Judge, 1894-12-22 · page 4 of 16
Judge — December 22, 1894 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains several satirical pieces typical of late-19th-century American humor: **"Lager Rhythms from Lager"** uses exaggerated German-immigrant dialect (phonetic misspellings like "dher" for "the") to mock both German immigrants and contemporary issues—Chinese soldiers, medicine fraud, and urban discomforts. The dialect humor was standard period fare. **"The Hunting Season"** shows adults and children with guns, satirizing casual American attitudes toward firearms and child safety. **"The Judge's Christmas Tree"** lists sentimental holiday gifts alongside crude jokes, poking fun at the gap between Christmas's supposed gentility and actual behavior. **"A New Publisher"** depicts a publisher discussing an "anthropological work" with suspicious winking—likely mocking sensationalized pseudo-scientific books popular at the time. **"Irony of Fate"** shows two gentlemen on a train platform; one notes the departing train's dining-car announcement, the joke being the irony of calling dinner when the train's already leaving. The overall tone reflects Judge's satirical approach to contemporary American society, immigrant populations, and publishing trends.
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JUDGE LAGER RHYTHMS FROM LAGER. PDHER batent-medicine shwindlers, like anuder beoples dhis coldt weath- er, vhas apt to suffer from exposure. « It would abbear dot dher Chineses soldiers fight like dhem sprinkles dher clothes, mit dheir mout’. Dher veller dot cooms home shortly between two oder three o'clock in dher morning sees more curious pink undt purple undt plue dings in dher shky ash dher man on dher bobservatory delescope, undt dot vhas queer too, aind ut? Dot's no vonder uf dher man shivers dot kick off der clothes in dher shleepin’-cars undt vake up to find dot dher train- roppers cover him mit a gun. | I see in dher noosepapers, “ How to grow old.” I don’t give a cent for dot. She cooms along himself like taxes. | UE I geep a poarding-house undt a man got dher dyspepsy py himself, 1 radder poard a shtreet- THE HUNTING SEASON. car ash dot man. WHY? UR art students find thumb- tacks so convenient, why don't they economize and use finger- nails, IT IS COMING. ManeL—"I wish you would look, Maud, and see if my trousers hang all right behind.” THE JUDGE’S CHRiSTMAS-TREE. A NEW PUBLISHER. ro} | come ss ALLOW me, to the | Miss Baws- Juper's ton, to make you acquainted with Mr. Brown, our book- maker.” “Yes; so. de- lighted, 1 am al- ways glad to know those wonderful Christmas tree, young men merry and old men free; mothers, fathers and bachelors bluff, and aunts and uncles sure enough. Little children and maid- ens gay, come for the Orricer (in rvice of authority) —**See here, things “that _we give away. yout te tac gun ost" On the branches” are giggles men who publish and jolly verses — glibly is rollicking laughs that give books. What is jokes side-splitting here in Your latest work from the press, Mr. Brown?” git. “Funny sketches in brilliant “Ahem, I have spent a good deal of time this prose, views right spicy, as . hropological work entitled *T! every one knows. Away with summer on an anthropological work entit he | sorrow, away with tears; Coming Race.’ : away with melancholy “An expensive work, Mr. Brown ?” and “Several of my friends have put their fortunes Accept into it, Miss Bawston ;” and he winked at the score- the card and burried away. gifts that offered be and come to the JupGr's Christmas-tree. 1ONR U. JONES. SMALL noy—"* Well, now, I ferget whether I loaded dat or not; but I'll jest snap a cap on it, an’ — IRONY OF FATE. What was that fellow shouting on the train that just passed 2” Last call for dinner in the dining-car.’” | Hamer: Hoxatio — comicbooks.com