Judge, 1895-06-22 · page 3 of 16
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# Page 395 Analysis: Judge Magazine Satirical Content This page contains several Victorian-era humor pieces with accompanying illustrations: **"Sold"** depicts a street flower vendor making a sale—satirizing urban commerce and haggling over trivial amounts. **"Love on the Bike"** presents a romantic encounter involving a bicycle, poking fun at the then-novel bicycle craze and courtship. **"A Rich Wife"** features dialogue mocking marriage dynamics and gender relations through a conversation between Moses and Juana. **"A Catastrophe and the Little Girl"** shows a domestic disaster with dark humor about dead kittens and an aunt's burial. **"Making a Sure Thing of It"** (bottom) appears to mock religious or civic procedures, with reverend and deacon characters debating congregational membership requirements through comic dialect. The satire targets social pretension, marriage, emerging technologies, and institutional pomposity typical of 1890s Judge magazine humor.
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SOLD. SeHTERE you are! Fresh violets— nickel a bunch, or four for twenty-five!” shouted the ragged ur- chin. A bargain!” thought I, and gave him the coveted quar- ter, which was pocket- ed with an impish grin of satisfaction. That smile haunt- JUDGE'S PHOTOGRAPHS. edme, hurried along —__Photograph of the “oldest appreciation vanished they used to be, when I realized that four times five equals twenty. LOVE ON THE BIKE, E SIGHED, “Give me my answer now.” She said, ** Kind sir, my heart is mine.” But when she spied that brindle cow With crumpled horn and horrid low She gasped, ‘ Dear George, I'm thine !" SECOND AVENUE haberdasher has a sign in the window, “ Fast black ladies’ vests.” IS IT A FAIR DAY'S PAY? THe Main — “Zee market vooman cez below, madame, and zays zat after this eggs vill be thirty-six cents von dozen.” MADAM —" Preposterous! Three cents for one egg?" Tue saip—" Pardon ; mais madame must considaire zat eet eez a day's vurk for zee hen.” A RICH WIFE. Moses — Isaag, mein frent, vouldt you say marritch vos a failure?” Isaac —** 1d is somedings lige id, Moses, 1 mate a huntert tousant tol- lars ven I kot marriet.” S THE y WOMAN IN THE WEST. A CATASTROPHE AND THE LITTLE GIRL. Cuter Bustep Crrpit (menacingly)—"* Ugh! The Crushed Worr has THE little girl was told by auntie of her having found in a box four dear no fire—no big heap stew for the heap big chief. | Crushed Worm has "—— little kittens, all of them dead. M'liss said, “And what have you done Cruse Worm (inéerrupting) —* Turned (crack). The big slob has ater "i 4 " made Crushed Worm the mighty chieftainess, ‘Coming Squaw’ (bifl). with "em?" Auntie replied, “I had one of the men bury them, Busted Credit will get wood (soak). He will get it now (whack) and cook her now when will they come up ?” said the little girl. venison (sock). She would eat, she would smoke, she has spoken. Waugh !” MAKING A SURE THING OF IT. REVEREND JouNSON —'*Am dar any male membah ob de congregashun dat hab a new hat to-night?" Deacon RANvoLPH —" T hab” REVEREND JouNsON —" Vah well, deacon ; yo’ kin pass mah hat fo’ de collecshun. I'm suah now t’ git mah own hat back aftah de collecshun, an’ not some- body else’s hat dat's dyin’ ob ole age. ‘Let de organ chirp.” comicbooks.com