Judge, 1893-08-26 · page 10 of 16
Judge — August 26, 1893 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several distinct satirical pieces typical of Judge's late 19th/early 20th-century format: **"Sentences Passed by the Judge"** is a collection of philosophical aphorisms mocking optimism and human nature—cynical observations about criticism, originality, and annoying acquaintances. **"In Darkest Indiana"** satirizes both racist attitudes and rural ignorance. A traveling salesman is shocked that a white woman married a Black man, considering it inferior to her sister marrying a traveling salesman—the joke targeting the salesman's own presumed low social status while also reflecting the magazine's casual racism. **"Following Out the Prescription"** jokes about a man ignoring doctor's orders against drinking whisky by hiding in a cupboard—playing on the contradiction between following instructions and breaking them. **"Precocity"** shows a young boy refusing to return a woman's slap because "you are a woman"—mocking both exaggerated chivalry and precocious child behavior. The cartoons and text together represent Judge's mix of social commentary, mild moralizing, and period-typical racial humor.
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TOMMY, THE CAT AND THE PAINT-POT. ne) Ii: —— . Ce Gone — A PREMATURE REFLECTION, Mr. Broan Wave (of Vew York) —"Ah, there is nothing like the quiet and sweet peace of the country after all. SENTENCES PASSED BY THE JUDGE. THE light of the unreflecting optimist is apt to set in shadow. To criticise the world with justice one has but to look in the glass. It is never necessary for Nature to patent her methods or processes. The future is a dark room in which the human negative is developed. Nothing makes an evil spirit so uncomfortable as to find itself ignored. It is when one is called upon to defend his gods that he most firmly believes in them. A serpent is not necessary to make’ Eden undesirable as a permanent place of resi- dénce. A mosquito will do it as well. The point of originality is not to say original things, but to say them in such a way that people will think they are original. By lavish and insistent praise of chance favors toward themselves do our friends hope to settle such tendencies into fixed and permanent virtues. If people were bound to silence upon subjects concerning which they are ignorant or unqualified to speak, what a sudden, unexpected, and all-prevailing hush there would be ! One never knows how many ways there are of being disagreeable until he finds a petty enemy—may womankind forgive me if I say a petty female enemy—under the roof with him, A relaxation from the unavoidable duties of our somewhat burdensome system of human intercourse, it is sometimes a pleasure to meet a person who has no interest to serve, no one to recommend, no axe to grind. aTunise Gxorjeax IN DARKEST INDIANA. Commercial tourist (to woman standing at farm-house gate) —" Excuse me, ma’am; I seem to have lost my way. Can you tell me if this road goes to Pulaski ; Ioman—" Wa-al, stranger, I'm ruther new ter these parts m self, but thar’s my busban’, stan‘in’ in the door thar, he kin teh yet Commercial tourist —“ Great heavings ! ‘That man your husband! Why, he’s a nigger! Is that the best a good-lookin’ white woman like you can do round kere—marry a nigger?” Woman —" 1 dunno—mebbe so. Even at that I done better ‘n my sister, She mz tied an Evansville drummer. FOLLOWING OUT THE PRE- SCRIPTION, Mrs, Bingo— Didn't the doctor tell you it would be death for you to take another drink of whisky?" Bingo—"1 velieve he d Mrs, Bingo— Then what are you doing in that cupboard PRECOCITY, “go—"1 am dying an instantaneous James—" Cousin Adele, I cannot return your slap because you are a wom A YOUNG TOUGH, comicbooks.com