Judge, 1894-09-29 · page 7 of 16
Judge — September 29, 1894 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains multiple unrelated comic sketches and jokes typical of Judge's satirical format. Key pieces include: **"A Practical Impossibility"**: Depicts homeless or destitute men attempting to play the children's game "Button, Button" but lacking even a button—satirizing extreme poverty. **"The Vanity of Man"**: A tramp cynically misinterprets a poor woman's charity, assuming she's romantically interested rather than pitying. The joke mocks male vanity and self-deception. **Various social vignettes** mock pretension: a man claiming poetry won't impress his own wife; a parson's polite lie about homemade wine; card cheating; and college accomplishments. **"Pleasant Reminiscences"**: Grandfather nostalgically recalls childhood mischief and corporal punishment, normalizing harsh discipline—reflecting period attitudes toward child-rearing. The overall theme is social hypocrisy, vanity, and the gap between appearance and reality. The sketches use working-class and rural characters to satirize human nature rather than targeting specific political figures or events.
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A PRACTICAL IMPOSSIBILITY, pards ; jes’ ter kill time let's play dat old childhoods game, ‘ Tutton, button, who's got de button?” Dewey Eave—" Say, 1 “Yes, yes; but where are we goin’ ter git a button?” Huncry Hicern: THE VANITY OF MAN. GE brought out a lunch, this pitying maid, ‘Yo the tramp, ‘neath the linden-tree. He thanked her, but inwardly chuckled and said, “« There's another girl mashed on me.” GEORGE #. DRVYR, NOT WITHOUT HONOR, EXCEPT— Pennyroyal—"\s funny; V have never * yet seen a woman who did not rave over Drivley’s poetry f Citric —" You have never met Drfviey’s wife, then ?” HAD THE KEEPING QUAL: ITIES. Mrs. Dewdrop— This elderberry wine is'some of my own make, parson, Do'you think it will keep?” ONE OF THE TRICKS AT CARDS. Parson Tester (tasting) -—" There Picture of Brown holding four aces and trying to‘look as if they is no question about it, ma‘am.”” were only a pair of deuces, 4 3. Bowery,.eight p.m, DIDN’T EXPECT ANYTHING DIFFERENT. S6\VAS the prize that Charlie got |* at college for brain or brawn?" * Brain, 1 think.” “Well, Charlie always was.eccen- 4 tric.” : PLEASANT REMINISCENCES. “GRANDPA—" Tommy. was it you who set the fatstrap so as to catch the speckled lhen by the neck?” ‘ : ol . “Tomsty—"' Ves, sir; but” — “THe see AE procialms tbe a Graxpra —"Oh, that's all right, Tommy. * always getting licked with a rubber hose, like this.” js Shakespeare once avowes When I was a boy I was jest the same way—always And so I know when Cholly 's near up to some wickedness and wild pranks like that, His trousers are so loud. and —— comicbooks.com