Judge, 1894-09-15 · page 4 of 16
Judge — September 15, 1894 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains several short satirical pieces typical of Judge's humor: **"Too Good a Judge"** mocks a man whose dog was supposedly an excellent judge of character (particularly "tramps"), but the dog bit him after the races—suggesting the dog's judgment failed, or the man himself is disreputable. **"He Knew English"** features a German immigrant ("Mr. Bierkmauer") mangling English grammar, a common ethnic stereotype of the era used for comedy. **"By the Deep Sea"** contrasts a romantic man's poetic musings about ocean foam with his companion's practical thought—she sees it as embroidery patterns, deflating his sentimentality. **"Finger-Bowls"** jokes about a child's first fancy dinner; he judges the hosts as "not very fine people" because wealthy guests didn't wash hands until after dinner—showing innocent misunderstanding of etiquette. **Baseball humor** references pitcher performances at "the Rialto" (appears to be a venue). **"Further Legislation Needed"** references "General Coxey," likely Coxey's Army (1894 unemployment protest), with homeless men discussing road-building bills. The page is primarily light social satire and domestic humor.
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JUDGE ROMAUNT. HE wore coat of shining mail, A visor closed and tight ; Like to a soldier of crusades ‘And wars he was bedight. And when with wassail good and Pipes He filled the dusk with light, The neighbors knew there was a sound Of revelry by knight. J J. MeeMAn, TOO GOOD A JUDGE. Wagstagf —* Where's that famous dog of yours that was such a good judge of tramps?” Hopscotch—" | was obliged to give him away. To be frank, when I came home from the races the other night he bit me.” GETTING IT RIGHT IN THE FYE, HE KNEW ENGLISH. Mr. BIEKMAvER (to cousin just over)—"* Vot you do wonter, ish this lan- n, den you get ‘long I'don’t think, ain‘d it, somehow—dot's vot I dun- guage no I did, BY THE DEEP SEA, HEY were watching the foam as it trailed itself in strange, fantastic shapes along the yellow sands, “ How wonderful, how mys- terious is the sea!” exclaimed Paul. * How superior in its ma- jestic naturalness it is to all the achievements of art. ‘Think, darling, into what beautiful, har- monious forms yon bubbling foam is wrought.” “1am thinking,” replied Fantine, catching his enthusiasm, “thinking what lovely embroid- ery patterns it would make.” FINGER- BOWLS. Mamma —" He enjoy yourself, dear? Bobby (who has dined out for the first time)—" Pretty well, I got rather tired, though, and I don’t think the Hautons can be such very fine people, for not one of the big folks washed his hands till after dinner.” did. you ‘Twirler, the phenomenal pitcher, who struck out twenty men and held his opponents down to a sin- gle scratch hit—Monday evening on the Rialto. LARGE BIRDS. S6\YJA-AL,” said Farmer Cranberry of New Jersey as he looked for the first time on the grated windows of a large insane-asylum, “they must have bigger mosquitoes here than we have at home.”* FURTHER LEGISLATION NEEDED. First wanderer —" What's yer mind on to now, Swopsey ?” Second wanderer—"\ was sayin’ to meself that if Gin'ral Coxey gits his good-roads bill 'roo, congress oughter wote us fellers bicycles.” LI, FATE. ler, the pitcher, who struck out five times, made eleven errors and got touched up for twenty-nine hits with a total of forty-four bases—Tuesday evening on the Rialto. THE IRONY OF BAS! five base hits, Tuomas (eestatically)—"* Ves, sir.” HOIST BY HIS OWN ‘Tuomas ( boy's licking) — find, sir.” ‘Tracitex —" That will do nicely, Thomas ; and — PETARD, glorious anticipation of the other is is the smallest switch I could —you are the young rascal to whom I referred." comicbooks.com