Judge, 1893-04-29 · page 3 of 16
Judge — April 29, 1893 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several brief satirical commentary pieces and illustrations typical of Judge's editorial humor. **Top cartoon ("Giving His Sister Away"):** Shows a family dinner scene where Alfred complains his umbrella is missing. Mr. Comodian claims he didn't take it, but Alfred notes Comodian brought one today—implying theft. The joke satirizes petty dishonesty masked by social propriety. **Lower vignettes:** Include brief moral observations about prosecutors, wisdom, and human folly—typical of Judge's aphoristic style. **"Utilizing Him" illustration:** Depicts a farmer and boy with a bicycle, with dialogue suggesting using the bicycle for farm labor—a joke about adapting modern conveniences for rural work. The page exemplifies Judge's mix of domestic humor, social observation, and illustrated jokes aimed at middle-class American readers of the era.
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GIVING HIS SISTER AWAY. is, did Mr, Cumoftin bring my umbrella back 7" Why, Mr. Cumoftin did not have your umbrella, Aifred. What made you think that?” * Why, I heard him say last night that he would just steal one more, and I didn't see my umbrella to-day.” HE MELANCHOLY of a prosecuting attorney when he fails to kill his man is followed by copious weeping, and few things are more pathetic. eee sé] T IS A WISE MAN," says the Buffalo Engurer, “ who can conjecture what a woman is going to say.” Yes, indeed; and it is a foolish man who wants to do so. eile HE EDITOR of the Troy Press says it takes an Albanian twice as long to die as an enterprising Trojan, but he must admit that the Trojan is more sorry for it afterwards. eee HEY TELL of a brakeman who, maimed to helplessness, killed himself rather than be a burden to his mother, The wickedness of suicide having been written to death, let us have a chapter on the nobility of it. eee HE GLORY OF MAY trumpets itseif from the hill-tops, and every shrub puts out little green ears to hear the music; but man, poor man! hath not where to lay his head, and taketh his meals and rest amid the rub- ~a oe bish of the moving. WRITER in the Pittsburg Despatch says this world can’t get along without a devil. The gentleman alluded DISINTERESTED. to is certainly very con- I hope it isn’t my hundred thou- venient as the bearer of you're after, George?” one’s sins. Mr, Grasrer—"* Believe me, rio, dar- ‘og. I'd marry you if you had only ninety 989 oa ONN PIATT left a novel which has just been published by Rand, McNally and com- pany of Chicago. It is a resurrection of the Beecher-Tilton business, and makes Mr. Beecher innocent of the one sin charged against him and guilty of a thou- sand others. That was SHLISINGEETIE a ee eet re a Farmer Oatcakr—" Now, I reck'n that was a mighty slick idee of mine to set ally: Adolphus John to work markin’ out corn-rows with that ‘ere bicercle of hisn. I've A VICTIM OF THE SHUT-DOWN. justice. found sunthin’ he’s good fer at last.” comicbooks.com