Judge, 1893-08-12 · page 3 of 16
Judge — August 12, 1893 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several loosely-connected satirical vignettes about human inconsistency and social hypocrisy: **Top cartoon**: "The Inconsistency of Human Nature" mocks an elderly gentleman who abandons fishing the moment his dinner arrives—abandoning his patient fishing companion. **Middle section**: "Kept at a Distance" satirizes social pretense, showing how people maintain false distance from those they secretly wish to befriend. **Text items** ridicule various targets: a scientist's doomsday prediction about a comet collision, a man jailed for eavesdropping, Walter Besant's newspaper complaints, and "The Queen" regarding divorce remedies and parliamentary procedures. **Bottom sketch**: "A Quiet Resolve" shows a woman addressing a boy about his cousin Reginald returning from boarding school. The overall theme critiques Victorian-era social contradictions and human nature's hypocrisies through humor.
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THE INCONSISTENCY OF HUMAN NATURE, ‘This old gentleman raises the old Harry if by any chance his dinner is served five minutes late— KEPT AT A DISTANCE. Not long ago—about a year— But now he does not do it— He whispered in her ear; Ie cannot get so near WE MAY NOT have predicted the success of William and Caprivi, but it was because we had not the requisite time. N PRESENTING his decision with respect to William Henry Hurlbert Mr. Dana apparently looks upon himself as chief-justice of the universe. ays this world will speedily come to an end by collision with a ps it will be well to go to Chicago without delay. MAN in Kingston, New York, was sent to jail for thirty days for eavesdropping. This sort of thing will go on until you can’t hire a servant-girl for love or money. ALTER BESANT dislikes our newspapers too, He doesn’t want to get his news until some time of his own selection, a week or so after it has occurred, when he is in mental and physical condition to thoroughly enjoy it. NO PUBLICITY. THE QUEEN is totally opposed to divorces. Her remedy is to let the man marry again, and provide for the morganatic affair out of some treasury or ther. It was once the royal prerogative to fix these things through parliament or the pope, but the methods of the good old days wouldn't do now. —But will sit this way all day long in the hope of catching a bullhead or two of A QUIET RESOLVE. “Thomas, here’s your cousin Reginald. He's home from boarding-school on sick-leave, and I want you to be very kind to his ‘Yousty—"* Yes, ma'am, (Zo himself.) If I don't knock some ©’ them cubit roots out an’ some appetite in ter that chump I ain't sec'n’ base on th’ Actives—that's all.”” comicbooks.com