Judge, 1893-12-16 · page 10 of 16
Judge — December 16, 1893 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This page contains six separate satirical sketches typical of Judge's humor circa early 1900s: **"The Way of the World"** (top): A sequential cartoon showing how workers do labor while others take credit—depicting dogs doing actual work while a figure in a top hat receives praise. **"The Critic"** and **"Practical"**: Contrasting poems mocking pretentious literary criticism versus practical concerns (a woman preferring dove-wing decorations for her hat to actual flight). **"Near Chicago"**: A brief dialogue joke about a "Weary Walker" wanting to use a "movable sidewalk" to rest without police harassment. **"The Hateful Small Brother"**: A joke about a precocious child embarrassing adults. **"Dangerous Medicine"** and **"Pious Scruples"**: Short humor pieces—one about black pepper as medicine, another about American tourists in Paris being scandalized by candle-lit rooms. **"Alcohol Horrors"**: A punchline where a Colonel's sympathy for fire victims shifts dramatically upon learning whiskey was destroyed. The overall tone reflects Judge's genteel satire of American society, social pretension, and Victorian sensibilities.
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THE WAY OF THE WORLD; OR, HOW ‘SOME! DO’ THE- WORK AND .OTHERS GET THE CREDIT. THE CRITIC, PRACTICAL. YON critic sits with fingers drumming brow, ‘OH, FOR the wings of a dove!" she sang Deep merged in heavy doubt—for how As she lifted her eyes and curled her bang ; Will he engage some latch-string hanging out Not that she wanted to fly, but that Some maga’ door to air his thoughts about She thought they'd be nice to trim her hat. The senseless verse that poets seem to grind In countless cycles, working woe to mind? ees »/. NEAR CHICAGO. A fancy steps his brain and he indites A funny stanza to the fool who writes )\e7 Oliver Wragges —“ Where be you headin’ In measured feet the verses men so hate— i ae kr, ud (em S\ fur? I've never seen you hurry before * ey) Weary Walker —* Don't ‘delay me— I'm Parerct U oY py. ~ late already, but they say the movable sidewalk Mili Yilii—— 79> is still in operation, 1 want to lie on it once, and THE HATEFUL SMALL’ BROTHER. 7 no policeman can club me for not movin’ on.” “ Bobby, do the gentlemen think Lam prett “Theard Mr. Lane say if you passed a the street he would be sure to turn and look back.” ‘hat was nice.” “Particularly, he said, if you were going the And finds next morn a check beneath his plate. DANGEROUS MEDICINE, Mrs. Moddlin (newspaper in hand) —** Here’s a solemn warning for you, Daniel. A man in Kansas took six glasses agon Mr. Modilin —"\ don't wonder at that. Biack pepper is mighty powerful stuff.” PIOUS SCRUPLES, [PWS the first night of an American family in Paris. When they were ushered into their apart- ments at the hotel one of the young ladies noticed with surprise that the rooms were lighted with candles. She stood for a moment absorbed in thought and then, turning to her mother, said, Tur Mr—"¥ the house was entirely consumed by the flames, along with “Mamma, isn't this fifteen people who were in’ it at the time.” THE COLONEL—"* Very sad, indeed" t Mk.—"*Also ten barrels of twenty-year-old Bourbon pa? Tite CoLONEL—"* Great heavens, what a horrible accident most too high church for comicbooks.com