Judge, 1895-04-20 · page 11 of 24
Judge — April 20, 1895 — page 11: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several satirical humor pieces typical of early 20th-century American magazines: **"An Invariable Rule"**: A woman jokes that she gets married at Easter—implying serial marriages and short-lived unions, satirizing marital instability. **"Easter Disappointments"**: Mocks women's vanity regarding Easter bonnets and church attendance, suggesting ladies buy expensive hats to show off rather than for genuine religious devotion. **"The Last Straw" and "Her Reason"**: Jest about theater-hat regulations and women's obsession with bonnets, even in church—a recurring theme showing hats as status symbols. **"His Feet Overbalanced the Machine"**: A visual joke about a cyclist whose large feet cause him to crash—racist dialect ("Dis am") indicates the figure is depicted as Black. **"Paid to Keep It Quiet"**: A cynical joke about a man paying his baby's nurse "hush-money"—implying an affair or illegitimate child. The humor targets women's materialism, marital instability, and racial stereotypes common to the era.
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AN INVARIABLE RULE. SO YWHEN are you going to get married again?” was a question put by one Chicago dame to another. “At Easter,” was the reply, “I make it an invari- able rule to get married at Easter.” ANOTHER OPTICAL ILLUSION, LUCKY INDIVIDUALS, se YOU southerners have had a severe winter.” “Well, I should say so; but, thank heaven! a good many of us escaped the rig- ors by coming north early in the season.” THE LAST STRAW. Cobwigger — What do you think of the legislature meddling with the theatre- hat?" Mrs. Cobwigger—"1 don’t care about that,so long as they don’t compel us to re- move our bonnets in church.” HIS FEET OVEKBALANCED THE MACHINE, Mose—‘* Dis am a good hill. I t'ink I'll try an’ see HER REASON. Mrs. Cobwigger—" Have my bonnet finished in time, and be sure not to send the bill before Easter.” Milliner—" What makes you so particular about that, may I ask?" 2 Mrs, Cobwigger—"1 ‘ PAID TO KEEP IT QUIET. — break the resolution he made — woman hush-money for several months.” me not to swear during **Great Scott! Who is she?” “The girl that nurses his baby.” —Dat's hit |—— EASTER DISAPPOINT- MENTS, LAST year she bought an Easter hat To make a grand display ; But then she did not go to church Because it rained all day. This year she finds she can't afford For such a hat to pay ; Again she will not go to church However fine the day. a. paves “thorn in the flesh” is accounted for by the fact that after Peter discovered that he had been robbed to pay Paul he twitted Paul about it when- 19 ever they met. — Blame dem big feet!” a | comicbooks.com |