Judge, 1894-10-13 · page 4 of 16
Judge — October 13, 1894 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains multiple short humorous sketches typical of late 19th/early 20th-century satirical magazines: **"News From Home"** mocks religious hypocrisy—a man becomes pious, donates church bells, yet the community shuns him anyway. **"Answered"** plays on marital ennui: a husband yawns before his wife because "husband and wife are one"—so he's alone when with her. **"Obvious Fact" and "Sufficiently Explained"** feature domestic comedy about bargain shopping and marital misunderstandings. **"Suggestive"** uses racial dialect humor (common then, offensive now) where two Black characters debate naming their child. **"Poker Terms"** and "Only Thing He Remembered"** contain brief quips about gambling. **"Emblems of Office"** satirizes American identity: a foreigner asks about presidential regalia; an American replies the emblems are a shotgun and fishing rod—mocking American priorities. **The longer pieces** ("To a Girl en Bicyclette," "A Girl of One Mind") address contemporary social anxieties: women's increasing independence (bicycles, unmarried choice) and changing gender roles.
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228 THE JAP ARTIST AND HIS ENEMIES. NEWS FROM HOME, oe HAT has be- Ww come of old Jasper? He used to be one of the most popular men in the village.” “The neighbors rooted him out long ago. There wasn't any peace after he got religion, and they just made it too hot for him.” “ Good gracious! what did he do?” “Made the church a present of a chime of bells.” ANSWERED. SsP)EAR,” asked the wife, “why will you always yawn Before the face that once you so admired 2” Said he, ‘* The husband and the wife are one, And when I ain alone it makes me tired.” OBVIOUS FACT. She —" Because it begins at the bat- tery.” SUFFICIENTLY EXPLAINED. JUDGE SAME THING. Mrs. Gadd —" Bob- bie, will you have some Hamburger steak?” Bobbie (regarding the dish suspiciously) — ah Well, when we're home we call that hash.” EVEN if your son comes in. whistling salvation-army tunes you had better keep a tight hold on the latch-key all the same, Minetta — SUGGESTIVE Rastus, hab yo’ ‘rived t' de ‘clusion whad yo’ am gwine t' name him Husband (in startled anxiety) —" What is the matter, my dear? Your dress is torn, your bonnet is crushed, your shoes have been tranipled upon, and one of your gloves is missing. Did you get caught at a fire or at some political meeting 2” IWife (sweetly, but a little out of breath) — all right. POKER TERMS. “Behind the game.” Neither, dear. It's It is bargain-day, you know, and I've been shopping.” "Rastus—** Yas, Minetta. ONLY THING HE R MEMBERED, HAT was the chief feature of the races “T bet, as usual, on the wrong horse.” EMBLEMS OF OFFICE. Foreigner —" Has not the president of your country some emblem of office like the crown of European rulers?” American—" Nes, sit; the shot-gun and fishing-rod.” T guess we'd bettah call him Hennery.” TO A GIRL EN BICYCLETTE, OLD chap—I beg your pardon, mademoiselle : ‘The error 's mine, likewise on me the joke— But I was going to offer you a smoke, ‘Those togs of yours match mannish ways so well, T have a racy story I must tell, About a— Ah, I'm sorry now I spoke. Confound it ! that’s the second time I've broke The charm a lady's presence should compel. Forgive me if I seem a trifle fazed. Not for the world would I your feelings hurt ; Yet since so delicate a question 's raised You might have done with man’s hat, coat and shirt, As for the rest, while the whole world stares amazed, Opinions are divided—like your skirt, Maney TyWKELL. A GIRL OF ONE MIND. +*CHARLEY saved me from drowning at Newport and George pulled me out at Atlantic City.” “And now you don't know which to marry?” “Oh, yes, Ido. I'm go- ing to marry Fred.” IVORCE is the imperfect remedy of an imperfect social state, comicbooks.conh