Judge, 1893-04-08 · page 5 of 16
Judge — April 8, 1893 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains multiple unrelated satirical sketches typical of Judge magazine's format: **Top strip**: A debt collector repeatedly confronts someone ("Taffy-Fuller") about an unpaid bill, growing increasingly aggressive. The "revenge" suggests the debtor finally loses patience and physically throws him out. **Middle section**: Three separate, brief satirical jokes: - A section on "Never Judge by Appearances" contrasting someone's street versus home behavior - An applicant claiming journalism experience from being voted "handsomest school-teacher editor" in a small-town newspaper—mocking both the applicant's thin credentials and small-town vanity contests - A hypocritical Brooklyn minister lecturing about "Grumbling" while angrily complaining about the sexton's tardiness—the satire being his failure to practice what he preaches **Bottom section**: A night watchman's mundane announcement about the hour, with dark humor about how little actually remains "well" in the city. The page satirizes American social pretension, workplace incompetence, and hypocrisy through quick, irreverent vignettes.
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THE TAFFY-PULLER'S REVENGE. Coutector—"I have called to collect that little bill— —and can’t wait any longer. Here I— NEVER JUDGE BY APPEARANCES, Dudley on the street and Dudley at home. HIS EXPERIENCE. ‘CYVHAT experience have you had in journalism?” said the metropolitan editor to the applicant for a situation. “Well, sir,” was the reply, “I was once the ‘handsomest school-teacher editor’ in a voting contest on the Squedunk Bugle.” DIDN’T PRACTICE WHAT HE PREACHED, oe HAT'S all that trouble about over there at the church?” “A Brooklyn minister has come up to lecture to-night on ‘Grumbling,’ and he’s mad because the sexton is late in opening the doors.” THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF A FACT. ANCIENT NIGHT-WATCH—"* Nine o clock and (A second later.) ‘* Blamed if it ain't— a-a-all ’s well! pretty near all.” <——have been trying to get it for two months, and I'll not be put off again I" comicbooks.com