Judge, 1894-07-14 · page 5 of 16
Judge — July 14, 1894 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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This 1890s *Judge* page satirizes two distinct targets: **"Fakirs of the Magazines"** (main article): The piece attacks a common practice where popular figures—Buffalo Bill, sports stars, politicians—lend their names to magazine articles they didn't actually write. Instead, ghostwriters and "literary hacks" compose under these celebrities' bylines, defrauding readers and cheapening journalism. The fictional "Continental Symposium" table of contents mockingly lists fabricated articles attributed to famous names like Governor Jerry Mander (likely a political caricature) and entertainer Lillian Russell, exposing the fraud. **"And Night" cartoon strip** (bottom): Three panels mock the "rational dress" or "cycle costume" movement—women's practical bicycle clothing of the era. The joke: a ballet dancer wears the same outfit all day (morning through night), suggesting the garment is so unfeminine or absurd it serves as both daywear and nightwear—a backhanded "compliment" to its practicality while mocking women's fashion reform advocates. Both segments target turn-of-century anxieties about authenticity and social change.
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READY FOR ANYTHING. Mr. Fxiepan— “Dear Miss Grabber, may I dare to hope that some day you HE READS THE PAPERS, will be my wife?” Moturr—'* How comes it that your shirt is on wrong-side-out and one Miss Granbex —“* You may, Henry; and the sooner the better. Get your stocking missing? Have you been swimming?” life insured and the license to-morrow. We'll get married the day after. Delays Son—"' Well, mother, if you're going to be an investigating committee are dangerous,” I simply can’t remember anything about it.” THE HAMMOCK, 1°S nice to lie and while’ the time away ‘These summer days, by truant fancy led ; But while you doze you do not feel so gay To wake and find you're standing on your head, Your relator further represents that the articles published purporting to be from the pens of College President Duns Scotus, General Biggun, Governor Jerry Mander, Agitator Stryker, and others of that class, are never written by the parties whose signatures are appended, but by their private secretaries or literary hacks, to the shameful prostitution of honest literature. Your relator begs to present as evidence the table of contents of a popular magazine, to wit, the Continental Sym- writer and journalist, doth respectfully petition your posium, which may be taken as a fair sample of most of the honor that an injunction may issue upon the intro- current magazines, and will illustrate the statements above duction into the field of magazine literature of cer- 4 - made. FAKIRS OF THE MAGAZINES. To JUDGE — Your relator, by profession a tain sundry and diverse characters popularly and commonly known as Buffalo Bill, Samson San- dow, et al, and also to the introduction in the same field of divers and various high officials, governors, presidents, etc., which introduction or custom is to the injury of professional journalists and the public and to the prejudice of good literature. Your relator respectfully represents that this after-dinner habit of modern magazines against which he complains degenerates the essay into the toast and response, thus defrauding the public, and that the dime-muscum idea now so generally adopt- ed is an infringement upon the rights of writers. ‘A. DKESSING CASE. TABLE OF CONTENTS. “How I Tied Up the Great Northern.” - - - James Hogan “State Militia in a S = Governor Joun P. Attcrio “The Industrial Movement of 1894." - = + + J.S. Coxey “Sugar and Domestic Service.” - - - Senator McPherson Te Gog Bale of Jacksoovile. | Cialis Conner + CAPTAIN A, Anson + + William Datton “Oh, Where is My Love Tonight?” Poem, Lillian Russell And your relator prays that the injunction asked for be made perpetual. Jonn TostAs. MAN isa standing interrogation confronting the Eternal, MORNING, i Mager x ae WZ Wi WZ. NG AND NIGHT, Extract from contemporary cycle press. ‘* The present cycle costume is by all means the most practical.” Miss Skipperani of che ballet finds this true—one costume lasts her all day. comicbooks.com