Judge, 1895-02-09 · page 6 of 16
Judge — February 9, 1895 — page 6: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from Judge (a late 19th/early 20th-century American satirical magazine) contains several distinct pieces: **"The Taming of the Unruly Pigs"** (left): A series of cartoon vignettes showing a woman (in elaborate dress, suggesting wealth or status) struggling to control misbehaving pigs. The satire likely mocks difficulty managing unruly situations or people—possibly commenting on social control or feminine frustration with disorder. **"A Reliable Testimonial"**: A mock endorsement praising barbed-wire fencing from "Texas Hayskep," likely satirizing both frontier culture and advertising hyperbole of the era. **"Sentences Passed by the Judge"**: Philosophical aphorisms, a recurring Judge feature offering satirical wisdom. **"The Business Depression"**: A brief joke about marriage proposals declining due to economic hardship—social commentary on how economic downturns affect courtship. **"Music Hath Charms"**: Two scenes mocking a new novelty—the "piano-bed" (a bed that folds into a piano or vice versa). A farmer visiting the city is skeptical of this impractical invention, satirizing both urban fads and rural common sense.
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86 THE TAMING OF THE UNRULY PIGS. A RELIABLE TESTIMONIAL, Dear sir—I have experimented with your barbed-wire fence and am dead stuck on it. Yours, etc., Texas Hayskep, SENTENCES PASSED BY THE JUDGE. A DISCIPLE perpetuates the glory of the master; an imitator squanders it. ‘There is more to be hoped from coarse extraction than from late degeneration. In certain personal matters it is more satisfactory to be displeased by one's self than pleased by another. Scorn whom we scorn and ridicule whom we ridicule, or be scorned and ridiculed with them, saith the fool. A man’s usefulness is less de- pendent upon what he knows than upon his ability to investigate and learn, An inherited tendency to theft is not so often an exaggeration of the secretive faculty as the meaningless reflection of it. KATHRINE GROSJBAN, THE BUSINESS DEPRESSION. SeYVHAT! you have had only three offers of marriage in the last month? How do you account for it?” “Ob, well, business is terribly de- pressed, you know.” “MUSIC HATH CHARMS” (). Mrs. Gotitast (to her father, who has just come to the city on a visit from Faraer Burnar (three hours later, as he climbs into the real piano) — Canajoharie)—"* Now, pa, 1 am going out for a short time, If Iam notin by ‘*I've heerd a good deal about these pianny-beds, but ‘peers tew me the wire ten o'clock you can go up and sleep in the new piano-bed.”" mattress runs the wrong way in this one.”” comicbooks.com