Judge, 1894-06-09 · page 3 of 16
Judge — June 9, 1894 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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This page from *Judge* contains multiple satirical sketches and humorous vignettes rather than a unified political cartoon. The content includes: **"Self-Evident"**: A courtroom scene mocking baseball season's beginning. **"Pleading His Own Case"**: A judge criticizes a man for promising marriage then backing out, noting "marriage is a lottery." **"The Nineteenth-Century Girl"**: Verse satirizing educated women's pretentious learning in French, Latin, Greek philosophy, and classical references while remaining impractical. **"British Reflections"**: A fashion/mirror joke about women's hat sizes. Various other sketches mock topics like horse-trading, train stations, and social conventions. The humor targets gender roles, education, class pretension, and everyday absurdities typical of 1890s-era satirical magazines.
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EVIDENT. season has really begun, PLEADING HIS OWN CASE. SS YOU promised this woman to marry her,” exclaimed the judge indignantly, “and now you meanly want to back out of it.” “Your honor,” replied the defendant, “ marriage is a lottery, and by the laws of this state lotteries are prohibited.” THE PLACE TO STAY. oe From Greenland’s icy mountains,” The poet sings—but, oh, While summer heat intense is No poet in his senses From them would ever go. ON THE “L.” Passenger—* Guard, was that last station Bleecker? Guard —" Yap." Passenger — "Why the deuce didn’t you call it plainer?” Guard —" What'd be the -use 0° me callin’ it Plainer when it's named Bleecker ?” A SATISFACTORY REFLECTION. Miss ADDIE Pose— ‘Oh, aren't convex mirrors just lovely! I shall have to get papa to buy me one.” THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY GIRL. LER accomplishments were many—she could talk in French and Latin, She was up in Greek and logic and in art ; She was mistress of «vsthetics, and poetics she was pat in, Almost ev'ry line of Kant she knew by heart. She'd discourse for hours on ethics, talk of Jupiter and Venus, And she never wearied of philosophy ; How she'd talk of Pan and Clio, of Minerva and Silenus, And of ev'ry figure in mythology ! If you'd dare to interrupt her she would straight display much choler, ‘Then go on discussing sun and moon and tide ; But with all her many talents she could never make a dollar Purchase more than fifty cents’ worth, if she tried. 26.1. A CONEY -ISLAND LUNCH. weed mea glass of sarsaparila and one of Gwar poe eM ANDARD ANIMAL those: tHed-cat oLUst4iN —"* Dot's a fine-loogin’ horse vou god. Vot you gall him? ‘Ach! I'm obliged to gall dot horse Silver Vollar — pecause he ain'd bud half as Waiter (calling) —" One sass an’ a crawler.” ” comicbooks.com