Judge, 1893-10-07 · page 2 of 16
Judge — October 7, 1893 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The central cartoon, titled "Why He Was Cut Off With a Nickel," depicts a domestic scene where a man asks his wife for money, offering a ticket to Philadelphia as justification. She dismisses him with only a nickel, suggesting marital discord over finances and travel. The surrounding text consists of brief satirical commentary on contemporary issues: political ambitions (Ingalls as Kansas governor), British obstruction of legislation, Brazilian political instability, women's fashion (French trousers), and Buffalo's controversial display of African peoples. The recurring theme addresses American social problems—poverty, political corruption, gender relations, and racial exploitation—through sharp, sardonic observations typical of Judge's editorial approach to Gilded Age society.
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W, J. Amat. Bexwnaro Gram. 1. M. Geecor TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. UNITED STATRS AND CAKADA IN ADVANCE. One copy. one year, or s2 numbers - $5.00 ‘One copy, six months, or 26 numbers - 2.50 One copy. fort; weeks = == as Including the Cnurstmas Jupce. FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS— Teall for- tien jes in the postal wnt $64 year. THe JuDGe PUBLISHING COMPANY (Jupce BUILDING), Cor. Fifth Ave. and 16th Street. New York. ished October Ist. ZIM’S SKETCHES. Crammed with the work of Juvce's famous artist. THE FUNNIEST BOOK EVER PUBLISHED. Price, 25 cents. ta NOTICE TO PUBLISHERS.—The contents of Juoce are protected by copy- right in both the United States and Great Britain, Infringement of this copyright will be promptly and vigorously prosecuted. PROVERB—Eternal Vigilant is the price of victory. es sT SENATOR—The man of the iron jaw. eee THE ABLE: TO MAYNARD— Judge” not lest ye be judged. cee T MAY BE that some of the cy- clones are not the result of sena- torial eloquence. E IS A GOOD MAN who keeps his temper along with his hay- fever, and all the angels yearn for him. THE WHITE-HOUSE BABY can now talk in words of one syllable, It says “Goo,” which is short for ex- cellent. HE TALKERS of the senate dis- seminate toadstool under the im- pression that they are dispensing mushroom, DB: McGLYNN says true religion must have education’; but, really, that was what proved the undoing of ‘T REMARK by the president at two o'clock in the {o-hum! Here's another of those extra sessions.” KENTUCKY MAN tells of a neighbor who kept a quart of good whisky in a cupboard cightegn years. Case of ossification or trance? Will you get my ticket to-day?" MAYNARD says his life is his vindication, ‘The two men whom his action made senators would possibly say the same thing, but they're dead. cee THE NOSE of little Ruth must not be snubbed by any new babe. If there is any snubbing to be done the nose of the first-born will see to that itself, A REDEEMING TRAIT in the character. of Dr. Graves, according to the Buffalo Express, was his desire to take care of his wife and family. Possibly; though that may have been the cause of Mrs, Bar- naby’s death, too. THE DEFENSE THAT KILLS. oe PEFFER.” ays the Brooklyn gle,“*is not a fool, but he does wish to be taken for one.” After all, one must look far to find a’ better definition of the word than that. The man must not only be a fool, but a blawsted fool WHY HE WAS CUT OFF WITH A NICKEL. Mr, SoLxy's nich AUNT (who has been visiting him months)—"1 think I'll go back to Philadelphia.to-morrow, Thomas. Mr. SoLey (unguardedly)—'* With the greatest pleasure.” A TYPICAL SUICIDE. A ROTHSCHILD of Chicago, worth a million dollars, killed himself through fear of poverty. One is tempted to rebuke his memory; but here is the great American nation going through a panic through fear and recovering from it for no reason whatever. ROOM FOR BOTH. THEY SAY that Ingalls wants to be governor of Kansas, and that after that he will succeed Peffer as senator from the same state. There is nothing more startling than that, unless it be the proposition that Adlai Stevenson expects to run for president in 1896. We don't know what Ingalls’s politics are just now, but it does seem as if both ought to go on the same national ticket. THE STUMBLING - BLOCKHEADS. THE HOUSE OF LORDS is an obstruction to all English progress, and the patience of the English people in submitting to its arrogance and ignorance is amazing. There is no legislation looking to its abolish- ment that can be successful, since it will be true to itself; but force has done before this what peaceful means could never accomplish. ‘Fhe sen- ate of the United States— But that is another story. LIGHT IN DARKNESS. THERE IS ONE encouraging thing'in connection with the troubles in Brazil. The people have no idea of compromising matters by a return to the monarchy, and the daughter of Dom Pedro, who wants to be empress, is as little heard of as if she were dead as well as exiled. And these signs of common sense multiply as the years goon, France is never without dan- ger of trouble, but she will never be an empire again. The people are go- ing to rule if they have to break every one of their own heads. THE NOBLEST GARMENT. A SMALL NUMBER of women in France are permitted to wear trousers on payment to the govern- ment of ten dollars a year. In France the garment thus worn is looked upon as a badge of honor, but there mustn't be any patch on it: We do not know that French women as a rule want to wear trousers; but it does exasperate them to know that a half-dozen women have the privilege and they can’t get it, and they frequently quote from Ma- dame Roland those words to the effect that liberty is a hollow subterfuge. ART IN BUFFALO. THE AUTHORITIES of Buffalo pasted aprons on the forms of some persons of African extraction as they were exhibited by a showman on the local bill-boards. The showman argued that art must be true to nature or it wasn’t worth a cent, and everybody knows that the African at home dresses merely in a nose-ring and a little perspiration; but the authorities were firm and the aprons were affixed. And they were right Whatever art may lose by this decision; no undraped African must be permitted to occupy the space hitherto reserved for the half-dressed blonde of the strawberry variety. ° fer five THE TRAMP AS A BRIGAND. WE HAVE ABLER highwaymen than any other country. They operate against, not one or two men, but small armies of men and women. A single robber has held up a whole railroad train; and the other day twenty robbers, at a point one hundred and forty miles east of Chicago, stopped a train by a danger-signal, shot the engineer, dynamited an express car and a safe, and made off with thousands of dollars. We have organized bands of men to rob banks and railroad trains, and appar- ently they will soon become as fixed and familiar as the banditti of Italy, adding the ransom business to the open ruffianism of the highway and the track. Thus are your beggar and your tramp developing ; and presently there will have to be a larger regular army to fight organized robbery as the existing one fights the disreputable and irrepressible Indian. comicbooks.com