Judge, 1895-01-26 · page 3 of 16
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page 51 This page contains Victorian-era satirical sketches mocking social conventions and crime. "Judge's Favorites" references "The Bauble Shop," a British play popular in London theaters. The main cartoon "The Unknown" depicts a rough, uncultured man who murdered his lover Ciscneros and was executed as the city's undertaker—a commentary on social class and respectability. The piece satirizes how society judges criminality through a lens of gentility. "The Real Difficulty" and "The Marriage-Fee" mock matrimonial customs: the former jokes about marriage eligibility requirements, while the latter depicts a judge charging fees for performing marriages—satirizing how commercialized and corrupt the legal system made even sacred institutions. The "Pretty Ruff on Elizabeth" portrait provides period illustration context. Overall, the page critiques crime, class prejudice, and legal commercialism in Gilded Age America.
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“Yes, sir.” “ An’ that feller there murdered her ?” “So it is said.” n’ ye'r givin’ him a big burial?” “ His friends are.” “Yer say the gal 's got to go to the potter's am afraid so.” “ Where's her mother ?” she has none.” “But she had one onc’t, an’ she’s got to have a square deal an’ be buried right. Here's twenty dollars to get her somethin’ to wear what's fit to be planted in. Here's twenty dollars to get a better coffin with, an’ here’s ten dollars for a broken wheel of flowers. Let’s not have it said that old “Frisco gives the murderer a bigger send-off than the poor gal what he killed. Good-bye, old pard.” “What is your name, please? This is an act of rare generosity.” “Have a drink, pard, but my name 's my own biz.” PRETTY RUZF ON ELIZABETH, WILL SM. CLEstENS. JUDGE'S FAVORITES, AGNES MILLER IN ‘THE BAUBLE sHoP.” ~ The Bauble Shop's a British play— T'm Yankee through and through. And yet. if girls out London way v ‘ere all as chic as you, I'd take my declaration back, And be an Angiomaniac. THE UNKNOWN. DIDN'T look like a savant or scholar—not even like a cultivated gentleman of refinement, capable of the higher instincts and noble feelings. He was not even well dressed. In fact, he looked rough and unaccustomed to the ways of civilization, How he came to find his way to the city’s undertaker no one knows. But he pushed and edged his way through the little crowd that surrounded the bodies of Severa Cisneros and her lover, and did not shrink from the ghastly sight of the dead sweethearts who had found union only in death. “Say, pard,” said he to the city THE REAL DIFFICULTY. undertaker, “that gal died afore she = Mr. Luynon—' They say—aw—that in this country—aw—an Englishman can marry any—aw—girl he pleases.” wanted to, didn’t she >" Miss KNICKERBOCKER —"' Right you are But the trouble is to please.” THE MARRIAGE- FEE, OLD OFFENDER (whom the justice has just married) —" What's de charge, jedge 7” Jupce —" Five dollars.” OLp oFFEeNDER —"* Would yer just as soon make it five days, jedge?”