Judge, 1894-06-23 · page 2 of 16
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This page contains several satirical commentary pieces rather than a single cartoon. The main illustrated section shows "HIS KNOWLEDGE" — a farmer and young man discussing agricultural matters, with the farmer boasting about his experience while the young man appears skeptical. The text pieces mock various contemporary figures and issues: Senator Hill's tariff rhetoric, Mary Washington's divorce prospects, and George Alfred Townsend's poetry. There's commentary on women's independence, child brutality cases, and Canadian flag desecration. One section, "FLAGS," criticizes Americans who disrespect the Canadian flag while drunk, arguing such behavior damages international relations. The final piece discusses American humor lacking refinement compared to British wit. The overall tone is typical Judge satire: mocking political figures, social hypocrisy, and contemporary scandals through brief, sharp commentary.
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GORMAN'S SPEECH — We have made this bill as safe as we can by getting it as nearly like the McKinley law as possible. HERE ARE MUMMIES in the senate-chamber, and your uncle David is kicking them about as if they were totally devoid of sacred- ness. see THE DESIRE of women to vote is called by Dr. Parkhurst a distemper. The failure. of men to vote would be worse than that—it would be a revolution, doubleiree, Youxc Mr. beats old Harry. BULLET-PROOF GOWN for women is light and graceful, and the time is at hand when a young woman may have a sweetheart with considerable safety. eee RAL DAYS have passed since Julia Marlowe married, and there is still no talk of a quarrel or a divorce. But the wires haven't worked well lately. SOME WESTERN CRITICS apparently congratulate Mary Washing- ton on the fact that she died before George Alfred Townsend got in his poetic whacks at her. eee S6 YAP" is Senator Hill's word to describe tariff discussion in the sen- “as the pig remarked of the boarding-house slops: nd mighty poor yap too.” THE_HOTEL without gas must inevitably perish, A writer for the ning Sun reminds an agitated world that it is not adapted to curling-tongs, and thereby hangs a total failure. HE CHARMS of New York take fast hold of those who are acquainted with them. Various members of the Tweed ring preferred a prison here to a palace in exile; and “ Kenny” Sutherland, late of Gravesend. is getting the same happy reward for his love of the finest city in the wortl, As a winter resort it is unrivaled, and as a summer home it is more charming still HIS KNOWLEDGE. Farmer Javacrrs—''T have spent over two hours looking raound fer a Dew yer happen tew hev seen the durn thing?” UP (from the city)—" The stupidity of you farmers Why, there stands your double tree outside the fence.” A JEW, © CHURCH and no race or color estaped the tnunificence of Jesse Seliginan, whose character was purity itself and whose mind was broad enough to cover the universe, It takes « narrow mind to hate a race, and a large one loves humanity out of respect for itself. GO ON WITH THE MARRYING. F IT 1S TRUE that Miss Russell was struck by her last husband, her last separation was unavoidable _ It might better have occurred before her last marriage, but better late than never. The story of her three ex periments is well told and pitiful, and the vindication it establishes is ian- questionable. Indeed. it does more than vindicate. It establishes the lady's tight to have thee or four more husbands within the next ten minutes, BRUTALITY TO A CHILD. ME: McPHERSON transferred his sugar stock to his son with great alacrity. He unloaded his sin without sufficient thought. We do not know what has become of the young man, but he is badly handi- capped. “I found,” said the girl at protracted meeting, “that my new bonnet was dragging me down to perdition, and so I touk it off and gave it to my sister.” What must we think of a man who is thus brutal to his ‘own boy? INDEPENDENCE FOR ALL, CHICAGO LADY, Miss Ada C. Sweet, ex-government official, will deliver the fourth-of-July address at Streator, Illinois, The country has witnessed enough progress to see the propriety of this, but ten years ago it would have created general surpi The independ- ence of woman has come to be ad- mitted as a right, along with her emancipation, and she will present ly celebrate it till she scorches her eyebrows, blows off her fingers with her own cannon, and goes home with the boys in the morning, THAT MAN PAUL. UOTATIONS FROM PAUL on the woman question are feebleness without sense or justice. ‘The woman of Paul's time and she of to day are different persons, and situations have changed along with the evolution of the sex. Some years ago an old ordinance ag wheel vehicles was put in force in Rochester, this state, against a rail- road, and the local authorities were the laughing stock of the world. Paul may have been mean enough for his day, but his meanness was outlawed centuries ago. FLAGS. HEN A CANADIAN gets drunk he has an ardent desire to insult our flag. That is evidence of a hatred of the emblem which is to be regretted by Canadians and United States people alike It is undigi fied and childish, and it is the more unpleasant because the intoxicated person has no antipathy to the flag of any other nation. Still, we can permit ourselves no generous airs. British flags have been torn down in this town more than once, and by persons who had not, the excuse of intoxication. THE BREVITY OF SOME WIT. OSCAR F. ADAMS, writing for The Outlook, regrets that the Ameri- can humor which is most largely circulated lacks the’ culture of Lowell and Irving, or Dickens and Thackeray, and is merely “flippant and smart.” The criticism is fair, but the necessity of brevity accounts for some things. We are a busy people, and the space assigned to the wit and the joker is governed by that tremendous fact. It would be more gratifying to give the entire gun, lock, stock and barrel; but there happens to be room only for the shot. Possibly Mr. Adams is right, too, in his assumption tha the popular American humorist is:jrreverent; but pos- sibly, again, we have given ourselves up too much to the solemnity of sad things, perversely refusing to draw from them a little harness relief or consolation. 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