Judge, 1894-04-28 · page 3 of 18
Judge — April 28, 1894 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains six separate humorous vignettes typical of Judge magazine's satirical style. The sketches mock various social situations rather than target specific political figures: **"Forgetting"** and **"Truthful Thomas"** joke about absent-mindedness and awkward social honesty. **"Generous Man"** satirizes wealthy men's selective charity. **"It Just Happened That Way"** appears to ridicule men making excuses about their wives' involvement in decisions. **"Ineligible"** and **"Communion Sunday"** offer domestic humor about marriage and social etiquette. **"Different Now,"** **"Thoughtful Girl,"** and **"Money Talks"** comment on changing gender roles, family dynamics, and materialism. The central figure in a long coat illustrates an advertising-style message: "I Need Thee Every Hour." These are character-driven comedies reflecting turn-of-the-century American middle-class anxieties rather than partisan political satire.
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HE WAS PREPARED. Ronner—"* Hold up your hands !* FORGETTING. A SOUL. there was who, dying unconfessed Of some old sin, in heaven was thus addressed: If to full joys thou canst not enter in ‘Tis for the sin of forgetting thou didst si KATHRINE TRUTHFUL THOMAS. Tattered Tommy—* Your cousin, mum, Mrs. Smart, mum, at the other end of the J as how, if I would apply to you, you would be sure to give me a good meal, mum,” Mrs, Easy—* And why didn’t Mrs. Smart meal ?" ny —"She said as how, mum, that you was so much quicker than she to recognize true worth, mum.” GENEROUS MAN. First business-man —"1 understand old Gripem left a lot of money. Did he leave any of it for charitable purposes ?” Second business-man— Ves; \e(t it all to his children, ‘They are all grown men.” First businessman —" But how is that charity 2” Second business-man—" Keeps some one else from taking care of them.” } y i \ f Fey SPAYING {hata soap hil | NEED THEE EVERY: HOUR IT JUST HAPPENED THAT WAY. It may have been a mere coincidence, but Mr. Lushforth will never be convinced that his wife didn’t set the bottle in just that place on purpose. UNNECESSARY WARNING. Aunt ‘Lizy --'t Yo! fool niggah, come away frum dat dah hoss wid dat drum! Does yo" wanter cause er runerway 2” Rancno Bit—" Certingly !" INELIGIBLE, 66 A RE you going to be queen of the May this year?” “No, I'm barred out. I haven't had a sign of a cold in the head this spring.” COMMUNION SUNDAY. Grandpa (wo little Mabel, who has at- tended church for the first time)—“And how did you like the services, my dear ?"” Mabel—“Oh, very well. The music was nice; and they had refreshments.” DIFFERENT NOW. Barlow — Before you were married you were full of theories about managing a wife. How did they turn out, McBride ?” McBride —"*It is a condition and not a theory which confronts me now.” THOUGHTFUL GIRL. Mrs. Jacobs— Ena, you know we expect the new boarder to-night. Is the family bible put away Eva —" Better than that, ma. I have left one of my pictures in his bureau-drawer, accidentally, and marked it, ‘October 15th, 1893, aged nineteen.’ " MONEY TALKS. Samaty—'' Good deeds speak for demselves, don'd dey, fader?” Isaacstein —"* Yes, Sammy ; if dey vas on imbroved real-estate.”” comicbooks.com