Judge, 1895-07-13 · page 4 of 16
Judge — July 13, 1895 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains multiple satirical pieces typical of early Judge magazine: **"The Deviline Whistle"** (top right): A comic strip mocking a man's failed attempt to prevent his lover's departure. The humor relies on the ironic twist that his real concern isn't romantic—it's the cost of her summer outing, suggesting mercenary rather than passionate motives. **"Logical"**: A morality joke where a man who boasts of never smoking for twenty years is forced to admit he has no savings to show for it, undermining his self-righteous claim. **"Bean and Brain"**: Satire on Boston's intellectual pretensions. A Boston restaurant's menu listing "Brains fried" alongside beans suggests either beans are overpriced or Bostonians lack intelligence—mocking the city's reputation for superiority. **"Didn't Interest Her"**: Contrasts a Boston girl unfamiliar with Kant against a Chicago girl equally uninterested, suggesting intellectual pretension is geographically universal and ultimately hollow. The remaining pieces use similar quick-joke formats about romance, domestic life, and social hypocrisy typical of Judge's humor.
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uage TO A LOVED WOMAN. THE DEVILINE WHISTLE. {42 bot spoken when first fields were green And the young rose unveiled her velvet cheek ¢ @ Low better far for me it would have been, Aad Had I but spoken as a man should speak ! Had I but spoken in the face of fate When you were fain to leave me—conquered pride Saying ‘* The price of parting is too great, Sweet, I entreat you, tarry at my side.” Had I but spoken then and bid you stay You would have yielded—ah, the chance was lost. So now I stare, and swear in blank dismay, Counting how much your summer outing cost. LOGICAL. “*T bet Wilkins won't let me pass. Petersbe (moralizing) — "Do you know, if you didn’t smoke you would save about six hundred dollars every ten years Smithington (thoughtfully) —* You don’t smoke?” 4 & Petersbe —" Certainly not! 1 haven't for 225%, sae twenty years. Smithington —" Then 1 suppose you have got twelve hundred dollars to show for it?” ‘The particular moral—or joke—of this mod- ern fable is that Petersbe was forced to admit that he hadn't saved a cent. E'S FAVORIT! CE HOPPER. huis portrait, caug! whi Tn pensive moc ile Though in your eyes the shate of thought {! Has robbed us of a smile. And yet, ‘tis like you, grave oF gay, Because it's pretty, anyway. BEAN AND BRAIN. TS difficult for us to believe in the intellectual supremacy of Boston, The following, however, appears under a licensed victualer’s sign in one of the back streets : “Table doat and ale cart. Regular dinner 25 ct. Beans with 15 ct Beans without 10 ct Brains fried 10 ct. in batter 15 ct.” It would seem that either beans “are too dear or brains too cheap. What sweet possibilities, too, are suggested by that mysterious “Beans with.” But as for brains in batter, we have plenty of that in ** Not a bad way, at all.” New York. ADELINE ORVES. WAS HE RIGHT? DIDN'T INTEREST HER. drole Pox alae «Yaak ame? Boston girl —“\ suppose you A WASTE OF TIME, uneasily sip'to: bese ioirmiring, °t “ubders have read Kant? Mrs. Jotxson—"* Goodness saikes, Mrs. Jackson ! dis floor looks : 3 : aseh ht tadet teen awep to aloes? stand ye're a Maineac, an’ hailin’ from that Chicago girl —“ No; | Mrs. Jackson—" Wa-al, ['Il tell yo" how dat am, Mrs. Johnson; state meself thought as”——but here he must say | have no inclination to if we're thinkin’ ob movin’ cut nex’ month.”” ; clin was interrupted. The woman from Maine it’s anything like * Don't." deigned no reply; she coldly shook the ex- EXTENUATION, tended hand and then shook him, WENERE fishing. Her hands Were grasping the pole ; I saw my advantage — A kiss from her stole. Wy My LLM ay She was highly indignant And wept in her grief, Quoted I, ** The receiver 's As bad as the thief.”” BETTER DAYS. Cawker — Barlow made a rash prediction just now.” Cumso —" What did he say?” Cawker — "He said that the time would come when it ALWAYS SO. would be respectable to be . FISHRMAN —" Whoop ! just get on to the — honest.” : 2. —— size of that,” comicbooks.com