Judge, 1894-03-10 · page 7 of 16
Judge — March 10, 1894 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains multiple satirical pieces typical of late-19th/early-20th-century Judge magazine: **"Mr. Goldgrabber et al."** depicts a Jewish immigrant character speaking in exaggerated dialect, complaining about poverty and his family's financial struggles. The humor relies on ethnic stereotyping common to the era—portraying Jewish immigrants as penny-pinching and desperate. **Other brief jokes** include "Wifely Devotion" (a wife sells her husband's coat to buy herself luxuries), "The Ruling Propensity" (a dark joke about a drunk man and his wife), and "For the Marines" (a mild pun). **"An Order by Telephone"** and **"A Tea-Party"** are sight gags with minimal text. **"The Risk of Teaching"** contains deeply offensive racial caricatures and dialect, depicting Black men in dehumanizing ways typical of the period's casual racism. The page reflects Judge's reliance on ethnic and racial stereotyping as humor—content that would be considered highly offensive today but was normalized in American satirical publications of this era.
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JUDGE 151 MR. GOLDGRABBER ] moaea|racis ET AL. H Fy bx S6ACH! dot vill do far Moses to vear since he got troo blayin’ der races,” said Mr. Goldgrabber to the friendly cop the other morn- _ ing as he carefully picked a collar out of the mud on Third avenue, where some careless reveler had thrown it the night before. “Yah: his mudder can vash id oud und sew ub de buddon-holes, und dot vill be shust righd fur Moses. Ach! I don'd know vhat ve goin’ to do if peesniss don’d pig ub preddy quig. Rachel vill haf to stob dagin’ dose biano- lessons, dot's all dere vas aboud id. My son Jacob gomes in last veeg und say, here vas a pawn-tigid fur von dollar dot he puy obf a hungry anarchist fur ten cends. Id vas a elegand lod obf cudlery vorth ten dollars, be say, und he vant a dollar und a quarder to ged id oud; bud I say nod mudge. Gif me dot tigid und I go ub und bay a quafder und loog ad dot cud!ery; AN ORDER BY TELEPHONE. bud he say no, und so his mudder she say she vant dot cudlery preddy bad, und she, _ HERT20G (tho has just connected swith the glass company)— gif him dot dollar und a quarder; und vhat do you dink it vas? A lod obf bieces ohf 52+, shoost proke me mein vinder alretty unt I vould like you : ‘ to zend me von piece aboud so long unt aboad so vide to fix me sheet-iron dot vouldn't cut sheeze, und ve gouldn’t gif ‘em avay. Dot's vhat gomes it up all right.” obf havin’ a son dot vants to go into peesniss fur himself. Ach!" And Mr. Goldgrabber spat viciously at the side- walk and went inside and kicked over an empty collar-box. IGNORANT, YOU KNOW. Primus—" What! you just from a visit to Miss Dawson?” Secundus—" Yes. Why?" Primus—' Why, | rang there ten minutes ago and that new English but ler told me she was out." Secundus—" You greenhorn! You should have tipped him before “you asked.” FOR THE MARINES. Teacher —“ Why do they speak of crocodiles’ tears ?” ight boy—" For the same reason that they say that whales blubber.”” WIFELY DEVOTION. (+ REGINALD has a fit of economy on him, mamma, and I do all I can to encourage him.” “1 always told him you would make a good wife, Mary.” “Yes, I sold his dress-coat for seventeen dollars last week and it was just enough to buy me a new morning wrapper.” THE RULING PROPENSITY. Wagg les —* What a shocking tragedy! A drunken man goes home and when his wife, who has waited up for him, puts her arms about his neck he kills her.” Jaggles—"Did she live long enough to tell the story?” Waggles— Yes, Her last words were, ‘I didn’t know he was loaded.’ ” THE RISK OF TEACHING. *T doan’ know nuffin’ ‘bout poker, but T'l jes’ cum in t’ Mr. THomPson—'* Not much, dis niggah don’t, I learned one niggah an’ be sociable, an’ yo’ kin learn me de game.” hit cost me free dollars an’ sebenty-six cents.” comicbooks.com |