Judge, 1893-07-01 · page 5 of 17
Judge — July 1, 1893 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from *Judge* contains several standalone gag cartoons typical of late 19th-century American humor magazines. The main feature, "An Unintentional Duel," depicts rural characters Hank and Sol who each independently decide to hunt a "ghost" in a graveyard to impress a woman named Mary Jane, unaware the other is doing the same. The joke is that they'll likely encounter each other in the dark and mistake one another for the supernatural threat they're seeking—hence an "unintentional duel" between would-be rivals. The dialect and character types (rural/working-class males competing for female attention) reflect period stereotypes. Other cartoons mock suburban boredom, operatic tedium, and various domestic situations. The humor is straightforward slapstick and situational comedy rather than politically pointed satire—typical filler content for *Judge*'s entertainment pages.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
Many JANE (lo her rival lovers)—" Ez I wuz passin’ the night I seed a real spook, sure. It skeered me ta hoss it warn't no real ghost.” SoL—" Jes’ some feller a-foolin’ you, that's all.” POPULARITY WANING. ‘She (after the opera)—“ Well, it strikes me that Gilbert WHY HE WAS DISCONSOLATE, (first suburban) —"'1 wonder ingham, over there, look so glum SEDGWICK (second ditto)—"" I guess he does: You'll observe that by some strange fatality he hasn't got a bui with him to carry home.” AN UNINTENTIONAL DUEL. 2, 3. Haxk—"'I'll jes’ go down in the old grave-yard Sot—'"' Now ef I kin plug that spook Mary an’ lay fer that ghost, an’ ef I ket show Mary Jane ‘Il see. how much more spunk I've got ‘an that that I've got more spunk ‘an that chicken-livered _tortle-hearted Hank.”” SoL—"'Is th: Hank—"' Is taff when they hear y yard over Mary Jane.” WHY HE APPLAUDED. ? Mebbe the town won't an’ me's fit a duel in the grave- 64] CAN'T imagine why a musical critic like you should applaud such a long and wearisome perform- ance as that.” “I's out of gratitude that the thing is finished at last that I applaud. Bravo! bravo!” So you have been feach you (twkac on Sunday, fe the sab— BosBle (5066 % a. 1 found a dandy new place, where I couldn’ ‘em up fast enough.” fae Binco (pausing)—"' You did, ch? Where is it?" comicbooks.com