Judge, 1895-09-28 · page 10 of 16
Judge — September 28, 1895 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three separate satirical pieces reflecting late 19th-century attitudes: **"Search the Scriptures"**: A girl loses her slate-pencil and searches the family Bible, following her grandmother's precedent of finding lost items there. The joke mocks rural naïveté—the child's logic that old country Bibles contain more "things" because they're older and handier reflects stereotyped assumptions about country folk's lack of sophistication. **"How She Stole a March on Her Dusky Rivals"**: A wealthy woman shows off her new green silk dress, expecting it will impress Black attendees at a "Blackville picnic" (a common Judge stereotype). The racist language and premise mock both affected white society ladies and suggest condescension toward Black communities. **"A Disastrous Accident"**: The sequential comic strip shows an accident involving a baby carriage—the punchline appears to involve unexpected consequences. The page exemplifies Judge's reliance on racial stereotypes and class-based humor typical of the period, alongside genteel domestic comedy.
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JUST A LITTLE SLIP OF A GIRL, SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES. SOYVHAT are you going to do with that bible, Marjorie?" “Why, mamma, I've lost my slate-pencil, an’ I'm just goin’ to hunt through the bible. I've looked everywhere else. Up in the country last week grandma lost her specs an’ gander told her to search the script- ures, Then grandma opened the old bible an’ there they were.” Marjorie sat down on the floor with the book in her lap and for ten minutes gravely leafed it through. Not finding her slate-pencil, she put the book away, saying thoughtfully, “I guess country bibles has more things in “em than city ones, ‘cause they're older an’ lay round handier.” Mistress (to pious colored cook)—" Manda, if you ‘Il come to my Howse GIOLE & MAROON BER HUY TALS room Sunday afternoons I'll read to you all about the Master you love Miss Favre (surveying her new green silk in the glass)—"* Dere! dem 40d Serve so well. f ri ; ; sleebes will ketch dem niggahs. -We'll see whedder Iris toe be de obserbed ob ‘Manda —" Lord bress yo’, honey, an’ tank yo" too; but / don’t need de unobserbed at de Blackville picnic ergot.” to.read nuffin’ outen any book. -My-telations wif de Lord am pussonal.”” A DISASTROUS ACCIDENT; OR, THEY LAUGIE BEST WHO LAUGIL LAST. comicbooks.com