Judge, 1894-09-22 · page 3 of 16
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# Analysis of Page 179 from Judge Magazine This page contains multiple short satirical pieces and illustrations mocking social conventions and domestic relations of the era. The top cartoon, "He Knew the Sex," depicts a man lounging while a woman stands, illustrating jokes about courtship and gender dynamics—specifically a man claiming victory in romance after a quarrel. Below are several brief comedic vignettes with titles like "Acquiring Knowledge," "Dangerous," and "Poor Things!" that mock suburban life, women's education, and marital concerns typical of late 19th/early 20th-century Judge humor. "How True!" jokes about women's manipulation of suitors, while "Just the Place" satirizes boarding-house life. The illustrations show stock character types—well-dressed men and women in period clothing—representing familiar social situations the magazine's audience would recognize. The humor relies on period gender stereotypes and domestic anxieties rather than specific political events.
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HE KNEW THE SEX. —"‘ Congratulate me, old man ; I've won her love at last.”” Has she accepted you?” ACQUIRING “KNOWLEDGE. {SS TOUNE says she is so glad she went to a farm this summer; otherwise she might never have known that leghorn fowls were so named from the horns growing from their ankles. DANGEROUS. Mrs. Quigger (who lives in the suburbs)—" The woman who has moved in next door is going to open a boarding-house.” Quigger —" Then I'll have to get that fence repaired. We mustn't have our hens stray- ing into her back-yard.” POOR THINGS! Jibbles —" The trouble I find with Meggs’s writings is that there is no life in them.” Kidkins —" No; all his thoughts are still-born.”” IN CHICAGO. Sue—" 1 will marry you, George, since you wish it so 7 much, but I tell you frankly [ can never love you so much as my poor dead husband.” Hz —"'I suppose you did love poor John very much.” “don’t mean John, I mean the one before him,” HOW TRUE! HE girls generally handle without gloves the fellows to whom they give the mitten. JUST THE PLACE. Fussanfeathers —* What | would like in a boarding- place would be to be surrounded with lively, musical people, with whom I weuld not be expected to mingle.” Jardown—* How would Bloomingdale suit you?” ACCOMMODATING. Uncre Witpwest (as Ais nephew suddenly leaps behind him)—* Quick! pint yet enemy out ter me an’ I'll drop him in his tracks ‘for’ he kin draw.” Nepuew—"Ahem! It's my tailor.” SOPORIFICS. OME preachers have the queerest way Consistent to the text to keep ; ‘They tell us we should “* watch and pray.” And then they talk us all to sleep, comicbooks.co