Judge, 1893-08-05 · page 4 of 16
Judge — August 5, 1893 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains multiple unrelated satirical humor pieces typical of Judge magazine's format: **"A Reasonable Query"** uses absurdist logic to mock the fashion of men riding bicycles—a relatively new technology in the 1890s-1900s. The joke contrasts a man's willingness to buy an oversized bicycle and gear it small (impractical) with the parallel absurdity of using wrong-sized equipment on horses. **"Her Way"** is a romantic poem satirizing women's manipulative courtship tactics—flirtation, emotional hot-and-cold behavior, and keeping suitors guessing. **"Base-Ball on the Plains"** depicts a frontier settlement where the umpire shoots a player dead rather than calling him "out," because speaking normally would provoke gun violence. This mocks both Wild West lawlessness stereotypes and Americans' emerging obsession with baseball. Other brief sections include conversational jokes about dentistry, theatrical employment, and dining etiquette—standard period humor with no apparent political content. The cartoons are generic social satire rather than commentary on specific events or political figures.
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———————————— 2355 Se ageerees KM Wr A REASONABLE QUERY. Why is it that a big man will buy a small bicycle and gear it to the smallest — the same man would not think of riding a sinall horse with the saddle geared the same way? HER WAY. IT WAS just her way—to exercise The magic of her bright blue eyes And make an eager slave of me; ‘Vo hold me ‘neath her witchery And make me sigh and rhapsodize. To make my ardent feelings rise, To make me utter, lover-wise, O’er-passionate strains of poesy— “Twas just her way, To lure me on, then me surprise With strange, low-murmured, cold replies Right after telling fervently How much I loved her. “Yes,” said she, “I'm wed two years ; how quick time flies !" "Twas just her way. NATURALLY. Tillinghast —" Your Atlanta friend HEHE WOES OF Ay WIDOW: t talk “Why weepest thou, dear mamma?” iesat Great Talker 3 “Alas, my son ! in this alligator valise, left here by the Winebiddle —" Yes; he’s from st, I have discovered the last relic of your Jawjaw. lamented father.” SARCASM, Dentist —"* That is wide enough, madam. shall stand outside while drawing the tooth.” NOT PROFANITY. TO SAY that a play has been damned Is not to be profane ; Like a river, ‘tis only dammed ‘That it may not run again, HIS PART. Tired William —" 1 was nor always this way, madam, Up to recently I was a member of the theatrical profession.” Lady of the house —" What part did you take?” Tired William —"1 was un- derstudy to the sleeping beauty.” SHE KNEW. Mrs. van Spuyten —"You don’t mean to tell me you went to Delmonico’s for supper after the theatre, and ordered ham and eggs?” Miss Greatlake (ot Chicago) — oma , “Well, Mr. Tenderloin told me to haatelaccttrbeaie ipbicd rs) . . STRANGER (as umpire shoots a man)—" Great heavens! That is deliberate murder.” , order what I wanted, and that was Native—"‘Oh, no! The umpire is just announcing to Coyote Sam that he is out. It's the only way, for if he what I wanted. were to yell ‘ Out’ in the ordinary way Sam would be sure to draw his derringer and kill the umpire,’ comicbooks.com