Judge, 1894-07-28 · page 3 of 16
Judge — July 28, 1894 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several humorous sketches and text pieces unrelated to politics: **"Several of a Kind"** (top): A drawing-room scene where Mrs. Upperton explains inviting a gambler ("Fat Steedy") in disguise to a card game with Count Backarat to prevent scandal—social satire about Victorian propriety and deception among the upper classes. **"Sentences Passed by the Judge"**: A philosophical piece about human nature and moral flattery, illustrated with a countryside scene. **"Wouldn't Suit His Taste"**: A brief dialogue joke about tramps and snakes. **"Naming the Baby"** and **"Natural Conclusion"**: Humorous verses about baby-naming debates and an ophthalmologist joke. **"A Lesson from Nature"**: A simple joke about tree inclination. The page is primarily **social/domestic humor** rather than political satire, typical of Judge's lighter content.
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SEVERAL OF A KIND. Mrs. Urrenren —'* Who is the strange gentleman at the card-table with Count Backarat ?" Mr. Urrerten—"' Hush, dear! It's Pat Sleedy, the gambler, in disguise. I invited him on purpose to play with the count—so as to save a scandal," SENTENCES PASSED BY THE JUDGE. T IS incredible how nearly right two people can be whose views are so widely different. Though no one may believe in the flatterer, his vice is condoned and his falsehoods never thrust back upon him—perhaps because there is shown the sincerity of his desire to please or gain favor, either through dread or esteem. As Brahma after an eternity of years retracted the scattered atoms of his consciousness and put them together again, he drew a long, long breath. “ What an awful experiment !" said Brahma as he lapsed again into Pralaya and pondered upon it through the silence of another eternity. You may put a plant in the cellar, but you cannot disguise from it the fact of coming spring. If life is not extinct the first warm ray of light will carry its message straight to the heart of it. The plant will thrill with the knowledge of its secret and work upon it until some day We it puts forth the embodiment of its imagination in a tiny signal of green, WOULDN'T SUIT H emblem of life. How the plant knows it is spring is its own secret; Traitr —"* Will dat dog bite, lady?” and how the heart knows the time for its awakening is its secret too. Mrs. Waynack— "Waal, he’s death on st:unks and snakes, but I don't think he'd touch you; he's pretty p'tic‘lar what he gits holt uv !” KATHRINE. GROSIRAN. NAMING THE BABY. (The usual way.) HEY talked of Medora, Aurora and Flora, Of Mabel and Marcia and Mildred and May ; Debated the question of Helen, Honora, Clarissa, Camilla and Phyllis and Fay. ‘They thought of Marcella, Estella and Bella; Considered Cecilia, Jeannette and Pauline Alicia, Adela, Annette, Arabella, And Ethel and Eunice, Hortense and Irene. One liked Theodora, another Lenora ; Some argued for Edith, and some for Elaine, For Madeline, Adeline, Lilly and Lora; And then, after all, they decided on Jane. mL SYLVESTER, NATURAL CONCLUSION. Trévvet— Ophthalmia is a parliament- ary complaint, isn’t it?” es ce Dicer—* What do you mean?” % A LESSON FROM NATURE. Trimet —" thought perhaps it was, EVEREND DooGoon (moralizing)—"* My boy, a one grand lesson presents itself. “As the twig is bent, s0 ig Boy —"' Not on yer tintype [” because the eyes have it. the tree inclied.'” ig $ yer tintype comicbooks.co