Judge, 1893-05-27 · page 3 of 16
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# Page 329 Analysis **Top Cartoon ("What Threatens Us"):** Depicts a woman in an enormous, impractical crinoline skirt blocking a street while men must navigate around her. The caption warns: "Men will be obliged to walk in the streets." This satirizes women's fashions of the era as absurdly large and socially disruptive—a commentary on Victorian dress codes that took up excessive public space. **"Solemn Thought" Section:** Argues that old jokes never truly die; they're recycled endlessly across generations, claiming people tell them as if new. It's satirizing predictable, tired humor that persists unchanged. **Remaining Items:** Include brief anecdotes about schoolmasters, language professors, and social commentary on various topics (Columbus advertising, temperance hotels, Chicago's labor issues). These are typical Judge magazine filler material—short humorous observations on contemporary society.
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WHAT THREATENS US, Men will be obliged to walk in the streets. ENERAL KOMEROFF of Russia says a war by Russia and France against Germany would be “the most popular of all wars.” Possibly, except to the hundreds of thousands who had to do the fighting and the dying. : SOLEMN THOUGHT. A GOOD JOKE never dies. It would be better if it might, but the men and women of the new generations take it up and carry it on. It is new to them and they think it must be new to others. We state a plain, unadorned fact when we say that the remark of the man to Noah, “Tt won't be much of a shower,” comes to us as a new thing every week in every weary year; and in one number of a justly esteemed contem- porary appeared five jokes as old as an Egyptian mummy, Within a hun- dred years everybody dies, but their smirks and wiles and quips and smiles do follow them, SCHOOLMASTER — “* Johnnie, where are the largest diamond-fields located ?” Joussie—" Up at the base-ball grounds, sir." A PROFESSOR bas been lecturing on the fashion of languages. The fashion of most languages is bad grammar. aire THE STORY about the attempt to steal the ashes of Columbus shows that the circuses haven't all the able advertising agents. eee THE CHURCH SALOON advocated by Dr. Rainsford will never be a success, “I never put up at a temperance hotel,” said Artemus Ward, “they seii such poor liquor there.” Ae = E ARE ALL CHICAGOANS until that fair is ended. And there SCENE IN STOCK EXCHANGE. isn’t a town in the world that could have contended against labor Smit —** Jacobson, I understand that you and Jones are at loggerheads.” and weather and lots of other troubles with half the success that Chicago me prio NOt, Fan dew deaen eVH" Only Yesterday he called can and did. SmitH—"* Yes, but how does Judas feel about it?” comicbooks.com