Judge — June 9, 1894 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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# Page 361 Analysis 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.