Judge, 1894-08-18 · page 10 of 16
Judge — August 18, 1894 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several satirical vignettes typical of Judge's humor: **"And Still the Honors Stay"**: Depicts Wade Jackson Davis (apparently a recognizable Texas figure) boasting about his prowess while a "Bar-Tender Brodie" questions his abilities, suggesting deflated claims. **"A Sea-Side Hermit"**: A man seeks solitude away from society women, but fifteen girls at a nearby hotel spot him through a spyglass. Despite his resistance, he returns to town engaged to ten of them—satirizing male resistance to matrimony as ultimately futile against female persistence. **Short comedic sketches** follow: customer psychology ("reduced from five dollars" makes an item suddenly desirable), a waiter's dialect humor, and marital conflict presented as proof of a woman's striking nature. **"Racing in Hoboken, New Jersey"**: Shows street gambling with crude caricatures, satirizing working-class leisure activities. The page reflects Judge's focus on romantic/gender dynamics, class-based humor, and ethnic dialect comedy typical of early 20th-century American satire.
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‘Wape Jackson Davis —"' Hip-yah-hooray ! out quick! “I'm a Texan, I am: an’ can lick any! A SEA-SIDE HERMIT. HE S810, 11 away to some lonely shore Where billows broaden and sea-tides roar. 1 go and forget the season's maze f dinners, dances, reception-days. Ab, yes; I'll find me some desert scene. Where the footstep of woman has never been.” He roamed to a fishing village quaint, Where he dwelt, like an anchorite or saint, In a moss-grown cottage, all by himself, Under a huge rock's towering shelf. Here he strolled alone on a wide bright beach That stretched as far as the eye could reach, There were fifteen girls at the Surf hotel Who looked through a spy-glass long and well, And who clapped their hands with abandoned vim ‘The day that the spy-glass sighted him ! On the following morn, when this hermit fared Forth from his hut, how he stared and glared At the sun-umbrellas of white and red Over that shining sand-stretch spread ; Where, in groups of two and in groups of three Were girls as pretty as girls could be. “What's this?” he cried. "Do | understand I'm the only man on this wide sea-strand? Ha! I'll foil them yet.” And he turned him round And back to his hut with a single bound. Alas! alas! ‘twas of small avail, ‘The firm resolve of this stern young mac, For he came back late to the busy town From his hut on the sea-sands, rough and brown, Where the éteep rocks rise and the billow curls, Engaged to ten of those fifteen girls, MADRLINE S. ns. AND STILL THE HONORS STAY. How Miss Spinster utilizes her ear-rings, for her pet Bar-tExpER Bropiz—" De Bow'ry?” Wape Jackson Davis—" No; on crutches.” THE SEASON. NOW the fashion-plate girl is off like a cork To take on a new coat of tan; While the type-writer girl stays right in New York And captures a marrying man. AN IRRESISTIBLE INDUCEMENT. Customer —" What is the price of this goods 2” Clerk —"That is four dollars and ninety- nine cents a yard, madam.” Customer—" Oh, that is much too dear.” Clerk —" But it is reduced from five dollars.” Customer —"\s that so? Vl take ten yards.” MORE SATISFACTORY. Guest —" Waiter, bring two boiled eggs.” Waiter —" Boss, couldn't you take dem aigs poached? Hit’s been found mo’ satis- factory all roun’ to open dem aigs in de kitchen,” PROOF POSITIVE, Complimentary friend —" Very striking woman, Mrs. van Snort.” Mr. van Snort ten this very morning. ; she hit me for RACING IN HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY. Tue Bookie —"Coom on; now's ver last chance. ‘Two cents ter one on the Hutter! Mr dren ° gums, thera, Th blaws Bat ¢ can— know, was letin, award cence, With iby th Jur recom iliustr Ex it isa it not comicbooks.com