasiums ;—— three years ago, and ""—— down)—"* So was 1.” THE LIVE GYMNASIUM; OR, THE MONKEY'S MISTAKE. comicbooks.com