Judge, 1894-12-29 · page 6 of 17
Judge — December 29, 1894 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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This page contains humorous domestic vignettes typical of Judge's satirical humor circa the early 1900s. The cartoons mock everyday American middle-class life: **"Departed"** satirizes a couple separated because the girlfriend's parents moved to Brooklyn—treating a mundane relocation as tragic romantic loss. **"Dreadful Thought"** jokes about a woman's fear that a persistent suitor might stop proposing, suggesting women valued marriage proposals as validation regardless of genuine interest. **"Changes in Chicago"** makes a crude ethnic/class joke about refined families abandoning using the back of their hands as napkins—implying working-class or immigrant behavior. **"Great Self-Denial"** mocks a newlywed husband who claims he "never eats pie during holidays" to avoid his wife's (presumably bad) cooking. **"Duty Before Pleasure"** portrays a father using a fake lame arm to avoid chores, then magically recovering to chop ice when fun activities are forbidden—satirizing parental hypocrisy. **"Impressing an Error"** shows parents giving indestructible Indian clubs as Christmas gifts, only to have the child use them destructively anyway. The humor relies on recognizable domestic scenarios and character types rather than topical references.
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442 DEPARTED. LAST year we paced these very ways, Last year we dreamed we ne'er + should part. To-night 1 walk the way alone With sad remembrance in my heart. As some fair vision of the night 1 seem to see in that far bourne ‘The smile that is no more for me, The form that never shall return, Oh, cruel fate, that severed us ! Oh, riven lives that were so gay! Whatever made your parents move To Brooklyn on the first of May? FLORRNCR . PRATT. DREADFUL THOUGHT. Clara —* He has proposed three or four times and I don’t know whether to accept him or not.” Maude—"\ would. Suppose he should stop ?” ED. CLunpeR—"* Did you hear about Jones ?” Homer— Homer—"'I see.” CLUBBER—"* Well, the boys took h at three a. m., rang the bell, and left him.” Homer—"* That was tough.” CLUBRER— * Jt wa: one look and sai tool come in and wait for him.” CHANGES IN CHICAGO. SsP)ID you see much change in Chicago from ten years ago, Gus Yes, indeed. Some of the best families have discarded the use of the back of the hand as a napkin.” GREAT SELF-DENIAL, New bride—"\ have baked my first pie, dear. Won't we have fun eating it with our New-year's dinner to-morrow?" Husband—\ am sorry, darling; but I have made it a rule of my life never to eat pie during the holidays.” MIGHT MAKE A HALF-BACK, Dracon HuskaNatt—" Gol darn all spruce-gum ! ef I don’t look jes’ like th’ picters of them feet-ball 0 the masquerade ball as the devil. Told his wife n home in costume and a cab His wife came down, Oh, it’s you, is it? Well, Jones hasn't got home yet, but you can OLD SOAK. T EACH New-year’s he calls a halt ‘And swears off every single fault, It would appear he was a saint, Though all can testify he ain't. DUTY BEFORE PLEAS- URE. Wife—" John, 1 wish you'd chop some wood for the fire.” Husband— Can't; my arm y ‘s lame.” Son (ten minutes later)— “Say, pa, we can't go fishing to- day; the pond ‘s covered with ice.” Father —" Well, we can chop a hole in it, can’t we?” 8 NOT SO WONDERFUL AS HE THINKS IT Is. HUSBAND (with desire to say sémething pleasant)— “Do you know, kitten, I could recognize you from your style anywhere ?”* *L should think you could, seeing that you have let me wear this same old style for two years.” | H i ZZ IMPRESSING AN ERROR ON HIS MIND. | Paxent (Christmas eve)—* No more hobby-horses, drums and toys for you \ to destroy in a day, young man, These Indian clubs strike me as being the ‘The non-destructible way they struck him Christmas morning. most non-destructible gift.” } . comicbooks.cqm | y