Judge, 1894-08-25 · page 6 of 16
Judge — August 25, 1894 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several unrelated humorous sketches typical of Judge's satirical style: **"A Superlative Insult Resented"** depicts a baseball captain and player arguing, with the player upset at being compared unfavorably to a hippopotamus—establishing the crude, physical humor common to the era. **"She Never Had Any Chance"** satirizes class attitudes about women's education. Annie Fosdick complains her father denied her music and art lessons to make her a housekeeper, yet she became excellent at domestic work anyway. The sketch mocks both patriarchal restrictions on women and the ironic outcome. **"Rebuking His Greed"** is a brief tramp joke about poverty and appetite. **"Quite Different"** plays on the distinction between "poet" and "verse-writer for magazines"—mocking commercial versus serious literature. **"S.P.C.A."** and **"Answered the Purpose"** are brief social vignettes about mosquito-killing and a woman stopping a streetcar—minor observations of everyday life treated as comedy. The cartoons reflect Victorian-era attitudes toward class, gender, and labor with gentle, domestic humor rather than sharp political critique.
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Cartan SkeLLY (Ai “Come now, Jack. old mess 0° de blues on ye rig, but play int ‘I chip in fer yer yer.” umpire RST-MASEMAN SCONNOK (uejecteds yy —"""Tain't de fine, cap. Ver know my fluke yesteddy, strikin’ out t'ree times wien dey was t'ree men on bases an’ two out each time. Yer also knows dat 1 kin hit litenin’ balls fer homers dat looks no bigger 'n marbles w'en dey cum at me. No. cap; dat new jay manager jes’ told me he had er big bass fiddle fer me ter hit de ball wid t-day, an’ I don’t stan’ no sech cracks ef I gits blacklisted {rum de league, See?" | REBUKING HIS GREED. S67 SAY, Wattsey,” said a tramp to rs the keeper feed the hippepot- amus, “don't yer wish yer had a mouf like dat?” | Vet yer I don't. It's too hard | fillin’ de one 1 got.” his p the two. stood watchi ight busters! How we gwine tote ‘em t! wunst ?" JUDGE SHE NEVER HAD ANY CHANCE. 66] WAS always discriminated against in our family,” said impetuous Annie Fosdick in a burst of confidence to the handsome and eligible Arthur Barrowcliff. “ How so, Miss Fosdick?” “ Why, my older sister had any quantity of money lavished on her accomplishments, but when it came to poor me I was left out in the cold, 1 wanted very much to learn to sing. 1 thought I had a good voice; but papa said no, Then I thought I'd Lke to take piano-lessons and become a famous player, but papa put his foot on that. Then I suggested that I be allowed to take china-painting lessons like ail the other girls. He wouldn't have it. The same way with everything else. Papa said he was determined that one of his da ters should learn to be a housekeeper and not be filled up with useless accomplishments. That's what he called them. And the consequence is that not a gitl I know is a better housekeeper than | am, better than he gets in any restaurant in the city. Sur—" He He—" Oh, magazines. AN INSPIRATION, “* Whad's mattah wid dis idee?" QUITE DIFFERENT. is a poet, isn’t he?” no. Ie writes verses for the leading Ican cook things that papa says are . but I don’t know how to play a single tune on the "— “My dear—A ie—er—beg_par- don, Miss Fosdicl ied Mr. Barrow- lift, interrupting her. “I can control myself no longer. I love you to dis- traction. Will you marry me?” “Yes, Arthur,” replied Annie coy- ly as she nestled her curly yellow head on the young man’s white vest. ANSWERED THE PURPOSE. ILE woman whistled to stop the car ‘And it stopped short as she bid it; But it wasn’t the whistle, but more by far ‘The face that she made, that did it. S.P.C. A. Mistress —" Jones, Jones! don't kill that mosquito. Open the window immediately and let it go.” Jones—" But it’s rainin’, mum. It'll die.” Mistress—" Never mind, At least it will die a natural death.” Success complete. comicbooks.com