Judge, 1894-06-09 · page 6 of 16
Judge — June 9, 1894 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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This page contains multiple short satirical pieces typical of late 19th-century American humor: **"A Profitable Story"** depicts a street altercation told in exaggerated ethnic dialect, mocking immigrant speech patterns common in period satire. **"Too Good to Live"** critiques clergy who would reform social clubs by removing alcohol and storytelling—suggesting such "improvement" would destroy the clubs entirely. **"A Natural Curiosity"** jokes about a man falling through a window and being mistaken for a circus performer. **"A Typical Trait"** satirizes Dr. Swampsea, a physician who denounces doctors as "humbugs" while immediately demanding one when his own child is injured—highlighting hypocrisy. Other pieces mock lawyers, magazine editors, tropical diseases, and a clergyman mistaking a cow's sex. The humor relies heavily on ethnic caricature, physical comedy, and character ironies. The artwork features typical period line-drawing style. Most jokes are apolitical, focusing on social foibles and occupational stereotypes rather than current events.
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A PROFITABLE STORY. “De cop came at Beer-Ike wid his club raised, wren just den Beer-Ike pulls his knife an’ — — tanks — —Dat's all de story, Jimmie. TOO GOOD TO LIVE. A NATURAL CURIOSITY. CLERGYMAN tells what the social club should be, The sideboard JOHN HECK trod on a banana- peel and went head first through a must be omitted and the conversation and story-telling must be plate-glass window. Thereupon the owner of the window inquired, and yet when the club is so reformed there won't. With surprise and admiration, “To what circus do you belong, sir? be a club anywhere in this too-excellent world. decorous. He is righ NOT SO BAD AS IIE THOUGHT. Tourist (crossing Rio harbor) Good gracious | What was that—a mosquito ?” Native boatman (placidly)—" Oh, no, seftor ; it was only a shell from one of our gun-boats.” REMEMBERED EARLY TEACHINGS. ’edestrian — Would you take the last cent a man ha "Course | would. I used to be a lawyer, mister.” QUESTIONABLE PARTIALITY. Pandit —"\ shall never send anything to Scribbler’s magazine again ; they kept my MS. a year before returning it.”* Sendit —* They always return mine very promptly.” A TYPICAL TRAIT. Mr, Swampsea — \t is stcange what a blind, superstitious faith people have in physicians. ‘They are the biggest set of humbugs on the earth. They know very little anyhow, and generally not half so much arily intelligent person, From the mo- ment they step from the college they begin to dose and cut and slash" — Bridget—"\t you plaze, sor, Master Tommy hov cut his thumb and it do be bladin’, sor.” Mr. Swampsea— “Tommy cut his thumb ? Good heaven! Send for the doctor, quick !" as an ordi PERHAPS you don’t y suffer so much from A CONSOLATION, cholera when it is called A man died and the neighbors called to offer the condolence that words — cholerine, but the funeral can give, and one began by saying. ‘* You have met with a great loss"— “That's so,” exclaimed the berea but it is the very first night 1 have known whe was in twenty yea is just as lamentable. ay MISTOOK ‘THE SEX, Keverenn Goooman (at the Sundar-sehool frenic)—" This, children, is a calf ; one of the most innovent, harm and defenseless of creatures. — head —and limbs.” Note the gentle timidity heaming from her eye and the subtle witehcry of her — comicbooks.com