Judge, 1895-10-19 · page 5 of 16
Judge — October 19, 1895 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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This page from *Judge* contains several brief satirical pieces mocking different subjects: **"Joe Miller in Japan"** references anecdotes (likely from the traditional "Joe Miller's Jests" joke collection) portraying Japanese people as comically illogical—a common xenophobic trope of the era. The stories about a drunk's servant and a confused doctor traffic in ethnic stereotyping typical of late 19th/early 20th-century American humor. **"The Goddess of the Wheel"** makes a pun: bicycles were new technology, and the text connects the bicycle's "divinity" (Psyche, Greek goddess of the soul) to feminine identity—likely satirizing contemporary debates about women's independence via bicycle ownership. **"All Spoiled"** mocks a pious Methodist mother upset that her daughters, after expensive dancing lessons, became *too* religious, joining the church instead of secular society—satirizing religious excess. The page primarily uses ethnic stereotyping and gender-based humor typical of the period.
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JOE MILLER JAPAN. N TOKIO a con- firmed tippler, hav- ing occasion to send his servant, a country girl, to buy some saké, which is a native drink, said, placing the empty bottle in her hands, “Now be very careful and see that you don’t fall in coming back. If you fall, you know, you will be sure, one way or another, to spill the wine. Of course, if you are obliged to fall, I suppose you must; but in that case put down the bottle carefully on the road and then fall.” IN “Dog RAT DOK A quack doctor in Yokohama named Yamai Yosen was once called urgently to attend a neighbor's wife who was suffering from an attack of hysteria. The doctor, entering the house ina hurry, proceeded to the assistance of the sick woman, who was supported by a maid-servant. But in his confusion he seized the servant's hand instead of that of her mistress and began intently to count the pulse-beats. error the girl said, “You have made a mistake. To correct his That other is my mistress’s hand.” “Nani,” replied the medico, “in cases of emergency one can’t stop to be particular in the matter of hands.” ™ 1a, CURSEENS THE GODDESS OF THE WHEE IS folly to call the bicycle new, Even mythology recognized it and, curiously enough, made its divinity a female. The signifi- cance of her name has been strangely overlooked for centuries. It was Psyche. DELAYED TRAV! Tins IRisuman—" Will aich av yez two gintlemin draw in a long breath so Oi kin pass?" Jonrs— * Confound it! Se ‘ 1 Li shear Sane COonfound it! here I've tramped all day and haven't seen a thing. it pee-wee fly-catcher for luck.” cover}—"— THREE OF A KIND. Sometimes, at poker, I have sat behind ‘Three of a kind, In happy confidence to beat two pairs, And then been (figuratively) thrown down stairs By fours, a full, a flush, or e’en a straight— For such is fate, But if by blissful fortune I should find Three of this kind— ‘Three little queens, so dainty-debonair, For any better hand I should not care. And if they'd smile on me, instead of JupcE, L wouldn't budge. ALL SPOILED. DEAR old Mrs. —— of Louis- ville, Kentucky, is a pious Methodist and the mother of six grown-up children, all devout fol- lowers of Wesley. Last week she chanced to see her friend Mrs. B. dressing her young hopeful for dancing - school. She exclaimed, with ever-increasing animation, Now, Sallie, that’s a waste of money. Didn't! send all my daugh- ters to dancing-school?—and they danced lovely, too—and when I got through paying their bills and they were ready to enter society, if they didn't every one go and join the church and throw it all away! 1 tell you you're wasting your money, child.” TyeRRLL, ONE disadvantage of the bloomer habit is that girls may use their bloomers for Christmas s MORAL—BUY A DOG. Jones (as six quail, two woodcock, a partridge and three rabbits start from