Judge, 1894-01-13 · page 5 of 16
Judge — January 13, 1894 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several unrelated humorous cartoons and brief comedic sketches typical of Judge's satirical style: **"Lionizing a Napoleonic Coincidence"** mocks Jewish immigrants (depicted with stereotypical accents) celebrating a servant's birthday coinciding with Cohen's "fifteenth successful failure"—satirizing both ethnic prejudice and business incompetence. **"Wonderful Genius"** jokes that a woman's ability to bake decent bread after cooking school is treated as remarkable talent. **"Snowballing"** and other sketches offer gentle domestic humor about childhood mischief and parental decisions. **"The Latest Thing"** ridicules fashion vanity—buying an oversized overcoat intentionally to fold up at the bottom, treating impracticality as style. The page also includes a "Rastus and the Decoy Duck" comic strip (right side, unclear narrative). Overall, the content reflects late-19th/early-20th-century American humor: ethnic stereotyping, gender roles, class commentary, and absurdist domestic situations—typical of Judge's middle-class readership appeal.
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21 SEQUEL TO 'RASTUS AND “THE DECOY LIONIZING A NAPOLEONIC COINCIDENCE. Goupstein—''I don'd see vy dose Heprew shents maig so much oxcidement ofer Cohen's dirty-sevunt’ birt'day.”” SitxnKim—"* You didn’d read dot nodice alretty. Cohen's fifdeent’ sugcessful failure habbens on dot same date.” WONDERFUL GENIUS. ey DECLARE! Louisa is a perfect marvel.” “Tell me how you discov- ered it.” “She makes the loveliest bread I ever tasted.” “There's nothing marvel- ous about that.” “I don't know, Louisa at- tended a cooking-school for two winters.” SNOWBALLING. XPERIENCE makes the kid admit Fate is perverse, alas! The easiest thing by far to hit Is still the pane of glass. CONSIDERATE, DEMONSTRATIO! T IS not often that parents are __ Mrs, SkANTPHERD—"'I hear, Mr, Flaw, that you are a so thoughtful of everything spiritualist” vou have been motormea, maram, Penang. 10 their children’s I'm a.confirmed materialist, "A bit of the breast this time, i Welfare as a man in Westchester you please.” county. A guest at the house asked his host what his little son's name was and found out to his surprise that it was Richard Protem Gillespie. “That's a very strange middle name,” he said. “ What on earth possessed you to give the boy such a name?” “Oh,” replied his host, ““we wanted that to show that the name was only temporary. We thought the boy might want to change his name when he got old enough to know what he wanted.” THE LATEST THING, Briccs—'* Say, old man, isn’t that overcoat Griccs—“* Not a bit of it. I got it that trifle long for you?” way on purpose, old chap, so I could turn it up at the bottom. comicbooks.com