Judge, 1893-10-14 · page 4 of 16
Judge — October 14, 1893 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains moral aphorisms ("Sentences Passed by the Judge") followed by several short comic scenarios satirizing domestic life and social behavior. The cartoons mock: 1. **"Explaining an Explanation"**: A daughter questions her mother's mysterious statement about "entering the room unexpectedly"—satirizing awkward parental evasiveness. 2. **"Effect of Brotherly Love"**: Mocks how secret society membership corrupts character, turning an amiable man into a quarrelsome one. 3. **"Both"**: A pun-based joke about a restaurant's "brass band" of women servers. 4. **"But How?"**: A young man asking permission to kiss. 5. **"It Came in Useful"**: A Nebraska farmer boasts that his wife is worse than a cyclone—suggesting domestic strife is as destructive as natural disasters. These are typical Judge humor: domestic complaints, wordplay, and gentle mockery of social pretension and marital discord. The illustrations are detailed period engravings in the magazine's characteristic style.
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228 SENTENCES PASSED BY THE JUDGE. HE last indulgence spoils the first. It is the bird with fine feathers that gets plucked. When you make a feast for swine you must provide troughs for them, Heredity is announced in the curve of an eyelash or the texture of a finger- nail. Curs and sycophants partake of their mas- ters’ antipathies and follow up their disputes. There is another sentence than that pro- nounced by the judge which falls upon the conscience of the accused. armen cxosjean Tue MoTHER (enter Tux pavcnTeR— Lizzie Jones last night.” EFFECT OF BROTHERLY LOVE. SS YVHAT has transformed Hughes from the amiable, bright fellow he was into the bickering, narrow-minded fellow that he is?” “Hughes told me yesterday that he belonged to ten secret so- cieties.” BOTH. Tommy Southside —* Uncle George says there’s a brass band of in a restaurant in the Mr, Southside — there's a band of brass ladies wait BUT HOW? ing on the tables.” Oh, Miss , may T kiss you?" —**Certa IT CAME IN USEFUL. Sikaxere —" What on New York Parse 's a cyclone-pit.” t we don’t have cyclones in this state, man,” The erdoae: New York ra —""T guess yer don't know my wife, strariger.” comicbooks.com