Judge, 1893-07-29 · page 3 of 16
Judge — July 29, 1893 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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The page contains satirical commentary typical of Judge's style, including brief witty observations on contemporary topics. The "Watermelon Time" photograph shows a caricatured Black figure with exaggerated features—reflecting the deeply racist visual conventions of early 20th-century American humor. Below are two cartoon sketches satirizing urban life: "A World's Fair Scheme" mocks a photographer charging admission at what appears to be a public exhibition, with a caption about charging two dollars to admit someone with a camera. The other cartoon depicts a man with a "patent" banner, likely satirizing dubious inventions or get-rich-quick schemes popular in the era. The page's humor reflects Judge's satirical target: urban pretension, dubious commerce, and racial stereotypes considered acceptable entertainment of the period.
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JUDGE WISEACRE tells us there are several kinds of wrinkles, but does not tell us which kinds are the best-looking. stewe A GERMAN was recently pounded to death by another German for cursing the American flag; so that there is such a thing as being too nfernally patriotic. wee THE PRINCESS MAY transferred her affections with great rapidity, and there is small doubt that they were as pure and artless in the later case as inthe firstone. 4 6 ¢ OW SWEET is Mr. Cleveland's injunction to Tammany to “ guard against the sordid struggle for unearned wealth.” Dear Mr. Croker, let us take it to our hearts. es BOSTON PAPER wonders in its humorous department why Peary should look for a pole while there are so many poles on the public streets. There is so much wit of this kind that one is sometimes startled by ite tens HE NUMBER of wives accredited to the emperor of Morocco is six thousand, but several wards have doubtless been heard from since the information was given out. bsger es PUGEBE COUZINS is rightly charged by the Chicago Times with verbosity ; but, while she toys and trifles with the language as if it were a string of beads about her lovely neck, she never misses a bead or a conjunction, and clings to her nominative like a drowning man to the proverbial straw. PURE WHINES AND LICKERS. THE HOT-HOUSE JOURNAL. JETIC DAILY mitigates murder, palliates crime, gives a THE ¢ subdued rose-color to financial disaster, is shocked speechless by shipwreck, and is contemptuous of facts that are unpleasant. It is sweet and pleasing. It assumes, as one of its recherche kind expresses it, “to 2 WATERMELON TIME.— Taken by F. T. Harmon, give the latest and the best news,” and apparently, though it doesn’t direct events, it makes the news. One wonders that it should publish the mar- riages and deaths. An asthetic grocer refuses to serve his customers with the abominable stuff called brown sugar, It is odd that the esthetic daily should exist outside of the new Jerusalem. A WORLD'S-FATR SCHEME. “T have my lunch in a kodak box—folks will think it’s a camera, Cheap and swell, ha. Orricer —"* We charge two dollars to admit you with a camera.” comicbooks.com