Judge, 1893-10-07 · page 6 of 16
Judge — October 7, 1893 — page 6: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains multiple unrelated short comic sketches typical of Judge magazine's format—each mocking social conventions and human folly of the late 19th/early 20th century. **Key sketches include:** - **"Unpacking"**: A woman lists her worn-out dresses, satirizing vanity and the gap between appearance and reality. - **"The Reply Discouraging"**: A publisher coldly dismisses an aspiring novelist's hopes, joking that success depends on literal book binding—mocking both literary pretension and publishing gatekeeping. - **"Natural Disease"**: A dog died from "salivation," likely referencing the Keeley Cure, a controversial alcoholism treatment involving mercury (which caused salivation as a side effect). - **"Appearances"**: Tom appears wealthy with a carriage but actually pushes his own baby—satirizing middle-class pretense. - **"Wouldn't Be Missed"**: Dark humor: a child won't miss her mother because a pet canary provides sufficient companionship. The overall tone mocks social climbing, failed ambitions, marital discontent, and the gap between pretense and reality.
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214 UNPACKING. MA 818: come shake those dresses out! Oh, yes, I've worn them—ev'ry one. There! smooth the wrinkles from my pink— ‘The bluc is faded from the sun— THE REPLY DISCOURAGING. oe Doxt you think my novel is bound to sell Asked a scribe not as yet renowned Of Cutting, who answered him coldly, ‘* Well It depends upon how it is bound.” “(In which did T most conquests make?” girl! you want to know too much, “ Conquests,” indeed ! with beaux so scarce— { f SHE WAS SUPERSEDED. Te careful how that box you touch! ‘ Mr. Huggins —““\s Miss Fosdick still president of your society for the suppression Because it holds my new lorgnet LON g. idds: And powder-puff and Titian dye % Rod Skidds—" No; she got too fresh And souvenir—the cigarette alii i and we turned her down.” “Why careful?” Oh, you quizzy Jack gave me on the beach one night When moonbeams lit the sandy ground— < S 3 ; jack?” He was, I must confess, } 4 APPEARANCES. ne only single man around. - TOM has succeeded so well in marriage ANNI a. TOOHRY. That now I see he keeps a carriage ; BACK FROM THE COUNTRY. ae But that doesn’t show that he has much pelf— : There's a baby in it and he pushes it himself, Rusticus —"1 don't think I ever passed Fe / a more agreeable summer. Did you have a lively season where you stopped ?” Mr. Lightlegs —“ The liveliest 1 ever remember. ‘The landlord chased me three : miles for my board-bill.”” e MGONLIGIT DELUSION: NATURAL DISEASE. . Epurum —"' Fo! de Lord's sake, what am dat ?* SEYVHAT ever became of your Spitz dog?” . . “Oh, he got salivated and died.” THE OTHER WAY. $ +S THE judge fined you five doltars, ch, Mike ?” Xo, bad luck to him! I'd to find him five dollars.” A REASONABLE DOUBT. ILAT the whole world loves a lover May be true, except so far As I'm able to discover — All the world —except her pa. WOULDN'T BE MISSED. Lady (to little girl on the train)— “Won't your mamma miss you very much while you are away ? ittle girl —" Oh, no; mamma has a canary-bird and it sings beautifully.” KEELEY CURE. dat ar’ mule o hisa!” Why (hic) don't you (hic) taksh cure, oldsh man?» Shash what (hic) cured me.” comicbooks.com