Judge, 1893-06-24 · page 3 of 16
Judge — June 24, 1893 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several brief satirical items and illustrations typical of Judge's style: **"Her Place Defined"** (top): A dialogue between St. Peter and a "Departed Spirit" about a woman's place in the afterlife, with a woman figure. This appears to be social satire about women's roles and expectations. **"The Goat Is Natural"** (left): A comic dialogue between "Percival Moneybag" and "Tommy Brady" about breaking laws, likely satirizing wealthy people's ability to evade consequences. **"A Mystery, Solved"** (bottom): Shows a woman with a baby carriage; a "Near-sighted Dude" mistakes it for something else (unclear what), while "The Maid" corrects him—a slapstick joke about mistaken identity. **"Talent and Conditions"** and **"The Nephew and the Grandson"** (right): Brief prose satires about social pretension and European politics, referencing Louis Napoleon. The page mixes visual humor with social commentary typical of Gilded Age satirical journalism.
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«sé \JELL NELSO’ of the World works for children summer and winter, and is fairy godmother to every Cinderella in this town. silelile ADY COLIN CAMPBELL presents the propo- sition that kissing destroys the complexion, It certainly should in countries that don’t know what lips were made for. eee | 18 CHEERING to learn that a certain society club has abolished its bar; and yet one has a certain sympathy for the misguided financier who furnished its inspiration. aS afte R. THATCHER GRAVES is a freeman un- der bail, because there‘is no money where- with to give him a new trial. Let him thank his stars that he isn’t a mere heretic. ees ‘THE PAPERS that opposed the opening of the fair on Sunday felt very bad when it was opened on that day, but they got a great deal of consolation by lying about the attendance. HER PLACE DEFINED. St, Peter —"* What w: ion while upon earth 7" DerarteD sririt—"'S St, Peter—“* Your way is down-stairs. .You can't expect to run both places.” TALENT AND CONDITIONS. RS. J. B. POTTER attributes her failure in this country to the assumption that people refused to disassociate her from her former position as a lady in society. Perhaps this is partially true ; and yet great actresses triumph over very much worse conditions than that— as Bernhardt over her eccen- tric anti-matrimonial experience and Dusé her pov- erty and humiliation. “Act well your part,” Mrs. Potter—“ there all the honor lies.” THE NEPHEW AND THE GRANDSON. ‘The nuncios relate that the Emperor William told the pope that he was determined to make war, as France was a danger to European monarchies. ET his majesty take a small lesson from the experience of the late Louis Napoleon. That gentleman was afflicted with the idea that America Percival Mounrjoy—" That's a healthy horse, that LO eC Tommy Reapy—** Well, I didn’t break no laws havin’ his tail docked th’ way you did with yourn, more or less by Austria and England, he tried to anyhow.” set up a monarchy in Mexico. The period was opportune, these states being in war with each other; and yet in a few months his chief representative was shot and his little army went back to France at the order of this government. Louis Napoleon died in exile, and France, after some unhappy experience with Germany, itself became a republic— undoubtedly “for keeps.” A MYSTERY; SOLVED. (NEAR-SIGHTED DUDE—" Great Scott! is it the crinoline} or the ‘ ballet, that's coming?” tee La THE Mato —"' No, dearie ; only twins,” comicbooks.com