Judge, 1893-11-25 · page 4 of 16
Judge — November 25, 1893 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains short satirical jokes typical of late 19th-century American humor, with accompanying illustrations. Key pieces: **"Hard Times"**: A razor personified laments that economic depression means fewer customers shaving—a play on the phrase "strapped for cash." **"Not Misapplied"**: A pun where a wife calls her husband an "old porcupine," and the boarder notes this is apt since he's a "quill-driver" (newspaper writer using quills). **"Doom of the Fittest"**: Turkeys discuss one becoming thin—likely Thanksgiving/holiday season commentary using evolutionary language. **"Incompatible Strains"**: References ethnic/religious prejudice, where a man's friends warned him about his fiancée's "Jewish extraction"—capturing period antisemitic attitudes. **"The Kerridge Did It"**: Irish immigrant dialect humor about a woman abandoning a policeman's son for a gentleman with a carriage. **"Blood Tells"**: A working-class child names his baby after wealthy children's literature characters, but plans to keep him home shoveling coal—satirizing class pretension. The humor reflects Gilded Age social anxieties, ethnic stereotyping, and class dynamics.
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* These hard times are affecting me,” ‘The razor said and gaped. * No barber shaves my owner now. I've never been so strapped.” NOT MISAPPLIED. ep) IDNT you hear the news- paper man and his wife quarreling last night ?” asked the talkative boarder as he sat down at the breakfast-table. “No. What were they saying?” “ [heard her call him an ‘old porcupine.’ “ Well, that’s all right. Isn't he a quill-driver ?” MODERN PROGRESS. She—"You have been away in the country, haven't you?" Visiting some people I used to know when She—" Particular friends ?” a) DOOM OF THE FITTEST. Mr. Turkey—"'Sce here, Mrs, Turkey ! He—"Oh, no, Father and mother.” you're getting so miserably thin I'm ashamed Mas. Turkey—‘‘And I think you've THE FOOT-BALL PLAYER. ‘© PUT the other side to rout, He tried to score a touch-down ; And now he cannot move about Unless he puts his crutch down. DREADFUL. Miss Snipper—* Did you hear that Mr. Hussey is dead ?” Miss Nipper—" Oh, dear me, no! and poor Mrs. Hussey with carpets all up and curtains all down. How very terrible !" NO OFFEN: Darnley —"You made a te- mark in my hearing last night, to the effect that my wife had a circus air about her. What did you mean, sir?” Bailey—" Five rings, Darnley.” A FARE petitioner—The horse- car conductor. ‘es o' yourn! How yo" ‘spects I's gwine ter father gives him a worse heah wot dis gemplum’s a-tellin’ me?” of you, You're liable to drop off any time. lost yours already.” T think you're going to lose your mind,” THE COUPON CRAZE. OUR youth, ere long, will searcely feel Content unless he gets A coupon for a coffin in Each pack of cigarettes, INCOMPATIBLE STRAINS. She—"\ can never marry you.” Why not?” You are the son of a He—"Well, my friends have always warned me you were of Jewish extraction, but I refused to believe it.” DAN Casey —"* Yer sweared ye'd be true to me, Anastasia Dooley. Axastasia DooLey —"'Oi did; but the daughter uv er man wot's a perleece ossifer an’ a gintleman can't walk whin she takes her airing. It's the kerridge wot ketched me.” “WILD ASSES.” “pe YOU think the senate was prop- erly characterized as the ‘refuge of minorities’?” “No. It should be styled the insane-asylum of majoritie AWFUL! He—"1 dreamed of you last night.” She (of Boston) — “Oh, Mr. Foster (blush- ing furiously), were you asleep, too?” A TRIAL, Friend —" What are you going to call the BLOOD’ TELL baby FAuntirKoy Rovat Citateintp Butrs— ‘1 wish 1 was Young mother (sadly) Patsy O'Brien.” —4) Mont knows His Mrs, Burts—"* Why! What does the child mean?" Fauntieroy Rovat Cuatriey Burrs—" He ain't got him a. to go to school to-morrow, he hain't, He's goin’ to stay home name every night. and shovel in ten tons of coal.” comicbooks.com