Judge, 1893-10-28 · page 4 of 16
Judge — October 28, 1893 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains multiple satirical vignettes typical of late-19th-century American humor: **Main cartoons:** 1. **"Hello!"** - Jokes about telephone operators' politeness, likely mocking the novelty of telephone service and its operators' training. 2. **"It Struck In"** - A politician claims religious conversion occurred when he lost his congressional election, satirizing insincere faith. 3. **"Paternal and Maternal"** - A child's confusion about grandparents being "mates" (spouses), simple wordplay humor. 4. **"Royalty on Board"** - Sailors mishear references, confusing a person named "Peffer" with royalty—humor based on class confusion. 5. **"Too Aristocratic!"** - African-American characters mock a peer for adopting "refined" etiquette (using forks), satirizing pretentious social climbing. This reflects period racial caricatures. 6. **"Widow Homesteader's Catapult"** - A woman uses a catapult against a threatening man, celebrating female self-defense. The "Sentences Passed by the Judge" section offers moral aphorisms, typical filler content.
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JUDGE HELLO! (sREALLY,” remarked Mrs. Brown - Jones, telephone people are awfully polite.” “In what way?” growled & Mr. Jones. “Why, they always re- turn a call as soon as it is made.” IT STRUCK IN. Todd —" When did you experience religion ?” THE ROCK OF AGES. Bragley —* When they were reading the returns from my district on the night I was defeated for congress.” PATERNAL AND MATERNAL, New governess—* You have a grandfather and grandmother living, have you not, Master George ?” Master George —*Yes, but they are not mates.” THE NEXT THING TO IT. Customer—"\ want my beard left as near like Mr. Peffer’s as you can make it.” Barber — Our Peffer-beard man has gone out to lunch, but the man at the third chair can give you a regular Hill shave.” ROYALTY ON BOARD. Yankee tar— One of em’s fallen down the aft hatch, sir.” Stickey Stupson —‘ My, ef dis ain't nice! Not er soul in de house, an’ ree lubly pies an’ a big ham. Slickey, ol’ boy, you's goin’ ter have de Captain One ot Shes hae” greatest time yer eber had in all yer life.” Yankee tar— One of them kings.’ AND HE WAS RIGHT. SENTENCES PASSED BY THE JUDGE. CDNE must lose something in order to gain much. It is a disappointing road that ends in a back-turning. Service done by favor must be accepted without criticism or choie 1 irreparable evil of wrong-doing is the loss of the active and delicate sense of right. Points of weakness are quite as efficient in drawing people together as points of strength. A difference in tastes makes it possible for men to live to- gether in one united and har- monious brotherhood. Society might count upon considerable comfort and secu- rity from the present expenditure of force if the assiduity of the law were not so often misplaced. When Nature planned to form the embryonic into the per- fect soul she knew the wisdom of making death her agent and TOO! ARISTOCRATIC! basing her reforms upon forget- BROTHER JEREMIAN (excitedly) . President, I move dat Brudder ‘Rastus be fulness, katong crogeax, — €XPelled from dis yer club, ‘count 0” bein’ too ‘ristocratic. Sence Miss Columbine give him a book on etiket he dun bring a fork to dese meetin's ‘stead of a razzer.”” FIRST TRIAL OF WIDOW HOMESTEADER'S CATAPULT. Ovr-rvED MuGaINs (the roaming ranger) — fe . “Ef yer doan’ gimme sunthin’ teat U'l kick th’ hull ,, 9, W!POW Homesteaver (pulling the lever)— — splash!!! inside yer bloomin’ ranch inter th’ river, Sesto?” Ob, I d'no.” Swish !—crack comicbooks.com